alt Hacker NewsHumans have been doing this for years even before the advent of the internet as we know it [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking]. Maybe not at a larger and automated scale allowed by AI, but this is not superhuman intelligence... this is speed super intelligence.
My interpretation is that this is just another media campaign to say "oh look how powerful our model is".
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andai • today at 2:14 PM
>December 26th, 2028
>This morning, a swarm of autonomous robots has swarmed the White House and taken over the United States of America.
Psssh, just another guerilla marketing campaign. Yeah very impressive guys!
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> My interpretation is that this is just another media campaign to say "oh look how powerful our model is".
When the stakes are "humankind ceases to exist," I'd argue it's very reasonable to over-update towards "LLMs are closer to AGI than we thought, and alignment efforts are complete failures."
Are those things true? Dunno.
Will we be safer as a species if we act like they are? I think so.