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Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They are outputting a highly likely sequence of words that fit the type of output from their training data that matches the input.

They are fancy autocomplete.

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[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 12 points 4 months ago*

Oh, I know. My comment was more about how we tend to anthropomorphize this stuff and give these models traits they don't possess.

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[+] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social -10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They are fancy autocomplete.

... and what are you?

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 child)

A human with my own motivations and complex biological systems that including reasoning and the ability to think critically.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Most importantly, the ability to learn. We're all just a series of very complex chemical reactions, but we do a lot more than just listening and speaking.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social -3 points 4 months ago

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00752

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[–] DarthFreyr@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Based on the evidence, I think I'm a bit more of a simpleton who puts in a good effort at the start but loses steam partway through. I guess thanks for the support though.

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