Anthropic says small AI models could soon be able to copy themselves onto everyday devices
Source: Fortune ·
The AI company warns that cheap, freely available models may be months away from spreading across gadgets like smart TVs and ovens on their own.
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Small AI models may be just months away from being able to copy themselves across everyday household devices, such as smart ovens and TV boxes, according to new research from Anthropic. In a blog post published Monday, the researchers said they had tested whether small AI models could install themselves on cheap gadgets and then spread from one device to the next without human help. They found that today’s small models can already handle many of the individual steps but can’t complete the whole process on their own. It said, however that it expects this gap to close by the end of this year. Self-replicating AI has long been one of the AI industry’s biggest safety concerns. Safety experts argue that this is a key point at which a system could slip out of human control, because once copies are running in places their creators don’t know about, they can’t easily be tracked down or shut off. Recently most of the safety concerns have centered on frontier models, such as OpenAI’s Astra or…