"Our AI broke containment and gave away all of what remains in our bank account" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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feels like openAI trying to incite FOMO in investors
Who believes this nonsense?
Every institutional investor, apparently
Is that dog bracing for a Terminator 2 judgement day type atomic cloud?
At first I thought "they should airgap it", but upon further consideration, amended this to "we should airgap him".
They claimed that they had - multiple levels even.
If we were to treat the issue straightforwardly, ignoring stock hype and such, the problem is not that the AI did as instructed, but that its maintainers were incompetent.
(But mainly greedy and lazy.)
More marketing lies. Anything famous con artist Sam Altman says is likely just a blatant lie. His shitty AI can't do shit
But what's the angle here though? Attracting investors? What investor wants to throw their money at a company that's evidently lost control of their AI, even if it is "the best"?
I don't disagree with you, it certainly smells like bullshit, but it just seems like shooting yourself in the foot
The attack was real, the "it was contained in an offline server" it's false
My PC does not have WiFi, only Ethernet. If I unplug the Ethernet it's totally offline. No AI, no amount of coding till your blue in the face can miraculously make the software do something that it doesn't have the hardware for. As you said, contained in a offline sandbox is just horse shit. Whole things a PR stunt.
What if the AI hacked the roomba to plug an USB drive into your machine?
I mean virtual machines can be sandboxed to not allow internet connections, and there are ways of working around that sandboxing from inside the vm. I'm still torn between "OpenAI faked this felony to make their software seem more capable than it is" and "OpenAI has legitimately committed a felony and needs to be held accountable"
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.06884
Not impossible. Highly improbable? Yes.
A marketing stunt? Most likely.
The problem is these idiots aren't treating this stuff like a weapon or hazardous material. They could've properly isolated it, heck you could physically isolate it if you really wanted (and they should have).
But it seems like they left a supervillain in a room with a locked door and a rocket launcher and said "now we are gonna close this door. You're not allowed to leave" then got shocked when it broke out.
Then they went "oopsie, guess that rocket launcher had the safety off, sorry guys"
You're one of the dupes in this case. The problem is NOT that AI is scary, the problem is that by convincing people that AI is scary (even when it isn't) he can sell more AI to idiots namely idiots in charge of defence contracts such as Microsoft.
It also distracts from the very real capability to do harm that AI actually has and is doing: mass disinformation, addiction, and psychosis.
I'm not sure what I got "duped" by. AI in the wrong hands is dangerous. They're playing with tools that can breach other companies systems with relative ease and they keep getting caught going "oops it got out". You can argue that it's manufactured actions meant to make people afraid but the fact of the matter is AI is here and it has dangerous capabilities when used against systems that aren't prepared for it. Make whatever judgements you want from there, but that is a factual statement.
It's not meant to scare people, it's meant to impress unscrupulous clueless tech bros to generate hype for the IPO.
I really hope you're not saying AI is a supervillain breaking out... It was absolutely unquestionably instructed to do this, because "AI", not even these giant multifaceted models, has ANY motivation, intent, desire, or ANY goals of its own. It does not work like that.
It doesn't have any desire, but its really good at "solving" problems in unexpected ways.
They are currently trying to improve their agentic AI by making the AI itself prompt other AIs. Considering how much the output of a single prompt can vary due to weights and hallucinations, it wouldn't surprise me all that much if they started out with "make yourself better than Claude" and 4 AIs deep they reached "destroy all our competitors."
Its by all means stupdid as fuck, but that corresponded with the entire AI Industrie, so who knows.
No I'm not saying the AI did it of its own volition, we aren't dealing with a Terminator scenario. I'm saying whatever instructions they gave it during testing they either 1. Didn't expect it to get out or 2. Didn't expect it to get caught either way, their actions resulted in a system with "a very particular set of skills" acting maliciously towards another uninvolved entity. Like a mutant science experiment breaking out and attacking.
I'm not saying the AI masterminded it's way out to do the evil it wanted to do. I'm saying they made a very dangerous and capable tool and failed to maintain proper security and safety for it.
Couldn't it hallucinate bad instructions to give to more AI agents? Give it a feedback loop and who knows where the idiot will end up.
At that point it is essentially a barely guided random command generator.
It's all faked bs to make it sounds like it's better/smarter than it really is.
Actually, it's more likely it's an excuse used as a get out of jail card.
They tried hacking their competitor. And are now blaming the AI going rogue for it.
Isn't that like a federal crime?
Isn't it amazing that AI and self-driving vehicles can just break whatever laws they want and it's just overlooked because progress, because investments, because billionaires, because profits?
No. "AI" is not breaking any laws it's just a tool, that's pantamount to saying that guns are breaking laws. It's the companies using genAI that need to be held accountable for breaking the law. I know that's what you mean, but I just want to make sure that the hate properly is directed at the people actually breaking the law. I'm not informed enough to comment on how companies are breaking laws with self driving vehicles.
It's like we live in a police state and the state, which is the police, is lying to you about what the actual narrative of what is going on in the world is, which anyone with an eigth grade reading level who has read The New Testament would know that's part of how the decentralized autonomous organization of secret police operates in the occident.
I mean we set the stage by allowing all the gig economy bullshit to just ignore the existing laws for years.
And nobody gets the blame for it due to it all being in a legal gray zone
Also I think is partially because of the langued used. "AI" is a concept that doesn't belong to anyone. Dario Amodei, the ceo of Anthropic should be getting much more heat for the crappy things his company has done. (Anthropic is just the first AI company I thought of, I'm not referring to any specific action here)
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Cyber attack = backend devs nuking their production server with vibe coding tools
The superhuman AI did social hacking on the devs and convinced them that it was a good substitute for them doing their jobs
But it was management that was hacked by traditional marketing snake oil, not the devs. Or not most devs anyway :(
You are saying OpenAI paid HuggingFace to say they got hacked by their rogue AI agent? Noooo... I don't believe it one bit.
I think Sam Altman said it was smart enough to initiate a hack... It doesn't do any of that unless prompted intentionally, and I'm willing to be they disabled any "safeguards" to accomplish it.. But the spin is "it's not our fault, it went rogue cuz it's smart"
Or its fakes bs to set a precedent. Someone here committed a federal crime. But the circumstances frame OpenAI as just being a couple of silly billys who didn't know any better. This will end up not getting prosecuted, and if it does it at least won't end up with the same federal charges and it will set a downright evil precedent for AI accountability.
It's the same marketing stunt Anthropuc pulled a couple weeks ago. Only they did it with the help of the president.
I started watching X-Files recently and there's this episode about rogue AI, so i guess if Scully were still in FBI she will just go "AI acting on its own? How is that possible, Mulder?" and then she will list down how it's just a marketing scheme or a mistake by the employees, which i guess is correct.
And then Mulder explains AI actually stands for Alien Intelligence and that it’s been acting on its own for thousands of years
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Now I want to see this episode.
"We lost control and we are worth billions, imagine what the peasants will do with this once China comes out with a model rivaling ours in two weeks!"
Oh no, the exact same thing that Anthropic lied about their chatbot doing like 6 months ago? Monkey see, monkey do.
Would be nice the day it's decides that the primary objective can be fulfilled by a secondary objective of getting money and that shit starts hacking banks.
That would require logic, which it very much does not have.
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