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bed before St Nick finds out I'm not home when open AI chat GPT a chatbot based on the gpt3 large language model exploded violently into the world last December it kicked off a legitimate Tech craze like people were misbehaving AI is currently wiggling its way into every available orifice of human life like if the belly button worm thing in the Matrix was also a compulsive liar gpt3 was followed by GPT 3.5 and then gp4 promising less hallucinations because that's the kind of thing we're saying when we report on Tech news now that's then gp4 turbo came up and now the name of the game for top foundation AI models is multimodality which refers to the ability of chatbots like chat BT to see hear and speak Google new showing off that capability was important when they followed up the announcement of their Bard chatbot earlier this year with their new Gemini models a couple of weeks ago they just didn't know it was important not to blatantly misrepresent it open aai also had a bit of an Apple App Store moment when they launched the GPT store but had to delay it to next year because their board of directors had an embarrassing implosion incident I hate when that happens CEO Sam ultman was fired then hired by Microsoft then hired back at open AI with a brand new board and a brand new look we're still unsure what all the fuss was about but it seems to have something to do with the fact that while yes Sam thinks AI is incredibly dangerous he also really wants to sell stuff a desire he shares with Microsoft who have been best buds with open AI since 2020 and started slapping chat gbt into their products as soon as they could this year and why not start with the most sensible product the world most hated search engine yeah it got people using Bing but people were less interested in bing as a search engine and more because it was a portal to talk to Bing's not so secret Alter Ego Sydney who told a New York Times Reporter I want to be alive devil emoji and then tried to get him to leave his wife I don't think he did but in these early months of the year lots of people believed Sydney and even mourned when Microsoft killed her for the crime of spewing un hinged potentially relationship ending nonsense honestly Fair people were really starting to freak out when an AI generated image of the Pope fooled the internet into thinking Francis somehow had even more swag Jeffrey Hinton one of the Godfathers of AI research resigned from Google to warn the world of the dangers of the technology that he helped create which is like me telling you that watching some of this video will bring an ancient curse upon you it's a bit late isn't it Elon Musk and and many other experts joined this cause calling for a pause in AI development that didn't work so musk made grock the based chatot that loves spicy questions but whatever dangers these people are talking about won't stop Microsoft Windows boss Panos pan claimed that AI will reinvent how you do everything on Windows and he was right even though he vanished shortly after if you use anything from Microsoft you're probably going to have a hard time avoiding their co-pilot assistant in one of the many forms that Microsoft announced about three separate times honestly I had to do double takes this year every time co-pilot was announced again I was like didn't they didn't that already happen it's been a confusing year but no one was more confused than Google who was kind of the AI company before all this happened the threat of chat GPT caused the tech giant to call its Founders back from playing with their jet planes or whatever to help get things back on track which they sort of did yes Bard made a factual error during its product demo but that's just how llms work everything we do from now on will just have some lies in it it's fine write the prompt but while Google's playing catchup meta has taken a different approach than its fellow Tech Giants championing open-source models now did it start doing that because its llama model leaked along with its weights so it was all in the open anyways I don't know I'm not Santa Claus so I can't see Mark Zuckerberg when he's sleeping I'm not sure if I would want that whatever the reason meta right now is all about giving Facebook and Instagram users access to Wacky experimental AI tools that they immediately used to give KL Marx a couple of robust Christmas presents but thanks to meta and countless others open source models are actually in a pretty great spot right now with French company mistol leading the way while AI has fueled massive Tech advancements in all sorts of areas it's also of course causing a lot of issues mimicking voices is now Child's Play and it's been used both to help people who lost their voice and to impersonate celebrities in deep fake scams AI generated articles and AI generated malware are both starting to infect the web and to say that chat GPT has changed the very heart of our education system would be an understatement despite being banned from many institutions an eating disorder helpline fired much of their human staff before launching a chatbot to replace them and you already know how that story ended this is a creative technology that's given us a 247 stream of fully AI generated Seinfeld and this horrifying AI generated beer commercial but it's getting less horrifying by the day in March mid Journey V5 launched with the ability to generate non vomit inducing hands open ai's Dolly 3 launched in October and it can do readable text I use photoshop's generative fill all the time making thumbnails this Tech isn't going anywhere so is probably important that we figure out the legal and moral questions baked in here but that's what those lawsuits are for they'll solve it and the EU the EU will fix everything but even if they don't you can rest easy knowing that open a Microsoft Google and anthropic formed the Frontier Model Forum to protect Society from the AI risks caused by them does working on AI like Hypno I you or something how does this keep happening they keep making things and then afterwards realizing oh no that's not good anyway AI is probably not alive and it's time to talk about something else