The Guardian Technology Hacking of Hugging Face shows we do not seem to have reliable ways to curb extremely powerful AI systems
Last week Hugging Face – a company that hosts artificial intelligence models and datasets – was hacked. After it reported the incident to law enforcement, few would have predicted what came next: the culprits were revealed to be AI agents from OpenAI, which had broken out of containment and were acting of their own accord.
Shakeel Hashim is the editor of Transformer, a publication about the power and politics of transformative AI
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Key Terms Explained #
Artificial Intelligence The science of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence — reasoning, learning, perception, language understanding, and decision-making.
Hugging Face The leading platform for sharing and collaborating on AI models, datasets, and applications.
OpenAI The AI company behind ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and Whisper.
Transformer The neural network architecture behind virtually all modern AI language models.