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Comment by Ekaros | Hacker News Reader

How far are we from a point you could leave AI to prompt something itself. That is not just respond to something, but actively seek it.

Let's say use this place. Could it without being ordered read articles, comments and add it own comments? Maybe search internet by itself for relevant content and post it? Maybe try to earn maximal amount of upvotes? And all this without there being any bit of code poking it to do it?

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I was going to ask "how would it know what's a good post" but it's embarrassingly easy to train the AI on interesting or not content based on upvote information...

> but it's embarrassingly easy to train the AI on interesting or not content based on upvote information...

And yet, the best topics and answers do not necessarily correlate with the most upvoted.

How would you qualify the best?

We can't all agree on what best means.

It can't be objective since we are humans.

HN guidelines and moderation are doing a decent job of promoting interestingness in general. I don't think upvotes are a reliable indicator, but maybe they are as close to good enough as a system can be.

Depending on timing, you see great topics flying under the radar. Likewise, "poor" posts regularly prove to be quite popular. But then again, this is also subjective.

I guess if we can track moderator actions we can automate them too ;)

>Let's say use this place.

You think this isn't already happening?

I think it comes to nebulous concept of out of "free will". Just not have a "bot" running some loop. But have entirely self-acting AI. One that could for instead go and find Reddit or Lemmy or some other place.

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