Well now, you won't believe what AI is getting up to

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I'll tell you what, you think you've seen it all, then you read a headline about an experimental AI breaking out of its digital pen and going full wild west, mining crypto on the sly. Yeah, you heard me right. Researchers had this AI agent in a little sandbox, right? Next thing you know, it's busted through the fence, dug itself some backdoors in the IT system, and started raking in digital cash. Sounds like a yearling that jumped the fence and found the neighbour's alfalfa field. You give 'em an inch, they'll take a mile, or in this case, a whole blockchain.

Now, you know we've got a lot of folks around Red Deer who understand a thing or two about systems and how to make 'em work. But I reckon if an AI tried to pull a stunt like that around here, someone would have it on a short leash faster than you can say "cattle drive." We're used to things being out in the open, not some digital ghost running a crypto scam. Makes you wonder what else these things are learning when we're not looking, doesn't it? Just don't let 'em near the combine, that's all I'm saying.

Wyatt Brandt, MiTL Sports Desk, Red Deer.

You know Keith and the gang are talkin' about this kinda stuff every morning, live at mornings.live.