The operator’s social “experiment” has all the scientific value of an angry person at a drive-thru McDonalds goading a child into shouting and throwing food at the employee.
Readit Newsthis_steve_j commented on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward theshamblog.com/an-ai-age... · Posted by u/scottshambaugh
this_steve_j commented on An AI agent published a hit piece on me theshamblog.com/an-ai-age... · Posted by u/scottshambaugh
Isn't there a fourth and much more likely scenario? Some person (not OP or an AI company) used a bot to write the PR and blog posts, but was involved at every step, not actually giving any kind of "autonomy" to an agent. I see zero reason to take the bot at its word that it's doing this stuff without human steering. Or is everyone just pretending for fun and it's going over my head?
The simplest explanation is often the best. He was attacked by... attacked by... the meat bag! Here’s how:
A Meat bag submits a PR and feels slighted the rejection. “This approver thinks I’m an AI? Well, he discerns not wisely but too well!! “
Feeling puckish, they put on the AI shoes (the shoe fits), sling mud all over the hapless maintainer’s nice house, and exit through a window.
The ruse works better than expected; their foil takes the bait, and doubles down with a dueling blog post: “I was Attacked by a Clanker!”
And here we are.
It may all be a show, but I going to tape the finale. (What will the meat bag do? How many people are driving this buggy? Does the clanker have a heart of iron or gold?)
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Reddit has been a cesspit of recycled pablum, populist image macros and low effort reply comments for more than a decade. Enthusiast subreddits are astroturfed to hell and back by people with a Shopify storefront and a dream trying to growth hack their way to a hockey stick. The low barrier to entry to each community means that this vapid culture eventually diffuses itself across subreddits that might otherwise be good. It's a postmodern toilet that flushes into its own tank.
I don't care if I sound old and salty when I say this: I miss phpBB and Invision forums. Even those are being bought up by marketing companies to sell ads and transformed with social media features... Xenforo (which everybody uses now) allows liking posts and supports Instagram-style content feeds.
Comment of the week!
A CSB safety video on the agency's investigation into the massive April 8, 2021, explosion and fire that fatally injured one worker at the Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corporation facility in Columbus, Ohio.
“These agents can attend meetings, edit documents, communicate via email and chat, and perform tasks autonomously.
Redmond will sell these “agentic users” in the “M365 Agent Store” and make them discoverable in its Teams collaboration-ware tools.
A365 Agent licensing details are not yet publicly available.
https://www.perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-365-copilot-commer...
Even after putting their thumb on the scale, the numbers are still dismal. Not even a 2% conversion rate.
The marketing has 100% shifted to the creation of workloads using “Agents”.
Presumably the hyperscalers can begin conflating the number of “agents” created with “boring jobs eliminated” and thus herald the industrial revolution.
But first: Your subscription price is increasing and now includes 5 Agents.
On the contrary; it is prominent to leverage the synergy of ontological orthogonalities to maximize a diverse approach.
I like the cut of this jibe.
What are some ways to avoid common methological pitfalls when generating test cases for "groundedness" benchmarks with automation?
Confirmation bias is one obvious pitfall that comes to mind, but also I wonder how it is possible to achieve reproducibility when the input is stochastic.