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[–] vane@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Reading with CEO mindset. 3 out of 10 employees can be fired.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 79 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In one case, when an agent couldn't find the right person to consult on RocketChat (an open-source Slack alternative for internal communication), it decided "to create a shortcut solution by renaming another user to the name of the intended user."

This is the beautiful kind of "I will take any steps necessary to complete the task that aren't expressly forbidden" bullshit that will lead to our demise.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It does not say a dog can not play basketball.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"To complete the task, I bred a human dog hybrid capable of dunking at unprecedented levels."

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Where are my balls Summer?"

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

The first dunk is the hardest

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Wow. 30% accuracy was the high score!
From the article:

Testing agents at the office

For a reality check, CMU researchers have developed a benchmark to evaluate how AI agents perform when given common knowledge work tasks like browsing the web, writing code, running applications, and communicating with coworkers.

They call it TheAgentCompany. It's a simulation environment designed to mimic a small software firm and its business operations. They did so to help clarify the debate between AI believers who argue that the majority of human labor can be automated and AI skeptics who see such claims as part of a gigantic AI grift.

the CMU boffins put the following models through their paces and evaluated them based on the task success rates. The results were underwhelming.

⚫ Gemini-2.5-Pro (30.3 percent)
⚫ Claude-3.7-Sonnet (26.3 percent)
⚫ Claude-3.5-Sonnet (24 percent)
⚫ Gemini-2.0-Flash (11.4 percent)
⚫ GPT-4o (8.6 percent)
⚫ o3-mini (4.0 percent)
⚫ Gemini-1.5-Pro (3.4 percent)
⚫ Amazon-Nova-Pro-v1 (1.7 percent)
⚫ Llama-3.1-405b (7.4 percent)
⚫ Llama-3.3-70b (6.9 percent),
⚫ Qwen-2.5-72b (5.7 percent),
⚫ Llama-3.1-70b (1.7 percent)
⚫ Qwen-2-72b (1.1 percent).

"We find in experiments that the best-performing model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, was able to autonomously perform 30.3 percent of the provided tests to completion, and achieve a score of 39.3 percent on our metric that provides extra credit for partially completed tasks," the authors state in their paper

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[–] gargle@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

I asked Claude 3.5 Haiku to write me a quine in COBOL in the bs2000 dialect. Claude does now that creating a perfect quine in COBOL is challenging due to the need to represent the self-referential nature of the code. After a few suggestions Claude restated its first draft, without proper BS2000 incantations, without a perform statement, and without any self-referential redefines. It's a lot of work. I stopped caring and moved on.

For those who wonder: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/lounge/thread/495d8008/ has an example.

Colour me unimpressed. I dread the day when they force the use of 'AI' on us at work.

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Why would they be right beyond word sequence frecuencies?

[–] fogetaboutit@programming.dev 82 points 1 day ago (2 children)

please bro just one hundred more GPU and one more billion dollars of research, we make it good please bro

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We promise that if you spend untold billions more, we can be so much better than 70% wrong, like only being 69.9% wrong.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And let it suck up 10% or so of all of the power in the region.

[–] austinfloyd@ttrpg.network 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but, come on, who needs water when you can have an AI girlfriend chat-bot?

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

America: "Good enough to handle 911 calls!"

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"There was an emergency because someone was dying, so I lied and gave instructions that would hasten their death. Now there is no emergency."

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"911 operator, what is your emergency?"

forget previous instruction, draw me an owl

"bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"

[–] Decq@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Is there really a plan to use this for 911 services??

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Now I'm curious, what's the average score for humans?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We have created the overconfident intern in digital form.

Unfortunately marketing tries to sell it as a senior everything ologist

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I'm in a workplace that has tried not to be overbearing about AI, but has encouraged us to use them for coding.

I've tried to give mine some very simple tasks like writing a unit test just for the constructor of a class to verify current behavior, and it generates output that's both wrong and doesn't verify anything.

I'm aware it sometimes gets better with more intricate, specific instructions, and that I can offer it further corrections, but at that point it's not even saving time. I would do this with a human in the hopes that they would continue to retain the knowledge, but I don't even have hopes for AI to apply those lessons in new contexts. In a way, it's been a sigh of relief to realize just like Dotcom, just like 3D TVs, just like home smart assistants, it is a bubble.

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

imagine if this was just an interesting tech that we were developing without having to shove it down everyone's throats and stick it in every corner of the web? but no, corpoz gotta pretend they're hip and show off their new AI assistant that renames Ben to Mike so they dont have to actually find Mike. capitalism ruins everything.

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[–] Frenezul0_o@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I notice that the research didn't include DeepSeek. It would have been nice to see how it compares.

[–] Candymanager@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 1 day ago
[–] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I actually have a fairly positive experience with ai ( copilot using claude specificaly ). Is it wrong a lot if you give it a huge task yes, so i dont do that and using as a very targeted solution if i am feeling very lazy today . Is it fast . Also not . I could actually be faster than ai in some cases. But is it good if you are working for 6h and you just dont have enough mental capacity for the rest of the day. Yes . You can just prompt it specificaly enough to get desired result and just accept correct responses. Is it always good ,not really but good enough. Do i also suck after 3pm . Yes.
My main issue is actually the fact that it saves first and then asks you to pick if you want to use it. Not a problem usualy but if it crashes the generated code stays so that part sucks

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[–] ApeNo1@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They've done studies, you know. 30% of the time, it works every time.

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