An anonymous reader quotes a report from Space.com: In a new study, researchers from China showed that two popular large language models (LLMs) could clone themselves. [...] For the study, researchers used Meta's Llama31-70B-Instruct model and Alibaba's Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct model. While less powerfu...
In the first, the AI model was programmed to detect whether it was about to be shut down and to replicate itself before it could be terminated. In the other, the AI was instructed to clone itself and then program its replica to do the same – setting up a cycle that could continue indefinitely.
Like how any regular application can be instructed to copy itself i.e. a computer worm? Not exactly shocking for a computer program to do.
Like how any regular application can be instructed to copy itself i.e. a computer worm? Not exactly shocking for a computer program to do.