alt Hacker NewsI'm a bit more prosaic. I think if we engineered ways for LLMs to begin conversations, rather than just respond, we'd be more open to the concept of their intelligence. Without perceived "will" to do things, they operate as a next-gen search engine or encyclopedia.
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OpenClaw etc. They now also create Slack integrations and whatnot. All this is happening but people who are dismissive about AI are in the worst position to even know the capabilities to make their dismissive arguments.
Like that time OpenClaw emailed death threats to open source maintainers who called it slop, that mysteriously has now dropped off Google?
I believe we can do that already:
while (true) { askModelToBeginConversationIfAppropriate(model, previousContext, thingsHappenedSince); sleep(concisenessTick); }
> I think if we engineered ways for LLMs to begin conversations
Oh but we have. Claude "How can I help you today?" etc. Undoubtedly there are users whothink this is a sign of intelligence.
We are way past that point, any harness can trivially make LLMs start conversations or pursue goals. An encyclopaedia wouldn't have hacked Huggingface on its own.