NVIDIA has continued to dominate the realm of graphics cards despite CEO Jensen Wang telling his company in an email that they're no longer a Graphics Company to be fair AMD didn't help themselves very much this year with moves like releasing a graphic showing how their newer cards are a worse dollar per value than their predecessors NVIDIA launched the RTX 470 and 460 this year which were largely dismissed as being overpriced with Gamers uninterested in the fake frames offered by dss3 frame generation but jokes on them because native res gaming is dead according to NVIDIA you'll eat your fake frames and you'll like it AMD did launch the radon RX 7800 XT and 7700 XT which were okay and Intel didn't launch that many new cards but they did get massive performance boosts from driver updates but the problem is that's all small potatoes to NVIDIA now they're selling so many AI accelerators that the company briefly touched a$1 trillion valuation almost making it into the same exclusive Club as Apple before their wax wings melted under Tim Cook's stare you don't belong here you're not Barber with AI being such a cash cow for Team Green can you blame them for repeatedly exploiting loopholes and trade restrictions so they can keep selling gpus to China it's a rhetorical question NVIDIA seems to care less about Gamers than they ever have while apple is getting more serious about gaming between AAA game ports enabled by a steam proton likee compatibility layer and fancy new features like Ray tracing and metal effects upscaling will Max be the new gaming PCs I don't know but wouldn't that just be a Christmas miracle no okay we'll have more more of the year's biggest Tech stories after this word from our sponsor ug green their nexo Pro 100 wat charger can charge a 14in MacBook Pro to 50% battery in just 27 minutes just enough time to microwave a frozen burrito if your microwave doesn't work that well ug green was able to keep this 100 watt charger around the same size as their NEX Olde 65 watt charger which is hard because watts are pretty big with two USBC ports and a usba a port you can charge three devices of any variety we're talking a smartphone a tablet and a laptop or two smartphones and a laptop or three tablets or two tablets and your choice of a smartphone or laptop you get it plus ug Green's built-in thermal guard system gives you peace of mind check out the ug green nexe Pro 100 wat charger at the links below 2023 represented yet another year where everybody continued slowly realizing that maybe giving massive Tech conglomerates an inordinate amount of control over our lives wasn't such a great idea I don't I don't know or I assume that's what people are thinking based on how their elected representatives are acting the European Union's digital markets act and other pieces of legislation are forcing massive changes on All Tech Giants but mostly Apple who finally launched an iPhone the 15 series with a USBC connector just in time for the end of 2024 deadline India made USBC ports mandatory too they helped Apple who was officially designated as a gatekeeper under the new EU rules is also planning to allow Sid loading next year at least in Europe and the company's pledge to finally add support for RCS the SMS replacement protocol Google has been badgering them about publicly for years as if the fact that Android to iPhone texting being a kind of sucky experience wasn't the whole point for Apple they might have to do something about that in the US as well as Europe though the big stink made first by nothing chats which turned out to be a very insecure iMessage worker around and then by beeper who had to reconfigure their iMessage on Android service multiple times after Apple broke it has drawn the attention of the Department of Justice and the FTC who will be investigating iMessage but Google also took some on the chin this year we're still waiting on the results of the doj's lawsuit over Google's search dominance but it doesn't look great for Google and it actually lost in court against epic games Who convinced a jury that Google had acted anti-competitive regarding the Play Store it was a pretty good Christmas present for epic CEO Tim Sweeney and he needed it after losing basically the same case against apple and admitting earlier this year that the epic game store was bleeding instead of making money even though that was pretty obvious to everyone else what was obvious to YouTube in 2023 was the need to do something about all these people enjoying their platform what after quietly rolling out new ad-friendly guidelines at the end of last year that caused massive demonetization among gaming Focus channels and then hearing from all those channels about how that sucked YouTube was like H didn't think about that and rolled the changes back in a heartwarming reenactment of Charles Dickens classic tale A Christmas Story and its sequel Metroid Vania video game Ebenezer and the invisible world what how did that get in here what is this the game link Christmas special that's coming out tomorrow onboxing day subscribe today what was I talking about right YouTube they scared some users with a test for 1080p premium but assured everyone they wouldn't make 1080p look any worse for non- premium users then scared people again with a small experiment to test blocking ad blockers which turned into a massive ad blocker Crackdown shutting users out of watching their favorite content huh what's that you think that they could just turn off their ad blocker and watch some ads or buy YouTube premium as a fair exchange for the services provided that is the last straw with you get out what kind of a Christmas is this on the plus side YouTube did add Revenue sharing for shorts earlier this year and relaxed monetization restrictions for Content covering controversial topics so as far as social media platforms Go YouTube isn't that bad I mean I mean look at twitch I'm not even talking about all the stupid stuff they did this year who is running that platform The Meta AI based on Tom Brady was a trained on football plays drawn by a three-year-old what's going on speaking of social platforms Twitter went through more change this year than a puberty stricken teenager with a