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Designing, Testing, and Scaling Safe Multi-Agent Systems - BRKSP460

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Explore the design, testing, and scaling of safe multi-agent AI systems in this advanced conference talk from Microsoft Ignite 2025, featuring Cognizant VP of AI Research Risto Miikkulainen. Discover groundbreaking research demonstrating how multi-agent systems can tackle complex tasks beyond the capabilities of single-agent models, even when scaling to a million agents. Learn the fundamental advantages of multi-agent architectures including divide-and-conquer strategies, enhanced collaboration capabilities, and increased system flexibility. Examine real-world deployment examples within Cognizant and gain insights into both proprietary and public multi-agent networks. Participate in an interactive demonstration showcasing semantic density in practice and understand how to extend trustworthiness across large-scale multi-agent networks. Compare performance metrics between evolutionary strategies and reinforcement learning approaches for agent optimization. Delve into complex reasoning capabilities and multi-agent task coordination while addressing the limitations of large language models in introspection and metacognition. Master techniques for evaluating and fine-tuning agent confidence using evolutionary strategies and discover practical applications for driving organizational growth through advanced AI systems.

Syllabus

0:00 - Introduction and Session Overview
00:10:03 - Real-World Deployment of the System within Cognizant
00:10:47 - Advantages of Multi-Agent Systems: Divide and Conquer, Collaboration, and Flexibility
00:11:22 - Overview of Proprietary and Public Multi-Agent Networks
00:16:21 - Interactive Demo: Semantic Density in Practice
00:20:01 - Extending Trustworthiness Across Multi-Agent Networks
00:25:53 - Performance comparison: Evolution strategy vs reinforcement learning
00:29:06 - Transition to complex reasoning and multi-agent tasks
00:34:31 - Discussion on LLMs lacking introspection and metacognition

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