Off Center19 Nov 2024

The AI Update VI: AI Agents

Back with a new episode and song, are David Jhave Johnston and Scott Rettberg. In today’s episode, they will discuss AI agents. Secret agents, travel agents, helping you with anything you need. Whether that may be spying on people or booking that holiday you wanted to go on, the AI agents can do it for you. Listen now for this new AI update.

References

Fourney, Adam, et al. 2024. “Magentic-One: A generalist multi-agent system for solving complex tasks.” Microsoft. Effective November 4, 2024. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/articles/magentic-one-a-generalist-multi-agent-system-for-solving-complex-tasks/

Grosnit, Antoine, et al. 2024. “Large Language Models Orchestrating Structured Reasoning Achieve Kaggle Grandmaster Level.” Hugging face. Effective November 6, 2024. https://huggingface.co/papers/2411.03562.

Lu, Yadong. 2024. “OmniParser for pure vision-based GUI agent.” Microsoft. Effective October 8, 2024. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/articles/omniparser-for-pure-vision-based-gui-agent

Riegler, Michael Alexander. 2024. “Exploring OpenAI’s Swarm: An experimental framework for multi-agent systems.” Medium. Effective October 12, 2024. https://medium.com/@michael_79773/exploring-openais-swarm-an-experimental-framework-for-multi-agent-systems-5ba09964ca18

The Big Sleep Team. 2024. “Project Zero. From naptime to big sleep: Using large language models to catch vulnerabilities in real-world code.” Google Project Zero. Effective November 1, 2024. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/10/from-naptime-to-big-sleep.html#bigsleepteam

This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway Centres of Excellence, project number 332643, Center for Digital Narrative.

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