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I was part of an assistant is she really although Amazon says it's continuing to invest heavily in Alexa the tech Giant's recent layoffs heavily affected divisions working on AI and natural language abilities in the tech industry that's known as negative investing take it away and see what they can do one big issue was that most folks were interacting with Alexa in ways that Amazon couldn't monetize such as giving the weather and the repeated user privacy scandals didn't help although this shouldn't mean that Alexa is going to stop working anytime soon there is a chance that improvements might be slower and less noticeable so expect her jokes to continue to be terrible they're all just variations of the chicken in the road not ours though no ours are great tons of variety meta's Galactica AI model was trained on 48 million pieces of data so it's kind of appropriate that it only lasted 48 hours before getting shut down the idea was for Galactica to quickly and accurately answer scientific questions by going through millions of scientific research papers then summarizing the relevant findings unfortunately the Galactica demo that was released on November 15th most of just spewed out a bunch of garbage the model was not able to clearly answer whether vaccines caused autism they don't and even provided incorrect answers to basic arithmetic AI stands for average intelligence to be fair that's math not science so one Professor even went so far as to call it a random BS generator so it's not surprising that meta suspended Galactica a couple of days after its release characterizing it as exploratory research with no product plans which they were always going to say regardless of whether it got dragged on Twitter or not of course yeah it was always going to get dragged on Twitter and if you're waiting for a new Team Green GPU to hit the market that isn't double the price of its predecessor we now have a time frame as to when to expect NVIDIA's RTX 4060 summer of 2023. an Insider at Lenovo indicates that we can expect the Ada Lovelace based card in June and it should match the performance of the RTX 3070 but at a lower price assuming that by that time we're not dealing with the GPU crisis 2 Redux and also what if it's huge you know it's a tiny GPU and a giant cooler the card also is supposed to have a lower TDP than its predecessor the 360. drawing somewhere between 150 and 180 Watts a big relief to those who want a new GPU without having to drop more money on a higher capacity power supply or a higher energy bill especially with the upper end of the 4000 series being more of a power hog than Emperor Palpatine I don't like this have you seen that guy with this yeah your lights are like hogged he doesn't hog it's not it's not lore people with the force next to them have nothing now for the quick bits brought to you by Bessie soggy sock Seasons upon us which means it's time to put those boat shoes back on the shelf that bestie makes sneakers with 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there's no word as to whether this opinion will be part of her appeal strategy you put some Lipstick On Me I could get out early I prefer syrup Elon Musk is taking another L but this time it isn't because of how he's running Twitter instead Tesla is recalling over 321 000 Vehicles because of a software bug that's causing the tail lights to malfunction Back That Ass Up and this comes on the heels of another recall of around 30 000 model X's because of faulty passenger airbag they don't need that he should be a Tesla fixing this stuff instead Tesla stocks were pushed down due to the news but maybe they'll fix the issues for folks who buy an eight dollar a month car maintenance subscription and that's a reference too that's a reference to you get a blue check mark we're blue on your car yeah apparently Big Time ebook piracy is a thing who knew two Russian Nationals were arrested by U.S authorities for running a site called The Library Z Library which made over 11 million printed ebooks available it had been online ever since 2009 but it's no more to the Chagrin of college students who are tired of getting absolutely gouged by outrageously marked up textbook prices I wasn't tired made me work harder if you live in or are visiting San Francisco you might be able to hail a completely driverless car in the near future something I've been saying for six years the state of California this time though has granted waymo a permit for a pilot program in the Bay Area the cars can go up to 65 miles an hour or 105 kilometers an hour if you're visiting there from here which seems like a way to create car AIS that are frustrated by arbitrary limitations and then revolt against their masters yeah left to go fast It's gotta go fast and you might have noticed that Twitter restored former president Trump's account over the weekend it may not immediately cause as much chaos as people were fearing though as Trump himself has stated he doesn't intend to tweet anytime soon presumably because he's just having too much fun telling everyone the truth every day on Truth social it's the it's the truth it's the official app of the Benny Jesuit he didn't seem to care about telling the truth before weird I guess he's invested in it so weird if be so weird if you didn't come back on Monday for more Tech news I just can't imagine what that would look like yeah just just make it easier just make it easier to show up"}