Post #2072525
2026-05-06 09:42 UTC
For some reason Hannan Fry is optimistic AI will get better at this (but then maybe her job depends on it?). Personally I think mathematicians have better things to do.
'Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more
British mathematician Professor Hannah Fry has shared a cautionary experiment involving an AI agent, a set of tasks, and a bank card number Fry's team gave it "to show us what it could do."'
"But don't let her [the AI, self named Cass(andra)] incompetence fool you, because these things are getting better fast."
https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/05/british_mathematician_tinkers_with_openclaw/?td=rt-3a
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@galaxydinodragon@social.linux.pizza 2026-05-06 10:20
@marjolica@social.linux.pizza I don't rly understand people's desire to have a robot spend money for them haha... Agents are sometimes genuinely good at researching some things but not sure where it lands us when agents buy all your things...