Multi Agent Systems
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Dave Morin: Enterprise resistance to deploying multi-agent AI is enormous
“So I'm in a lot of conversations related to this, and the resistance on the front lines is absolutely enormous. People do not want, and I've actually only really in the last two weeks really Come around to having a lot of first party conversations about this. …”
De Saint-Marc: Complex enterprise AI missions require self-forming agent reasoning systems
“Workflows are great because they are very deterministic. They can be reassuring at the beginning for enterprise because they can be certified. But if you really want to go after interesting mission, you need this self-forming reasoning aspect where actually at…”
Mukund Jha: Emergent invented multi-agent paradigms before academic papers were published
“There was a time when we sort of invented the multi-agent system. We invented memory. We invented like, how do we do agent to agent communication? How do you scale up test time compute? A lot of those things which like were sort of coming out, like we would di…”
Taylor: Hierarchical multi-agent architectures are elegant on whiteboards but nonsensical
“I feel like this view of a multi-agent world was you have all these agents that do tasks that are fraud detection. You know, another one over here for, you know, personalization, and then you make a super agent, it does all these things, and it looks really go…”
Izmailov: Effective long-horizon AI tasks currently require multi-agent harness orchestration
“In terms of the methods that are working well, I think, yeah, right now it would involve some kind of a harness with a bunch of agents that interact or that sequentially solve the task, and there has to be some kind of orchestration or maybe like some initial …”
Badam: Peer-to-peer multi-agent gossip protocols exceed current AI model capabilities
“If you're building a supervisor agent and there are like sub agents that actually do the work for the super agent, supervisor agent, That is a very successful pattern, but coming with this notion of I'm going to divide the responsibilities based on functionali…”
Davis: Multi-agent suits independent tasks, single-agent suits dependent pipelines
“So the first is, can you break the task into independent parts where they're not relying upon each other? So like, that's one abstraction away. Another one is, do you benefit from the chaos of having a multiple perspectives or different takes on a task that's …”
Neubig: Single Agents Adapt Better Than Rigid Multi-Agent Systems
“If you have a really, really good instruction following agent it will follow the instructions as long as things are working according to your plan, but let's say you need to deviate from your plan, you still have the flexibility to do this, and if you do expli…”