Banj Edwards | Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 112 with “When checking the system this morning, I noticed your account logged in for over 20 hours,” begins a December 1998 email from the president of my dial-up Internet service provider (ISP) at the time. “Our service is unlimited, but we ask that you… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of an AI-hallucinated computer. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 69 with 0 posters participating Share this story Over the weekend, experimenters discovered that OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT, can hallucinate simulations of Linux shells and role-play dialing into a bulletin board system (BBS). The chatbot, based on a deep… Read More »
Enlarge / Benj Edwards’ computer running The Cave BBS in 1994. reader comments 117 with 0 posters participating Share this story Thirty years ago last week—on November 25, 1992—my BBS came online for the first time. I was only 11 years old, working from my dad’s Tandy 1800HD laptop and a 2400 baud modem. The… Read More »