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Not anything - it wouldn't be a great idea to give an LLM the ability to spend money, but we let humans do it all the time.
by ajb 2y ago
Not anything - it wouldn't be a great idea to give an LLM the ability to spend money, but we let humans do it all the time.
- dambi0 2y agoWith suitable safeguards or limits on what it can spend why not? On the one hand it might not fear repercussions as a human would, on the other hand it’s far less likely to embezzle funds to support its overly lavish lifestyle or gambling addiction.
- Jensson 2y agoYeah, you could marry an AI and share a bank account with it, and now it could buy you useful stuff it thinks you need without you doing anything, or even buy you presents.
- iamacyborg 2y agoWe don’t let LLM’s spend money yet but many businesses make bank letting computers automatically buy and sell things.
- ajb 2y agoThe software they "let" do that is at the opposite end of the scale in terms of how well it is understood, specified and tested. Or they "lose bank".
- BeetleB 2y agoI don't know about you, but even as a senior engineer, my employer hasn't given me the ability to spend money :-) It's not something employers normally do. And as was pointed out, if you use something like MCP, you can control what it spends on. You can limit the amount, and limit to a whitelist. It may still occasionally buy the wrong thing, but the wrong thing will be something you preapproved.