Building AI Agents

February 2, 2025 — February 10, 2025

computers are awful together
faster pussycat
language
machine learning
neural nets
NLP
premature optimization
technology
UI
Figure 1

Placeholder while I think about the practicalities and theory of AI agents.

Practically, this usually means many agents. See also Multi agent systems.

1 Factored cognition

Field of study? Or one company’s marketing term?

Factored Cognition | Ought:

In this project, we explore whether we can solve difficult problems by composing small and mostly context-free contributions from individual agents who don’t know the big picture.

2 Incoming

3 References

Chen, Dong, Shu, et al. 2023. AutoAgents: A Framework for Automatic Agent Generation.”
Guo, Chen, Wang, et al. 2024. Large Language Model Based Multi-Agents: A Survey of Progress and Challenges.”
Li, Al Kader Hammoud, Itani, et al. 2023. CAMEL: Communicative Agents for ‘Mind’ Exploration of Large Language Model Society.” In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. NIPS ’23.
Schmidgall, Su, Wang, et al. 2025. Agent Laboratory: Using LLM Agents as Research Assistants.”
Wu, Bansal, Zhang, et al. 2023. AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation.”