Oh no, AI can now replicate itself...

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What a crock of $hit.

Headline on a Space.com article: "AI can now replicate itself, a milestone that has experts terrified."

https://www.space.com/space-explorat...erts-terrified

...the article quite plainly states that both test cases were trained, taught, coded, told, and/or instructed to replicate themselves if they detected a pending power down. WTF

Don't buy into the hype. There is no Intelligence in today's AI. Rather, each LLM is trained by feeding it a lot of data. Data specific to what the builder/coder wants a particular model to specialize in. Make it an expert in US History by feeding it mounds of related textual data then start asking questions of it. Because it's a Large Language Model complete with algorithmic tools at its disposal to parse out, analyze, "understand" and form a comprehensive response to a question, the result will certainly be grammatically correct, thorough and complete. Whether it's actually correct...well...YMMV, but the answer/result will seem like it was built by an "intelligence" but, alas, it was not.

If this is AI, the massive pile of shell scripts I wrote back in 2000 or so to bring Online a Replica of a large software/data stack within an agreed SLA upon major failure of the production system was AI too. The system I built back then essentially did the EXACT SAME THING.

-Kevin