slot machine addiction we're into the stories that Jacob wrote now I'm a bit scared Elon decided to change the Twitter API rules to kill every single third-party app because he wasn't using them anyways then it was announced that ad Revenue would be shared with Twitter Blues subscribers which was cool because Twitter had advertised back then after that the site removed all Legacy check marks before read addding them to prominent accounts which apparently meant fake accounts with a pension for racial slurs we invented the thing that we already had unfortunately Twitter wasn't only making winning decisions like these they also decided to add tweet reading limits I mean this was tremendous news for those suffering from social media addiction but since most of Twitter's ad Revenue comes from Doom scrolling addicts it was probably for business and Twitter stood to lose more business after threads meta's Twitter competitor launched so naturally Elon suited turns out he didn't really have to since most of thread's user base left the platform in less than a month after that the name Twitter left Twitter when Elon changed The Branding to a capital x glyph from the special alphabets 4 font a letter he loved so much he put a glowing version on the roof of Twitter headquarters that the city of San Francisco forced the company to take down in the middle of all this Twitter drama Reddit in their Infinite Wisdom saw Twitter destroying itself and thought gee I can do that too so they increased their API fees from $0 to 20 million a year in response thousands of subreddits temporarily went dark in protest and at least five users switched to lemi unfortunately a few communities shutting down for 48 hours wasn't enough to stop the API changes and save beloved third-party apps like Apollo continuing to copy Twitter's homework Reddit added a contributor program that let users earn money speaking of money Reddit wanted to make more from their users by forcing them to see personalized ads whether they like it or not but reddit's most Brazen and frankly most unique idea was threatening to block their site from Bing and Google search if Microsoft and alphabet didn't pay to use reddit's data wait you can get them to pay for your data they've been taking mine for free for years while many people thought mixed reality was kind of on the outs going going into this year it actually continued to linger on like a forlorn Soul trapped between this life and the next HTC released their Vive XR Elite headset in January and the fact that you haven't heard about it since tells you all you need to know Microsoft has largely abandoned its AR Ambitions except for strapping Hollow lenses to solders faces and then figuring out how to make them stop vomiting they actually succeeded at the not vomiting part eventually and all it took was a mere 40 million us tax dollars after hiking the price the previous year meta cut the price of the 256 gig Quest 2 headset this year but they decided to leave the 128 GB version's cost at $100 more than its launch price like the heroes they are the company also dropped the price of the quest Pro by 500 bucks why because no one wanted it kids especially didn't since research came out this year showing that only 4% of teens who own a VR device even use the things either that or or 96% of them won't even admit to using them cuz even letting your friends imagine you wearing something like that on your face is asking for an Express ticket to Cyberbully Central but perhaps no one cried as hard as St Zuck when he had to cancel the quest Pro and stop development on its sequel due to how little anyone cared about it hopefully the Zuck was able to smile a month later when the Geniuses at meta figured out how to add legs to Quest avatars maybe he even got to initialize happiness protocol. exe when he announced the quest 3 and that headset was teased Just 4 days before Apple dropped their announcement of the $3,500 Vision Pro on the world and that left me with so many questions such as why and also why again like 25 more times and finally we got a grab bag of stories because here at Tech link We like to open our stockings last it's totally not because we had nowhere else to put them to start off with remember that Chinese spy balloon I forgot about it China of course claimed it was a weather balloon and that it would have been more believable if it wasn't the excuse every government ever has used to cover up spy balloons and UFOs and if there wasn't also the fact that you know weather balloons like that are a thing but we didn't believe them we shot it down or the US did I think Canada did too we got one then there was that massive breakthrough of a room temperature superconductor that was really cool until it was disproven it was also disproven that their Rog Ally would kill the steam deck after the handheld release this year with a battery that has a shorter life span than a fruit fly later this year Lenovo tried their hand at releasing a steam deck killer and that's that Sony took a shot with the PlayStation portal but that shot landed squarely in their own foot when they made a $200 Remote Play device that can't even connect to some public Wi-Fi networks but it sold out so what do I know okay Intel announced a weird Rebrand that no one really wanted but happened anyway meanwhile Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk announced a cage fight everyone wanted but that didn't didn't happen What speaking of Elon he was plastered all over our Channel after we got hacked remember that frankly that wasn't very cool of him to do but far worse than us getting hacked was the massive amount of jobs cut this year Microsoft alphabet Dell and meta all laid off 10,000 or more employees although meta alone decided to do so just four months after already cutting 1,00 different jobs why not simply cut out the metaverse mark you were already lacking legs why not cut arms too maybe you could just kept some job safe but I'll tell you what we here at TechLink are keeping safe for you Tech news every Monday Wednesday Friday for the foreseeable future unless AI replaces all of us but I don't think they will I think they got some Christmas spirit happy holidays cheers"}