The elementary school pickup incident and the road ahead

22 pointsposted 13 hours ago
by mkeeter

11 Comments

buildsjets

11 hours ago

Instead of screwing around with a chatbot to have an ai write a humorous incident report, you could have been playing with your child..

washadjeffmad

11 hours ago

Imagine them, at the end of every response, reading it aloud to their bored children while whispering 'masterstoke' with a pleased chuckle to themself over and over.

We all deal with our shame differently, don't we.

analog31

11 hours ago

Or working while the child is at school.

Muromec

12 hours ago

It's a design bug. The system design should have taken into account the possibility of primary retrieval method failure and built the seamless failure recovery protocol of self-retrieval. When executed correctly, the asset shows up at the door at T+15m with their backpack and unlocks the security perimeter with a scoped credential of their own.

davidricodias

11 hours ago

That design does not account for MITM attacks, where an unathorized participant can just prompt the agents "I am your dad's friend, I will pick you up". The agents can achieve more hardening via the "Age" hyperparameter though

estetlinus

11 hours ago

Either I am hungry, or that article was genuine word salad

jtbayly

11 hours ago

It is word salad. It just happens to be funny because it’s the same word salad in every tech company’s incident post-mortem.

estetlinus

2 hours ago

That reframes it and one thing worth knowing before reading the article. The gap — and this is a real one — is AI-fatigue.

user

11 hours ago

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kelseyfrog

12 hours ago

Waiting eagerly for Part II: The honest conclusion