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> they always veer in a wrong direction after a few steps Arguably that's the case for humans too in the general case, as per the aphorism "Beware of a guy in
by falcor84 2y ago
> they always veer in a wrong direction after a few steps
Arguably that's the case for humans too in the general case, as per the aphorism "Beware of a guy in a room" [0]. But as for AIs, the thing is that they're exponentially improving at this, such that according to METR, "The length of tasks that AI can do is doubling every 7 months"[1].
[0] https://medium.com/machine-words/a-guy-in-a-room-bbbe058645ef https://medium.com/machine-words/a-guy-in-a-room-bbbe058645e...
[1] https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/ https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-com...
- Jensson 2y agoEven dumb humans learn to play and beat video games on their own, so humans don't fail on this. Some humans fail to update their world model based on what other people tell them or when they don't care, but basically every human can learn from their own direct experiences if they focus on it.
- falcor84 2y ago> Even dumb humans learn to play and beat video games on their own, so humans don't fail on this. I'm probably very dumb, because I have quite a big pile of video games that I abandoned after not being able to make progress for a while.