APIs have an MxN problem. N tools each need to implement M different APIs.
In nearly every case (that an end user cares about), an API will also have a GUI frontend. The GUI is discoverable, able to be authenticated against, definitely exists, and generally usable by the lowest common denominator. Teaching the AI to use this generically, solves the same problem as implementing support for a bunch of APIs without the discoverability and existence problems. In many ways this is horrific compute waste, but it's also a generic MxN solution.
But if you have an AI then all that's needed to implement an api is documentation
My idea of these self-proclaimed rationalists was fifteen years out of date. I thought they’re people who write wordy fan fiction, but turns out they’ve reached the point of having subgroups that kill people and exorcise demons.
This must be how people who had read one Hubbard pulp novel in the 1950s felt decades later when they find out he’s running a full-blown religion now.
The article seems to try very hard to find something positive to say about these groups, and comes up with:
“Rationalists came to correct views about the COVID-19 pandemic while many others were saying masks didn’t work and only hypochondriacs worried about covid; rationalists were some of the first people to warn about the threat of artificial intelligence.”
There’s nothing very unique about agreeing with the WHO, or thinking that building Skynet might be bad… (The rationalist Moses/Hubbard was 12 when that movie came out — the most impressionable age.) In the wider picture painted by the article, these presumed successes sound more like a case of a stopped clock being right twice a day.