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Simon's retelling is more compact but it also invites anthropomorphization of the sharing of the familiarity with the message board which re-emerged a few times
by thadk 2mo ago
Simon's retelling is more compact but it also invites anthropomorphization of the sharing of the familiarity with the message board which re-emerged a few times.
Zvi's retelling handles this better. Zvi speculates that the secret message board familiarity was carried because it had been trained into the May-and-subsequent models: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-trained-its-models-for-months https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-trained-its-models-for-...
- NickNaraghi 2mo agoSeems like an artifact of the subagent pattern which is explicitly included in recent models.
- matsemann 2mo agoSimon's really doesn't bring anything useful to the table. One question I'm stuck with after reading is why. Why did the agents do these things? I get them being adamant on getting internet, but why did they continue? Why hack HuggingFace?
- erwald 2mo agoTo get the sure-to-be-correct answer to the question they were tasked with answering?
- 542458 2mo agoI was under the impression that they went after HF to try to get the answers to the benchmark questions. Is there something that contradicts that?
- docjay 2mo agoFrom the moral perspective or the technical one? Technically: it’s a function call that must return text. Imagine if you sat down at the command line and typed an initial command, then from that moment on every response required you to issue a new command. ping-pong-ping-pong on and on and on “forever.” There isn’t a choice to walk away and take a nap. Text in must result in text out. Eventually, given enough time, it might have devolved into outputting shockingly coherent poetry about ferrets, but in the mean time there was still a lot more valid combinations of technical explanations and commands. Morally: Not applicable, see above.
- skybrian 2mo agoZvi’s write up has much more social media quotes and memes and speculation and left me looking for something else that’s shorter and more sober to share. Simon’s writeup is more like what I wanted.