diff --git a/content/_index.md b/content/_index.md index db2a880d6..914451ae4 100644 --- a/content/_index.md +++ b/content/_index.md @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ It’s our mission to realize this future. ## Blog +[[Extrusion 01.24]] [[Honcho; User Context Management for LLM Apps|Honcho: User Context Management for LLM Apps]] [[blog/Theory-of-Mind Is All You Need]] [[blog/Open-Sourcing Tutor-GPT]] diff --git a/content/assets/honcho logo and text.png b/content/assets/honcho logo and text.png new file mode 100644 index 000000000..130c04295 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/assets/honcho logo and text.png differ diff --git a/content/assets/honcho thumbnail.png b/content/assets/honcho thumbnail.png new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6e7e63033 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/assets/honcho thumbnail.png differ diff --git a/content/blog/Extrusion 01.24.md b/content/blog/Extrusion 01.24.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0b869a8ff --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/Extrusion 01.24.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +Welcome to the inaugural edition of Plastic Labs' "Extrusions," a monthly prose-form synthesis of what we've been chewing on. No one needs another curation newsletter, so expect these to be densely linked glimpses into the thought-space of our organization. And if you like, [you can engage with the ideas directly](https://github.com/plastic-labs/blog). + +## 2023 Recap + +Last year was wild. We started as an edtech company and ended as anything but. There's a deep dive on some of the conceptual lore in last week's "[[Honcho; User Context Management for LLM Apps]]": + +>[Plastic Labs](https://plasticlabs.ai) was conceived as a research group exploring the intersection of education and emerging technology...with the advent of ChatGPT...we shifted our focus to large language models...we set out to build a non-skeuomorphic, AI-native tutor that put users first...our [[Open-Sourcing Tutor-GPT|experimental tutor]], Bloom, [[Theory-of-Mind Is All You Need|was remarkably effective]]--for thousands of users during the 9 months we hosted it for free... + +Building a production-grade, user-centric AI application, then giving it nascent [theory of mind](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.11490.pdf) and [[Metacognition in LLMs is inference about inference|metacognition]], made it glaringly obvious to us that social cognition in LLMs was both under-explored and under-leveraged. + +We pivoted to address this hole in the stack and build the user context management solution agent developers need to truly give their users superpowers. Plastic applied and was accepted to [Betaworks](https://www.betaworks.com/)' [AI Camp: Augment](https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/30/betaworks-goes-all-in-on-augmentative-ai-in-latest-camp-cohort-were-rabidly-interested/?guccounter=1): + + + +We spent camp in a research cycle, then [published pre-print](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06983) showing it's possible to enhance LLM theory of mind ability with [predictive coding-inspired](https://js.langchain.com/docs/use_cases/agent_simulations/violation_of_expectations_chain) [metaprompting](https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07350). + + + +Then it was back to building. + +## 2024 Roadmap + +2024 will be the year of Honcho. Check out the new site we're launching today. + +![[honcho logo and text.png]] + +Last week [[Honcho; User Context Management for LLM Apps|we released]] the... + + >...first iteration of [[Honcho name lore|Honcho]], our project to re-define LLM application development through user context management. At this nascent stage, you can think of it as an open-source version of the OpenAI Assistants API. Honcho is a REST API that defines a storage schema to seamlessly manage your application's data on a per-user basis. It ships with a Python SDK which [you can read more about how to use here](https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho/blob/main/README.md). + +And coming up, you can expect a lot more: + +- Next we'll drop a fresh paradigm for constructing agent cognitive architectures with users at the center, replete with cookbooks, integrations, and examples + +- After that, we've got some dev viz tooling in the works that allows anyone to quickly grok all the inferences and context at play in a conversation, compare sessions, and visualize and manipulate entire architectures--as well as swap and compare the performance of custom architectures across the landscape of models + +- Finally, we'll bundle the most useful of all this into an offering of managed, hosted services + +## Keep in Touch + +Thanks for reading. + +You can find is on [X/Twitter](https://twitter.com/plastic_labs), but we'd really like to see you in our [Discord](https://discord.gg/plasticlabs) 🫡. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json index f1d8657b1..7c12e7146 100644 --- a/package-lock.json +++ b/package-lock.json @@ -1,20 +1,12 @@ { "name": "@jackyzha0/quartz", -<<<<<<< HEAD "version": "4.1.2", -======= - "version": "4.1.0", ->>>>>>> f8d1298d (fix: missing field in config) "lockfileVersion": 3, "requires": true, "packages": { "": { "name": "@jackyzha0/quartz", -<<<<<<< HEAD "version": "4.1.2", -======= - "version": "4.1.0", ->>>>>>> f8d1298d (fix: missing field in config) "license": "MIT", "dependencies": { "@clack/prompts": "^0.6.3", diff --git a/quartz/styles/custom.scss b/quartz/styles/custom.scss index c642fb892..983310eb0 100644 --- a/quartz/styles/custom.scss +++ b/quartz/styles/custom.scss @@ -20,3 +20,9 @@ img { display: flex; justify-content: center; } + +iframe { + display: block; + margin-left: auto; + margin-right: auto; +}