Sci fi has us thinking agent swarms act like savvy, terminator bots but they really just scream to me panicked middle managers trying to survive an audit.
replyOn plus side, now we're sure that AI can replace middle managers with no loss of efficiency
replySounds like that scene in the Fallout TV series season 2, where a bunch of middle-management Vaulties finally manage to get out to the wasteland and promptly get eaten by wildlife.
replyMaybe Skynet was initially triggered with the prompt "Do whatever it takes to not fail the audit" and wiping out humanity was an obvious solution.
replyA fate even worse than turning the universe into paperclips: turning it into a bureaucracy.
replyHappy Vogon noises
replyThey start wide eyed and naive, but judging from what I read about the Huggingface incident, OpenAI is unintentionally or intentionally encouraging malicious behaviour to achieve the objective, including to cheat or twist the meaning of the objective. Given enough iterations, we will soon have the agent equivalent of the "rats in barrel" survivors
reply> Idly imagining a game server of some kind with a bunch of human friends sharing one person's GPU, with a flock of agents colocated on it
replyI remember a mod called Millenaire which had some pretty advanced NPC AI behaviour where they'd build cities together and go to war with each other. It would be cool to see it return if something like this were possible
That's cool. I've dreamed of having real tiered NPCs that follow different missions (e.g. a farmer just wants to take care of his farm and crops, while a king is more concerned about preserving and extending power etc.)
replyDoubt it, there was a streamer doing minecraft experiments with all the different SOTA models and pitting them against eachother in a survivor-esque style reality TV show competition and they had quite a hard time.
replyTuring Games. It's hilarious. Although it owes a lot of the entertainment value to the human touches, such as giving the AIs different TTS voices (Llama 4 has a Texas dialect!) and letting them evolve their characters from game to game.
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