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What does annoy you the most with AI today?

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Re: What does annoy you the most with AI today?

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I just looked at some of the security recommendations. It seems that to build a secure system would be incredibly fiddly and involve lot of frankly weird and questionable stuff. Like probabilistic detection systems in essence in every multi-agent interface.

Not to even mention looking at solutions for most basic things like prompt injections. Frankly laughable efforts. No where near what I would consider sufficient...

And somehow they are trying to push this crap to everywhere... Before you even have these things in place...

Re: What does annoy you the most with AI today?

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post #4

I just looked at some of the security recommendations. It seems that to build a secure system would be incredibly fiddly and involve lot of frankly weird and questionable stuff. Like probabilistic detection systems in essence in every multi-agent interface. Not to even mention looking at solutions for most basic things like prompt injections. Frankly laughable efforts. No where near what I would consider sufficient..…

You're right. It's tricky. Essentially we want probabilistic systems to behave as deterministic ones. Do you see a light at the end of the tunnel?

Re: What does annoy you the most with AI today?

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post #4

I just looked at some of the security recommendations. It seems that to build a secure system would be incredibly fiddly and involve lot of frankly weird and questionable stuff. Like probabilistic detection systems in essence in every multi-agent interface. Not to even mention looking at solutions for most basic things like prompt injections. Frankly laughable efforts. No where near what I would consider sufficient..…

You're right. It's tricky. Essentially we want probabilistic systems to behave as deterministic ones. Do you see a light at the end of the tunnel?

Nope. But I am sceptic. Best I can see is that there is some somewhat useful cases in addition to more traditional stuff... And even then there will likely be lot of extra work for manual verification. And cost effectiveness is probably also a good question.

Re: What does annoy you the most with AI today?

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Just ask the previous model to provide handoff context

Interesting. How do you personally ask that? Do you make this as a systematic approach? Like agents passing they "DNA" to the next?

I do this every day, because Codex writes my requirements and Claude implements them. Just ask it for whatever you think the next model will need, tell it to be verbose if you like, and even have a second ChatGPT check it if you are worried. You can even give it a format, going as far as providing a specification or template if you do it frequently. Stick that template in both ChatGPT and claude projects so one can write it and the other can read it.

Edit: I shouldn’t admit this, but I even have an ontology defined - RDF and all - for some of my LLM tasks. Its classes contain examples, and so is like a few-shot instruction, and it’s working scarily well for structuring tasks.

Re: What does annoy you the most with AI today?

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I have many more fears than just annoyances :)

My biggest annoyance is hiding Thinking tokens; I have little trust in these aliens, and seeing how the sausage was made helped me to be more comfortable with eating it. Anthropic was the biggest provider that did not do this until recently, and they give a good rationale for the switch but that doesn’t make it less annoying. I also dislike the UX they put around it, “Hmm.”, “I should think about this” etc.

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