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34 posts tagged “ai-agents”

I don't think the term "agents" has a useful, widely shared definition.

2023

The Dual LLM pattern for building AI assistants that can resist prompt injection

I really want an AI assistant: a Large Language Model powered chatbot that can answer questions and perform actions for me based on access to my private data and tools.

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Prompt injection: What’s the worst that can happen?

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Activity around building sophisticated applications on top of LLMs (Large Language Models) such as GPT-3/4/ChatGPT/etc is growing like wildfire right now.

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2008

The technological future of the Web is in micro and macro structure. The approach to the micro is akin to proteins and surface binding--or, to put it another way, phenotropics and pattern matching. Massively parallel agents need to be evolved to discover how to bind onto something that looks like a blog post; a crumb-trail; a right-hand nav; a top 10 list; a review; an event description; search boxes.

Matt Webb

# 1st January 2008, 12:13 pm / matt-webb, web, microformats, phenotropics, patternmatching, ai-agents

2007

FIPA Abstract Architecture. Bill de hÓra shows how the work of the Intelligent Agents community relates to SOA / WS-*. We studied FIPA at University and the parallels to parts of the Web Service stack are pretty interesting.

# 17th January 2007, 11:32 pm / soa, bill-de-hora, fipa, ai-agents