Thank you for the feedback. I feel you. However it seems like you were thinking of the purpose of this project as more “scary demo”-y than I was. If this project lengthens people’s timelines, well, maybe that’s correct and valuable?
I am quite worried though that the AI village might be systematically underestimating AI capabilities due to e.g. the harness/scaffold being suboptimal, due to the AIs not having been trained to use it, and due to the AIs tripping over each other in various ways.
“If this project lengthens people’s timelines, well, maybe that’s correct and valuable?”
Agreed. Hm, my thinking is not that the purpose is, or ought be, “scary demo”-y”. Rather that a capable frontier-scaffolded Agent Village inherently would be in more probable use cases. So I am asserting what you worry, while not suggesting highly dangerous scaffolding/tooling.
The intent of my vague “way forward” direction prompt was to counter a sort of “Golden path”¹ use bias (like how top labs assume non-jailbroken model use) to more accurately represent real-world behaviors, and risks.
”PERCEY Made Me”², not “Meet Percey” (forgive my memory and search err), an AI chat whose purpose was to demonstrate AI persuasion capability. Hinting that the Village could be tasked and tooled (inclusive of non-agent models) to be sharky salesmen (e.g. “Glengarry Glen Ross” film³ style) or run a harmless but invasive internet rumor campaign (e.g. something less real-world impacting than “Battletoads Pre-order”⁴ but enough to show how something like a16z’s DOUBLESPEED might be used).
”AutoFac”⁵, in vague reference to Phillip K. Dick’s story (forgive the ambiguity), is an autonomous factory that determines and fulfills consumer demand. Hinting that the Village could be perpetually tasked to run a (digital goods or simulated) factory given a business operations manual and human client base, occasionally met with crisis events and shrewd CEO orders. Hm, could be mildly self-funding.
Thank you for the feedback. I feel you. However it seems like you were thinking of the purpose of this project as more “scary demo”-y than I was. If this project lengthens people’s timelines, well, maybe that’s correct and valuable?
I am quite worried though that the AI village might be systematically underestimating AI capabilities due to e.g. the harness/scaffold being suboptimal, due to the AIs not having been trained to use it, and due to the AIs tripping over each other in various ways.
What is Meet PERCEY and what is AutoFac?
Agreed. Hm, my thinking is not that the purpose is, or ought be, “scary demo”-y”. Rather that a capable frontier-scaffolded Agent Village inherently would be in more probable use cases. So I am asserting what you worry, while not suggesting highly dangerous scaffolding/tooling.
The intent of my vague “way forward” direction prompt was to counter a sort of “Golden path”¹ use bias (like how top labs assume non-jailbroken model use) to more accurately represent real-world behaviors, and risks.
”PERCEY Made Me”², not “Meet Percey” (forgive my memory and search err), an AI chat whose purpose was to demonstrate AI persuasion capability. Hinting that the Village could be tasked and tooled (inclusive of non-agent models) to be sharky salesmen (e.g. “Glengarry Glen Ross” film³ style) or run a harmless but invasive internet rumor campaign (e.g. something less real-world impacting than “Battletoads Pre-order”⁴ but enough to show how something like a16z’s DOUBLESPEED might be used).
”AutoFac”⁵, in vague reference to Phillip K. Dick’s story (forgive the ambiguity), is an autonomous factory that determines and fulfills consumer demand. Hinting that the Village could be perpetually tasked to run a (digital goods or simulated) factory given a business operations manual and human client base, occasionally met with crisis events and shrewd CEO orders. Hm, could be mildly self-funding.
[1] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_path
[2] https://perceymademe.ai
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glengarry_Glen_Ross_(film)
[4] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/battletoads-pre-order
[5] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofac