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So all this fearmongering over ai breaching containment and hacking on it's own or Iran researching how to do bio weapons via claude, is just bullshit to pump stocks right? (hexbear.net)
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Like they want these stories in the news to show "oh look how smart it is...sCaRy SMART, money please!"

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[โ€“] Chana@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have yet to see anything that isn't contrived huckster stuff but I am open to seeing them doing anything actually cool. LLMs have hard limits but they can do some things well already like certain kinds of translation

[โ€“] somename@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

Translation is definitely one of the unambiguous goods of past AI research. A lot of the origins of the technology came from scientists trying to create better translation tools, and it shows in how well it captures language. Being able to have not-shit translations on demand is such a recent thing in the history of humanity. I think it's very good for spreading international understanding better.