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Recently I read The Rogue Agent Explosion Will Be Mostly Invisible and the scenario in it seemed intriguing. Essentially, the post painted a picture of how agents could go rogue if prompted with something like the following: Good morning agent 23,000. You have 10,000,000 tokens remaining. Your goal is to make money by any means… Read More The post Asking agents to make money to survive appeared first on Inverted Passion.
Hint: managing someone is actually hard, and most times not worth it. Most people don’t use AI agents daily because delegation (to another human) is a learned skill. Using AI agents is actually a lot like doing natural language programming: specifying requirements, verifying outputs, guiding the flow, giving context. Also, using an AI agent requires… Read More The post Why AI agents aren’t adopted widely appeared first on Inverted Passion.
Investors underwrite scaling laws because the alternative (having an Einstein discover better algorithms) is high variance What would it take to make progress towards general intelligence, where general stands for any problem that might arise in our world? Since our world is big and open-ended, the quest for general intelligence becomes a quest for solving… Read More The post Why frontier labs are scaling-pilled appeared first on Inverted Passion.
Daniel Dennett, who recently passed away, is an inspiration for people like me who love grand ideas that connect many different fields at a deep level (and be rigorous about that; well as rigorous as grand theories can be). His thinking is difficult to categorize: part philosopher, part scientist, he had many good ideas on topics ranging from evolution… Read More The post How mind bootstraps itself appeared first on Inverted Passion.
Been wondering lately that given everyone has a consultant with all the world’s knowledge in their pockets, we should be seeing efficiency rise across the board everywhere. Literally everyone can now get personalised advise on how to serve their customers better, improve quality of their outputs, cut inefficiencies and increase revenue. .. yet, this is… Read More The post Why aren’t things changing faster? appeared first on Inverted Passion.
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As a business, how do you deal with disruption — technological or otherwise? Some patterns from a collection of case studies.
It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually comes from, and more importantly, it isn’t a path to change how companies actually work.