Notes on "The Ascending Arc of AI Agents"

February 16, 2025

  • https://www.dataengineeringweekly.com/p/the-ascending-arc-of-ai-agents
  • innovations for ai agents
    • reasoning and acting
      • ReAct, agents can test their logic in the real world
    • lifelong learning
      • VOYAGER; continuous adaption to updating environments, iterative prompting, skill acquisition and usage
    • infinite memory
      • MemGPT; context is no longer a bottleneck
    • real-world challenges
      • SWE-bench; benchmarks reveal promises and limitations in professional settings
    • model distillation
      • knowledge passes from one generation of models to the next