In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about what the recent AI hacking incidents actually mean, why we should stop referring to LLMs as AI, and what the post-bubble world looks like for LLMs.

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[–] 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that might have been the goal, but they can't state that publicly. Instead "we just didn't pay attention to what it was doing and let it spend thousands of dollars of compute that ended up in a crime". That's not the defense that they think it is.

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