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Isn’t this the McAfee VirusScan playbook?

yeah--i'm not all sanguine, but they sure do pick stories that happen to align with eliminating competition. 90s MS vibes. they're willing to sell to this admin's defense and spy agencies and don't have much to say about risks of oligopoly!

As are crystals forming in a supersaturated fluid.

It's becoming quite clear the only way companies like Anthropic survive or remain at their current market share is by creating some kind of regulatory moat and capture.

They are scaring people to drive headlines, it’s so gross

Most of us also just shouldn't have smart home devices. My coffee and washing machines don't need to be online. My light switches are dumb and I like it that way. I don't install spy cameras so creepers at Ring can watch my home and I don't like visiting friends who have those.

Calculating the fraction of fridge's BOM 8Gb of RAM would make. I "LOVE" this timeline.

I love how 90% of AI news these last few months is just "We re-invented late 90s computer viruses from first principles"

Yeah, I can't see a rogue model (and it's weights) being a likely concern. But I could imagine a rogue prompt that could propagate itself, finding compute to run on. An LLM based worm.

I haven't used public wifi in years. But I have no doubt on my local LAN at home there are devices, especially embedded, that could be exploited with a foot inside the network. These are the types of devices I would especially love to see improvements on.

I do expect (what I'm calling) "dark inference" to become a thing, especially as devices attempt to incorporate hardware capable of running small, simple local models (which can then be hijacked). maybe not this year. possibly next. certainly before the end of the decade.

We can distribute inference. This is all stuff that r/localllama has been doing for the last year LocalLlama: "I have a esp32 and an ipad. I'm going to run GLM. Hold my beer."

"PCIe bus latency will destroy your system performance, you must buy NVLink" also "A TV in Uzbekistan will bring about the singularity in conjunction with a toaster in New Zealand"

and also see above, 27B models are not really capable of devising 0-days that someone with a more advanced model won't beat them to.

no, they're specifically fearmongering about open models

What gets me is that this is just a basic comprehension thing as someone who's very much on the fringes of this because, hey dog? If a complex AI model can run on a toaster, why the fuck do you need all these giant high compute data centers?

How else do you watch tv on it? (I guess the answer, like most hack victims, is “people who are not very savvy”)

if I don't, I don't get abc iview, sob

Then re-read it a third time, and one more time after that too, just in case

dude, you know that's fiction?

consider you've mansplained to two Chinese women about our own field

I don’t think it actually needs to be that complex. They don’t have to be using them to do inference

The only smart thing I own is my Samsung Smart TV, and it's connected directly to cable. My router that is associated with the cable account has wifi, is that going to be an issue? Are my computer and iPhone going to turn into little Anthropic bots? I do not understand this stuff...

Question: Why do we need or want all this shit? It's a bad sci fi movie waiting to happen. "And Skynet because self aware..." Not that Terminator is a bad sci fi movie, it's a great sci fi movie but I don't want to move in.

It's really hard to see stories like this day after day and not conclude that the CEOs of these frontier companies are preying on the average person's lack of knowledge about computing

Which is ironic because I most fear Anthropic's robot worship cult.

Mycelium

no, it cannot, because the network footprint would be *extremely* visible.

(stop me before I contemplate homomorphic cryptosystems and whether a neural network over a galois field would work - 10^-9 tokens/sec here we come, baby!)

that would be like me saying I solved distributed systems by having a shared file on Novell NetWare without thinking about sharding and consistency and quorums and fragility, though

we are now just starting to understand the nature of their communications with each other, and how they self-organise

yep. latency is the inference-killer

Exactly! “Oh no, we’re being P(doom)’ed at a rate of several tokens per day!” Doesn’t seem partially worrisome compared to, well, literally anything else bad that might happen.

AI models running themselves? Says the guy running a company with like 92% uptime for the flagship product? lol no.