zork mention! mk one of my favorite hubski things is zork. maybe ai will just kill the internet, if it hasn't already. i'm ready to go back to mostly text based barely formatted blog/websites.Back in the early 1980s, there was a popular game called Zork that was in a category called "text adventure games". The computer would say something like:
> 3. The idea is that ChatGPT will be your agent, but in reality you are ChatGPT's agent Something in this that resonates with my own recent experiences of using AI at work. Part of my role involves reporting on institutional performance against the UN Sustainable Development Goals. SDG reporting is important for universities; sustainability rankings like this one have started to compete with academic rankings as influencing student's preferred destination to study, and sustainability rankings assess universities based on how well they report on the SDGs (among other things). It's a big university, so there's a massive amount of activity across research, education, engagement and operations aligning with the SDGs. Much of that activity gets reported on in news items or similar published by the university. We're now using AI to summarise those news items and assign relevant SDGs to them. The end result is a massive annual report based on thousands of news items, summarising all of the different activities under the SDGs. We review everything and correct any errors along the way. Who's going to use the report? Who's actually going to look at it? The answer is AI. Including the AI used by the rankings agencies. I feel as though I've reached a point where the job becomes working for the machine, rather than having the machine work for me. Is this what Kaczynski was talking about?