Anthropic: Small AI models could soon be able to self-replicate on cheap IoT devices without data centers.
Researchers bought 15 cheap TV set-top boxes and ran a full model on them. In one test, the AI spread to all computers on the network on its own, without humans.
Such "reproduction" would be very slow (several days per copy), and it would be easy to spot on the network. But within just a few months, the models could grow to this level as well.
