MAIN PhD Seminars 2024
Date | Speaker(s) |
January, 15th | Sandro Gabriele Tiddia |
January, 29th | Andrea Azzarelli |
February, 12nd | Valentino Artizzu |
February, 26th | Simone Pusceddu |
March, 12nd | Nicola Piras |
All the seminars at 12:30 PM in Aula II.
Sandro Gabriele Tiddia: LLM Agents: Definitions and Real-World Applications
In this seminar, we explore the concept of ‘agents’ in artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular focus on the role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in powering these systems. The seminar begins by discussing a real-world application where LLMs are used to build a question-answering (QA) system, showing how LLMs can function as ‘agents’ within such a system. We then examine various definitions of ‘agent’ across AI subfields and consider how agents interact with their environment, make decisions, and pursue goals autonomously. Additionally, we revisit earlier works on agency in AI, reflecting on their original, more profound ideas, and connect them to recent developments and applications of LLM-powered agents. The seminar concludes by exploring experiments and use cases from recent literature, highlighting the capabilities and potential of LLM agents across different domains. The goal is to provide a clear introduction to the concept of LLM-powered agents, their role in AI systems, and how this concept has evolved from theoretical foundations to practical applications.