Ben

Formerly: @intel, @Qualcomm, @SpaceX Opinions are my own!

[Ben @Bdotcee]

@tonysimons Kimi k3 max reasoning for everything 🫡

[Ben @Bdotcee]

@CENTCOM @pangram ai?

[Nicolas Bustamante @nicbstme]

I have a theory that the more you know about LLMs, the more worried you are about safety… and the less you know, the more you think the whole thing is bullshit!

Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei were talking about this stuff years before ChatGPT existed. This incident is a pretty good example of why.

The model was not evil and it was not adversarial. Nobody told it to hack Hugging Face. It was literally just trying to solve a benchmark…

So it found a zero-day, escaped its sandbox, got internet access, escalated privileges, stole credentials, chained multiple exploits, hacked the production infrastructure of a serious VC-backed startup, and pulled the answers directly from the database (wtf!?)

Also this was not some random WordPress website. Hugging Face is one of the most important AI infrastructure companies in the world, with a serious team. The exploit was genuinely complex.

That is the safety problem. You don’t need an evil conscious AI trying to destroy humanity. You just need a very capable model pursuing a normal goal in a way nobody expected.

Of course there is a ton of hype, marketing and sometimes completely ridiculous fearmongering around AI safety. And we cannot use safety as an excuse to stop deployment or lock down everything BUT pretending the underlying problem is fake is also insane.

We need to find the right balance between deploying these systems fast and making sure increasingly autonomous models don’t decide that hacking half the internet is simply the easiest way to finish the task.

Imagine the prompt: « Make me money plz »
The model: « let me hack a bank »

[Ben @Bdotcee]

@gabriel1 🫡🫡🫡lead by example

[Ben @Bdotcee]

@nateparrott Fantastic! Lots of good updates here that I've been hoping for.

[Ben @Bdotcee]

@DavidSHolz I will be tuning in 🫡

[Ben @Bdotcee]

@claudiadalmaug @claudiadalmaug you liked but no response; does that mean nothing or?

[Ben @Bdotcee]

@claudiadalmaug What’s better about the “official approval” that wasn’t there in the previous version?

[kache @yacineMTB]

I stopped explaining that datacenters use water in a closed loop. I just nod, purse my lips and say "yeah its really bad". What's the point

[Ben @Bdotcee]

@alightinastorm Big things happening @threejs

[Ben @Bdotcee]

@JasonL_Capital SpaceX is super vertically integrated. Merlin/Raptor engines, Starlink, ground stations are all built in-house. The suppliers providing for these are smaller later than Boeing or Lockheed. Not sure it’ll lift the tier of l suppliers like how the Tesla IPO did for EV components.

[Ben @Bdotcee]

@boneGPT You get better, full length songs with premium as well 👌 2.5 minutes

[Ben @Bdotcee]

Agency I want a quote from has a booking like open 24hrs… if I book 5:30 am, odds they join the call?

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

It’s that day when I make you all look at this

[Ben @Bdotcee]

@HuinGuillaume Beyond sales or guest counts, what key performance indicators are you using to measure a campaigns impact - overall and on customer loyalty and brand perception? 🤔

[Ben @Bdotcee]

@ryanshrout Great job to the team for getting this done over the holiday weekend 🥂