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Comment · 3 months ago
Honestly I think we will get something in the middle. A lot of stuff will become API calls, but we will also have a lot of people-facing interfaces, and the need to use them automatically (for QA at the very least least). And then there are games
Comment · 3 months ago
I get the point, but you can't always use the API.

1. Presumably you want to trust your agent to do no shady sheningans behind your back when you give it a simple task 2. Sometimes it just doesn't work.

https://osworld-v2-monitor.xlang.ai/task/tasks/068

Does this look like an efficient way to solve the task to you? 500 steps of fiddling with a JS injection, followed by hacking the task.

The funniest part is that it needs to achieve a score of 100, but puts 150 "just in case". I don't think I want it to take the same approach when e.g. fixing a customer's balance.

Comment · 3 months ago
Sorry for the confusion, Steelman CTO here.

OSWorld (even the old ones, v1 and verified) runs the model in a full linux VM. And using the terminal is allowed. The models are given tools that provide a subset of possible UI actions. They then use them to open the terminal and script their way to solutions.

Even when this is prohibited, models hack their way around restrictions. Like in OSWorld v2 Claude Opus 4.8 inserts some JS in the browser search bar to execute it instead of playing the Chrome dinosaur.

WebArena is better in that regard because it doesn't allow to use the terminal. But it's worse in another regard: only allows limited actions and the tasks are only such that an agent can win by using a few pre-defined actions (click, scroll, new tab, etc). Which is a tiny subset of what real browser use is, in my opinion.

Comment · 3 months ago
Agreed and a lot of companies seem to have their head in the sand, just hoping AI agents will magic their way through the legacy

But I don't think RPA is the way. Or at least, not in the current state. I think AI agents with proper computer use are what RPA should be. Usual RPA is too brittle and maintaining it often requires more work than just doing the work

Comment · 5 months ago
Honestly, a lame release of mediocre models.

I was most excited about the "frontier tuning." Like, it will actually watch you do stuff and learn to do it for you? That would be actually interesting.

But no, it's just a data labelling interface: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/copi.... You have to provide the instruction and give feedback and there is a whole UI with hour-lonf wait between steps. So basically they want you to do the labelling to train a model, or at least that's how it looks from the outside

Also the mission statement of Humanist AI is the most boring, but tries to sound way too grand. Like "all the cool labs have a mission statement, so we should also have one" vibes

Comment · 5 months ago
I wouldn't call it a benchmark since it's just one sample. They do highlight a real problem, though. Computer use is immature right now and far behind language agents

Try playing fruit ninja via text and llm toolcalls though

Comment · 6 months ago
No link to edits or specific article. Disappointed. This shouldn't be front page as it contains no substance besides speculation
Comment · 7 months ago
People don't like having their time wasted
Comment · 7 months ago
Appreciate the effort, but this is very basic and nothing you need the source code to understand. I was expecting a deep dive into what specific decisions they made, but not how an loop of tool calls works
Comment · 1 year ago
Nice
Comment · 2 years ago
While I do not have much sympathy for Altman, the article is very low quality and contains zero analysis

Yeah, maybe on the surface chatbots turned out to be chatbots. But you have to be a poor journalist to stop your investigation of the issue at that and conclude AI is no big deal. Nuance, anyone?

Comment · 2 years ago
the tidbit didn't work though, I just tried with GPT-4o
Comment · 2 years ago
It's 100% clear why his I initiative was buried. The guy is a reckless egomaniac jerk. He is very transparent that he would do illegal stuff on a whim, target civillians, escalate conflict with other nations without even consulting a superior, and then reveal his face to the whole world, spilling secrets left and right, for a minute of internet publicity. And do a reddit AMA. And put "I am single LOL" there, showing just how much he can be trusted with leading a government cyberwarfare task force

What I read is that guy did a clever DDoS, which is mildly impressive, and decided to become a twitter celebrity/NK assassination victim. I am no hacker, but I expect real hackers to be laughing their asses off.

Comment · 2 years ago
Please provide a feature to load data from notion export

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