You are right of course but then, of course, by "these things" I was referring to the currently deployed LLMs.
The path forward is code simply because that is one place where bullshit gets found out automatically and where world models will be refined, including meta-world models such as better systems to mop up the slopocalypse's logohreeha with forensic epistemology. On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > Writing code is just one of many jobs that AI can do. This is why > companies are investing trillions in an AI race that can't be stopped. > Global GDP is $111 trillion per year. Half of that is labor that machines > aren't smart enough to do. > > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 4:25 PM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That's one of the reasons the primary economic, as opposed to hedonic, >> value of these things is writing code. But even there of course you have >> to lean heavy into the tests. >> >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 1:40 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> A study of 11 LLMs found all of them to be sycophantic to varying >>> degrees, agreeing with users and telling them what they want to hear >>> instead of what is right or wrong. The paper didn't determine the reason >>> for this behavior, but most chatbots let you rate their answers. You can >>> see this behavior in your conversation with Grok, which was not one of the >>> AI's in the study. >>> https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395 >>> >>> -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 10:49 AM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> ...Only Grok considered all lives to be of approximately equal value. >>>>> >>>>> https://arctotherium.substack.com/p/llm-exchange-rates-updated >>>>> >>>> >>>> Ironically, I had this conversation with Grok just an hour ago: >>>> >>>> >>>> https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5LWNvcHk%3D_76ebda18-f009-4683-be58-08ecbec3d8f1 >>>> >>> *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5ded4514619a0425-M6e10348f1b8a7dbdb8876672> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5ded4514619a0425-M6a693d86b25f4cf8f88c1099 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
