Is compression equivalent to general intelligence? DeepMind digs up more potential clues.

While LLMs have been used for… a lot, it seems like this use might be one where it’s not only reliable but it appears to outperform existing methods of image compression. Being able to cram more data into less space tends to lead to interesting developments, so I will be keeping my eye on this.

What do you guys think? Seem like it’s deserving of less hype than I’m giving it? What kind of security holes do you think this could open?

  •  abhibeckert   ( @abhibeckert@beehaw.org ) 
    1•9 months ago

    If someone wants to know what music I listen to… they could just ask. Or point a directional microphone at the window from a distance (technology that has existed for almost a century now, and modern systems can likely work from miles away).

    Either would be a lot easier than exploiting a zero day side channel attack which would surely be detected and closed.

    Also, it can take years for a music track to go from an idea in the artist’s head to being available for download by a consumer. If it takes a week to compress the file… that’s no biggie at all. Only the decompression side needs to be power efficient.