What is an agent? read more in detail

for - quote - AI: from tool b to agent - Roman Yampolskiy

quote - AI: from tool b to agent - Roman Yampolskiy - (see below)

• Historically, AI was a tool, like any other technology. Whether it was good or bad was up to the user of that tool.
• You can use a hammer to build a house or kill someone.
• The hammer is not in any way making decisions about it.
• With advanced AI, we are switching the paradigm
  • **from tools
  • to agents**.
• The software becomes capable of making its own decisions, working independently, learning, self-improving, modifying.
• How do we stay in control?
• How do we make sure the tool doesn’t become an agent that does something we don’t agree with or don’t support?
• Maybe something against us

for - AI evolution - prediction - 2027 - AI agent will replace AI chatbot

• for: quote, quote - Michael Levin, quote - self as control agent, self - control agent, example, example - control agent - imperfection, spontaneous thought, spontaneous action, creativity - spontaneity

• quote: Michael Levin

  • the Bodhisattva vow can be seen as a method for control that is in alignment with, and informed by, the understanding that singular and enduring control agents do not actually exist.

• comment

  • adjacency between
    • nondual awareness
    • self-construct
    • self is illusion
    • singular, solid, enduring control agent
  • adjacency statement
    • nondual awareness is the deep insight that there is no solid, singular, enduring control agent.
    • creativity is unpredictable and spontaneous and would not be possible if there were perfect control
• example - control agent - imperfection: start - the unpredictability of the realtime emergence of our next exact thought or action is a good example of this

• example - control agent - imperfection: end

• triggered insight: not only are thoughts and actions random, but dreams as well

  • I dreamt the night after this about something related to this paper (cannot remember what it is now!)
  • Obviously, I had no clue the idea in this paper would end up exactly as it did in next night's dream!

This appears to be setting up the conditions for an artificial cognitive agent to be able to play a role (ie Artificial Intelligence)