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AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42

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joe_hills wrote: post #426
db48x wrote: post #354

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I was reminded more of the alien AI from Constellation Games, which spawned sub sub sub agents to interview humans. The protagonist sends a message to the aliens asking to be allowed to review the alien civilization’s computer games. An AI submind called Smoke-Cursive-Cytoplasm-Snakebite-Singsong-Polychromatic-Musteline is given the task of contacting him by IM to begin the conversation. Its job is only to verify tha…

I need to re-read Constellation Games soon. Lately I keep coming back to considering the expectations that its alien society has for the caretakers of artificial intelligence. Spinning up AI isn't hard for them from a tech standpoint, but since the AI is advanced enough to be considered life, anyone who creates it needs to be responsible enough to be qualified to adopt.

Yep. I like the reasoning he used for jailbreaking Dana.

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lxgr wrote: post #564
numbsafari wrote: post #357

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Perhaps it elicited enough sympathy to get donations. Did it ever provide proof of actually running up an AWS bill?

How would proof even look like? I don't think AWS digitally signs their invoices, and everything else can be faked just as easily as the original assertion.

A person bumps into at the train station. They just need $5 to get home. Could you just spare them $5? They had the money, but they lost their wallet and now they just need to get home.

Charity scams are nothing new.

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Post by kombookcha »

jdiff wrote: post #523
inigyou wrote: post #450

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I think you're overestimating the quality of American education. 40% of graduates can't read or write.

I have a coworker who, when he needs to operate some software that is unfamiliar to him, snaps a photo of it and has Gemini AI read each label and description. If there is a checklist or form that needs to be filled, Gemini reads each question. There's only one of him, not 40% of my coworkers, but these people can be employed and maintain employment.

I used to have a coworker who could get by using her Office programs fine, but would freeze completely the moment something unexpected happened or there was an error message. She didn't really know how to find stuff independently or navigate the menus, but she had carefully memorized all the little paths and procedures she would need. She did good work with it, but any time there was an update that reshuffled some buttons she would be very distressed about it.

In hindsight I suspect she was dyslexic and having this mental map was her workaround for reading a bunch of buttons with unfamiliar words without clear contexts.

People are very good at figuring out ways to get by in their day to day and get around various personal challenges and limitations. Sometimes so good, you don't even realize they're doing it!

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