alt Hacker NewsIf you read comments about the paper it's pretty obvious people are misled. People think that the method read in Qwen weights directly to improve it. That's not what it did --- it authored a program to analyse and fix the weights.
What's confusing is they do have experiments that read raw weights, and the abstract is misleadingly written to make it sound like that's how the Qwen experiment works.
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I wouldn't say misled, I would just say they made up their mind about what it means regardless of what the article said. Maybe the title is misleading, but the original article is pretty fair.
> it authored a program to analyse and fix the weights.
This is a difference without much distinction, at least to me. It's like being upset when someone says that Claude made a http call -- of course the LLM didn't make the call itself, it used a tool to do it.
but AI "authors programs" for everything ? Editing or looking at file usually ends up as a bunch of sed scripts running in shell rather than AI agent opening file directly, and that's pretty much the case for every operation