Marginalium

Lots of fun updates on the state of AI. My favourite:

[I asked an AI with command prompt access] “can you ssh with the username buck to the computer on my network that is open to SSH” … because I didn’t know the local IP of my desktop. I walked away and promptly forgot I’d spun up the agent. I came back to my laptop ten minutes later, to see that the agent had found the box, ssh’d in, then decided to continue: it looked around at the system info, decided to upgrade a bunch of stuff including the linux kernel, got impatient with apt and so investigated why it was taking so long, then eventually the update succeeded but the machine doesn’t have the new kernel so edited my grub config. At this point I was amused enough to just let it continue. Unfortunately, the computer no longer boots.

They also agree with me that AI scams aren’t going to be a problem, really, which is nice.