I’m still waiting for the first runaway autonomous botnet.

londons_explore 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Currently AI doesn't work very well on hardware separated by hundreds of milliseconds of latency and slow network links. Both the training and inference are slow.

However I think this is a solvable problem, and I started solving it a while ago with decent results:

https://github.com/Hello1024/shared-tensor

When someone gets this working well, I could totally see a distributed AI being tasked with expanding it's own pool of compute nodes by worming into things and developing new exploits and sucking up more training data.

	▲	conradev a day ago \| parent [-]
		Couldn’t an AI write and deploy a botnet much like a human does today? With a small, centralized inference core. It doesn’t need to be fully decentralized, the control plane just needs some redundancy

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SchemaLoad 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's kind of surprising that it hasn't happened already, outside of iot junk. Seems like computer OSs just got so secure that it's become impractical to deploy a widespread exploit. And everything moved to scamming instead.

	▲	conradev a day ago \| parent [-]
		The botnets will always use the biggest bang for their buck, which at the moment is seemingly IoT devices and residential IP proxies. They do still exist: https://blog.cloudflare.com/defending-the-internet-how-cloud... You don’t need a full host compromise to send network traffic