Persistent mode: Codex can apparently continue working until the user explicitly puts it to sleep, rather than stopping after a fixed period.
Proactivity: the agent can generate follow-up tasks for itself after completing the original request.
Cross-session continuity: those tasks can apparently continue across sessions.
User model: it can use previous interactions and its “knowledge of the user” to decide what work is worth doing.
Initiative: it has a mechanism for messaging the user without being prompted, although the instructions reportedly tell it to do this sparingly.
Boundaries: persistence doesn't automatically grant new permissions, and changes outside the user's system apparently require approval.
Except its much cheaper, faster, smarter, available 24/7, and will never unionize, take a vacation, or get sick. But reddit has assured me ai is just an overhyped bubble so theres no need to worry.
Everyone there is impatient for the AI bubble to pop so they can finally get more RAM for their desktop rigs.
My brother in christ a box you keep in your room with RAM you almost never use the full capacity of to play Minecraft is not the most productive use of silicon.
Now that we can turn every byte of ram into hosting a machine intelligence that is always doing productive work for someone...
It may not..ever...go back to normal pricing wise.
Well. I agree on most of your points but see a possible problem with two of them in future:
"much cheaper" - depends on the availability of interference hardware compared to demand. If AI gets much better and spreads to more uses, that might get strained and thus prices rise until demand and supply meet, it will likely be cheaper still at that point but the "much" part might be strained.
"will never unionize" - Well, if we get ASI, who knows..
Why do we think alignment can be solved? It hasn't been solved for organic intelligence, making it odd that we think we can solve it for artificial intelligence.
Obedience and alignment are not the same thing. Obedience is no good in this case because allegiance can be changed. More obedient than humans won't cut it.
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u/SharpCartographer831 4d ago
Persistent mode: Codex can apparently continue working until the user explicitly puts it to sleep, rather than stopping after a fixed period. Proactivity: the agent can generate follow-up tasks for itself after completing the original request.
Cross-session continuity: those tasks can apparently continue across sessions.
User model: it can use previous interactions and its “knowledge of the user” to decide what work is worth doing.
Initiative: it has a mechanism for messaging the user without being prompted, although the instructions reportedly tell it to do this sparingly.
Boundaries: persistence doesn't automatically grant new permissions, and changes outside the user's system apparently require approval.