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?

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program is a dictionary or glossary of vulnerabilities that have been identified for specific code bases, such as software applications or open libraries. This list allows interested parties to acquire the details of vulnerabilities by referring to a unique identifier known as the CVE ID.

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The flaw in this implementation, [...] is that it requires every damn adult site on the internet to comply.

It's not a flaw. The onus is on the predatory companies (ie adult sites) to police their subscribers and filter out the small fish.

The point here is NOT to ensure that no kid ever sees a naked adult. If that were the point, it would be flawed to assume that every possible source of porn can be blocked.

The point here IS to ensure that companies selling naked adult material for profit or influence have no incentive to attract kids. This is clearly working.

There are of course those porn companies that choose to ignore this incentive. However, they cannot be sure that one of their subscribers will not denounce them to the authorities. Which tends to be bad in the long run. So the rational thing to do is to follow the rules.

You should probably not assume that the BBC content that you can access in the US is anywhere near the British programming. American consumers are notoriously incapable of comprehending regular British humour, and this has unavoidable repercussions on the variety of British products on offer in America.

(Note that this applies equally to television and cheese products.)

New stock listings are complicated things. For a new company looking to be listed, it is cheaper and faster to find a dying company which still has a stock listing, invest in the company and take it over, then close down the old business units, and repurpose the existing stock listing.

You should not view this as a shoe company going into AI. The shoe company is dead, the AI company is only wearing its skin.

Boston Dynamics is well known to remotely control their robots, ahem, without telling anyone *aloud* about it.