Peter Sergeant
Full-time building LLM and ML powered NPCs/agents for a popular online game. pete@sgnt.ai
- I cracked and created what is intended to be a write-only account on the Bad Place. A huge problem is that even serious people on there are posting what is 100% engagement bait. It feels so grubby.
- I don’t want to break my Twitter boycott but I am also despairing of building an audience here. Please can someone teach me to be more engaging and write better content?
- I finally completed an article I've been trying to write for a year; the non-programmer's guide to embeddings! No maths, lots of dogs, and a step by step intuitive guide: sgnt.ai/p/embeddings...
- Reposted by Peter SergeantIt's final paper season.
- Let’s say we were to discover tomorrow that dolphins are in fact fish, not mammals. Given the huge amount of data in LLM training sets asserting that dolphins are mammals, how does that fact end up getting updated? Just that we generate more new text as time goes on and we eventually have more …
- Our LLM game NPC couldn't block chat input & got interrupted constantly ... we engineered "killable" responses using cancel tokens + input debouncing so it could pivot instantly like a human. Made interactions way more natural for impatient players. sgnt.ai/p/interrupti...
- In-memory free-text search is a super-power for LLMs; spend less on inference by sprinkling in some free lexical search into the prompt… sgnt.ai/p/free-text-...
- From OpenAI’s agent building advice. The first two of these are terrible, terrible ideas for things to give to a LLM to make a decision on. More: sgnt.ai/p/hell-out-o...
- I would love to see more research about whatever we’re calling Sapir-Whorf for LLMs. Do you get substantially different opinions from an LLM depending on which language you query it in? Does its opinion on the greatest empire of all time change depending on if your query is Mongolian or Italian?
- Don't let an LLM make decisions or implement business logic, they suck at that: sgnt.ai/p/hell-out-o...
- Four bad definitions of agentic AI: sgnt.ai/p/agentic-ai...
- Is anyone else building behavioural plugins for agents / chat-bots? Certain modes can be enabled for brief periods that add new functionality depending on triggers? I keep having to invent novel stuff for this project, and it would be amazing to chat to people doing anything vaguely similar
