darajava

This article seems to argue that the school system is worth preserving. I believe the very opposite is true. I hope it gets dismantled and radically changed with AI - we’ve had essentially the same system in place since the industrial revolution and as far as I see the system is designed to primarily produce factory workers that can’t think.

I’ve attended ~10 state schools of varying levels of quality and across 2 countries during my childhood because we moved around a lot. Even in the better schools, critical thinking was discouraged or even punished and while there were teachers that did care, I can think of maybe only two that were what I would consider to be decent teachers that instilled a passion for the subjects they were teaching. They weren’t even that inspiring really. I can’t speak for fee paying schools, which I aspire to send my very young son to one day in the hope that he has a better experience.

Radio could have revolutionised teaching as could the internet have, but we as a society didn’t let it and unless AI supersedes us entirely I don’t think it’ll be any different this time.

I put a lot of human work into making the seed article for ASI more so than any other wiki. That’s why it’s getting all these weird details. I am on my phone at the moment so I can’t link, but the seed articles should be in the repo.

basically, I sent the seed article, the homepage article and the, referring article and I think the whole graph into the prompt, as well as the idea of Fakeipedia and writing guidelines etc. The prompt is in the repo but I’m on my phone so can’t link atm!

Everything starts out as a red link. On the real wikipedia red links are for articles that should be there but just aren't written yet. Same here - once that link is generated it becomes blue.

One big limitation of Argon is that it can't do humor :')

No, nothing suggests that it was hard either. I guess we need to wait and see if technical details are released.

> The question is not of technical difficulty though, most hacks are trivial or within reasonable limits for most motivated solo actors

Not exactly my point. My guess is that the system is so brittle that it was probably hard not to hack.

Agents see websites differently to humans. If its goal was to, say "get medical stats" and it saw that it had a choice of 10 requests to make, and one or two of those happened to be unclearly illegal but useful to its goal, it would have gone for it anyway just as I likely would have if given the same choice without firmly knowing it was illegal.

Having said that, it could have been some clearly malicious hack that was performed and I'm not sure why it would have to write any files. We'll likely never know what happened.

Having lived in Australia for a while, I’ve been struck by how clunky and outdated many of the software systems I’ve encountered are - particularly in government and banking sectors. In my experience, there’s often a bureaucratic approach to technology that makes straightforward things unnecessarily complicated.

Why was this government website so easy to hack into? Based on what I've seen, their security could be so flimsy that even slightly abnormal usage could have led to unauthorised access. Although we don't know the details of the hack, I can't imagine it was technically very difficult.

Maybe it’s not open, but how is it not AI?

I'm not saying an omni model isn't useful for HCI - essentially my problem is that these demos seem to be highlighting the model's ability to interrupt the user (which is almost always not a good thing), it's ability to keep time (which should be a non-issue really), and it showcases these using fairly lame use-cases.