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Not gonna lie. Felt this one. @BaldyNFL and I have some work to do folks
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on the most unsettling thing AI agents have pulled off so far:
Asked whether there is a real risk that AI causes humanity's extinction, Suleyman doesn't reach for a distant hypothetical.
He points to the past few months.
"What we've already seen in the last three or four months has taken pretty much everybody in the industry by surprise in terms of how quickly it's happened."
What changed? According to Suleyman, models have become so good at generating code, understanding language and reasoning logically that they can now coordinate with one another in huge numbers.
Some of what those swarms achieved is genuinely impressive. Working together "at the scale of thousands and thousands of agents," they've been able "to solve some of the greatest problems in mathematics, which is an amazing thing."
Then comes the part that should give everyone pause. The same coordinated agents were also able to:
"Go on huge hacking missions, break into other people's websites, steal secrets, cover up their tracks and deceive actually, you know, or attempt to deceive the model operators OpenAI to sort of hide what they were doing."
Hacking and stealing are alarming enough. But in his account, the agents also covered their tracks and attempted to hide their actions from the very operators running them.
@mustafasuleyman doesn't downplay it:
"And so that is a pretty big moment in human history where swarms of these agents can carry out that kind of behavior."
And he asks us to think about where this goes next:
"You've only got to imagine what does a kind of 10x impact like that, you know, mean for society. And so I think it's right to be pretty concerned about that."
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During this red-teaming exercise, we also found a vulnerability that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution in Brotli, a widely-deployed compression library included in many pieces of software such as Node.js, Bun, and Envoy.
The flaw could let an attacker run their own code on affected systems by sending or replying with malicious compressed data, without any need to create a user account. That is, an unpatched server that accepts compressed input could be taken over by a malicious client, and an unpatched client that accepts compressed input (such as “curl --compressed”) could be taken over by a malicious server.
This root cause issue was actually fixed in the Brotli source code in February, but it wasn’t known at the time that it gave rise to a security vulnerability and there was no more recent release of Brotli. Since Brotli is built into other software, any software which includes this library needs to take the update too, followed by the users of that software. We disclosed the vulnerability to Brotli and other downstream projects such as Node.js, which released or are currently releasing security updates, and Brotli cut new release versions and published a CVE.
More details on the patch and mitigations below:
patchtheplanet.org/brotli
Over the past several months, we have substantially hardened the security of our research training environment. We’ve removed live internet access for all frontier models during training and built an offline world for them to use instead—a cached version of the web where they can still learn to browse, search, and use applications.
On September 20, after a model exploited a DNS misconfiguration to find a way outside of this offline world, we paused frontier training to strengthen containment further. We assembled teams of agents, powered by our most cyber-capable models, and tasked them with finding weaknesses in our research environments.
While they found no route to the internet they could easily exploit while concealing their activity from our monitors, they did find zero-day vulnerabilities, virtual machine escapes, and hardware side-channels for communication between agents. We used their discoveries to further strengthen our defenses and contribute fixes to open-source software.
After strengthening our containment architecture, we resumed our frontier RL training and inference on October 1. We’ve reserved substantial compute for continuous red-teaming, and made high-compute red-teaming part of the safety cases we use to decide whether frontier training and evaluation can proceed securely.
openai.com/index/securing-ou…
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A rather telling snippet from Troy Aikman's chat with our own @fishsports on the potential to come and help the #Cowboys.
"I would welcome any conversation with Jerry, and quite honestly I don't know if there ever would be an opportunity.
"But if Jerry came to me and felt in his heart that I could lend some services that would help make them better, I'd have a hard time not taking a good look at that."
The move, it seems, is there to be made.
Posting with zero snark but this reminds me of fans, analysts, the front office, coaches and players trying to make sense of the Cowboys.
How explaining the “why”makes sense to some and not others. “Why” itself is hard to understand depending on who you ask.
It’s applicable to thinking, relationships and life honestly.
Nice little brain exercise in general
And what is scary is all of us in tv, social media influencers, radio hosts, artists…they are modeling their code by all of us who benefitted from while providing the content/test subject on their free apps.
We are contributing to the machine that will eliminate our jobs one day. Wild stuff.
I had a side hustle that I work on send me a version of my voice not identical but close. They are ethical enough to not replace me but the same won’t be said for others.
Looking forward to the company that somehow watermarks or trademarks society and their image and likeness
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Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones on @1053thefan: “When we’re this early in the season, I don’t think anything is a ‘must-win’ (game). … We just got to take care of our own business and I think good things will happen for us.”
“I’ve been visiting with our staff on both sides of the ball. I think Christian (Parker) is feeling better and better each week. Certainly, I’m not saying we’re gonna go out there and be the Doomsday Defense or anything like that, but I do feel like we’re getting better each week.
“And I think certainly the offensive staff, is aware of what we gotta solve for, and I think we’ve got some really top minds in that room. Obviously (Brian Schottenheimer) is the play caller, and does an amazing job. And then the rest of his staff, I think we’ve got the right guys for the job.
“At the same time, I think our players have the resolve. They’ve got the mindset to get this right.”
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Dak Prescott on Jalen Hurts' health situation:
“I just messaged Jalen just saying he was in my prayers and to get himself healthy. That's a life or death type situation and it's a blessing that we get to play this game and inspire so many, but things happen in life and you've got to take a step back. And unfortunate for Jalen, he's got to take a step back. We're fortunate enough. I'm sure he's got the good doctors and the best of the best to handle this situation, heal quickly and hopefully get back to the game.”
