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(The meme's author may be convinced but I am still not, to be clear)

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[–] Hazzard@lemmy.zip 68 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Man, AI agents are remarkably bad at "self-awareness" like this, I've used it to configure some networking on a Raspberry Pi, and found myself reminding it frequently, "hey buddy, maybe don't lock us out of connecting to this thing over the network, I really don't want to have to wipe the thing because it's running a headless OS".

It's a perfect example of the kind of thing that "walk or drive to wash your car?" captures. I need you to realize some non-explicit context and make some basic logical inferences before you can be even remotely trusted to do anything important without very close expert supervision, a degree of supervision that almost makes it totally worthless for that kind of task because the expert could just do it instead.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Hey, maybe if we're lucky, Claude will accidentally lock the world out of using nukes forever.

[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Or, more likely, Claude will launch them.

[–] DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Would be funny if it also forgets to open the hatches

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Not if I launch them first! Where's the 9v battery for the rocket engine igniter?

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