Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity

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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe.Subscribe nowSelf-sustaining and self-replicating AI viruses are here:…Open weight LLMs + a well-designed harness = a persistent, self-sufficient virus…AI researchers have built a prototype computer virus which uses AI models to compromise computers, then uses their underlying GPU resources to run inference, letting it smartly figu...

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