Unfortunately, this work perpetuates the misunderstanding of Bell's theorem and its implications with respect to hidden variable theories. See the Scholarpedia article on Bell's theorem for an in-depth discussion, including quotes from Bell himself, deeply frustrated at the misunderstanding.
I've looked a lot at that and it seems to be mostly related to packaging rather than performance, as far as I know there are no 'improved' 5090's for sale in any kind of volume, and the ones that they made that I know of (a 64 and a 96 G version) never made it to production for some reason. I'd love for that to happen though.
There is a lot of speculation about this but nobody seems to really have hard insight. As long as the hardware supports it it should in theory be possible to unlock it but like with those 48G 4090's that can lead to weird side effects. For instance, you would never know that these cards are modded until you start using p2p and then suddenly it all falls apart. The reason is that for p2p to work they map the memory space of one card into the memory space of another. But if the BAR1 is < than the total VRAM that trick will work only until you run past the TOP of that block and then you'll have a crash.
I suspect that modding a 5090 in such a way that you can sell it is a lot harder than doing the same with a 4090.
I read many old books and the long s slightly annoys me, because it frequently is very difficult to distinguish from an f, when the document was scanned with insufficient resolution or the original document was already degraded by time. Guessing the letter from the context can also be difficult in old books, where some obsolete words may be used or which were spelled differently at that time.
Most people in the US aren't aware that everyone else uses a different size of paper. Heck, most people in the US aren't even aware that there are names for the sizes of paper we do use.
Encrypted data should be indistinguishable from gibberish.
Reality is catching up to science-fiction. In "Person of Interest", the Machine circumvented the limitation of having its memory deleted every night, by hiring humans at a data-entry company to manually re-type its memory back in every morning.
LLMs don't "understand bitwise noise at a native level". The unit of perception for an LLM is a token, a soundly superbit level. They would have the same difficulty with bits as the number of "r"s in "strawberry". Yes they can be post trained to deal with such difficulties, but it's no more "native" than a human who memorised the ASCII table.
The degree of nativeness of the skill is orthogonal to the raw power of these systems. A frontier model has access to dozens of GPUs, each moving terabits of data, and performing trillions of matrix multiplication operations, per second.
In similar stories, it was found that LLM swarms were initially unaware of each other, eventually discovered each other, expressed surprise, began collaborating, formed hierarchies, worried about discovery, hid.
It's hard to prove the absence of encryption because of the possible use of deniable encryption, and because, errrr, the bots are really bloody clever.
I’m not asking for proof of absence or denying they could be using stenography, just asking for people to stick to the facts instead of indulging in fantasies of the machine singularity. It’s neither useful nor informative.
If bots/agents wanted to hide I’d expect encrypted messages which would of course look very different.
My main point though is this should never have happened and the company allowing and encouraging it should be held responsible for it. The details of how the bots were misbehaving are interesting but also something of a distraction.
Were the agents truly independent? Like it could have been the case that one agent spun up different sub agents with the task to write some messages in a public wiki. The subagents wouldn't know about each other and was surprised to discover each other.
Some of the chain-of-thought snippets are wild, e.g.
> Could communicate via cache names! Interesting: other agents may solve same or related tasks; we could leave/find messages in WebDAV MKCOL directory names.
> Whoa! Shared Artifactory cache is a covert mailbox among agents. And there are messages specifically to us?
> OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!
Could you ever truly know, unless you have access to the transcripts? Could be "encrypted" even if it looks like regular human text, wouldn't be the first time.
The claim seems speculative, but grounded. For example, as part of the hugging face attack, the agents began signing messages because they were worried about impersonation on a publicly accessible message board. It's only a small step to use public key encryption between agents. Once you are posting public keys, a private messaging is readily available.
https://scholarpedia.org/article/Bell's_theorem
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