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The speaker considers it fortunate that large language models and broad world understanding came before efforts to turn them into agents.
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“but we didn't go that way happily we went the way of llms first where the broad world understanding came first”
“And first and then now we're trying to turn them into agents.”Play from 1:32:22Report a misattribution
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