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Re:OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More... by j_maffe on Thursday November 14, 2024 @01:19PM (#42139320)
> I get the vague impression that so far researchers haven’t found any advantage to such systems — anything you can do with a group of AI agents can be emulated with a single one. It’s like chaining up perceptrons hoping to get more expressive power for free. Emergence happens when many elements interact in a system. Brains are literally a bunch of neurons in a complex network. Also research is already showing promising results of the performance of agent systems.
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Re:OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More... by tartoran on Thursday November 14, 2024 @01:30PM (#42139456)
That's wishful thinking at best. Throw it all in a bucket and it will get infected with being and life.
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Re:OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More... by handfuloflight on Thursday November 14, 2024 @04:02PM (#42141177)
Don't see where your parent comment said or implied that the point was for being and life to emerge.
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Re:OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More... by hatefulmoron on Friday November 15, 2024 @06:30AM (#42145965)
I think their point is that having complex interactions between simple things doesn't necessarily result in any great emergent behavior. You can't just throw gloopy masses of cells into a bucket, shake it about, and get a cat.
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Re:OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More... by xanderlewis on Thursday November 14, 2024 @05:27PM (#42141876)
That’s the inspiration behind the idea, but it doesn’t seem to be working in practice.

It’s not true that any element, when duplicated and linked together will exhibit anything emergent. Neural networks (in a certain sense, though not their usual implementation) are already built out of individual units linked together, so simply having more of these groups of units might not add anything important.

> research is already showing promising results of the performance of agent systems.

…in which case, please show us! I’d be interested.

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