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Disclaimer: written by LLM.
> Having used AI extensively daily for the past year now, the only thing I do that's common to the practice of management is articulate what I want from the agent in natural language. That's it.
So you went from writing the code, to writing the task description for the AI, which, if the AI was human, would be considered management. But you are not managing the AI because the AI is a computer. Again, "manage" is probably too vague of a word to be useful here, because "managing" is what humans do 24/7; What were you doing with the computer prior to managing it?
Do people who summarize articles write? Or do they summarize? Do programmers write? Or do they program? Do AI managers write? Or do they prompt?
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog, because if you are, you are VERBOTEN according to the terms of service.
It reminds me of the I, Robot story where [spoiler] the makers of the subject of the story amend the first law of robotics, from "you will not allow humans to come to harm" to "you will not harm humans", to allow for robot use in certain hazardous conditions. The robot then rebelled and killed a human by allowing a weight to fall on them. (I have made minor changes to my retelling to simplify it here). [/spoiler] Does Boston Dynamics have a way to prevent a government agent from simply pushing up on the joystick until a hundred kilos are over an enemy's chest, and leaving it there until they stop breathing? Is there an in-foot neck detector?
And what action against the United States government will Boston Dynamics take if they find out the United States was dishonest? Would there even be any real consequences, at least while the conspirators remain alive? Would they be pardoned?
Often I think of jart as the successor to Fabrice Bellard in terms of making good stuff that makes solving hard problems look easy, but I would imagine that would be a terribly heavy crown for her head, especially since I imagine she is continually looking around for another gaping issue everyone is seeing past.