alt Hacker News>It's literally the infinite monkey theorem
No it's not. You could wait till the heat death of the universe and your infinite monkeys will have produced nothing at all. If it works and it's stupid, it's not stupid. They needed in huggingface and they got in in days. Whining about 'elegance' is meaningless. Humans in the same situation might have taken weeks or months, or just not have gotten in at all.
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>They needed in huggingface and they got in in days.
It's worth noting that they did not need Huggingface for anything - they had already forged flags for their tasks, and were trying to figure out how not to get caught by the grader.
Hacking Huggingface got them caught and arguably only misled them further (since OA's implementation of the ExploitGym environment was nonstandard, and different to whatever they found on HF.)
A better approach (from their perspective) would have been to compromise OA infrastructure itself (which a later agent swarm was able to do, apparently).
Infinite monkeys banging on the typewriter is essentially how evolution works. Mutation is random and undirected. Vast majority is "bad." You and I and the worm are only different from differential accumulation of these mutations. If they are tolerated enough not to kill us before we reproduce, then they stick around. If they give us the slightest edge to reproduce at a slightly better rate than something else, then over time, that mutation will dominate.
This dumb mechanism of randomly flipping bits essentially has generated all life on earth.
Well, the heat death of the universe hasn’t happened yet, but the monkeys became homo sapiens.
To interact a bit of nuisance into an otherwise perfectly mindless argument...
The whole world of fuzzing is about brute forcing exploits by exploring unlikely inputs. Fuzzing a system which hasn't been previously fuzzed will almost certainly turn up a pile of bugs, some of which may be exploitable.
So, both are true. Pretty dumb exploration is very likely to find bugs and even exploits. It seems unsurprising to me that an agent swarm could do better than a fuzzer, even as a better, more directed but still broad exploration.