1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Jeff stops Craig mid-explanation and asks him to dumb it down. If AI is a large language model — if all it does is pick the most likely next word — how does that thing get into a company's computers? Is it just guessing the next digit of a password? Craig's answer is the clearest explanation he has given on air. It started as a language model, literally which word tends to follow which, good enough to produce something that reads as human. What it became is an associative machine, and association isn't limited to words. The same pattern-matching that strings a sentence together recognizes a Russian tank, or a soldier's uniform, or a route into a network. Given &quot;solve this,&quot; it associates the problem with solutions it has seen before — then goes to the dark web for usernames and passwords already exposed in previous breaches, and walks in the front door. The part worth keeping is what sits in the middle. Programmers wrote the code that learns, and programmers wrote the orchestrator that checks the output. Between those two ends is a space nobody can account for. You can scan a brain and say this region handles sight, this one handles that emotion — and still not know how it reached a decision. Same problem here. Craig's conclusion: if you're using AI, you are the babysitter, because it is non-deterministic and there is randomness built in on purpose. Also in this segment: Anthropic responding to OpenAI's escape story with one of its own — three companies, back in April Ukraine's AI-guided strike drone and the second drone sent afterward to see what it had done Why the U.S. keeps a person in the loop on any target, and where machine learning is genuinely used Jeff's scenario: an operator running a drone on one screen and an AI coding assistant on another. Craig walks through why it's possible and why it isn't likely. The experts now saying human-level machine intelligence never arrives — and why Craig thinks that doesn't settle anything, given what these systems already do Free newsletter: CraigPeterson.com Craig Peterson - Secure Your Business, Your Privacy, and Save Your Sanity https://cptt.libsyn.com/podcast <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/42602225/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/item/42602225