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AI-powered smart home at the London Generative AI Hackathon.
London AI Hackathon (April 2023) pitch entry by Matt Webb and Campbell Orme
Winner of 2 of the 5 awards:
- Most Impactful, sponsored by DeepMind
- Best Business, sponsored by AWS Activate
Hackathon pitch write up: Unpacking Lares
In June 2024 I developed a new, more robust version of Lares in order to document its behaviour.
Read the paper, including video demos and open code:
Lares smart home assistant: A toy AI agent demonstrating emergent behavior
The takeaway:
New AI agents are being developed every day. My meta goal is to show that basic agents with surprisingly sophisticated emergent traits are straightforward to build with comparatively little code. (This paper is not aimed at engineers who are already working with agents.)