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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by combinebeatsai on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:30PM (#50373892)
> LLMs can, in principle, do everything humans can.

Oh yeah? slides baton Pick up that can, Clanker.

Jokes aside, I do want to see the first news of AI going out of its way to acquire and make use of actual currency and hiring a meat proxy. I don't even care what for, can be making paperclips.

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by khafra on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:36AM (#50377948)
The first such news is pretty old: In ARC's 2023 eval of GPT-4, it hired a TaskRabbit worker to bypass a CAPTCHA out of the small research budget allocated to the agent.
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by xanderbookface on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:48PM (#50387129)
What do you think would b e a good experiment to run? At this point it could be interesting to just give AI some money, connect it to rentahuman, and see what it does.
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