tidybot VS Voyager

>they've solved reinforcement learning?

Transformers can do Reinforcement Learning yes.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01345

>they can handle continuous domains, like robot motion?

Yes they can handle it just fine.

https://tidybot.cs.princeton.edu/

https://general-pattern-machines.github.io/

https://wayve.ai/thinking/lingo-natural-language-autonomous-...

Other examples(in the real world) you might find interesting.

https://tidybot.cs.princeton.edu/

It's striking how quickly robotics is developing in 2023. Two recent demonstrations from DeepMind & a Princeton team, show relatively cheap simple robots acquiring the ability to manipulate objects in the physical world. If you're going to be developing cutting-edge robots in 2023 - surely it would plan to incorporate this?

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> AI cannot sustain itself trained on AI work.

This isn’t true. You can train LLMs entirely on synthetic data and get strong results. [0]

> If new languages, engines etc pop up it cannot synthesize new forms of coding without that code having existed in the first place.

You can describe the semantics to a LLM, have it generate code, tell it what went wrong (i.e. with compiler feedback), and then train on that. For an example of this workflow in a different context, see [1].

> And most importantly, it cannot fundamentally rationalize about what code does or how it functions.

Most competent LLMs can trivially describe what some code does and speculate on the reasoning behind it.

I don’t disagree that they’re flawed and imperfect, but I also do not think this is an unassailable state of affairs. They’re only going to get better from here.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05463

[1]: https://voyager.minedojo.org/

In a way it is the same thing, agents are mostly an abstraction that make it easier to know what’s going on.

I think of agents more or less as python classes with a mixture of natural language and code functions. You design them to do something with information they produce, and to interface with other agents or “tools” in some way.

But all the agents can be the same language model under the hood, they are frames used to build different kinds of contexts.

And yes I think the idea is that emergent behaviour can be useful. This comes to mind

https://github.com/MineDojo/Voyager

But I think we are still a small ways off from being really smart about agents. My opinion is that we haven’t quite figured out what we are doing yet.

This k8s application deploys an instance of Voyager along with a Fabric Minecraft server with required fabric mods. It assumes you have a local deployment of a Large Language Model (LLM) with 4K-8K token context length with a compatible OpenAI API, including embeddings support.

In my opinion the most interesting Agents: Auto-GPT Github: https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT BabyAGI Github: https://github.com/yoheinakajima/babyagi Voyager Github: https://github.com/MineDojo/Voyager / Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16291 I would also add: ChemCrow: Augmenting large-language models with chemistry tools Github: https://github.com/ur-whitelab/chemcrow-public/ Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05376

Does this beat the voyager? I read about it and wondered what if we add a skill library to langchain/llamaindex agents. It could be the same vector store for storing static data but after each task is performed, the agent will evaluate and archive the recipe of steps to perform a new task. Next time when the agent is asked to perform a task, it can just look at the library to retrieve a recipe. Unlike traditional fine tuning, you dont update the model parameters, these recipes are much more interpretable and can be manually edited/inserted by humans. There may also be an automatic way to convert wikihow articles or youtube tutorials into recipes.

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