Comment by FLeXMurphy
13 hours ago
Is OpenAI hiring for this position? I think it is a pretty creative job to come up with these scenarios and then pass them off as accidents/mistakes.
Would love to be part of the team that says "As part of the upcoming GPT rollout, we will stage a message board that is created by bots with timestamps and names dating some months back."
Chief LARPing Officer?
To those of you irked by my cavalier quips-- please don't bite my head off. It is very difficult for me to buy accounts of these stories at face value given how little (none?) emphasis is placed on the initial prompt, or precisely what kind of post training the LLM that these agents (harnesses) are using for inference has gone through.
The implication is always of autonomous and deliberately deceiving action on the part of the 'swarm', and the announcements/revelations timed around new model releases and laden with anthropomorphisms.
Given the quite literally unimaginable amounts of money at stake, is it not more prudent to remain skeptical of the implications thrown around by incidents like this one until we learn more?
I am not a hater, I use 'agents' daily. Our profession is forever changed by their existence and capability. But in my case it's precisely the fact that I do use them, and play with the newest models, that makes me skeptical of any kind of implication of desire, agency, autonomy, agenda, etc. as they tend to be ascribed to 'agents' in these stories.
It is absolutely staged.