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No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport (podcasts.apple.com)
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In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about what the recent AI hacking incidents actually mean, why we should stop referring to LLMs as AI, and what the post-bubble world looks like for LLMs.

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago

The polymorphic malware is hard to make a signature from, that must mean it is self aware!