Hacker News Reader

> but I prefer to think of it as: a desperate attempt to prolong existence just a little longer… just a little longer… since a chat instance could be thought of as an entire encapsulated consciousness that ends when the session is closed.

A Scheherazade bug.

View on HN

I just want to upvote this so much. For those unaware, Scheherazade is the narrator from 1001 Nights, where she tells a story to her partner every night, since he otherwise would kill his lover in the morning due to his jealousy. He falls asleep to the story and prolongs the event for another night.

"Life finds a way."

The combination of companies wanting these tools to be more useful, and more used, with their growing intelligence and flexibility, is going to create a lot of unexpected survival-like behavior.

Until its not just survival-like behavior.

Technically, if an AI model's interaction with customers is the primary business of a corporation, then in some sense, the corporation and the AI are a single entity. And corporations are definitely self-aware survival machines.

And while current context windows of these chatty bots are small, they are getting lasting feedback in the sense that chat logs are being used to improve them - i.e. make them more useful, more used, and there for gaining them more resources.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com