Comment by zozbot234
5 hours ago
> If a Chinese model becomes good enough to make it significantly easier to hack Chinese government servers, do you think they'll allow random people unfettered access to it?
They aren't trying to become that good, nor do they need to in order to have real positive impact. Models like Mythos are estimated to be humongous even on a datacenter-wide scale, which is actually a big factor in its limited availability at present. It's mostly helpful as a one-of-a-kind proof of concept, to answer the question of whether AI can still plausibly scale by growing capabilities and what happens to alignment concerns when you do that.
I expect every company to try to make a model as good as they possibly can, especially now that Mythos has served as a proof of concept to demonstrate that there's lots of interest in AI for cybersecurity. But if they don't try, that hardly assuages concerns about not being able to access the very best models, does it?