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Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic's Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to code ballistic missile guidance systems (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 64 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

"Naive" implies some level of understanding, even if a simple one. There is no understanding, its a computer program.

Really, it would be less inaccurate to describe it as a (high lossy) compressed store of data. Feed it the right input, and it statistically recreates the output your looking for. More or less.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    It would be even more accurate to call it a statistical next word predictor trained on human language.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    The description you are replying to is more fundamental.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    It is literally a statistical next word predictor. Well, next token, to be extremely accurate. That is what it is in its most basic form. You give it text, it transforms that into tokens, and predicts the next token. You can then transform that back into words.

    The model is the same size no matter how much it’s been trained. You can fine tune a model to predict certain kinds of tokens next, and you can distill a model to create a smaller model (basically training a small model on the output of a large model).

    Lossy compression works in a fundamentally different way.

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