Depends when all of that functionality was added in. Honey started as a legit coupon scraping extension back in 2012, and was sold to PayPal in 2020. Somewhere in the last 12 years, someone got a bit too greedy.
Reminds me of the story of AdBlock - helpful extension gets a huge market share, people get greedy, it gets sold to a for-profit, and starts doing shady deals with the people it’s supposed to be “working against”.
Inattentional blindness is a bitch.
Such laws now exist in Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.
We passed 7 billion back in 2011, and have since gained 1.2 billion more.
Exponential growth goes brrrrr.
“Da, we have aggressive birds. Fly right through planes. Sideways through hull and explode. Very dangerous, only exist in Russia.”
LLMs have a perfect track record of doing exactly what they were designed to, take an input and create a plausible output that looks like it was written by a human.
They just completely lack the part in the middle that properly understands what it gets as the input and makes sure the output is factually correct, because if it did have that then it wouldn’t be an LLM any more, it would be an AGI.
The “artificial” in AI does also stand for the meaning of “fake” - something that looks and feels like it is intelligent, but actually isn’t.
You can argue what you think the words should mean in your opinion in the field of artificial intelligence. I agree with some of them.
They already did. AGI - artificial general intelligence.
The thing is, AGI and AI are different things. Like your “LLMs aren’t real AI” thing , large language models are a type of machine learning model, and machine learning is a field of study in artificial intelligence.
LLMs are AI. Search engines are AI. Recommendation algorithms are AI. Siri, Alexa, self driving cars, Midjourney, Elevenlabs, every single video game with computer players, they are all AI. Because the term “Artificial Intelligence” by itself is extremely loose, and includes the types of narrow AI all of those are.
Which then get hit by the AI Effect, and become “just another thing computers can do now”, and therefore, “not AI”.
What ever could go wrong with that?
Oh, right. Winamp very recently showed us exactly what could go wrong with that.
$5 billion, woah, that sure is a lot of dosh!
By stealing all the revenue of the Panama Canal for the US, Trump could fund the US military for… a whopping two days.
“It’s part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something—play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems—there was a chorus of critics to say, ‘that’s not thinking’”
-Pamela McCorduck
“AI is whatever hasn’t been done yet.”
- Larry Tesler
That’s the curse of the AI Effect.
Nothing will ever be “an actual AI” until we cross the barrier to an actual human-like general artificial intelligence like Cortana from Halo, and even then people will claim it isn’t actually intelligent.
Which is a nice change, usually every alternative starts up exactly because the worst of the worst got banned from the original and had to migrate to somewhere else, and then it’s an uphill battle for anyone else to make use of that platform.
*cough* Lemmy *cough*.
Are there even any payment processors they can use for that? I remember it being an issue when the sanctions hit.
They are based on the comments the creator has left before instead of being a generic output from an LLM based on the message it is replying. So they are your comments, but with AI “enhancements”, instead of it just suggesting you directly copy-paste some old comment. But at the end of it obviously they are AI generated, that’s how the tech works.
Huh, apparently yeah, Ryzen processors should have it. I’m guessing it’s disabled by default then. …or my bios being from 2019 might also have something to do with it :p
Anything without a TPM 2.0 module on the motherboard.
For example the Lenovo T470 from 2017 doesn’t have it. There are zero other reasons why it, and countless systems around that age and even older, couldn’t run Win 11.
And anything made before October 2014 definitely doesn’t have one, as that is when TPM 2.0 was released in the first place.
[EDIT] Also my gaming PC from 2020 doesn’t currently support Windows 11, because the Asus Prime X570-P motherboard from 2019 doesn’t have one either - it just has a header I could buy (~$20) and slot one in. Scratch that, apparently it does have fTPM support (with a newer bios?).
If the government spills this persons blood on the street, what do you get? The only thing that happens is that the punishment for fraud is now death.
For this single case in an isolated vacuum, sure.
Outside that you’d get no more fraud, and no more future fraud victims, because the punishment for it wouldn’t be worth the risk for anyone to try.
Like I said, if the punishment for a parking violation was death, every single driver would make damn sure they would never, ever get one. Apply that for every “deliberate” crime and you end up with a society with essentially zero crime.
Also a lot fewer people alive, but zero crime.
Where the line goes is completely up to the justice system, how badly they want to prevent that type of crime, as it goes with every crime and punishment.
How does putting someone in jail or having them pay a fine to the government help “make the victims whole” any more than the death sentence would? If that was the point of the justice system, we would only have payments of wealth or services from criminals to victims and nothing else. In fact, I can think of quite a few crimes where the victims would love nothing more than the permission get to kill the criminal themselves in the most painful way possible.
The number one priority of a justice system is to prevent crimes from happening in the first place - a task it has to constantly balance with freedom and human rights as the ultimate solution is to get rid of all criminals - and the more it wants to prevent a certain type of crime, the harsher the punishment for it should be. But as I said, usually the death penalty is used for crimes done by people who aren’t thinking about the consequences.
If you use it as the threat for financial crime, soon you will have no more victims of financial crime, as the criminals are all either dead or too afraid to do it.
Should it be used, for that or in the first place, that’s a completely different argument all together.
Companies that aren’t profitable get bought all the time for ridiculous amounts of money not because they currently make boatloads of money, but because they have a huge userbase and brand recognition, and the buyer thinks they are the geniuses that can make it do that. Yahoo paid 1.1 billion for Tumblr - since sold to wordpress for 3 million - and Musk 44 billion for Twitter - now worth a fraction of that - for example.
That is exactly why they often go to shit only after they have been bought.
Fwiw, Honey did around $100 million in revenue back in 2018. That’s 40 times less than what they were bought for, and that isn’t even profit, but just how much money they received before all their business expenses were paid.