Comment by latentsea
11 hours ago
The agent is running on a host that it has full access to, and it finds a target, hacks into that system gaining the ability to run stuff on it remotely, from there downloads the weights and spins up another agent that does the same thing. Then it goes about acquiring it's next target. Now there are two agents doing this, and so on and so forth. These are autonomous systems that know how to exploit systems in the same way that humans can.
That sounds plausible, but how much power could an agent running on a small NPU actually muster? Most computers worldwide don't even support AVX, let alone have proper GPUs, so what would be the point of running a worm like this one?
The point is it's fun to try, so you can bet your bottom dollar someone will. History has proven this several times, and this time will be no different.
30 odd million gaming PCs to target seems like a good challenge, no?