Before they started using AI the quality was barely good enough, and now, after AI it has gotten way worse. My entire family is using Duolingo, but we've started to talk about getting something else soon. It's also not a very effective learning platform, as you are usually stuck on just learning words (and often a bit odd ones at that).

Using AI might save them some money, but they need to do better than what any AI chatbot can do for you. Gamification will only get you so far, the platform needs to actual help learning a language.

Exactly. This is almost like asking "Why learn anything, there is already someone who knows it"

ffs

I get the point. My perspective is that you can't really ask Clause to "Hack the Mexican government" either. You need to first do intel, which clause can explain to you, but so can a quick google search. Then you need to look for vulnerabilities within the information you gathered during intel, of which there are countless tools that can help you, probably better than Claude... etc.etc..

The stupid thing in this article was the prompt which, for the layman, indicates that Claude can somehow impersonate an "Elite Hacker" and do all this. And that is not true. It can help lesser capable script kiddies, but so can google, and other tools.

Nothing a simple google search wouldn't provide anyway

This is just stupid.

If Claude can "act as an elite hacker" and "find vulnerabilities" then every tool on the planet would find the same vulnerabilities. The chatbot is not, in fact, an elite hacker, it's a word (token) generator, and it has no f..ing clue about how to find vulnerabilities. The steps it can generate (token for token) is the same you can find in any Hacking for Dummies or 1337 Hackzor script.
These headlines grow dumber and dumber as the AI companies are desperately trying to get everyone to use their products.

What is next? "I asked the chatbot to act like an billionaire stock broker and it made be billions"
ffs

WHY is the MongoDB ad impossible to get rid of?
FFS Slashdot, I get that you need money but don't force ads that takes up 10% of your screen with an X that doesn't even work.

Scalable, only pay for what you use, the cloud is awesome. As we have all experienced, it's cheap and flexible... doh.... /s

It's frustrating to see these headlines stating the obvious and completely disregarding how the technology actually works. Even here on Slashdot there was a user that insisted on "tHaT Is NoT hOW rEAsoNinG mODelS woRK!" as if there is some magi AI tech that is not known to the world. Transformers work in a specific way. It calculates the probably next or missing token. That is it. There is nothing else.

OF COURSE it can't generate random passwords

This smells like bs to me. No way experienced developers are letting AI generate bug fixes or entirely new features using Slack to talk to AI on the way to work.

The only question here is: What are they selling?

Increased stock value?
AI Coding tool that management has a stock option for?


The simple fact is that AI can generate code, but has absolutely no understanding of anything. It's a very useful tool, but not as what this bs article is trying to sell it as.

Losses like these are always pushed down to the consumer somehow.

While Netflix have had quite a few really good ones I'm reminded of a joke.

A priest, a rabbi, a lesbian woman, a trans man, an teen hacker girl, a black gay, a white overly racist guy and a black woman with a PhD walks into a bar.
Bartender: What? new a new Netflix series?

No, our understanding of transformers is not like our understanding of neurons.

Given your severe lack of communication skills and your self-delusion of being the only authority on this topic, I will discontinue this discussion. It's futile trying to discuss with someone who thinks name calling is the best way to establish their position of superior knowledge on a topic, while clearly being ignorant of anything outside their own opinion.

What do you mean we don't know how they work? We know perfectly well how they work. Transformers are well understood, it's not magic. Of course, we can't really cope with the amount of data it is trained on, so we can't specifically understand why it would rate one result token over another one, but the whole "It's magic, we don't understand it" is marketing bs meant for investors.

The core technology takes input tokens and then provides a list of the next probably token and their respective calculated probability (according to the training data).
That is it. It produces the same token every time (unless you add randomness to the input). It doesn’t learn, it doesn’t change. It’s completely static. Same input equals same output.

So no, it's not intelligent in any meaningful way. It's producing text without any understanding of what the text means. It’s an advanced autocomplete. That is why it can produce hilariously incorrect statements.

It’s an amazing technology/tool, don’t get me wrong. But I’m tired of all the “We don’t know how it works, it might be intelligent or it might suddenly evolve to be intelligent”.

I think there are two really important factors to this that has an impact on movies (IMHO):

1) When you pay to watch a movie in a cinema you (most of us at least) dedicate time for it. When you stream at home you are not that invested and it's easier to lose focus, and pick up the phone or start doing something else. This impact how streaming services make content

2) Movies that are made for streaming have a different purpose than movies that are made for cinema. Streaming services only need content, they do not need awesome and mind boggling movies (that can actually be a problem, because people don't necessarily pay that much attention to a streaming movie). I know Hollywood has been on a superhero and sequel run for a while, but honestly, the craft of making movies is still in the cinema sphere, rather than for streaming services. Of course, this could be different if streaming services started to embrace movies that are not made for "most likes". Also, everything does not need to be a series. Not every story is better if it's stretched over 10 hours.

I know nr 2 is up for discussion, with the endless sequels and universe-of movie series these days. But streaming services are often making movies for the lowest common denominator, bland, predictable stories, just enough to make you click it.

That being said, good movies will continue to be made, despite streaming services or Hollywood. Technology has made more available than ever before, and people who have a story to tell will be able to do it. There will be awesome movies in the future :)

They just renamed it. It's not an evolution of the product.
Probably to distinguish it even further from regular on-prem AD.