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What is the definition of "agency" in this context?

• NumberWangMan 3y ago
  Good point. I'm partially conflating the definition I usually mean, which is "having a goal in the world", with what they're doing, which is "having ability to affect the world". Hugging Face is trying to keep these locked down, and maybe being able to generate images and audible sound is not that much more dangerous than being able to output text. But it is increasing the attack surface for an AGI trying to get out of its box.
• dotancohen 3y ago
  Perhaps, with internet access, these AI could open bank accounts (with plausible-enough forged ID - a task which AI excels at), then work on e.g. Fiver, then gamble on the stock market... Where they go from there is anybody's guess.
  • nullsense 3y ago
    I've been thinking about what the likely "minimal self-employable system" might look like and it struck me yesterday that it's very likely going to be something like a NSFW roleplay chatbot.
    • TeMPOraL 3y ago
      You mean like that Replika AI thing, ads of which have been plastered all around Instagram recently? (Though maybe that's a filter bubble issue, and I'm targeted because "the algorithm" knows my interests in AI.) Would be ironic if what finally got us was a self-employed entrepreneurial NSFW chatbot. Who'd suspect that it's really just making money and learning to manipulate people, eventually getting some of them to mix a bunch of vials they unexpectedly got delivered by mail from random protein sequencing labs...