ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
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#504The "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…
https://www.computerworld.com/article/1561181/excel-error-le...
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Do we even know what % of Waymo rides in SF are completely autonomous? I would not be surprised if more of them are remotely piloted than they've let on...
My understanding is they don't have the capability to have a ride be flat-out remotely piloted in real time. If the car gets stuck and puts its hazards on, a human can intervene, look at the 360 view from the cameras, and then give the car a simple high-level instruction like "turn left here" or "it's safe to proceed straight." But they can't directly drive the car continuously. And those moments where the car gives…
Even if it's just a high level instruction set, it's possible that that occurs often enough to present scaling issues. It's also totally possible that it's not a problem, only time will tell.
What I have in mind is the Amazon stores, which were sold as being powered by AI, but were actually driven by a bunch of low-paid workers overseas watching cameras and manually entering what people were putting in their carts.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actual...
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I opened up the app bundle of CC on macOS and CC is incredibly simple at its core! There’s about 14 tools (read, write, grep, bash, etc). The power is in the combination of the model, the tools and the system prompt/tool description prompts. It’s kind of mind blowing how well my cobbled together home brew version actually works. It doesn’t have the fancy CLI GUI but it is more or less performant as CC when running it…
Are you saying that you modified/added to the app bundle for CC?
This could have been somewhat trivial to implement from scratch too (not using the Agent/Vercel SDKs), but it sure made it convient! It's basically one run({model:'sonnet4', prompt: systemPrompt, tools: [tool1, tool2, tool3]}) call. Much nicer than implementing a loop and all that logic by hand.
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> Meanwhile an agent that you accept to get only 98% of things right is meeting expectations. Well yeah, because the agent is so much cheaper and faster than a human that you can eat the cost of the mistakes and everything that comes with them and still come out way ahead. No, of course that doesn't work in aircraft manufacturing or medicine or coding or many other scenarios that get tossed around on HN, but it does…
Definitely would work in coding. Most software companies can only dream of a 2% defect rate. Reality is probably closer to 98%, which is why we have so much organisational overhead around finding and fixing human error in software.