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by 48terry 36 days ago
Experiment: "We got AI to do things and it did weird stuff sometimes".

Brilliant! Amazing! I'm glad ~4 years down the line we're still re-discovering Ha Ha Funny Output.

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At this point I think many of us are similarly exhausted by this sort of trite exercise. I really don't need some VC backed startup to show me this sort of output any more, especially when the output in question is obviously boring and substandard.
Yea what are they trying to test? Where is the hypothesis?
We're generally trying to test if/when AIs can run companies. Not many people know this, but Vending-Bench (our other project where AIs run vending machines) is intended as a datapoint for measuring whether AIs can acquire resources by themselves, which is a prerequisite to AIs taking over. This is similar, but now instead of a retail business, it's a media business.
They're trying to test if it's good enough to replaced the few remaining paid radio/streaming DJs yet.
I am reminded of how not even 2 weeks ago we had an “experiment” of rewriting Bun in Rust.
> I'm glad ~4 years down the line we're still re-discovering Ha Ha Funny Output

Four years or forty millennia? So a certain extent, all whimsical art is “haha funny” result.