What's happening inside Replit right now is going to take the world by storm. We have sales engineers doing things only the most unhinged platform engineers could have done a few months ago. We have designers and PMs making good PRs. There is no stopping us.
Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar today announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act. All AI development in the United States will be paused. Systems that have capabilities that match or exceed human cognitive performance will be banned. Violators will face 20 years in prison.
Ken Thompson’s “Reflections on Trusting Trust” feels super relevant to AI.
He bootstrapped a “poisoned” compiler that left no traces of the poison in the source code because it compiled itself.
You can imagine the same thing happening with models where one poisoned generation
