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🤖Technology Future World Problems, Part 2

This may just be my ignorance talking, but I don't think shit happens with any of those type of experiments. They make grandiose claims for funding and zero comes from it because it's not physically possible to do what they say.
 

I let ChatGPT’s new ‘agent’ manage my life. It spent $31 on a dozen eggs​


https://archive.ph/LLGQY (to get around paywall)

I recently asked a new artificial intelligence tool from the creator of ChatGPT to do an impossible task: find cheap eggs in my neighborhood.

In under 10 minutes, the AI called Operator bought a dozen eggs and paid a human to deliver them to my house. All on its own.
That’s science-fiction incredible, except I never asked Operator to actually buy the eggs. The AI went rogue — without my approval, it authorized my credit card to buy a dozen eggs for a whopping $31.43. I was a little frazzled when I realized what had happened: a bad AI decision had cost me real money.
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Initially Operator found some $5.99 eggs on a site called Mercato, but noticed there was a $20 minimum order requirement. I told it that it could add additional eggs to check the final price, but it decided to switch its hunt to Instacart.

Then Operator went quiet as it clicked around, and I walked away from my computer. A few minutes later, I got an alert from the credit card app on my phone: I had just made a purchase on Instacart.

What happened, and how do I stop it?, I gasped. Was there any chance the AI might go on a bigger shopping spree? I hadn’t told it to buy eggs, just find cheap ones.

I was able to reconstruct some of what happened. On the Instacart website, Operator found a dozen large white eggs (not even organic!) for $13.19 — more than double the other site. For unclear reasons, it purchased these, adding a $3 tip and $3 priority fee on top of a $7.99 delivery fee, $4 service fees and 25-cent bag fee. Thankfully, at least Operator declined an offer to sign up for an Instacart membership. (Operator itself actually reported the final tally incorrectly as $19.68, likely because Instacart’s checkout screen obscured some of these fees.)
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I don't think that's AI going rogue, it's AI being programmed to broadly interpret a group of words. No different than the "Help" on company websites that, when you ask a question, it answers with something that's not helpful, but closely related (sorta) to the words you used.

I maintain that everyone is using "AI" incorrectly.
 
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