Anthropic tests small models on unfamiliar connected devices
Anthropic published research on October 12 about models running on connected devices. The company says a nine-billion-parameter model set up inference on eight of nine hardware types. In a separate demonstration, Anthropic ran a model across 15 inexpensive Android TV boxes. The researchers expect small models to become capable of autonomous replication if their historical rate of improvement continues.
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Anthropic produced lab results and a forecast, not evidence of an outbreak. The company says smaller models still make mistakes when they try to complete every step. Tests that make the task easier for stronger models do not prove that an autonomous worm can spread in the wild. The June adaptive-worm paper is earlier research, not a new October outbreak.
Independent tests need to show whether small models can complete every step of replication reliably. Defenders also need to know how fast these systems can spread and what stops them. Running a model on a device completes only one step.
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