Shunyu Yao
6 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 27, 2024 by Shunyu Yao · said 9 times in 7 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
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Sep 27, 2024 positive
Sep 27, 2024 positive
Shunyu Yao advises developers to default to minimalist prompting for AI agents
“And I think in terms of the actual prompting method to use for a particular problem, I'm I think we should all be in the minimum list kind of camp, right? You should try the minimum thing and see if it works and if it doesn't work and there's absolute reason t…”
Sep 27, 2024 positive
Yao: Improving AI agents requires better data, not architectural changes
“I think it's data. I think it's data because like changing architecture now is too hard and we don't have a good, better alternative solution now. I think it's mostly about data and agent data is obviously hard because People just write down the final result o…”
Sep 27, 2024 negative
Sep 27, 2024 positive
Yao: Pairing reasoning with tool use is essential for unfamiliar tools
“And I think the second contribution is this idea of what people call like inner monologue or thinking or reasoning or whatever to be paired with tool use. I think that's still not trivial because if you look at the default function calling or whatever, like th…”
Sep 27, 2024 bullish
Shunyu Yao predicts training models on human computer trajectories achieves AGI
“The simplest way to achieve AGI is literally just record the re-actuatory of every human being and just put them together, you know, like what do you have thought about? What do you have done? Let's say on the computer, right? Imagine like solid experiment. Li…”