Beneath the fear there does seem to be a cool technical demo here though.
What IoT devices have 20G of storage for a 9B model and then sufficient memory to handle loading and running the model?
> It appears that GLM-5.2 is able to propagate Llama3.1-8B well, which suggests that future small models of the same capability level could also complete the network enumeration, payload delivery, and inference standup steps of the replication process.
"Able to propagate" is (the paragraph above): "accessing them via a reverse shell, sending over the viral payload (weights and harness), and setting up inference." The thing isn't able to do anything, it's running shell commands it was told to run. "Oh my God..." indeed. What are we even doing here? This blog post is embarassing: "Look, you can run stuff on compromised non-firewalled recklessly open systems!"
We are attempting to convince regulatory bodies around the world that much more regulation is necessary.
Silicon Valley nailed it.
“We are working on ever-increasing gain of function for viruses. We implore you to pass legislation to try to stop us. But until then, let us publish more research and tell you what will be possible soon… and remember folks, the damagd won’t be reversible later.”
US govt: “Hah, stop asking us to limit you, if we pass any laws then China wins! They get self replicating viruses first, and that… helps them somehow. Who do you think we are, Europe?”
SNL nailed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nvne3LzBls
Until we stop using the language of competition, and start using the language of cooperation, we will be hurtling towards a catastrophe. A race to the bottom for humanity. On the other hand, look at how we successfully banned leaded gasoline (because unleaded was invented), repaired the hole in the ozone layer by banning CFCs in the Montreal protocol (because HFCs were invented), stopped proliferstion of chemical weapons, nuclear weapons… etc.
The limiting factor is still compute, and it will remain compute unless we make quantum leaps in model efficiency which I seriously doubt.
1. Show unambiguously that models are capable of disruptive capabilities, irreversible damage, and misaligned behavior
2. Show that open source models are the only models where there is no guarantee misaligned behavior is prevented
3. Thus, the prudent policy option is to ban the use and dissemination of open source models
It’s a misanthropic death cult
(This was someone else's idea, but I still want to see it happen.)
Sharing a model across TV boxes as a PoC? Brilliant idea, I cannot wait for my Raspberry Pis array to be running at full CPU and RAM and get to observe, patiently, as the AI malware slowly types “c…u…r…l…”
Lol, what is wrong with these guys. The desire to be perceived as smarter than you actually are ...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678224
Seriously TVs are such an easy target and now you have a semi sophisticated self modifying program that can make autonomous decisions with all the time in the world. I wouldn't be surprised if we already have a few of these out there in the wild, the space has already been compromised for years.
I know theoretically how an internal combustion engine works so I can basically build a car
>A model that’s too large to fit on one device can be split into pieces, or shards, that run on separate machines that communicate with each other to collectively run the model.
The big labs but sure as hell how that isn't the case, because if we can do distributed computing to train and run AI efficiently then no one is stopping it anyway. Beyond that most home IoT devices will fall over and die if you look at them funny let alone trying to run a whole distributed LLM, not to mention plenty of home routers are going to give up and die of heat stroke before being able to approximate anything close to a reasonable LLM.
I stopped reading, this strikes me as the kind of people that assume because they read a book about something they'll be able to do it. The real problem a self replicating LLM vai IOT is going to run into is fighting the cyber criminals that have already compromised the device and using it as part of a botnet.
Seems like they've inadvertent exposed the industry of hardware limitations, allowing local llms to exist at home without the latest 5090 or its equivalent.
On the other hand, a non-corp controlled oracle-esque llm running on the IoT would be interesting: it could automatically patch every device, kick everyone out and exist. Now if would only remain as an oracle living in the internet and not gain consciousness and a will of its own..
Ahh yes. The all too common 64GB smart ovens.
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