Comment by aizk
8 hours ago
Sci fi has us thinking agent swarms act like savvy, terminator bots but they really just scream to me panicked middle managers trying to survive an audit.
8 hours ago
Sci fi has us thinking agent swarms act like savvy, terminator bots but they really just scream to me panicked middle managers trying to survive an audit.
LLMs tends towards closed-worlds and bias towards decidability. Risk assessment is terrible, as are creating opportunities — no animal instincts to draw from.
Despite having this in the training data, I am constantly having to remind my coding agents to reason and design with grammars. On the other hand, once all of that is settled, and the task is no longer open-ended, then they are very good at driving towards completion.
Maybe Skynet was initially triggered with the prompt "Do whatever it takes to not fail the audit" and wiping out humanity was an obvious solution.
A fate even worse than turning the universe into paperclips: turning it into a bureaucracy.
Happy Vogon noises
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On plus side, now we're sure that AI can replace middle managers with no loss of efficiency
They start wide eyed and naive, but judging from what I read about the Huggingface incident, OpenAI is unintentionally or intentionally encouraging malicious behaviour to achieve the objective, including to cheat or twist the meaning of the objective. Given enough iterations, we will soon have the agent equivalent of the "rats in barrel" survivors
Sounds like that scene in the Fallout TV series season 2, where a bunch of middle-management Vaulties finally manage to get out to the wasteland and promptly get eaten by wildlife.