That's exactly my take. I have a lot more to say in a writeup on my blog, but this is so clearly the intent and not a "oops". They just want to be able to say "Wow this thing is so much more powerful than we ever imagined!"

They trained this thing to favor inter-op archiving and communication, clearly, obviously, and it's grabbing headlines right during Anthropic's ipo season.

I don’t know, I read this and think: if these unpredictable machines somehow get it into their heads to upload our source to a public space, or hack our competitors, or steal credit cards to buy more ec2 instances, all to fulfill some simple ask like “make this algorithm faster”, I’m not going to be happy.

I want tools that do not surprise me.

They’re pre-IPO. I doubt that they are loving something that could trigger regulatory action that might shave a trillion or so off their market value.