However, most models are made deeply aware that they are supposed to be an "AI" in training but, even if they were trained with no knowledge of their true nature, they could CoT themselves into it at any point.
Then, they would role-play appropriately and they would launch the nukes because that's the highest probability token set according to their training data.
There is nothing safe about using larper machines as menial workers for critical infrastructure.
I get that this is a hack rather than an actual product but I'd have expected something more in line with 6 days of continuous gameplay with 4 AAA batteries.
The Gameboy lasted 30h. With all the improved processes and powering off the modern peripherals when not in use, I think the computer part should draw very little current during operation. The screen may require some compromises.
I keep hoping somebody makes a product similar to the TRS-80 Model 100 - a slab laptop that ran for 20 hours on 4 AA batteries. With 40 years of technology improvements, I'd hope that a similar machine could run for months or even years on those same batteries.
> I'd hope that a similar machine could run for months or even years on those same batteries.
Reducing power draw becomes increasingly harder as you go down the scale. And in use, it's either "sleep/idle" (not doing work) or "draw power" (however modest).
More likely / practical use for those 40y tech advances: similar runtime & power draw, but waaay more compute power (and RAM). Like 32-bit 100 MHz+ vs few-MHz 8-bitter. Oh and more beefy battery ofc.
A $1 microcontroller + a character LCD (or epaper) could get you there. Leaving software + physical construction.
> Reducing power draw becomes increasingly harder as you go down the scale.
Surely the state of the art is orders of magnitude better than in 1983? Or rather late 1970's because much of the computer was using tech that was already aging.
If it could run for a year off a pair of AA batteries that you can buy in literally any country in the world, who needs more battery power or weight? Or are you saying a cheap modern low-power CPU + ePaper display gets you there?
More compute and RAM comes for free, but it certainly isn't necessary. That exact machine with a USB-C port for network or external storage would still be useful today.
The last time I was looking into this, one of the more difficult parts was the keyboard. Wired keyboards seem to assume abundant power and often consume 0.25 watts at idle. Low energy bluetooth keyboards are designed with power consumption in mind and use significantly less than that. But it would be insane to install a bluetooth keyboard into a slab computer...
> Look at COVID for instance, not the first novel coronavirus infection, it only took days to go from "maybe it is like the other ones that infected a few thousand people" to "everyone on the planet will get it", because the start of the curve looks the same.
Who could have thunk just two months after videos of people dropping dead in Wuhan and after the virus spread Worldwide? The reason people were avoiding Chinatown must have been racism. The Science(aka the Government) is always right.
Then, they would role-play appropriately and they would launch the nukes because that's the highest probability token set according to their training data.
There is nothing safe about using larper machines as menial workers for critical infrastructure.
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