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Published · transcript-backedShawn Wang: evaluation
27 Sept 2024 Latent Space Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting
“I'm pretty science-based, like, you know, but probably the most like spiritual woo-woo thing about me is I don't think that would lead to consciousness or AGI just because like there's something in- there's a soul, you know?”
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- Shawn Wang
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- evaluation
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- 27 Sept 2024
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- Latent Space
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…What do you have done? Let's say on the computer, right? Imagine like a thought experiment. Like you write down literally everything you think about and everything you do on the computer and you record them and you train on all the successful trajectories by some metric of success. I think that should just lead us to AGI. My first work of fiction in like 10 years was exploring that idea. What if you recorded everything and uploaded yourself? I'm pretty science-based, like, you know, but probably the most like spiritual woo-woo thing about me is I don't think that would lead to consciousness or AGI just because like there's something in- there's a soul, you know? That is the unspeakable quality of- Let's say it emerges through skill. We can simulate that for sure. What do you think about the role of few-shot prompting for some of these like agent trajectories? That was a big part of the original React paper, I think. And as we talk about showing your work…
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