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“Getting stuck” is my basic theory of why the AGI apocalypse is not going to be an issue during my lifetime. I’ve jokingly been calling it the non-halting prob

• mark_l_watson 4y ago
  I installed AutoGPT on my MacBook this morning. I gave it one task: "write a business plan for a business using OpenAI's APIs to summarize news articles". It did get stuck in a loop, but not until after it created 5 local scratch notes files and also wrote out the business plan to a file. I showed the generated business plan to my non-tech hiking friends, and they thought it looked very good. But, it did not halt - I had to halt it myself. So far I have only tried this one test run. By the way, it looks like it cost $0.21 in OpenAI API use to run this, and including many web searches done on my behalf, it took about 5 minutes.
• 13years 4y ago
  This is a possibility that we don't reach AGI due to many such unforeseen obstacles. However, there is another concerning problem, that being what we have is a very sophisticated machine of unpredictable behavior. The more immediate concern will be giving such more control over important systems than we should. I have a feeling that within a year or so the euphoria may fade as we are left dealing with endless numbers of "bugs" in black box systems that we can't define the behavior.
• ChatGTP 4y ago
  We’ll what’s the utility of something with agency that cannot he controlled? That’s so smart you can’t understand and doesn’t really share any of your problems. “Hello, today can you please cure cancer, solve climate change and when your done, wash my poodle. K thanks” “Ok master no problems” I just can’t see it.