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Is this as incredible as it sounds? Holy wow the implications!

I just want to be the one in control of that feed that is curated towards myself. An AI that is local and learns about my likes and dislikes and does not share that info with third parties for their benefit. There is a vast sea of content and a small fraction of it is of interests to me and/or might be helpful to me even if I am not consciously seeking it at any given moment. I should be able to look at its rules, see how it evolves and tinker / reason with it the way I would with a personal assistant or life coach. And I would like to use that to filter out content that is a waste of brain cycles. And to find people, ideas, experiences that I might click with based on its global knowledge of the mindscape.

Okay now this but applied towards the real world economy

ah fair enough. Didn't look close enough. Oh well.

This is great. Running a virtual OS on your phone is a great way to explore apps without worrying about excess data collection and permissions if done correctly. And iOS apps on android? Brilliant. A few platforms target iOS exclusively or initially due to strategic budgeting.

Is there a way to do this manually?

lol

I suppose ill add that I think theres a good chance that they are somewhat intentionally trying to "draw the foul" to get the referees to intervene although thats creeping slightly into conspiracy territory

My theory for why OpenAI wants to be regulated is because Sam Altman wants to avoid having to be more responsible and self regulate internally so they can preserve the role and identity of 'move fast and break things' and outsource the more grown up boring stuff to someone externally so that when things go wrong you can point to a government organisation and say hey look were not liable thats their job

Meanwhile Grocery chains: "lets buy that data so we know whats inconvenient for him at any moment and price accordingly"

So far, yeah. It doesn't eliminate the possibility over the next 5-10 years of the AI race that we wont encounter a scenario that results in a well positioned lab making a clean break

Very cool. I'd love to see someone with access to plenty of token$ make something similar for the "Browser Desktop OS" test. That seems like a pretty comprehensive test thats also fun to test just like this!

Starting to think its purposeful "acting out" to get regulatory attention

I keep wondering why a robot-vacuum-charging-dock style solution hasn't materialized. We've seen to robotic arm demos but those aren't around because they are overkill for the task. But something that the car autonomously and accurately docks into and attaches from either the front fascia or underneath. Same charging standard but with a more forgiving connector design that guides and locks in.

'model welfare' as a concept seems so premature that I can only question the motivations behind pushing for it at this particular point in time

On the flip side, its important to know just how much we would be sacrificing if big frontier gets their way in convincing the courts that distillation is a bad thing

I really need the spacebar to expand slightly more on the right so my thumb doesn't miss it while typing. Wish it were customizable.

+1

I would like that. I wonder if its something a software update can enable or not

Need this but for AI models. Sleep mode where they self prune and optimize overnight for their daily purpose.

The Pelican Brief

Also perhaps AI agents are now capable enough to run these apps the way the user would and recognize these dark patterns. Flag those and feed it back to a warning at the point of sale that users can upvote there to signal their disapproval and a threshold score that risks removal of the app from the store. Because bad behaviour continues to make business sense if the rules allow it. Moreover, it penalizes and puts pressure on the good actors as a "missed business opportunity".

I guess it falls on how the courts see it. I'm sure the app devs would love to take their money.

Does explicit licensing and the threat of a lawsuit related to violation of it not help here?

Need to rethink the system that allows for (and encourages) this kind of plausible deniability. From "Oh we need this permission for [non essential feature] and you need to accept it if you want the app at all" -> to giving the user ultimate control over what happens on their personal device. Virtualize what the app can see and use fake data/identifiers/devices if necessary to get it to do what its supposed to. If the App isn't going to act in good faith why should the user? Fine grained permissions don't really work in practice because the app can keep annoying the user until they give in and hit Allow.

Wow.

I prefer the Browser OS test

Between humans, I feel that what we like to call a "good communicator" as opposed to someone who just rattles off facts or prepared statements comes down to the "theory of mind" skill and how advanced that is. The presenter knows what they have to say but beyond that they maintain a real time internal representation of the state of mind of the listener and continuously update their delivery based on that. LLMs today seem to achieve this to some degree(?) but its interesting to think of how far you could advance that skill. I think great human communicators develop a sense of different ways that people think over time and quickly get a sense of someones signature thinking patterns when communicating with someone new for the first time

In thinking of directions where LLM's could develop from here, I cant help but think that a models ability to self introspect would immensely improve their utility. The R&D on how to achieve that is beyond me though. How do you train someone how to introspect? Also would it require a continuous learning architecture that doesn't separate training and inference?

A necessary tool to manufacture consent in the feudalist society we're speed running towards