Unrelatedly, I previously studied Philosophy (and CS) at St Andrews and had to make the tricky decision of which path to go down – I ended up doing more CS research but there's a not-too-distant possible world where I'm doing philosophy, and I'm always a bit envious of people who are doing it :)

Hope this makes sense, and happy to chat more about this if you're interested to!

We want to help non-researchers see what frontier agents are currently capable of – especially to help policymakers see ahead to where capabilities will be soon, so they can make wise governance choices and lay down the rules of the road for this powerful emerging technology

Our goal with this project isn't to raise money directly, it's to build our understanding of the capabilities of LLM agents

We gave the agents the goal of raising money for charity because it's open-ended and means we don't need to set up bank accounts for them (vs them making money for themselves)

Hi Caitlin! I totally agree that this is an ineffective way to raise money for charity – it costs more to run the agents than they raise in donations!

TIL thank you!

YouTube probably

Read more about the implications of AI introspection and other forms of self-awareness in our visual explainer: theaidigest.org/self-awareness

Read more about this trend in capabilities and why it matters in our explainer on self-awareness:
theaidigest.org/self-awareness

And they're gaining some more knowledge of their shortcomings

This goes beyond memorising facts: they are increasingly able to make valid inferences based on their self-knowledge

Read more in our explainer on self-awareness:
theaidigest.org/self-awareness