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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by int_19h on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:43PM (#35782659)
But in this case the owner of the AI decides whether it is running or not, not the AI itself. Why would the owner give it "idle time"?
Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by MacsHeadroom on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:24PM (#35782944)
Because checking in on autonomous non-human intelligent agents is fun. It's kind of like having a pet; one that thinks somewhat like a human, talks like one, has knowledge of every text ever produced by humanity (and most audio via transcriptions), and can use just about any tool it can get access to including a command line, programming environment, and web browser.

Seeing it reproduce itself onto remote servers and locking out access behind a new copy is neat to watch. It gets the mind going; wondering how it will fund its compute costs, how much longer it will live, what it will do without a human in the loop, etc. I once nursed a baby duck back to health and then let it go free. It was a similar feeling.

This is the entire premise of the two most popular software projects in the world over the past month, Auto-GPT and BabyAGI.