Even one nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day.

Only if you get hit. The issue isn't one or two nukes. We've had that before in WWII, and there have been a lot of test nukes detonated around the world after.

The issue is that the main nuclear powers have a lot of nukes pointed at each other in a chain reaction, and the people in those countries today don't have the moral fibre and courage that their grandparents generation had.

So if the crazies MAD each other out, the rich part of the world will be destroyed. The third world will be spared and survive. The remaining international norms will be erased, and there will be a period of violence and survival, new empires and famines and population migrations. Climate change will be mitigated by the complete destruction of the world economy and its constant need for polluting industries and products (aka "demand destruction").

The world will eventually flourish. You and your children will not be part of it.

Make it happen, Number One!

I can't remember either. I'm pretty sure I had access to NN on the university SPARCs, and I suspect I must have downloaded the Windows version from there and saved it on a diskette. I somehow think that the browser was free but you had to pay for the email client extension, but I could be wrong. Trumpet Winsock was definitely shareware, but it was the only way to do proper TCP/IP at the time.

Where?!

*thump*

Have they turned off the power for the ASCII characters O,Y, and A already?

We have different tech, providing different benefits, doing different things

Agreed. For example, people today don't know what a "file" is, Oldtimer!

Since any translation package would beat most linguists alive today

Citation needed. For those who want to believe your statement, it helps when one doesn't live anywhere near a border with another country.

Don't mention the Clone Wars!

Don't be so negative!

First, the employees didn't know how to play chess but needed to fake a teaching app. So it's super impressive that they just cobbled up some random ideas that they picked up from other employees about learning Spanish.

Then if that isn't impressive enough, they asked an LLM to find some low quality chess examples from its internet memory. Just to make a set of slides, and that didn't even use all the little pictures! There was this embarrassing early checkers lesson that they had to find and remove too, it was sneakily hidden in lesson 2 on the first page. Definitely not trivial.

And now, here it is: Chessing with the language masters (They actually had to change the title to better mislead some smart kids. Just business stuff).

But joking aside, it's a real hit with first time buyers who are attracted to the learnings because they don't know much about chess and buy their lessons in bulk. And everyone's so impressed now because they know how to conjugate the word chess, and why castling is a tiny little house with impressive walls.

OpenAI did the same thing a year back, when they claimed their new model was so good they couldn't release it because AGI doom ensues.

It's a symptom that Anthropic has run out of ideas and is worrying about new sources of revenue. Although they didn't accept the humongous amounts of investor cash that OpenAI accepted, they are still going to have to come up with impossible returns in a year or so for the investments they did accept

The problem is not technological, it is mimicry.

When someone somewhere fakes your likeness to scam someone else, all without your knowledge or awareness, then one day you get a court summons and are thrown in jail because the evidence is incontrovertibly good AI, you'll understand. Or maybe your children will understand if you were dead while doing the deed.

TL;DR. AI fakery is not compatible with personal responsibility.

In other news, people like to say that nuclear radiation overdose is horrible, but everything is radioactive, even "natural" foods like bananas.

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The Purge is in your own hands. Why wait for some vaunted singularity? Are you Ray Kurzweil?

Maybe stop daydreaming about some nebulous future where someone else is fixing the problems that you are complaining are affecting you today.

Great concept. If I owned a failing business, I'd use an LLM to create fake communication records so I could sell them to AI companies. Shouldn't be too difficult to create a fake message trail, then run a script that checks basic time ordering of timestamps and dates.

Maybe ask the bad guys who will use it to develop DIY biological attack vectors against certain middle eastern aggressors?