On Tuesdays at 5PM is AI & Agents. Here's the Agents Assignment if you haven’t started. This week we’ll begin a higher-level of abstraction and autonomy, by working together on an Agent-Building Agent. Wrestling with the building of your own task-prosecution agent will help you to understand how we can encode this process into software.
Here’s the deal—our AI class is a deep dive into Agents and ACEs (Autonomous Cognitive Entities). What does that mean for you? Two words: Real. Impact.
Agents: Think of them as your personal digital chefs. Picture this—you dump info about what’s in your fridge, and boom! Out comes a meal plan. Agents are all about taking specific inputs and generating equally specific outputs, even if it means a multi-stage process is executed behind the scenes. Think of both the chef as an agent, but ChatDev is similarly, an agent composed of other agents.
ACEs: These are where we take agency to the next level. Each of you will be creating your own Autonomous Cognitive Entities, instilling them with values, goals, and limits. No Skynet on our watch—we’ll also be doing red teaming exercises to bulletproof our creations against potentially apocalyptic scenarios.
This isn’t just another class; it’s a mission. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves doing your part to literally stop the AI apocalypse. We’ll build agents over the next week and register them in a directory of agents for the Multiverse.
