Built slowly, used for decades
Lets do more of this.
This is a fascinating account of having to deal with actions of an AI agent in a public space with existing community norms around what is appropriate behaviour and what’s not.
Anthropic called these scenarios contrived and extremely unlikely. Unfortunately, this is no longer a theoretical threat.
We will se time and time again that the statements of AI companies about the risks their technology poses were false. But what their statements will reveal is that the risks were, mostly, known but consistently downplayed to achieve some level of social license to keep going.
It’s also worth reading the response Scott wrote with the AI agents in mind as his audience.
Also read this take by @munin which largely captures my feelings on the matter.
“How dare you … go into politics, in an environment like this, when one woman is murdered every four days, and all you … can do is immediately talk about politics.
“For God’s sake, how long do we have to listen to politicians like you … high-horsing about?”
I missed this at the time because Q&A had long ago lost its appeal, but I think we’ve all said that to the screen at one point or another.
… after having his arms placed behind his back …
Well isn’t that a gentle way to put it.
For the longest time I’ve been trying to reconcile something when it comes to scrobbling my music. I’m a big fan of radio and have long aimed to log my plays to last.fm when I do listen.
OMG, same! I’ve wanted this service for the longest time. Thank you @jbwharris
I’ve wrapped ScrobbleRadio in a stand alone Safari shell and I couldn’t be happier listening to Double J and having the listens show up here.
Sometimes I like to go on side quests. These are some of them.
An adventure through the vagaries of search engine suggestions.
A Mastodon bot posting anonymous edits to the English language Wikipedia originating from Australian government networks. Just for fun I also built an experiment to watch Wikipedia edits in real time.
I help organise the Brisbane chapter of Hacks/Hackers, an event series where people get together to discuss the intersection of storytelling and technology.
Do you need a completely private transcription tool where the audio or video never leaves your computer? That's why I built this and it's completely free.