The purpose of firing a person shouldn't be vengeance but to remove someone who is unreliable or not cost effective.
It's similarly reasonable to drop a tool that's unreliable, though I don't think that's a reasonable description here. Instead, they used a tool which is generally known to be unpredictable and failed to sandbox it adequately.
The purpose of firing a person is to remove someone unreliable, but also, the person having that skin in the game makes him behave more reliably. The latter is something you cannot do with an LLM.
The cold hard fact is: LLMs are an unreliable tool, and using them without checking their every action is extremely foolish.
"The cold hard fact is: LLMs are an unreliable tool, and using them without checking their every action is extremely foolish."
You mean checking every action of theirs outside the sandbox I suppose? Otherwise any attempt at letting an agent do some work I would consider foolish.
I disagree. They could fire Claude and their legal counsel could pursue claims (if there were any, idk)-- the accountability model is similar. Anthropic probably promised no particular outcome, but then what employee does?
And in the reverse, if a person makes a series of impulsive, damaging decisions, they probably will not be able to accurately explain why they did it, because neither the brain nor physiology are tuned to permit it.
Do we? Or are we born with pre-training (all the crucial functions the brain does without us having to learn them) and a context window orders of magnitude larger than an LLM?
It is incredible how willing and eager AI boosters are to denigrate the incredible miracle of human consciousness to make their chatbots seem so special.
No, we are not born with all the pre-training we need. That is rather the point of education, teaching people's brains how to process information in new, maybe unintuitive ways.
Yup. And eventually there will be online learning, that doesn't require a formal update step. People keep conflating the current implementation, as an inherent feature.
What does that actually mean in practice? You can yell at human if it makes you feel better, sure, but you can do that with an AI agent too, and it's approximately as productive.
The real meaning of accountability is that you can fire one if you don't like how they work. Good news! You can fire an AI too.