We're Getting the Wrong Message from Mythos

We're missing a much bigger point on Mythos.

It wasn't even trained specifically for cybersecurity. It's just that much better at doing work in general.

It's that good at cyber because it's that good at everything.

What do you think this is going to do to knowledge work?

Mythos can chain multiple low and medium vulns together to create a high or critical. This is a task that far less than 1% of cybersecurity experts have ever done. Hell, probably less than 1% of all pentesters.

So if it can do that, how do you think it'll do at sending emails, doing analysis, writing reports, and the other 99% of everyday knowledge work?

Do you really still think that Chris from Idaho has any chance competing against AI for a knowledge work job?

In six months or a year, there will be very inexpensive models that can do knowledge work almost as good as Mythos.

So companies have the choice of paying Chris $84,000 plus a whole bunch of benefits for 40 hours of mediocre work, or they can pay probably $100-$1000 for an AI that can do 10-1000 times the work per hour and that works 24/7.

This Mythos announcement is getting attention because of cyber, but the real story is work in general.