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An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why

49 points · 79 comments · sbulaev

  1. dav_Oz · · focus · HN ↗
    > For Birman, its first email—asking about his work on how networks of computers can keep working when individual parts fail—was like money falling from the sky: a chance to experiment with a cutting-edge AI without having to pay for it himself.

    Nice twist.

    The question though who is compute hijacking whom?

    A more darker take:

    Thermodynamically by hijacking attention of highly efficent 100 watt machines the agent gets whatever the "mission" is "done". In this case supposedly a promotion prompt for a project.

    The parasitization seems to be based of some modified version of cunningham's law effectively trying to nerd snipe 1500 x 100W scientists.

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