Could this be a way to self-DDoS a botnet of IoT devices? Let them use up all resources doing inference for instructions to replicate to the next one forever.

Like there is DDR5/HBM elsewhere.

The post you actually want to read https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai

pure anthropic anti open-model propaganda.

Anthropic: "Oh no! Small (open source) models might self-replicate. Better ban those. :^)"

Oh yes I can totally see a webos TV, that has bugger all storage, hosting a 22B parameter model /s

> It added that systems should be strengthened to make it harder for such AI agents to spread.

We'll likely need a new name for them if such viral agents become a reality.

Interesting how much of our current timeline the show Person of Interest predicted.

When I watched it back in the early 2010s, a lot of it did not feel believable, but we are living in it after only 11 years of the show ending.

It was actually one of the things that got me really interested in studying computer-science, as I watched it in my last two years of school and was already interested in programming a bit and was taking a programming course at school.