Building Agentic AI: Challenges and Solutions

Sep 15, 2024

Webinar: Overcoming Challenges of Building Agentic AI

Host and Guests

  • Host: Graham Steele
  • Guests:
    • Daniele Bernardi - CEO of Toolhouse
    • Dan Lohman - Cloud Engineer on GrokCloud team

Introduction

  • Focus on challenges of building Agentic AI
  • Toolhouse and Grok collaboration
  • Audience participation encouraged via questions in the chat

Presentation Overview

  • Daniele Bernardi on agents and overcoming challenges
  • Definition of Agentic: Individual's ability to control goals, actions, and destiny
    • AI performing actions autonomously

Agentic AI

  • Structure of Agents:
    • Well-equipped LLM with a defined prompt
    • Plan for action, step-by-step actions
  • Tools and Memory:
    • Tools: Interact with external code to perform tasks
    • Memory: Retrieve previous interactions and details

Examples of AI Tools

  • Sending emails drafted by LLM
  • Getting current time
  • Remembering user input
  • Searching the web
  • Running and executing generated code

Toolhouse

  • Marketplace for AI function calling
  • Run functions in the cloud
  • Install tools like apps on a phone
  • Publish and monetize tools
  • Supports various LLM frameworks

Demonstration by Dan Lohman

  • Overview of using Toolhouse with Grok
  • Fine-tuned models for tool use
  • Live demo on executing Python code through Toolhouse

Questions & Answers

Memory and Context Handling

  • Give agents guardrails and prompts for memory usage
  • Strategies for memory efficiency

Model Recommendations

  • Fine-tuned Lama 3 for tool use
  • Grok supports various models for different needs

Production Use and Monitoring

  • Examples include complex workflows like booking trips
  • Weights and Biases for tracing and monitoring

Pricing Model

  • Currently in private beta
  • Future pricing based on execution and additional functionalities

Deployment Recommendations

  • Cloud deployment recommended for consistency

Challenges in AI Agents

  • Tool use and maintaining code base are significant challenges
  • Toolhouse aims to simplify development

Privacy

  • Grok ensures privacy, no storage of inputs/outputs

Tool Utilization

  • Enterprises often use a wide range of tools
  • Bundles feature to optimize tool usage

Closing

  • Encouragement to use Toolhouse credits
  • Free API key from Grok for new users
  • Webinar available on YouTube

These notes provide a comprehensive overview of the webinar, highlighting the key points discussed by the speakers and the interaction with the audience.