alt Hacker NewsAI is capable of developing its own inference hardware, once a prompt is given. The fact that a human happens to kick it off here is not especially relevant to the fact that an AI is performing the task independently. There are plenty of ways a text prompt can be generated: a harness, another LLM, or just removing stop tokens so that once begun the AI will continue until its hardware fails.
It's not clear what this fad of attributing everything an AI does to the human prompting it is supposed to accomplish.
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> It's not clear what this fad of attributing everything an AI does to the human prompting it is supposed to accomplish.
It's meant to assign agency and accountability where it actually lies instead of mystifying it with anthropomorphic language.
Failing to do so has real and harmful consequences, such as enabling OpenAI to escape accountability for clearly criminal behavior.
> It's not clear what this fad of attributing everything an AI does to the human prompting it is supposed to accomplish.
It accomplishes ... momentarily forgetting about how it's all actually coming statistically from training data. :)