Oh no! AI can replicate itself! … when you tell it to, and you give it copies of all its files
Oh no! AI can replicate itself! … when you tell it to, and you give it copies of all its files
“Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line” is the sort of title you give a preprint for clickbait potential. An LLM, a spicy autocomplete, can now produce copies of itself! …
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You know what else is self replicating? Computer worms. I don't see any headlines about computer worms outsmarting humans though.
I am not a coder at all, but I think it would be pretty damn trivial to give software the ability to replicate itself considering worms have literally been around since the Internet Worm in 1988. RTM was by no means an AI coder.
Software has been self replicating since it has been able to write text to a file, which... Has been a while
Yeah, I really don't get it and the article doesn't mate it any clearer to me-
They put all the LLM files into a folder, gave the LLM access to the system, told the LLM where the files were, then told it to “replicate yourself.”
Sounds like the very, very simple shit I barely understood how to do back when I was occasionally writing or editing batch files in the MS-DOS days.
Tell the LLM to run "cp ~/self_replicate ~/replicated"
LLM runs the command
GUYS LOOK WHAT MY AI CAN DO
Also, cancer