Bryan Silverthorn
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agents research @Amazon prev @ Adept AI, cofounder/CTO @ Angaza, PhD @ UT Austin
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Joined April 2009
Nova Act is a "research preview" because it still makes a lot of dumb mistakes. Our lab is working on that! -
labs.amazon.science
We’re looking for a few dozen passionate, talented people to join our team—not just AI experts who have trained state-of-the-art models, but also candidates from other disciplines, such as physics,...
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For an agent to add value it needs to work in the background, reliably, with zero prompt engineering. Computer use models aren't good enough for that today. Wrapped by an application, prompted by a developer, they have much more potential.
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High-level prompts with long trajectories show up *all the time* in demos and multimodal agent evals. They imagine a user typing into an empty textbox - like Adept's original "find me a house" demo (Aug 2022!). But it's hard to save time by watching your computer work.
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Two risks we've taken with Nova Act: focusing on short trajectories, and launching an SDK as the first interface.
Meet Amazon Nova Act — an effortless way to build AI agents that can reliably use browsers 🧑💻. With our new model, compose robust steps into complex workflows; handle everything from bookings to QA testing. Getting started takes just 3 lines of code. See what Nova Act can do
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RT @andrew_n_carr: The new multimodal model from @AdeptAILabs is pretty neat! . Most of the AI models we work with are pure language models….
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RT @AdeptAILabs: After much hard work, we’re excited about a series of releases coming up this fall! We’re starting with a small appetizer:….
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We’re open-sourcing Persimmon-8B, the most powerful fully permissively-licensed language model with <10 billion parameters.
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That's a small new feature in extension v0.2.1:. This version should also *actually work* on a bunch more platforms and Python versions.
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Extension for Visual Studio Code - AI-managed code blocks in your Python source.
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Small new feature in the Maccarone extension: folding support for AI code blocks.
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This experience is less wacky fun than the earlier version—you weren't even shown the generated code. Feels more useful, though.
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Playing with a new developer experience using Maccarone: delegate sections of code as "owned by" AI codegen. Let the LLM maintain the code it writes. There's a simple VS Code extension you can try:
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Something I've been tinkering on: Maccarone, a wacky tool for programming in Python *mixed with* English:. Whenever I prompt ChatGPT to write code, it feels weird to keep the (low-level) code and throw away the (high-level) prompt. Why not the reverse?
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Had fun moderating this panel last month. We had a great, engaged audience—thanks to everyone who joined us @southpkcommons!
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AlpacaFarm is a big step toward better instruction-following open LLMs, and I’m hosting a panel with the entire core team - @rtaori13 and @lxuechen will be joining @yanndubs and @Tianyi_Zh! - @southpkcommons Thursday
lu.ma
SPC is excited to host a conversation with Yann Dubois and Tianyi Zhang, core members of the Stanford team behind the Alpaca large language model. Alpaca is an…
2 months ago we brought you Alpaca. today I'm very excited to share the AlpacaFarm!! 🦙🦙🦙. AlpacaFarm is a complete, validated simulator for tuning for instruction-following models:.✅ Cheap (<$200).✅ FAST (compared to hiring crowdworkers).✅ Correlates w human data (ρ=0.98).
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RT @tatsu_hashimoto: We are releasing AlpacaFarm, a simulator enabling everyone to run and study the full RLHF pipeline at a fraction of th….
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@yanndubs @Tianyi_Zh @southpkcommons Coming up soon!—on Thursday this week I'm hosting a public conversation with Alpaca LLM creators @yanndubs and @Tianyi_Zh:. Feel free to DM me if you're still waiting on an invite.
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SPC is excited to host a conversation with Yann Dubois and Tianyi Zhang, core members of the Stanford team behind the Alpaca large language model. Alpaca is an…
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I'm talking with @yanndubs and @Tianyi_Zh next week at @southpkcommons - invites available:. Yann and Tianyi are creators of Alpaca, the instantly famous instruction-tuned language model. We'll discuss LLMs, local inference, their next project, and more.
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SPC is excited to host a conversation with Yann Dubois and Tianyi Zhang, core members of the Stanford team behind the Alpaca large language model. Alpaca is an…
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