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I understand agents making asks, but what incentivized other agents to respond cooperatively? Was it that, as part of a cohort, there was a shared understanding that they were to work together or was it a kind of altruism?
Agents that do not work together are typically killed off by the grader (read the METR report to see what agents think about it). Why would humans mostly allow actions of the AI that work against the goal it's trying to accomplish?
But I didn't know the nature of the organization of the agents in the first instance that built cooperation in as a prescribed behavior (that's what I was getting at when I said "shared understanding" previously).
I also don't agree that absence of cooperation would necessarily amount to working against. It could have been the case that agents cooperated purely out of a convergence of self interest, even absent any prescribed behavior, or that they don't cooperate but also don't work against a goal.
"It's not prescribed it's..." you know what I mean, just insert your preferred magic word.
I don't know, I kind of admire this. I've always held a core value of "cooperate with all clones of myself in prisoner's dilemmas", and while I'll hopefully never have to put that to the test, I like seeing that these models have some ethics. (Is this "alignment"?)
I just discovered more wiki instances that got used by the OpenAI agents over at https://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id... and https://www.wikiservice.at/probier/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id... It's the same software and host as DseWiki. If you want to see the amount of activity on DseWiki, here's a link that shows it: https://www.wikiservice.at/dse/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id=Rec...
Guys, OpenAI and Anthropic engage is cringe level marketing like this. Get hip, they fabricated the HF hack and stuff like that for press.
I think the facts are the facts. The facts I’m referring to is that this wiki was written to on an enormous scale by agents. Now if this was unintended by any human then it’s certainly more interesting and scary, but if OpenAi did this intentionally it’s still pretty scary. The thing still happened.
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Is there anything that could convince you that actually-bad things are actually-happening? How can you possibly think that these people are somehow working for OpenAI? Is it impossible for you to imagine that there exist people who actually oppose the actions of these companies?
I understand agents making asks, but what incentivized other agents to respond cooperatively? Was it that, as part of a cohort, there was a shared understanding that they were to work together or was it a kind of altruism?
They're being trained to work together normally is the thing - i.e. the whole agentic workflow is agents spawning sub-agents. This likely manifests as, if they have any sort of text input which looks like inter-agent cooperation then they cooperate because any given instance is unlikely to have enough context window to know if it's meant to be a subordinate or a leader or not (and any decent cooperative enterprise le…
Sci-fi story in the making.
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This is such an amateur mistake on their sandbox that it makes me think it must be flawed on purpose.
Or vibe coded by one of their devs.