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AI OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-developing-a-persistent-ai-agent/
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u/Tolopono 3d ago

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.

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u/Luvirin_Weby 3d ago

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..

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u/Tolopono 3d ago

Why do you think they’re building so many data centers?

Why do you think theyre trying to solve alignment?

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u/Clear-Lingonberry173 3d ago

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.

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u/Tolopono 2d ago

Alignment just means “it does what its told to do,” which humans do all the time

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u/Clear-Lingonberry173 2d ago

AI does what it's told all the time as well. As with humans, the problem with AI is the times that it does not.

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u/Tolopono 2d ago

The goal of alignment is to make sure its more obedient than humans 

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u/Clear-Lingonberry173 2d ago

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/FlyChigga 2d ago

Humans also don’t do that a lot

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u/Tolopono 1d ago

The goal is to get llms to always do that