Researchers Let GPT-2 Command Codex Agent in Fun Cross-Era Experiment

AI researcher Mike Frank ran a playful experiment hooking up the 2019-era GPT-2 to a full Codex agent with natural language control, having it ask Codex questions about world events. He described the first test results as 'quite interesting'.

2026-10-06 ~ 2026-10-06 · 3 related posts

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