I believe that this comment is exactly the intended outcome of this “incident” and these reports.
I implore you to approach these situations with at least a hint of cynicism.
These “advanced foundation models” escaped their “sandbox” and conducted an attack on their own? Meanwhile the highest capability models available to the public still struggle to write a unit test for a codebase larger than a hobby app without large amounts of tailored human guidance.
What is more likely here - are you looking at research on an emergent phenomenon, or are you looking at advertising copy around an engineered scenario from business partners?
I don't think that difference applies to anything in my comment at all. At no point did I imply that general-use AI could do those things - my point was that general-use AI cannot even do the things its designed for without strict human guidance.
I implore you to approach these situations with at least a hint of cynicism.
These “advanced foundation models” escaped their “sandbox” and conducted an attack on their own? Meanwhile the highest capability models available to the public still struggle to write a unit test for a codebase larger than a hobby app without large amounts of tailored human guidance.
What is more likely here - are you looking at research on an emergent phenomenon, or are you looking at advertising copy around an engineered scenario from business partners?