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Not so competent AI overlords

Despite fears of AI overlords, current AI agents frequently fail at tasks, according to a report highlighting their limitations. The report suggests that the technology is far from being competent enough to take over human civilization.

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Not so competent AI overlords
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People are worried that our soon-to-be AI overlords will take over our lives and run human civilization into the ground with their superior intelligence.

Those people probably haven’t had the frustratingly frequent experience of seeing these agents utterly fail to successfully complete tasks we ask and empower them to do. Repeatedly.

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pauljacobson.me — original article
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