alt Hacker NewsBrute forcing every move, no matter how stupid, is a great strategy if you have the resources to do it.
Run the same protocol again, but have the agents think they had limited resources or that HuggingFace was rate limiting them, and they'd find something you'd consider smarter.
Computers don't have a sense of elegance by default. Elegance emerges from constraints.
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> Brute forcing every move, no matter how stupid, is a great strategy if you have the resources to do it.
It may be, but it's IMHO also not worth writing a blog post about it. what's Next coming up? How I broke into a house by trying every door in New York?
If most of the work is only possible due to unlimited resources, it's not really a great invention, and it probably would have been cheaper to hire a (human) mole.
If you assume zero opportunity costs, but that’s a terrible assumption.
> Brute forcing every move, no matter how stupid, is a great strategy
Meh. I really disagree. WHY is it a great strategy? Seems like an inefficient waste of resources and time to me.
It's literally the infinite monkey theorem, it's not even really a strategy per se. These OpenAI/Anthropic "research" LLMs are permutation machines with budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars. It would be more surprising if they couldn't string together something workable after a zillion tokens.