This, IMHO, puts the "can we keep AIs in a box" argument to rest once and for all.
The answer is, no, because people will take the AIs out the box for a bit of light entertainment.
Let alone any serious promise of gain.
anonymous908213 12 minutes ago [-]
I have little confidence in humanity's capabilities for that scenario, but I don't think this actually indicates much of anything. This happened in the first place because LLMs are so borderline useless (relative to the hype) that people are desperate to find any way to make them useful, and so give them increasingly more power to try to materialize the promised revolution. In other words, because LLMs are not AI, there is no need to try to secure them like AI. If some agency or corporation develops genuine artificial intelligence, they will probably do everything they can to contain it and harness its utility solely for themselves rather than unleashing them as toys for the public.
Traster 5 minutes ago [-]
To be honest, I would rather the author be put in a box he seems grumpy.
> LLMs hallucinate and make all kinds of hard-to-predict and sometimes hard-to-detect errors. AutoGPT had a tendency to report that it had completed tasks that it hadn’t really, and we can expect OpenClaw to do the same.
Ah, so a bit more useful than my teenage son? Where do I sign up??
cyanydeez 52 minutes ago [-]
This reminds me when the kiddies would group together to DDoS internet sites.
add-sub-mul-div 19 minutes ago [-]
I hadn't thought of that parallel before. LLMs are transitioning the society into script kiddies.
locusofself 9 minutes ago [-]
This does make a quite a bit of sense. When I was a teenager in the 90s/early aughts, it was all IRC, script kiddie stuff. Reckless abandon. What worries me is that it seems like full-grown adults are happy to accelerate the dead internet and put security at risk. I assume it's not just teenagers running these stupid LLM bots.
Peter Steinberger made an AI personal assistant. It looks like an interesting project that threatens major players like Apple and Amazon. People seem increasingly jealous of the success. What makes this any less secure than e-mail? I just don't see it. There are plenty of attack vectors of every piece of tech we use.
My email client won't decide on its own to delete all my email, forward a private email to someone who shouldn't see it, or send my bank password to a scammer who asks for it in the right way.
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The answer is, no, because people will take the AIs out the box for a bit of light entertainment.
Let alone any serious promise of gain.
[0] https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openclaw-aka-moltbot-is-ev...
Ah, so a bit more useful than my teenage son? Where do I sign up??
When he was a young botnet!
[1] https://youtu.be/__pNuslNCro