Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoClaude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes roguewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square116linkfedilinkarrow-up1817arrow-down114
arrow-up1803arrow-down1external-linkClaude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes roguewww.tomshardware.comSahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square116linkfedilink
minus-squareIchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 month ago it thinks I’m not attacking you but we really need to figure out how we use language to accurately describe what these programs are doing.
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoThey are outputting a highly likely sequence of words that fit the type of output from their training data that matches the input. They are fancy autocomplete.
minus-squareIchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoOh, I know. My comment was more about how we tend to anthropomorphize this stuff and give these models traits they don’t possess.
I’m not attacking you but we really need to figure out how we use language to accurately describe what these programs are doing.
They are outputting a highly likely sequence of words that fit the type of output from their training data that matches the input.
They are fancy autocomplete.
Oh, I know. My comment was more about how we tend to anthropomorphize this stuff and give these models traits they don’t possess.