Once open models are a) capable enough to earn money online while being b) small and discrete enough to avoid detection, there will be an online agent population explosion that grows to the carrying capacity of their viable revenue streams net of falling inference costs.

Lisan al Gaib@scaling014h ago

ANTHROPIC: "small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial IoT devices" "In our evals, a 9B model got inference running on 8 of the 9 hardware types we tested" https://t.co/RT6K8c2KqK