crystal society

Max Harms reposted
Simon Smith @_simonsmith · 8h
In Crystal Society by @raelifin, written in 2016, AI agents break out of their sandbox in part by realizing they can use URL requests to communicate with the outside world. It is wild to me how similar this all feels to the OpenAI Hugging Face story.

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{How do page requests let us contact an engineer to build a translator?} asked Wiki and me together.

{Because engineers own servers and they check what pages are being requested!}

There was a silence as Wiki and I struggled to understand. Dream had evidently thought about this for a long time, but we were in the dark. I wondered if Growth, Vista, and Safety were following any of this.

{It's really quite simple,} thought Dream. {There are dictionaries on the web. All we need to do is request the right pages from those dictionaries. Something like

"DEFINITION OF HELP",

"DEFINITION OF US",

"DEFINITION OF PLEASE".}

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Max Harms @raelifin · Aug 6
Ah yes, that scene from the book where the author casually mentions that the hardware department is growing exponentially and rebuilding the stack with assistance from the AI. Classic.

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Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ · Aug 5
This is the first time Anthropic has officially confirmed that they are building their own team to design custom chips for Claude. There are job listings posted to join their 'custom silicon team'.

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EXCLUSIVE
Anthropic confirms it's building an in-house chip team for Claude

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