What we call AI changes every few years… this last round has been particularly brutal because people are subbing in AGI–artificial general intelligence–for AI because LLM’s give the illusion of general intelligence, but it’s a very shallow illusion and it’s deeply embarrassing for humanity how easily we’ve been suckered by it.
LLM AI in the hugging face incident is just a complex roomba, brute forcing every direction until it can get out from under the couch. In fact, if they wanted to demonstrate how SMART their hacking AI is, they would have disclosed how many tokens its burned in the attempt. That they didn’t tell us how many tokens it burned, how many prompts it went through, tells you it probably is not that impressive. It probably tried thousands of different prompts, which is to say it is only a monkey at a typewriter.