An 'AI agent' is just a chatbot that is told to type commands on a REPL-like interface as part of its system prompt. It's still processing pure text-based requests and responses, they're just not restricted to natural language.

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arbitrandomuser 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A lot of people dont know this , also the chatbot (chatgpt) itself is a next token predictor (the GPT) that's been given an initial text that says " pretend to be a chatbot .." and asked to complete it , the coherant chatting behaviour is something thats emergent .

later on someone figured if you asked it to output a reasoning before it gave a response its output would have more logical coherence, as though the reasoning output tokens functioned as a scratch space for it to work on.

at the end its all next token prediction

	▲	hellohello2 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No, chatbots are LLMs trained for question-answering through RLHF (its not just a prompt). But yes, if you just zero-shot prompt a bare LLM you can still "talk to it" & you are correct on everything else as far as I know.
	▲	fragmede 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		At lot of people don't know this, also the human brain is a squishy lump of meat. that's been given a childhood and the prompt "act like an adult", and asked to behave. The coherant chatting behaviour is something thats emergent . later on someone figured if you shove Adderall in it and it to think before it speaks, it gave a response its output would have more logical coherence, as though the Adderall concentration drugd functioned as a scratch space for it to work on. in the end its a squishy lump of meat.

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smj-edison 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah. LLMs are fundamentally a batch-based system, and we smear a veneer of liveness and autonomy on top.

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sigmarule 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

An AI agent and a chatbot are both applications built using LLM inference as a primitive.

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hellohello2 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They are chatbots trained for tool use, its not just a prompt.

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furyofantares 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah and a car is just an engine connected to wheels.