alt Hacker NewsIt seems that the main issue with AI is often not what sci-fi or EA-adjacent prophets are trying to warn us about, but the insidious dangers of the failure modes.
We are collectively not well calibrated to deal with systems that seems capable but fails in surprising ways.
Commercial planes are still under the responsibility and control of highly trained human pilots, even if I am pretty sure that full automation would be technically feasible, even without relying on modern AI, I don't think any companies would be comfortable with the liability.
As a systems/embedded eng I have always valued repeatability and determinism in my code, products, build systems, etc.
I am pretty bullish on AI from a high level now, but one thing that recently hit me is how arbitrary and hacky the workflows with the various agents are. Sure, LLMs are not deterministic but now with agents and reasoning it seems like randomness squared.