Altman: More capable models may eliminate today's multi-agent abstractions
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discusses whether complex multi-agent frameworks and workflow metaphors will persist as underlying foundation models become more capable.
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“I suspect like everything else that's happening when an industry is moving so fast, all of this is somewhat temporary on like a long enough time scale. And You, as these models become more capable and these agents are operating on very long time horizons with the ability to just kind of figure it out and our trust in their robustness keeps going up then maybe you don't need a lot of the abstractions we need today. You know, maybe you just like have a single AI bot that runs at your company and you can say, hey, I want to like launch this new product and it does everything an ambitious person would do.”
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