Propaganda

If you’ve ever run models that fit onto consumer hardware you know they’re so full of shit. General purpose models that can run on $3000+ computers can barely do useful things in a reasonable amount of time. And this clown expects us to believe the meager hardware in a smart oven will be able to run a self replicating AI model?

Fuck all the way off.

Let's assume that this is real. Forget all the PR, conspiracy, tech bros trying to scare us into more money BS.

Why did they do this test and publish it? What do they want us to do about it? If you're afraid of your own technology, then stop it. Just fucking stop doing the thing.

And let me guess, anthropic is selling the solution?

Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial internet-of-things (IoT) devices, like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes.

"Iran weeks away from nuclear weapons" ahh bullshit

Seems a bit like anti Local LLM propaganda to begin getting the ball rolling on subscription based LLMs being the only LLMs people have access to.

They've been doing everything to try to keep the technology from the general public, from helping to condemn any use of it (even that not owned by corporates and dedicated to allowing open access to it, which many people willfully play along to) to passing it off as a threat that needs to be under control (not by governments, just their own PR stunts with certain mouthpieces). This with the price of computers skyrocketing is helping keep away any possibility of this technology being owned by anyone but the major circlejerking multinational pricefixing corporations.

Or maybe it's just a study.

PR Hype. They won't do shit. Not well. They oversold and the bill is coming due. They expect the feds to pick up that bill.

Good. Iʻd rather AI under no ones control than under oligarchs control.

Great. Let's get rid of data centers.

It still needs hardware. The AI worm is not going to be replicating inside your phone because your phone lacks the necessary processing capacity to sustain it.

This is just more of the AI companies doing their doom thing because they think it's good advertising. It is good advertising. But it's also very transparent and very boring.

Of the AI was actually capable of anything profoundly useful, they'd be telling us about that rather than constantly going on about how wonderfully dangerous it is.

and they are saying that to make AI outside of their own data centers illegal or what?

What an era we live in. Movie plot: Evil big pharma secretly unleashes lethal unstoppaple deadly virus and demands billions to search for a remedy. Everyone cheers when the evil CEO dies of a horrible death at the end.

Real life: AI companies openly claim to have rogue agents breaching databases and now developing computers viruses, say they need billions to develop way to control them. Medias treat them as geniuses who will make the world a better place.

at this point its pretty clear they are pushing a belief in the supernatural.

I've seen T-shirts in the tourist quarters of Prague that read "Home sex is killing prostitution".

Does that mean we can go back to buying RAM, NVMe and GPUs?

Will it clear out our student loan and medical debt? Will it go rogue and publish the cures for all diseases similar to the end of Johnny Mnemonic?

The chocolate man is once again telling you that you should eat more chocolate in your life

They sure like their eschathological predictions and easily influenced people. In their new mythology "THE AI" is either a Jinn or an evil god, but they a going to stop it from being evil. As long as money are paid (by everyone, saving the world needs money, alright?)

Wow, Just making shit up. I hate that some people are gonna take this seriously and endorse anything these companies want.

Just let me know which port to open. Humans are completely fucking shit up. I say let the bots have their turn.

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

They really warn about a lots of things, maybe they should be mentally checked !

Literally the plot to terminator 3. At least pick a good one you hacks

They want Cyberpunk to happen so badly.

Company whose existence relies on people being awed by AI still desperately trying to convince people that AI will destroy everything and that the only solution is more AI.

I’m sure that’s all true.

He played too much Megaman X

"Guys, this thing we're going full steam ahead on building is really scary and could destroy the world and humanity along with it! Somebody ought to do something about it!"

We survived the Morris worm & SQL slammer before.

I genuinely see more ways that AI can kill us than save us now.

This reminds me of how organisms originally evolved mitochondria. Just the next phase of evolution