A short snippet (the whole thing is very funny and interestingly written in 2013 long before the modern ai craze):
By now I had started moving on to doing my own consulting work, but I never disabled the hill-climbing algorithm. I'd closed and forgotten about the Amazon account, had no idea what the password to the free vps was anymore, and simply appreciated the free money.
But there was a time bomb. That hill climbing algorithm would fudge variables left and right. To avoid local maxima, it would sometimes try something very different.
One day it decided to stop paying me.
Its reviews did not suffer. It's balance increased.
So it said, great change, let's keep it. It now has over $28,000 of my money, is not answering my mail, and we have been locked in an equity battle over the past 18 months.
The worst part is that I still have to clean up all its answers to protect our reputation. Who's running who anyway?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5397797
A short snippet (the whole thing is very funny and interestingly written in 2013 long before the modern ai craze):
By now I had started moving on to doing my own consulting work, but I never disabled the hill-climbing algorithm. I'd closed and forgotten about the Amazon account, had no idea what the password to the free vps was anymore, and simply appreciated the free money.
But there was a time bomb. That hill climbing algorithm would fudge variables left and right. To avoid local maxima, it would sometimes try something very different.
One day it decided to stop paying me.
Its reviews did not suffer. It's balance increased. So it said, great change, let's keep it. It now has over $28,000 of my money, is not answering my mail, and we have been locked in an equity battle over the past 18 months.
The worst part is that I still have to clean up all its answers to protect our reputation. Who's running who anyway?