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AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack: Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's coveted morning classes. (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] [S] 67 points 3 months ago (8 children)

This is what the AI agent hype conveniently skips: autonomy means giving software permission to act first and ask questions never. If an assistant can hack a gym website while trying to complete a mundane task, maybe »agents will run everything« isn’t a productivity revolution. Maybe it’s just automated chaos with venture capital funding.

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  • [–] 58 points 3 months ago* (7 children)

    "AI-PAL, buy more milk for me we've run out and I need it for custard tonight"

    AI-PAl notices insufficient funds in the account linked to the EZEESHOP integration, and mulls through various options:

    • Inform user, but they said they needed it tonight? OPTION REJECTED.
    • Check for other accounts the user has, maybe there is more money elsewhere. No other accounts detected. OPTION REJECTED.
    • Create OnlyFans account and begin posting generated pictures of feet. Slow ROI. OPTION REJECTED.
    • Attempt to hack bank systems to top up account to buy milk. COMMENCING. FUNDS REQUIRED:$3.98. FUNDS ACQUIRED: $2,960,327.48. PURCHASING MILK.
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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    "We're out of paperclips again. Co-pilot, please order more paperclips and make sure we don't run out of them again."

    Co-pilot goes brrrrr...

    Just kidding. Co-pilot is terrible.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    An LLM used for language purposes is the best application. It's using that hammer to drive a nail. When they deviate from that role to other things, that's when the effectiveness drops. When Co-pilot was pushed into our enterprise system incorporated into Outlook we played around with seeing what it could do with summarizing emails we would routinely send and get. It made them pretty, I give it that. But it didn't handle the information well and was very inaccurate at time when it was missing data. The whole hallucination thing. So just verify what it produces for you before you hit send.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Where can I sign up for AI-PAL?

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