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12 Angry Agents

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12 angry men is a very thought-provoking film, and there is nothing quite like it. Its premise is just 12 people sitting in the jury room and sharing their experiences and judgment on a very sensitive case. They need to decide whether a boy is innocent or guilty of a crime.I have been playing around with a thought experiment where agents play human roles and come to a conclusion.
I created agents for each jury, and the judge is another agent that can make an informed decision based on what the juries come up with. I fed the movie script into the setup, and each jury uses the Recall tools to refine their belief, and how they came to a conclusion.I built this using Polign Recall - https://github.com/Polign/recall , langGraph and agent-sandbox.1. Each jury agent processes the conversation in its own terms.2. The memory gets folded, and contradiction and change of mind get processed as part of their own belief system.3. The judge decides how each juror finally concluded their belief and whether they came to be with an informed decision or were coerced into the decision.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here is the conclusion by the judge…

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