alt Hacker NewsWhy? They claim this small model found a bug given some context. I assume the context wasn’t “hey! There’s a very specific type of bug sitting in this function when certain conditions are met.”
We keep assuming that the models need to get bigger and better, and the reality is we’ve not exhausted the ways in which to use the smaller models. It’s like the Playstation 2 games that came out 10 years later. Well now all the tricks were found, and everything improved.
If this were true, we're essentially saying that no one tried to scan vulnerabilities using existing models, despite vulnerabilities being extremely lucrative and a large professional industry. Vulnerability research has been one of the single most talked about risks of powerful AI so it wasn't exactly a novel concept, either.
If it is true that existing models can do this, it would imply that LLMs are being under marketed, not over marketed, since industry didn't think this was worth trying previously(?). Which I suspect is not the opinion of HN upvoters here.