Microsoft's New User Role Model

So this looks like it could actually be a really fun model

https://huggingface.co/microsoft/UserLM-8b

I like this little specific purpose LLMs the most because it opens up some neat doors. They likely made this to act as the user-proxy in autogen, and they point out on their model card that it would be great for testing assistant LLMs, but this could also be amazing for long-form testing and benchmarking on workflows.

This could actually end up saving me a lot of time. Right now, when I make a new workflow, there's a lot of me involved in the testing of it, even though the outputs can easily be assessed by an LLM. And sure, I could create a set of tailored prompts to test with, but then I'd basically just be building against a happy-path. There's no telling what this little guy will come up with... which is pretty realistic for a user, too lol

Honestly, this is a model I never thought about wanting before and I don't even have a clear picture in my mind of exactly how I'll use it yet, but for some reason I'm really excited about it lol