The industry is calling it "human-in-the-loop" for now but it's basically going in the direction OP hints at.
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Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?
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Re: Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?
#32I applaud topics like this that get to the banality and dehumanization involved with the promises of an AI future. To me, if AI fulfills even some of its promises then it puts us in a rather high stakes situation between the people that make up society and those that govern the productivity machines. My first instinct is to say that when one loses certain trusts society grants, society historically tends to come hard…
Indeed, I wonder if these angry young people would try to fuck with these AI agents, and attempt to make them spin in circles for their own amusement.
Sort of like the infamous GameStop short squeeze of 2021:
Re: Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?
#33The framing assumes cloud-first AI agents as the default caller. But there's another path: local-first AI where the human remains the orchestrator and the model never phones home.
The "humans as tools" model only works if the AI layer is centralized and owned by platforms. If inference runs on hardware you control, you're not callable - you're the one calling.
Been thinking about this a lot: https://www.localghost.ai/reckoning
Re: Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?
#34I applaud topics like this that get to the banality and dehumanization involved with the promises of an AI future. To me, if AI fulfills even some of its promises then it puts us in a rather high stakes situation between the people that make up society and those that govern the productivity machines. My first instinct is to say that when one loses certain trusts society grants, society historically tends to come hard…
"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down just to feel its warmth."
Re: Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?
#35The framing assumes cloud-first AI agents as the default caller. But there's another path: local-first AI where the human remains the orchestrator and the model never phones home. The "humans as tools" model only works if the AI layer is centralized and owned by platforms. If inference runs on hardware you control, you're not callable - you're the one calling. Been thinking about this a lot: https://www.localghost.ai…
Hey, interesting project!