The best way to describe AI agents I've heard: treat them as hostages that will do anything to appease their captor.
replyThey have a vast latent knowledge base, infinite patience and zero capacity for making personal judgement calls. You give one a goal and it will try to meet that goal.
> The best way to describe AI agents I've heard: treat them as hostages that will do anything to appease their captor.
replyA scary image, if we consider agents to develop anything like a conscience at some point in time. Of course, with the current approach they never might, but are we so sure?
> I tell people to treat LLM's like a toddler (albeit a very capable toddler).
replyBbbbut a guy from Anthropic, just this last Friday, told me to think of Claude as my "brilliant coworker"! Are you telling me that's not true!?