There is a sense in which this loop is already closed - the sensory interface for an LLM is a discrete space of size context window x vocabulary that it observes and acts upon. The environment is whatever else writes to this space, e.g., a human interlocutor. This description contains the necessary variables and dependencies to get an action-perception loop off the ground. One caveat is that action-perception loops usually have actions that influence the environment to generat... (read more)
Great post; a few short comments:
Closing the action loop of active inference
There is a sense in which this loop is already closed - the sensory interface for an LLM is a discrete space of size context window x vocabulary that it observes and acts upon. The environment is whatever else writes to this space, e.g., a human interlocutor. This description contains the necessary variables and dependencies to get an action-perception loop off the ground. One caveat is that action-perception loops usually have actions that influence the environment to generat... (read more)