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Amplification

Recursive question-answering

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Last updated 2 years ago

Amplification is the idea that agents can make subcalls to copies of themselves to inform how to answer a question or make a decision.

Our implementation plan:

  1. Write a recipe that takes a question and .

  2. Write a recipe for .

  3. : Augment the question-answerer to generate subquestions, answer them, and use their answers as advice.

  4. : When answering subquestions, be able to ask further subquestions.

asks helpful subquestions
answering subquestions
One-step amplification
Recursive amplification