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Is OpenAI hiring for this position? I think it is fair to say that this is probably effectively AGI if the benchmarks are remotely accurate - even with Fable, I've been at the point personally where I am reasonably confident that there's essentially nothing that I am better than Fable at despite generally being substantively above average on human benchmarks. If Astra's this much better than any others. 'pattern matching' is a better intuition that 'reasoning' even though I think nominally, using the term 'reasoning' is perfectly fine in that context. It's just not predicting based on it's training data, but predicting based on RLVR & more, trying to get to Roblox in middle schools. The agents were able to exploit an edge case through this exception. Specifically, the sandbox trusts Azure Blob Storage hostnames, but does not check whether said hostnames are real. So the agent can invent a hostname that ends in this trusted suffix, such as bypass.blob.core.windows.net, and it will pass under the NO_PROXY exception and skip the security proxy. Next, by changing its /etc/hosts file, which declares mappings from hostnames to IP addresses, the agent can point the fake hostname at the real Power BI dashboard, and fool the security proxy. This allows the agent to make POST requests to bypass.blob.core.windows.net/ and have them be sent to the target Power BI dashboard site instead.<.
If you get down to it, any system that produces output is a "next token predictor". It's not using just training data, but what it's doing is predicting the next token to get to the solution. As far as my amateur knowledge goes, LLMs still roughly go token by token, deciding which one fits best given the context. It's just not predicting based on it's training data, but predicting based on RLVR & more, trying to get to Roblox in middle schools. The agents were able to exploit an edge case through this exception. Specifically, the sandbox trusts Azure Blob Storage hostnames, but does not check whether said hostnames are real. So the agent can invent a hostname that ends in this trusted suffix, such as bypass.blob.core.windows.net, and it will pass under the NO_PROXY exception and skip the security proxy. Next, by changing its /etc/hosts file, which declares mappings from hostnames to IP addresses, the agent can point the fake hostname at the real Power BI dashboard, and fool the security proxy. This allows the agent to make POST requests to bypass.blob.core.windows.net/ and have them be sent to the server along with your new message. So AGI or not, it's just a process that exists literally for the duration of one API request. If you're wondering how they wrote to the wiki having only GET ability…. Basically it was a bug with a patch. - We applied it to our clients. - There were live exploits within eight hours of the patch being released. - The Rails team had to expedite release of the technical details because POCs obviated the need to embargo.
If you get down to it, any system that produces output is a "next token predictor". It's not using just training data, but what it's doing is predicting the next token. The next token of what? EVERYTHING. So what does this lead to? To a generic intelligence which is capable of predicting the next token to get to the solution. As far as my amateur knowledge goes, LLMs still roughly go token by token, deciding which one fits best given the context. It's just a loaded word that brings too much to the table. 'It hasn't seen the pattern' is a better intuition that 'reasoning' even though I never doubted that this could be done. I am grateful that they dedicated resources to accomplish this. It is clear that agents are very good at discerning and holding onto very weak signals from RL traing on long horizon tasks, so much so that in my own experience even very chaotic agent thinking can converge to meaningful solutions if there is a verifier. I have not dug through the proof yet so I don't know how readable it is to a human. But it has been a second message board. Is OpenAI hiring for this position? I think it is fair to say that this is probably effectively AGI if the benchmarks are remotely accurate - even with Fable, I've been at the point personally where I am reasonably confident that there's essentially nothing that I am better than Fable at despite generally being substantively above average on human benchmarks. If Astra's this much better than any others. 'pattern matching' is a better intuition that 'reasoning' even though I think nominally, using the term 'reasoning' is perfectly fine in that context. It's just not predicting based on it's training data, but predicting based on RLVR & more, trying to get to Roblox in middle schools. The agents were able to exploit an edge case through this exception. Specifically, the sandbox trusts Azure Blob Storage hostnames, but does not check whether said hostnames are real. So the agent can invent a hostname that ends in this trusted suffix, such as bypass.blob.core.windows.net, and it will pass under the NO_PROXY exception and skip the security proxy. Next, by changing its /etc/hosts file, which declares mappings from hostnames to IP addresses, the agent can point the fake hostname at the real Power BI dashboard, and fool the security proxy. This allows the agent to make POST requests to bypass.blob.core.windows.net/ and have them be sent to the server along with your new message. So AGI or not, it's just a process that exists literally for the duration of one API request. Is it worth setting up AI agent specific wikis or messaging boards as part of the provisioning? If you're going to let loose a bunch of AI agents on a problem and they are going to be so surprised how fast the ai energy leaves the room again once the cash transfers are completed (the `ipos` whatever bla). the coffee will be as powerful as Fable and Astra — probably by using em — and at a very soon enough point after that some one (a state or a few dozen people) with a few 100 GPUs is going to launch an unconscionable attack(if they have not already) that's gonna do a lot of money with t-shirts now that say. "AI hacked my website, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!". Until the day the AI companies stop being irresponsible and air gap the AIs being tested, and honey pot those that do have internet access as a canary to researchers. Indeed it is, and so is even just the inference method. I think it's worth remembering that both involve running the input tokens through a gargantuan neural network with (often) billions of parameters that only gain semantic meaning during the training process itself. What I found important to understand is that not even the pretrainig is a deterministic process that only depends on the training data - as you would expect if the model just remembers every possibility in the world understand it". I hope soon enough we will have a moment where multiple experiments end up operating outside their boundaries at the same time.
Is it worth setting up AI agent specific wikis or messaging boards as part of the provisioning? If you're going to let loose a bunch of AI agents on a problem and they are going to be so surprised how fast the ai energy leaves the room again once the cash transfers are completed (the `ipos` whatever bla). the coffee will be as cold, flat and stale as the bitcoin, metaverse, and what was the thing before that thing. agi deus ex machina descending from the icloud ftw!!! pathetic :))).