Comment by olirex99

11 hours ago

I suggest you to give a look to the MCP protocol for hardware that is being proposed by Anthropic. The hardware will be the next harness of LLMs, they will be able to operate machines to reinforce their theories.

I still think that a major problem is that biological processes are not “fast” as coding, but they are verifiable. If during post processing we are able to give enough harness to test and verify this kind of environment (maybe via simulation and real data) we will for sure achieve incredible performance also in this domain.

The field I'm in requires millions of dollars of very sensitive (fragile) capital equipment, and latencies measured in weeks and months. Agents tend to move fast and break things, which matters less when you are writing code under version control.

  • Have you worked with agents on tasks with high capital and long latencies?

    Having worked with Fable 5, the feeling I get is that it's fairly capable of accounting for these tradeoffs and will depend fast more time on planning and testing.

    At the end of the day though, with horizons like that the best use of an AI is to get it to help you with those things, not so much delegate fully.

    • I've tried with each frontier release and gotten junk results. Even Fable 5 is just pattern matching against representative stuff in its training set, which for frontier science is definitionally incorrect.

> I suggest you to give a look to the MCP protocol for hardware that is being proposed by Anthropic. The hardware will be the next harness of LLMs, they will be able to operate machines to reinforce their theories.

Yeah, that's called an API. Again.

The actual hard problem that this hand waves is making (and funding the making of) hardware to reliably do the things you need it to do.