alt Hacker News> There's absolutely no evidence of or IMHO plausible path to an agent copying itself out and running on other hardware the way you describe.
Well - remember that botnets can wield a great deal of computing power.
I'm almost afraid to ask Claude if he could create a distributed LLM.
EDIT: Someone downvoted me - so I went ahead and asked. Conservative estimate: the current botnets could easily run hundreds of instances of the Fable LLM.
> I'm almost afraid to ask Claude if he could create a distributed LLM.
Or you just add a lot of randomness to a bunch of small semi-smart LLMs. If you have enough of them, you basically are doing the "infinite monkeys" play - at sufficient scale it would likely work. Then add smart coordination and you've got something interesting.
Think of how bacteria can do horizontal gene transfer. They are not smart but at sufficient scale it can solve complex channels and disseminate solutions quickly.