LLM Chronicles #6.4: LLM Agents with ReAct (Reason + Act)

In this episode we’ll cover LLM agents, focusing on the core research that helped to improve LLMs’ reasoning while allowing them to interact with the external world via the use of tools. These include Chain of Thought prompting, PAL (Program-aided Language Models) and ReAct (Reason + Act) as used in Langchain and CrewAI agents.

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🕤 Timestamps:
00:13 - Table of Contents
01:23 - Chain of Thought Prompting
03:10 - PAL (Program-aided Language Models)
05:14 - ReAct (Reason + Act)
09:22 - Tools, Plugins, Functions, APIs
10:54 - ReAct in Practice (JSON/XML formats, fine-tuned models)
12:05 - Function Calling (OpenAI)
13:08 - Modified ReAct (Browser agents, CodeAct)
14:15 - Summary
14:47 - Limitations & Cyber Security Considerations

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[MarkKelly]

Great explanation. Thanks for producing this content.