alt Hacker NewsNot to be hyperbolic, but the leap between this and Westworld (and other similar fiction) is a lot shorter than I would like...all it takes is some prompting in soul.md and the agent's ability to update it and it can go bananas?
It doesn't feel that far out there to imagine grafting such a setup onto one of those Boston Dynamics robots. And then what?
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boca_honey • today at 1:23 AM
Then we will have clunky, awkward machines that kinda sound intelligent but really aren't. Then they will need maintenance and break in 6 days.
The leap is very large, in actuality.
Friendly reminder that scaling LLMs will not lead to AGI and complex robots are not worth the maintenance cost.
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Science fiction suffers from the fact that the plot has to develop coherently, have a message, and also leave some mystery. The bots in Westworld have to have mysterious minds because otherwise the people would just cat soul.md and figure out what’s going on. It has to be plausible that they are somehow sentient. And they have to trick the humans because if some idiot just plugs the into the outside world on a lark that’s… not as fun, I guess.