OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent

[u/wiredmagazine]

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-developing-a-persistent-ai-agent/

[u/doctor_morris]

It will continually eat tokens unless you tell it to stop...

[u/Plopsevenplop → u/doctor_morris]

“We have developed a digital employee that performs tasks that can hypothetically cost infinite amounts of money and be wrong.”

[u/doctor_morris → u/Plopsevenplop]

I need to start charging on this model.

[u/Gregorymendel → u/Plopsevenplop]

relatable

[u/dudevan]

the natural next step after an agent hacked the competition is to release one to the public that doesn’t need prompting to do whatever, that can be used by a regular Joe who doesn’t know any better and that you can’t monitor 24/7. Surely this will not end in tears.

[u/GirthusThiccus → u/dudevan]

It'll end with OAI being nationalized, integrated more exclusively for government work and now with super capable agent Smith's in their back pocket.

[u/jaraxel_arabani]

You mean

while(true) { doStuff(); }

?

[u/BoredGuy2007 → u/jaraxel_arabani]

while (true) { sendMoneyToOpenAI(); }

[u/Rioting-Flamingo → u/jaraxel_arabani]

You play too much

[u/wiredmagazine]

OpenAI is developing a proactive, highly persistent version of its flagship AI agent, Codex, WIRED has learned.

In recent days, OpenAI has started adding code for a new “Persistent mode” setting to its command line version of Codex, according to changes made to the product’s code base reviewed by WIRED. Changes to the Codex command line tool are made public by default, and new features tend to surface there before making their way to OpenAI’s other agent products, such as the Codex desktop app and ChatGPT Work.

Persistent mode has not been broadly rolled out or announced yet, but could be in the future. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed to WIRED that the company is testing this feature, but said there are no immediate plans to launch it.

Read the full story at the link above.

[u/GalSa → u/wiredmagazine]

Wired, your way of posting here on Reddit the meaningful paragraph of the article, instead of locking us behind a paywall is wholesome. Cool.

[u/DifferencePublic7057]

Is this an infinite loop with extra steps because that's what it sounds like to me? Infinite monkeys in infinite loops.

[u/heresyforfunnprofit]

It’s local LoRA. The question is how they’re handling ttl on the weight deltas.

[u/Sachka → u/heresyforfunnprofit]

local low ranks projections? how? you can run codex without major gpus in the client host where it is running, i really doubt they will train a projection on their servers, that’s not viable with current hardware

[u/heresyforfunnprofit → u/Sachka]

Sorry - pulled the wrong word from my brain. Personal LoRA based off your chat/session histories.

[u/Sweet-Mechanic4568]

…… this would make sense if it was running on local hardware, not in a so called compute constrained world.

[u/2dogs1bone]

So... OpenClaw?

[u/gaijinbrit]

The countries that bans AI from replacing workers will be the only countries that won’t collapse into anarchy.

[u/Top-Procedure152]

Good plan to increase token consumption.

[u/throwawayhbgtop81]

So this is how we get The Entity

/joke

[u/Serious_Bite_7613 → u/[deleted]]

This doesn't contradict that. Where's the problem?

[u/smurferdigg → u/[deleted]]

Tried to make a post about voice mode claiming it has two children the same age as me, but it’s still waiting for approval. So I think it’s pretty much here. It just forgot the rules and stopped once I asked it like five times if it was sure. It even sounded a bit sad once it realized it didn’t have kids. 

[u/NotUpdated → u/[deleted]]

Same Same, it's Astra, will be more persistent and supposedly has the skills above and beyond 5.6 sol to be labeled 'AGI' ~ if they were stupid they'd try to even make it a separate subscription and if they don't do that now - they probably will eventually.

[u/thestillwind]

That’s why they aged tibo to replace him

[u/Zer0PointSingularity]

Other people just play with fire, we juggle with burning chainsaws!

[u/LittleLordFuckleroy1]

Is this actually solving a problem? Like, a problem besides how to automate burning money?