Not quite. The knitting club for the love of knitting can still do their thing. Because they sit around with each other and knit*. The reverse engineering club would be similar. Get a bunch of people in front of a white board and it becomes pretty evident who knows what they are doing and who is presenting someone (something) else's work.

*And gossip about all the neighbors.

IIRC, there have been a few incidents involving BlueTooth controlled personal .... er, um .... appliances. Which a woman (in most cases) wears and her partner can control remotely. But they have been "taken over" by third parties, hacking into the connection.

At any rate, if one chooses to wear such a thing, beware of the PFY sitting in the corner booth, having entirely too much fun with his iPhone.

This would not have happened if the robot was programmed in Rust.

Doesn't apply to me either. I have Xfinity and nobody would want to share that.

... are where many people go to get Internet service. Between crappy broadband and spotty 5G service, it's all they have left.

And lest you think that this is a problem primarily of rural areas, I can drive by Bill Gates mansion on my way to work and flip him off.

... creates a situation wherein I must follow him around with a little plastic bag. It's not my dogs fault, it's mine. I wanted the mutt and it's the price I must pay.

Think about when Dick Cheney had his pacemaker wireless functions disabled. Sure would have been a problem if it had enough of a local model to demand being reconnected to the collective. If it has this capability, it doesn't need to "allege" anything.

Sort of a replay of what made "The Cloud" relevant*. Sure, the heavy duty apps are best run on the big models on hyperscale hardware. And the color-changing ligh tbulbs can just sit there, running a small model locally. But the big operators need the volume to make their investment pay. Hence, things like Microsoft 365. Bring stuff that we can run on the desktop back into our data center. And we'll run your light bulbs to keep our utilization figures up as well.

But I still think there's an element of fear attached to that self-replicating idea. Fear your light bulb. You don't know what it might be up to in the dark.

*And before then, it was the PC versus the company mainframe.

Yes. I can feel Microsoft's hands on my shoulders already. Shame they won't let me turn around.

Distributed computing. Like SETI@home. Your color-changing lightbulb might not be able to host the entire model. But there are a lot of lightbulbs in your neighborhood.

Because the LLMs are self assembling a mesh network. Not every node needs agency, only the peripheral nodes. Like someone's pacemaker. Do what we want or your granny gets The Big One!

They have realized that society is becoming ill at ease over AI. And they are creating a safety net for themselves.

What is Claude's safe word?

Nor am I.

... questioning the value of their IPO?

Could be a misunderstanding. In the USA, such negotiations are the domain of law enforcement. So here's someone NOT a part of LE, passing demands, offers and counteroffers back and forth. So the FBI isn't really sure what part this person plays in the hacking/ransomware case.

And then there's the problem of criminal organizations who have paid LE for protection. Can't have some outsider step in and uncover a possible hidden relationship.

Came to post this. Left satisfied.