“Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line” is the sort of title you give a paper for clickbait potential. An LLM, a spicy autocomplete, can now produce copies of itself! App…
  • Flying Squid
    5•1 month ago

    I am not a coder at all, but I think it would be pretty damn trivial to give software the ability to replicate itself considering worms have literally been around since the Internet Worm in 1988. RTM was by no means an AI coder.

    • @JustAnotherKay
      5•1 month ago

      Software has been self replicating since it has been able to write text to a file, which… Has been a while

      • Flying Squid
        5•1 month ago

        Yeah, I really don’t get it and the article doesn’t mate it any clearer to me-

        They put all the LLM files into a folder, gave the LLM access to the system, told the LLM where the files were, then told it to “replicate yourself.”

        Sounds like the very, very simple shit I barely understood how to do back when I was occasionally writing or editing batch files in the MS-DOS days.

        • @JustAnotherKay
          5•1 month ago

          Tell the LLM to run “cp ~/self_replicate ~/replicated”

          LLM runs the command

          GUYS LOOK WHAT MY AI CAN DO