ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action

Post by posix86 » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 8:13 AM UTC

posix86 wrote: post #400

AgentMatrixAI wrote: post #47

I'm not so optimistic as someone that works on agents for businesses and creating tools for it. The leap from low 90s to 99% is classic last mile problem for LLM agents. The more generic and spread an agent is (can-do-it-all) the more likely it will fail and disappoint. Can't help but feel many are optimizing happy paths in their demos and hiding the true reality. Doesn't mean there isn't a place for agents but rathe…

But that's how progress works! To me it makes sense that llms first manage to do 80% of the task, then 90, then 95, then 98, then 99, then 99.5, and so on. The last part IS the hardest, and each iteration of LLMs will get a bit further. Just because it didn't reach 100% just yet doesn't mean that LLMs as a whole are doomed. In fact, the fact that they are slowly approaching 100% shows promise that there IS a future f…

Post by AlphaAndOmega0 » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 8:32 AM UTC

imiric wrote: post #262

prettyblocks wrote: post #250

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Given how well it seems to be going in those specific areas, it seems like it's more of a regulatory issue than a technological one.

Ah, those pesky regulations that try to prevent road accidents... If it's not a technological limitation, why aren't we seeing self-driving cars in countries with lax regulations? Mexico, Brazil, India, etc. Tesla launched FSD in Mexico earlier this year, but you would think companies would be jumping at the opportunity to launch in markets with less regulation. So this is largely a technological limitation. They hav…

Post by camillomiller » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 9:22 AM UTC

ricardobayes wrote: post #76

twalkz wrote: post #30

The "spreadsheet" example video is kind of funny: guy talks about how it normally takes him 4 to 8 hours to put together complicated, data-heavy reports. Now he fires off an agent request, goes to walk his dog, and comes back to a downloadable spreadsheet of dense data, which he pulls up and says "I think it got 98% of the information correct... I just needed to copy / paste a few things. If it can do 90 - 95% of the…

Of course, Pareto principle is at work here. In an adjacent field, self-driving, they are working on the last "20%" for almost a decade now. It feels kind of odd that almost no one is talking about self-driving now, compared to how hot of a topic it used to be, with a lot of deep, moral, almost philosophical discussions.

Post by Jolter » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 9:28 AM UTC

Post by Jolter » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 9:33 AM UTC

tasty_freeze wrote: post #303

gitgud wrote: post #269

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Why would platforms like LinkedIn want this? Bots have never been good for social media…

If they are getting a cut of that premium subscription income, they'd want it if it nets them enough.