Are agents not just a natural extension of ChatGPT as a product with chat being a universal language interface for the plugins which connect to tools and skills?
Yes. In fact, ChatGPT with Plugins behaves like an agent.
The idea behind these AutoGPTs is to give greater structure to the way the model thinks and acts, through a loop of planning, executing, and reflecting. Another goal is to provide the model with enhanced memory, similar to or identical to retrieval.
In short AutoGPT-like applications treat the LLM as a reasoning core around which a scaffolding of higher-order thinking is built.
Itβs interesting, as a cognitive architecture. Imagine that your frontal cortex, responsible for planning, was very rigid and farmed out its actual reasoning tasks to your language-learning brain area.
