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The path to artificial superintelligence
Next-generation multi-agent systems need a horizontal architecture that allows them to share intent, context, and reasoning to enable wide-scale problem solving no single agent is trained for.
TL;DR
- Current AI agents excel within their domains but lack coordination for patient care or complex problem-solving.
- A semantic layer, the 'Internet of Cognition,' is needed to enable agents to 'think' together through shared intent, context, and reasoning.
- This relies on a connectivity layer, the 'Internet of Agents,' for agents to discover and communicate.
- Horizontal scaling of AI, by connecting agents, is crucial for distributed artificial superintelligence.
- Multi-agent systems face challenges in coordinated action and reasoning towards novel problems.
- Outshift's AGNTCY, an open-source project, provides the connectivity layer for agents to find each other and exchange messages.
- The Internet of Cognition enables agents to align goals (intent), pool knowledge (context), and make collective trade-offs (reasoning).
- The tech stack for collective agent intelligence includes cognition state protocols (shared intent), cognition fabric (shared context), and cognitive amplifiers/guardrail technologies (shared reasoning).
- Security concerns like unintended delegations and prompt injections require new authorization frameworks, such as Continuous Agent Semantic Authorization (CASA).
- Businesses are advised to start experimenting with multi-agent systems on open infrastructure for cross-functional workflows.