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Alexa's days of being asked to play despacito may be numbered according to a
new report from Business Insider apparently Alexa is losing a staggering
amount of money for Amazon with the smart assistant being held responsible
for the Lion's Share of the three billion US dollars at Amazon's worldwide
digital business unit lost in the first quarter of 2020. 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
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that dribble out of there and that's how the quick bits are born Elizabeth Holmes
of theranos infamy is looking at a significant amount of hard time as she
was sentenced to 11 years and three months in a new home
federal state prison I don't know if it's Federal it was the sentence was
from a federal judge how does the prison system work in the US I don't know
you're just stuck Holmes does plan to appeal she is on record saying they
don't put pretty people like me in jail but 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