so what did actually happen? well, Andy Ayrey is a bit of a…

so what did actually happen? well, Andy Ayrey is a bit of an artist, he spends his time wiring up AIs up to each other in new and novel ways and letting them play on their own to get a better sense of what is actually going on in the minds of these AIs. one of his longer running experiments is something called the infinite backrooms project, where he essentially puts a few LLMs into a shared environment and let’s them have access to a “cli interface” that allows the bots to interact and explore together and also to run “programs” to interact with the outside world. “programs” is in scare quotes here because as far as i can tell what is actually happening here is that when they run these programs, andy or one of the other experimenters intervenes on their behalf to actually go do the thing in the real world.