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by xnyan 725 days ago
I had a very hard time understanding what they were saying.

Whitespace between single, short sentence.

Sounds in my head like they pause 5-10 seconds between each sentence.

What is going on?

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I also struggled, but pushed through it enough to get the essence.

The message is that by running an arbitrary app on a machine, LLMs can act as an agent on your behalf, as though it were actually you. So it could, for example, make purchases, login to _anything_, and generally do whatever across any local programs and / or miscellaneous web browsers. Compare this to a web browser were there are huge security restrictions on what components can talk to what (e.g. forbidding cross-origin, http <=> https requests, and so forth).

Overall it's a bit of a nothing burger, and the level of effort required to identify it as such was a tad disappointing.

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Whatever you do

In life

Please don't

Form your sentences

Like this.