Thanks, Jochen, I know about LangChain. I'm not claiming that LLMs cannot be used as elements of larger computations, just that LLMs on their own are quite limited. I'll make that point in the talk if the abstract is accepted.
-- Russ Abbott Professor Emeritus, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 1:31 PM Jochen Fromm <j...@cas-group.net> wrote: > Langchain is an agent framework started by Harrison Chase. A Langchain > agent uses LLMs to reason in a perceive-reason-act cycle. One could argue > that Langchain agents are able to think, and we are even able to watch them > thinking > https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain > > deeplearning.ai has free courses about Langchain > > https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/langchain-for-llm-application-development/ > > -J. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Russ Abbott <russ.abb...@gmail.com> > Date: 1/28/24 9:58 PM (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Honeymoon over! > > Sorry you couldn't get through. The abstract for the abstract had to be > submitted separately. Here it is. > > LLMs are strikingly good at generating text: their output is syntactically > correct, coherent, and plausible. They seem capable of following > instructions and of carrying out meaningful conversations. LLMs achieve > these results by using transformers to produce text based on complex > patterns in their training data. But powerful though they are, transformers > have nothing to do with reasoning. LLMs have no means to build or to reason > from internal models; they cannot backtrack or perform exploratory search; > they cannot perform after-the-fact analysis; and they cannot diagnose and > correct errors. More generally, LLMs cannot formulate, apply, or correct > strategies or heuristics. In short, LLMs are not a step away from > Artificial General Intelligence. > > A pdf of the full abstract is attached. > > -- Russ > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 10:12 AM Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > >> >> >> And if you're interested, my long abstract submission to IACAP-2024 >> <https://pretalx.iacapconf.org/iacap-2024/me/submissions/N388VQ/> has >> related thoughts. (Scroll down until you get to the link for the actual >> paper.) >> >> Russ - >> >> I am interested in reading your abstract/paper... >> >> I signed up for an IACAP account but the link you provided seems to be >> dead? >> >> - Steve >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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