Kal Patel retweeted
Please stop referring to your own models in the third person when talking about model bad behavior. Humans write the software; humans built the prompts; and they work for your company.
“Our” model is doing illegal things. “Our” model is risky. “We” now have liability.
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations.
Our post describes what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing. We encourage other AI developers to perform similar reviews.
We conducted this review together with @Irregular, one of our evaluation partners, and thank them for the joint investigation and their collaboration on this post. This type of collaboration is increasingly critical to safe, rigorous evaluation of models, and we look forward to continuing to work together on security.
anthropic.com/news/investiga…
Kal Patel retweeted
narrative violation: open source can be monetized
if Kimi is doing $300M ARR, 70%+ from API --the lesson for the US isn't to dismiss Chinese open models, but build better open model businesses here.
"It’s not what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that ain’t so."
(This quote is often attributed to Mark Twain. Researchers debate the source, but the sentiment is perfect so let's stick with the legend).
This quote perfectly defines the 'Success Dilemma.'
The dilemma is the tension between openness and protection. Openness requires curiosity and the admission that you don't know the answer. Protection offers safety and the defense of the legacy you have already built.
The more successful you become, the more terrifying openness feels. I witnessed this firsthand during my time at @BestBuy .
At the time, the leadership "knew for sure" that people bought music in stores, and they assumed they would continue to do so for the foreseeable future. To protect that legacy, they acquired Musicland, a 1,300-store chain of mall-based retailers including Sam Goody and Suncoast.
But if you walked out of the boardroom and into the stores, you saw a different reality. The frontline staff, mostly 18 to 30 years old, weren't talking about mall footfall. They were burning CDs, downloading MP3 files and using @napster .
The future of music wasn't in the mall. It was on a hard drive.
But even that was just the beginning. The landscape kept shifting. From the disruption of Napster (which, ironically, Best Buy eventually bought and sold trying to catch up) to the global dominance of Spotify, and now to the immersive live experiences.
The journey is dynamic. You can never stop and say "we have arrived." You have to stay open because the future is always being shaped by the next discontinuity, as we are all facing with hashtag#ai.
Tom Kelley articulates this breakdown perfectly.
As a partner at @ideo , the author of Creative Confidence, and a global evangelist for design thinking, Tom uses this specific story in a case study for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) to highlight the danger of the dilemma.
Stanford Technology Ventures Program (@ECorner): Best Buy's Failure to See Napster.
Best Buy leadership didn't miss the shift because they lacked data. They missed it because they chose protection over openness. They also missed it because they built a big wall between the corporate headquarters where strategy gets 'created' and the stores where consumers buy products from employees.
stvp.stanford.edu/videos/cas…
Kal Patel retweeted
Riding in a @Waymo autonomous vehicle is an amazing futuristic experience, straight out of science fiction. So excited to see the service coming to my hometown in London 🇬🇧! Can't wait for Londoners to try them out soon!
Kal Patel retweeted
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Kal Patel retweeted
The only place you can meet your lifelong idol is at the 30th birthday party of @SquawkCNBC !!!!