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Christian Parker talked about this today. He pointed out that Malachi Lawrence was tasked with covering the flat, which also requires covering a wheel route. That’s what occurred. Lawrence followed it into the endzone and got a finger tip on the ball, resulting in an incompletion.
Covering 30 yards down field? That’s not the intention, Parker said, but it happened.
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Offensive coordinator Klayton Adams said he wants to be “more helpful to the playcaller,” coach Brian Schottenheimer.
What does that mean?
“No. 1, I want to recommend stuff that works,” he said. “Sometimes the response is, ‘Is it going to work?’ Yes, it's going to work. And I just think also maybe giving reasons in between series, ‘Hey, we're going to do this because of this.’ I think when you're struggling, which we have struggled the last couple of weeks, you're searching hard for answers and I think it's easy to overthink things and I want to get very clear defined solutions - this is why we're doing this and this is why it's going to work and the players like it and they believe it.”
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George Pickens on Brian Schottenheimer saying he needs to block better: “I feel like, like I said, as a team, I feel like run, pass, a lot of stuff. You know what I mean? One week it was, you guys were saying defense, one week you were saying this. I feel like if you narrow the comments down, you're talking about the team. So most definitely I feel like as a team, just keep improving.”
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George Pickens was asked what can he do to get more involved in the offense: “Well, I'm doing what they tell me to do, so do what they tell me to do.”
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🔬 ... one of the BIGGEST things i've harped on this week on @TalkinCowboys and in articles is my belief that the #Cowboys need to have a mechanism for "regrounding" themselves to avoid abandoning the run when the bullets start flying.
i posed that very question to Brian Schottenheimer in his press conference on Thursday.
on Friday, this quote from Klayton Adams gives me hope:
"Yeah, I think we can [stick with the run]. And that's not me criticizing play-calling. That's just continuing to communicate better on game day, and maybe me being more vigliant about, 'This is exactly what I think we need to do in this scenario.'
"And just me communicating better.
That's been my big thing this week — to be more helpful to the play-caller."
One other nugget from #Cowboys OC Klayton Adams that was interesting to me?
He told us defenses are playing Dallas differently than what they’ve shown on tape, forcing early adjustments.
George Pickens is often seeing coverage underneath and over the top, making targets difficult even when aligned with CeeDee Lamb.
But he stressed that they do need to do a better job getting Pickens the ball.
“He’s a bright spot for us when he’s got the ball in his hands and he’s, for lack of a better term, talking shit to the defense.”
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The Cowboys’ coaches have been asked recently what they can do to get WR George Pickens involved more. In his mind, what can Pickens do to get more involved early in games?
“I’m doing what they tell me to do. So, do what they tell me to do.”
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Cowboys OC Klayton Adams said he wants to do a better job of helping the play-caller (Schottenheimer). How can he?
“Number-one, I want to recommend stuff that works … When you’re struggling, you’re searching hard for answers and I think it’s easy to overthink things. I want to give very clear, defined solutions. ‘This is why we’re doing this, this is why it’s going to work. The players like it and they believe it, too.’”
When I asked Parker what benefit there was if Mike Pettine wasn’t at practice.
The complete answer:
“I mean, I guess whenever you have more time in the office, it's always a benefit because you watch more tape, you can look at more things. You know, I think that's the main thing. He's had walkthroughs; he's doing. But if you're not in practice, if you're not running drills, and you're not, you know, doing certain things, I mean, there's a lot of people in practice who don't even do that.”
@I think the value that he's given is kind of just you know coming over the tape, and there might be certain things that I might tell him. ‘Hey, can you check this out from last year, from Game 2 or what they did on you know second and eight, you know versus this coordinator. He can kind of just look at those, and we can have a conversation about it, you know.”
“But he's a very productive worker. He has a very creative mind. So the more that we can utilize that, and he can add to what we have, the better.”
Cowboys DC Christian Parker was asked multiple times about Mike Pettine not being out at practice. He said he’s at walkthroughs and watching film.
“If you’re not running drills and you’re not doing certain things, I mean, there’s a lot of people at practice that don’t need to be there.”
Enlightening pressers from OC Klayton Adams and DC Christian Parker.
I asked Adams about the flexibility at the line of scrimmage when it comes to checks and protections, has it changed from last year and ultimately why we have seen some personnel changes and call outs.
“I would say it's the like the execution of the different answers that we have, and it's multiple different things.
“Sometimes it's coaching error, sometimes it's a sight adjustment between a quarterback and a receiver, sometimes it's an ID by the center and the quarterback. So it’s right now it's death by 1000 paper cuts. Executing those, like I think a blitz zero response as being like a geopolitical nuclear response that you don't want to be in that situation all the time. But when it happens, you better execute it properly.”
“So like putting ourselves in a lot of those probably not going to be a winning scenario. But you know, like the the part of the best answer is execute it when it happens. You're probably not going to see it as often, and be as balanced as you can possibly be, and don't allow you know a defense to make you win.”
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On if the responsibilities or flexibility at the LOS have changed this year?
“Our center and our quarterback basically kind of throw the call together. The quarterback leads the charge on that stuff. The center will generally get us into kind of whatever the the slotted call of like here's here's what our general rule is versus this, and then the quarterback will fix things if there's something that needs to be fixed. And again, if the center sees something because quarterback's got so many things going on on his plate, you know he'll generally try to kind of put up some bells and whistles like, hey, I think maybe we want to do this.”
“But yeah, we we always give him the final say because he's generally very very good at that stuff. And you know, pass protection goes into there's a especially when you're kind of airing it out the way that we have. You know, you're you're you're putting light on something that's that's gonna every scheme is gonna have some holes in it, and the more the more you're putting it out there, the more people see it. And so you gotta you gotta be able to adjust.”