Sridhar Vembu On Fable: Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu, in his latest social media post, has taken on AI company Anthropic’s new tool Fable. He wanted to talk about the excessive security being maintained with AI tools, due to which many times the tools lose their usefulness. Users also reacted to this.
Sridhar Vembu’s post and its meaning
The knife they sold us does not even cut vegetables because it can be used to kill someone. -Sridhar Vembu
- Sridhar Vembu used phrases like knife, vegetables and taking life in his post. The clear meaning of his post is to make something so safe that its original purpose is lost.
- In the comment, Sridhar Vembu has talked about Fable, which is a new AI tool from AI company Anthropic.
- The Fable AI tool is a secure version of Anthropic’s secret tool ‘Mythos’.
- Mythos has been kept safe from the world. Its access has been given only to selected institutions of the government.
- There is a fear that if Mythos falls into the wrong hands, cyber attacks can be carried out with its help.
- Recently Anthropic has launched a safe version of Mythos ‘Fable’ for the general public, which is subscription based.
Why did Sridhar Vembu satirize
There may be some practical reasons for Sridhar Vembu’s satire. Actually, Anthropic is trying to promote its new AI tool by calling it a safe version of Mythos. However, it does not answer sensitive questions and transfers such questions to a version of the cloud. Nowadays, AI companies have started installing so many safeguards in their tools that sometimes AI tools avoid answering even simple and innocent questions.
What did people say on Sridhar Vembu’s post?
People have also expressed their views on Sridhar Vembu’s post. A user named Jagan wrote – Anthropic talks a lot about the safety of AI and the well-being of humanity, yet it is the only major ‘Frontier AI Lab’ that has no open-source ecosystem and is completely closed-source. A user named Batman wrote – If safety rules become more strict, they can destroy the importance of a product. However, a user named Praveen Kumar wrote that are you supporting AI or against it? Whatever your stand, come out openly without any fear.
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