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Cal Newport

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Like they showed all these exploits they found.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

They didn't count on a lot of security researchers said, well, wait a second.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Why don't I get like a much smaller, cheaper model aiming at that same source code and say, can you find any vulnerabilities?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

they could find the same ones.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

So the evidence that it's finding vulnerabilities better, we don't have any way of knowing that's true.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And if anything, we actually are getting a lot of reports that they were paying big bounties for security researchers.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I'm going to give you access to mythos.

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I'm going to pay you

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for any bugs you can report that you found with it.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

So they had security researchers, just who knows how many false positives were coming out of that.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And then on the exploitation side, we only really have one study.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It comes from AISI, who I do not trust, but it's the only independent study.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

The fact that they gave them access itself should make us maybe a little bit suspect, but it basically just showed like normal progression, no massive leap.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Model by model gets a little bit better on some of these tests and benchmarks, and Mythos has no out-of-scale leap.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It's just like on some, it's about the same.

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On some, it's a little bit better.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And yet it got covered as if we had just turned on Whopper from the movie War Games.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Like we had just some new entity that was like on its own undermining security.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And I do not think that โ€“ I think that was highly credulous coverage of what almost certainly is just like a standard slight jagged move forward on these various capabilities that we've been seeing for the last three years.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

That is the number of people who take the stairs when there is also an escalator available.