Improving Language Model Prompting in Support of Semi-autonomous Task Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07636v1
• Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:36:01 GMT
• Title: Improving Language Model Prompting in Support of Semi-autonomous Task Learning
• Authors: James R. Kirk, Robert E. Wray, Peter Lindes, John E. Laird
• Abstract summary: Language models (LLMs) offer potential as a source of knowledge for agents that need to acquire new task competencies. We describe efforts toward a novel agent capability that can construct cues that result in useful LLM responses for an agent learning a new task.
• Score: 6.021787236982658
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Language models (LLMs) offer potential as a source of knowledge for agents that need to acquire new task competencies within a performance environment. We describe efforts toward a novel agent capability that can construct cues (or "prompts") that result in useful LLM responses for an agent learning a new task. Importantly, responses must not only be "reasonable" (a measure used commonly in research on knowledge extraction from LLMs) but also specific to the agent's task context and in a form that the agent can interpret given its native language capacities. We summarize a series of empirical investigations of prompting strategies and evaluate responses against the goals of targeted and actionable responses for task learning. Our results demonstrate that actionable task knowledge can be obtained from LLMs in support of online agent task learning.

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