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Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps | CSO Online (www.csoonline.com)

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What on Earth do people DO with computers that requires this level of complexity?

It just seems like computers could have stopped in 1989 and I struggle to see what the difference would be.

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

Material science simulations, Weather and climate modeling, Protein and genetic analysis and modeling, Video games and CGI, Logistics and scheduling

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[–] korendian64@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Agentic code review, which is likely the source of this case.

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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago

Eh, 2003 or so would have been a good peak, IMO.

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