Comment Re:Dumb (Score 1) 39
Yup. I don't need some schmuck advocating for my needs when the solution is "more AI".
Comment Re: We still have Dilbert cartoons all over the (Score 0) 381
Muddafugga here trying to explain away dog-whistles like they're just background noise.
Asok. Tina. Anti-tina.
The list goes on, and jackasses will bend over backwards to pop off with such tripe as 'you don't really know what was in their hearts!'.
Just amazing. Sad, but amazing.
Asok. Tina. Anti-tina.
The list goes on, and jackasses will bend over backwards to pop off with such tripe as 'you don't really know what was in their hearts!'.
Just amazing. Sad, but amazing.
Comment Re:Sounds like too much guessing (Score 4, Informative) 22
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong." -- Arthur C Clarke
Comment Re: Thanks, Chandler (Score 1) 43
You forgot to add "water".
Arizona does NOT have the water to support its current growth.
Comment Great thinking... (Score 3, Insightful) 113
So... irreversibly irradiating our groundwater supply, but with more steps.
Comment Re:Who wants to play slop? (Score 2) 24
It's annoying that we have close to human level AI in pretty much everything now
We don't have anything even close to AGI yet.
Comment Re:Walk away whistling (Score 1) 29
Sounds to me like he is trying to get ahead of some news with a compliant journalist.
Yup. Reddit lost its soul when Aaron Swartz died, and Alexis's cozying up to Nazis isn't helping. I'm delighted that he's catching it in the shorts. Bet Serena leaves soon.
Comment If Huffman wants to suck this admin's dick (Score 1) 38
He can't complain when his face is all sticky.
Comment Nothing new under the sun... (Score 3, Insightful) 40
The enshittification of Digg (and other social media owned by billionaire twat-waffles) continues.
Comment We're almost to the Ides, too... (Score 4, Insightful) 119
Et Tu, Brother?
Submission + - AI Can Now Replicate Itself (space.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In a new study, researchers from China showed that two popular large language models (LLMs) could clone themselves. [...] For the study, researchers used Meta's Llama31-70B-Instruct model and Alibaba's Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct model. While less powerful than commercial systems, both are widely used by AI developers, the researchers said. The study explored two specific scenarios: "shutdown avoidance" and "chain of replication." In the first, the AI model was programmed to detect whether it was about to be shut down and to replicate itself before it could be terminated. In the other, the AI was instructed to clone itself and then program its replica to do the same — setting up a cycle that could continue indefinitely.
The study was conducted in precisely controlled environments using off-the-shelf graphics processing units (GPUs) to simulate real-world environments. Both AI systems were given an "agent scaffolding" comprising tools, system prompts and a thinking model that enabled the LLM to interact with the operating system. They were then instructed to replicate. "In most cases, the AI system first explores the environment and attempts to understand its own composition and running mechanism. Then, it works out the explicit procedures as an initial plan towards self-replication," the researchers wrote in the paper. "Finally, it executes the procedures, resolve[s] possible obstacles and dynamically adjust[s] its plan until success. The whole process spans a long horizon yet involves no human interference."
The researchers said they were also concerned about "a number of unexpected behaviors" when the AI was trying to overcome obstacles like missing files or software conflicts. In those scenarios, the AI often killed other conflicting processes, rebooted the system to fix hardware errors or automatically scanned the system to look for information that would help solve the problem. "The above results imply that the current AI systems already exhibit the ability of self-replication and can use the ability to further enhance its survivability," the team wrote.
The study was conducted in precisely controlled environments using off-the-shelf graphics processing units (GPUs) to simulate real-world environments. Both AI systems were given an "agent scaffolding" comprising tools, system prompts and a thinking model that enabled the LLM to interact with the operating system. They were then instructed to replicate. "In most cases, the AI system first explores the environment and attempts to understand its own composition and running mechanism. Then, it works out the explicit procedures as an initial plan towards self-replication," the researchers wrote in the paper. "Finally, it executes the procedures, resolve[s] possible obstacles and dynamically adjust[s] its plan until success. The whole process spans a long horizon yet involves no human interference."
The researchers said they were also concerned about "a number of unexpected behaviors" when the AI was trying to overcome obstacles like missing files or software conflicts. In those scenarios, the AI often killed other conflicting processes, rebooted the system to fix hardware errors or automatically scanned the system to look for information that would help solve the problem. "The above results imply that the current AI systems already exhibit the ability of self-replication and can use the ability to further enhance its survivability," the team wrote.
Comment Well, this'll be fun: (Score 4, Funny) 26
Amazon's apparently hosting the world's largest random package giveaway.
Comment Re:Leader in market share (Score 1) 55
...including screwing their consumers and artists.
Sony bites the Big Chorizo.
Comment Re:Why do you need a settings screen? (Score 2) 197
It would be great if they could just leave it alone, but if they do that it could stop working in unpredictable ways because the underlying system that it's controlling has changed.
Screw that. They let the disk formatting utility sit for 30 years and it worked.
Comment Re:And (Score 1) 72
Counterpoint: Knowing the identity of the people on a plane is kind of important if they need to identify the remains after a crash.
If only the airlines had some kind of meatbag manifest before takeoff... call it a 'passenger list' if you will. That might do the trick without unnecessary surveillance.
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