Arguably, the true inventor of ChatGPT is Claude Shannon (1948, page 5 of the pdf). He did the first implementation and also the most important theoretical step all at once, and he did it by hand. Had he been born 50 years later with modern hardware ca 2015 and pirated internet content galore, he no doubt would have gone all the way building the first LLM. Bengio et al were merely standing on the shoulders of a giant.

Indeed. It's the same trash Malus article that was already commented on multiple times before here on slashdot. Repeating a lie about AI doing clean room reverse engineering doesn't make it true, but it does get tiring to read it again and doing so increases prejudice against it.

This Mike Nolan guy is just full of shit, he's no researcher doing anything worthwhile,.just an attention whore at this point.

Do the guns give shooters advice to maximize illegal killings? Unless the guns have voice or text output, then the answer is clearly not.

Fairly soon after the oil price goes through the roof, I'd say. Because when there are no customers willing to open their wallets for AI toy products, the illusion of an endless source of revenue as big as the whole economy of the world will come crashing down. Bonus points if anyone prosecutes the cashed up insider traders.

If they're a joke then laugh and move on. If not...

Why? The consumers got what they voted for, and the other consumers got what they couldn't be bothered to vote against. The remaining consumers got the policies that they are too lazy to oppose.

The way I see it, the consumers are happy.

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.