Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines

Why does it say ‘written by’ and ‘pictures by’, was this made without AI? Given the domain and the overpolished feel that seems unlikely. At least give Claude or whatever a credit if that is what did most of the work, and how about a credit for the original author, who also arguably did more of the work in inventing a world than these two.

I would like to point out that the original stories focussed on frog and toad and their relationship, so this is an unwelcome distortion of them - why not make up your own world if you want to talk about little machines. Perhaps the little machines could be making a book for the author with a stolen artwork and literary style?

The first story seems a pretty inaccurate summary of an incident which involved gross negligence on the part of OpenAI and may well have involved agents intended to cooperate, we just have no idea of the exact setup (apart from that the sandboxing was laughably insecure and the monitoring nonexistent or performed by ‘agents’).

Do we have any evidence the machines exchanged useful messages or had any such discussions as in the story? The messages I saw were gibberish.

Why are people so enamoured of analogies for LLMs - they actively obscure some details (a sandbox with internet access is not like a physical sandbox) and distort many others? Perhaps this is why - you can make an analogy say whatever you want, even if the facts are very different.

For those not familiar with it already, the writing and art style are a well-executed pastiche of Arnold Lobel's ”Frog and Toad” books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_and_Toad

This is a very interesting news/story format. Honestly it is highly engaging and gets the point across about what happened.

I think speed of learning for young generation can explode given this tech as "simple childrens stories" can be injected with real world events, history, mathematics, carreer/business interests.

School was dreadfully boring for me even though it was quite easy but I do wonder how my speed of learning would have been different given personalized and more engaging materials.

has the estate of arnold lobel been compensated for this?

Great story! I read it in one sitting.

fun and beautifully done. i learned a bit about the breach from this

So good

fun story. missing some punctuation, though: primarily commas at the end the first parts of split dialogue.

This feels braindead and seems AI-generated.

Cute, I love this style! It's like a long Aesop's Fable! I can't wait for the sequel!

Brilliant!

I like the part where Frog and Toad are held accountable instead of blaming the machines they built.. oh wait

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