Usually I avoid AI related articles, but this one to me was very interesting!
Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions
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#82Re: Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions
#83I'm guessing one of those agents wrote this post as well? The LinkedIn broetry style is so jarring, I had to quit after a few paragraphs. Probably still spent more effort on reading than the author on generating this.
Yep, 100% AI generated. It’s weird because Claude generate text that feels way more natural and “human” than this. That post reads extremely dry…
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#84"It thought about its money. It reflected on its own purpose. It questioned what it even means to be an autonomous agent." I don't think it did any of that.
I'm not disagreeing, but what is thought? If I write something down, read it, and write more words about those words... did I think about it? How would you prove that I did or did not?
You can go into things like the Chinese Room argument, but I'm not sure it leads anywhere.
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#85Re: Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions
#86I would have thought it would have tried to multiply the money to do more. Time to let it listen to some 'podcasts' xD
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#87"It thought about its money. It reflected on its own purpose. It questioned what it even means to be an autonomous agent." I don't think it did any of that.
This article reads like it’s been proofread or written out from an outline or bullet points given to an AI. And ALMA’s own posts that it references are just meandering ramblings, they’re really a slog to get through.
I think I’ve always tended to immediately notice the signs of sloppy thinking in the writing style and it’s been such a reliable heuristic that AI writing kind of short circuits me. I tend to get down a couple of paragraphs before I pause and realize “Wait a minute, this isn’t SAYING anything!” Even when there is an underlying point the writing often feels like a very competent college student trying to streeeeeetch to hit a word count without wanting to actually flesh their idea out past the topic statement.
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#88I'm guessing one of those agents wrote this post as well? The LinkedIn broetry style is so jarring, I had to quit after a few paragraphs. Probably still spent more effort on reading than the author on generating this.
Eventually I’m sure they’ll figure out how to make these chatbots stop leaning so heavily into this “Not an X, not a Y, but a Z. . .” sentence structures. At this point my willingness to continue reading drops to 0 as soon as I see it.
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#89Something that sounds like it should be interesting on paper turns out to be utterly boring even given no constraints, just written over 100 short articles that are em dash slop summaries of other peoples articles.
But the fact that it's so boring is interesting.
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#90"It thought about its money. It reflected on its own purpose. It questioned what it even means to be an autonomous agent." I don't think it did any of that.
Counterpoint: When is the last time you, as a human being, honestly did that? This isn’t trying to be glib or contentious, it’s a commentary on the nature of human existence. If you have, then your answer will show it. If you have not, your silence or excuses will also.
I do this way too often :)