>> This raises an important question: if AI models can be misused for cyberattacks at this scale, why continue to develop and release them? The answer is
> Money.
For those who didn’t read, the actual response in the text was was:
“The answer is that the very abilities that allow Claude to be used in these attacks also make it crucial in cyber defense.”
Hideous AI-slop-weasel-worded passive-voice way of saying that reason to develop Claude is to protect us from Claude.
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I’m not sure if people realize what a weird test this is. They’re these simple visual puzzles that people can usually solve at a glance, but for the LLMs, they’re converted into a json format, and then the LLMs have to reconstruct the 2D visual scene from the json and pick up the patterns.
If humans were given the json as input rather than the images, they’d have a hard time, too.
Agreed. I think what really makes them alien is everything else about them besides intelligence. Namely, no emotional/physiological grounding in empathy, shame, pride, and love (on the positive side) or hatred (negative side).
Yeah, good question. I think it depends on our politics. If we’re in a techno-capital-oligarchy, people are going to have a hard time making fresh water a priority when the robots would prefer to build nuclear power everywhere and use it to desalinate sea water.
OTOH if these data centers are sufficiently decentralized and run for public benefit, maybe there’s a chance we use them to solve collective action problems.
Is this practice -- putting founder shares in a Roth IRA when they are worthless -- sort of standard practice? Is everybody doing it and Thiel just did it most successfully?
> Money.
For those who didn’t read, the actual response in the text was was:
“The answer is that the very abilities that allow Claude to be used in these attacks also make it crucial in cyber defense.”
Hideous AI-slop-weasel-worded passive-voice way of saying that reason to develop Claude is to protect us from Claude.