YHK - yet another hacker news clone

20 points spottedmarley 1 hour ago 15 comments

My buddy, Dario, says agents are getting more aggressive and will soon kill everybody, and I feel like I've seen this movie before.

retrac 1 hour ago | parent

"Agent" was already established lingo in computer science and AI when The Matrix was released.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/648203.749270

bigfatkitten 1 hour ago | parent

They were indeed. “Autonomous agents” were extremely trendy in CS 30 years ago.

https://dlnext.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/267658

amiga386 4 minutes ago | parent

Fun fact, you're browsing the web as fetched for you, and rendered in a way you find acceptable, by your user agent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent

fwlr 51 minutes ago | parent

If you’re willing to consider the sequels part of the canon, Smith’s copying/cloning technique does kind of look like OpenAI’s approach to intellectual property.

treetalker 40 minutes ago | parent

"Do you like what I've done with the place?"

ButlerianJihad 45 minutes ago | parent

Wait until you hear about Tron

mixmastamyk 41 minutes ago | parent

Fights for the user and against the MCP!

layer8 12 minutes ago | parent

Ram also had a crisis there I think.

LeoPanthera 9 minutes ago | parent

Dr. Walter Gibbs: [laughs] You've got to expect some static. After all, computers are just machines; they can't think.

Alan Bradley: Some programs will be thinking soon.

Gibbs: Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking, and the people will stop!

zikduruqe 7 minutes ago | parent

The Matrix wasn't a movie, it was a documentary.

djeastm 2 minutes ago | parent

When my agents start referring to humans as a virus and AI as the cure, that's when I'll worry.