> An "AI Agent" replacing an employee requires intentional behaviour: the AI must act according to business goals, act reliably using causal knowledge of the environment, reason deductively over such knowledge, and formulate provisional beliefs probabilistically. However there has been no progress on these fronts.
This is a great example of how it's much easier to describe a problem that to describe possible solutions.
The mechanisms you've described are easily worth several million dollars. You can walk into almost any office and if you demonstrate you have a technical insight that could lead to a solution, you can name your price and $5M a year will be considered cheap.
Given that you're experienced in the field, I'm excited by your comment because its force and clarity suggest that you have some great insights into how solutions might be implemented but that you're not sharing with this HN class. I'm wishing you the best of luck. Progress in what you've described is going to be awesome to witness.
The first step may be formulating a programming language which can express such things to machine. We are 60% of the way there, I believe only another 20% is achievable -- the rest is a materials science problem
Had we an interpreter for such a language, a transformer would be a trivial component
This is a great example of how it's much easier to describe a problem that to describe possible solutions.
The mechanisms you've described are easily worth several million dollars. You can walk into almost any office and if you demonstrate you have a technical insight that could lead to a solution, you can name your price and $5M a year will be considered cheap.
Given that you're experienced in the field, I'm excited by your comment because its force and clarity suggest that you have some great insights into how solutions might be implemented but that you're not sharing with this HN class. I'm wishing you the best of luck. Progress in what you've described is going to be awesome to witness.