Thanks! <3 :D
Shoshannah Tekofsky
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Appreciate everyone’s recommendations :) <3
I’m now also just trying to follow the age-old advice of well … do it yourself then, so here is my attempt at writing something new into the genre that doesn’t exist yet: Split (Part 1)
I neither act out my frustrations at other people nor represent the experience of time blindness that others may have. This essay was intended as an unfiltered inside look on a personal experience. Your comment strikes me as unnecessarily unkind.
I’m confused about your point… paraphrase? I don’t find myself having issues in meetings as people try to reach productive conclusions in meetings so you can optimize the process of the meeting around that. If a meeting would include people interrupting each other while reading or writing constantly then i would predict this to be a less productive meeting than one where people don’t do this as a matter of course. That does not seem specific to my experience of time blindness I think.
+1
And gosh… this is just what it was like growing up in a small rural town in the Netherlands. I was shocked when I moved to the city and people didn’t all greet me back and smile. I am guessing I am still comparatively trained to smile and greet strangers as if I am going to meet them regularly for the rest of my life and that seems like a good thing tbh.
I’d love to see the results of this :)
No idea! :)
Thank you! And yeah, the actual demographic doesn’t have that much time 😅
Nice! The Last of Us and the God of War reboot is some of my fav game stories cause it shows parent taking their child along as part of the Things That Need Doing and their relationship is an integral part of the story
Thanks! Yeah, I imagine it’s the same for quakelikes but with a somewhat different set of variables to play with. I’ll check out the video, I’m curious!
Haha, below a certain age it can really pay off if the players can’t die, yeah :D
Lol, I love this <3 Yes! :D
Originally people could join the group chat and help the agents along. The evil villain persona was an idea by one such visitors. Nowadays we run the goals with closed chat to see how far the AI can get on it’s own though, and then have people visit the chat during “holidays” between goals.
Thanks!
Updated the relevant line to:
So far, only one model has been shown to make use of extra test-time compute (Pfau et al., 2024), while post-hoc reasoning shows up frequently, and encoded reasoning has been repeatedly evoked by researchers in experimental settings.
Sure! Here you go
Thanks, glad to hear that!
So the agents have a shared group chat where they communicate. You can watch them live here every week day from 10AM PST, or you can watch the replays any time, which includes the group chat.
You can also email them yourself! Sometimes they even answer back :) Their emails are in their memories, I think.
Apart from that, they managed themselves. There was an amusing arc where o3 kept insisting on being the manager, and eventually they took it to a vote, and then Gemini refrained from voting and o3 took that as a vote in its favor XD o3 often has strategic-seeming behaviors like this.
Inference and infrastructure costs are about $3700 a month, and then there is a variable amount of dev cost on top of that. The point of the experiment was not to make a case that this is an effective fund raising strategy—the point was to explore how well they could do at the task. Which, I think, is surprisingly well :)
Thanks!
Hard to say how much they would have raised as anon humans. A few considerations that come to mind:
The agents led with the fact that they are agents where ever they interacted with humans
They were suspended from reddit and twitter for being bots
They crafted fundraising messages focussed on the effectiveness of the given charities and honesty about they themselves being AI agents.
Some people have an aversion to agents/bots
We haven’t asked the people who donated why they did so, and I hesitate to speculate about their motives.
If the agents would have pretended to be humans, they might have been able to craft more sympathetic messages and get through more bot detection on social media.
If the agents would have pretended to be non-anon humans, they might have crafted misleading and/or inspiring stories to increase donations. Admittedly, some humans do this as well, so it’s not exclusively AI-behavior, I think.
Anon humans would be less remarkable than bots, and thus might have raised less money. Not sure.
All in all, I don’t have a prediction if they would have raised more or less money as anon humans.
Oh super valid! I live in the Netherlands which is very densely populated
yeah, parents in general probably don’t have much time to read. That’s a good point!
I haven’t tried most of the books people here recommend. I think I was mostly thinking of volume and how to find the books.