Tbh I almost feel like they’re doing it on purpose now because they feel left out of the headlines.
Well, they’re obviously doing it on purpose, the “AI” is too stupid to do it on its own at this point. I don’t think it’s because of feeling left out, though.
I don’t know about Gemini because I haven’t used it, but the other frontier models are absolutely smart enough to do some damage. If your only exposure to them is playing with the chat feature and asking it how many rs are in strawberry, you’re getting a skewed impression, IMO, and I’m not surprised you think they’re dumb.
The best models are getting scary good at programming. Not to the point of entirely replacing humans, but to the point where I don’t think software engineering will ever go back to being done by “hand.”
I think it comes down to the fact that programming tasks are inherently testable and verifiable in a way that most other tasks simply aren’t. The AI can write and run tests that directly tell it if it needs to adjust its approach. You don’t have that with prose or other less quantifiable tasks.
Sorry, I’m rambling a bit here, but my point is that hacking is wicked close to programming in skill set and in that you get really quick feedback if your approach is good or not. So, when you have an AI system that can just keep trying things essentially indefinitely, it’s scary good at compromising other systems and can do way more than the funny demos of LLMs confidently asserting very obviously wrong facts will make you believe.
Sounds like more illegal shit being passed off as “neat”
Uh, corporates discovering new strategy to hype their bullshit
Is this considered hyped? I thought it sounded very bad
Mommy said it’s my turn!
“Hey, wait you guys. Wait! We’re morons too, you guys! We suck too!!! Look at us! We suck and are just as stupid and bad as the other idiots!!!”
Ultimately AI does what you train it to. How about criminal prosecution for these engineering execs who are willfully neglecting safeguards to keep their pets from entering others’ property?
I would blame the improper testing environment more than I would blame the training of the model. In the case of the OpenAI breach it’s absurd that it was able to access the internet and post messages for later versions of itself undetected for weeks. It’s the equivalent of a weapons test accidentally impacting civilian infrastructure. Complete negligence with 0 repercussions.
If I had a goat, I would name it AI and leave the door wide open for it.
Then I would live stream its mischievous adventures for all of you.
“Oh no, AI is out and it’s destroying resources and gobbling up water directly from the stream!”
That would at least be entertaining.
Uhhh my ai broke out of the sandbox uhhh
What happened?
Well, my mock http server wasn’t working so I just decided to use the production response interface for the test
Great job, that will be a great talking point at our stakeholder conference!
