Revolutionizing the Human-Agent Interaction Paradigm & From Reactive Agent to Proactive Agent! We (Tsinghua NLP & OpenBMB) just introduced a groundbreaking new generation of Proactive Agent interactions! 🤖 Even the most advanced AI agents like ChatGPT are still traditional Reactive Agents, requiring explicit user instructions to perform tasks. But now, Our new Proactive Agent changes the game. These agents aren’t just instruction followers—they're smart assistants with "insight" 🧠. They actively observe, predict human needs, and solve problems before being asked. 🌟 paper🔗：arxiv.org/abs/2410.12361 Code🔗：github.com/thunlp/ProactiveA…

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Thoughts on Omnivore shutting down: Many people enjoyed Omnivore because it was free, but being free was part of its demise. As an independent app maker, you must have a way to generate revenue or your product will die. As a user you must demand a way to pay makers for the products you love. See my essay: "Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash" I didn't personally use Omnivore, but it seems like many Obsidian users loved it. Now the app is being shut down with only a couple of weeks to export your data. While this is abrupt, it isn't surprising. When a startup runs out of resources, the end is always more sudden than you expect. The dream of making it work persists until the very last moment. A subset of people will find refuge in Omnivore's open source code, but the vast majority of users are not technical enough to compile/host/run a service like this. In the end I keep coming back to the ephemerality of software. We have to appreciate that apps like Omnivore are being attempted. The apps that become self-sustaining will last longer than those that don't, but none will last forever.