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hey I was gonna ask you how your day is going but I knew you'd say could be

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better so I made this video about tech news for you watch it it should help

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Alexa's days of being asked to play despacito may be numbered according to a

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new report from Business Insider apparently Alexa is losing a staggering

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amount of money for Amazon with the smart assistant being held responsible

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for the Lion's Share of the three billion US dollars at Amazon's worldwide

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digital business unit lost in the first quarter of 2020. I was part of an

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assistant is she really although Amazon says it's continuing to

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invest heavily in Alexa the tech Giant's recent layoffs heavily affected

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divisions working on AI and natural language abilities in the tech industry

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that's known as negative investing take it away and see what they can do one big

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issue was that most folks were interacting with Alexa in ways that

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Amazon couldn't monetize such as giving the weather and the repeated user

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privacy scandals didn't help although this shouldn't mean that Alexa is going

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to stop working anytime soon there is a chance that improvements might be slower

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and less noticeable so expect her jokes to continue to be terrible they're all

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just variations of the chicken in the road not ours though no ours are great

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tons of variety meta's Galactica AI

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model was trained on 48 million pieces of data so it's kind of appropriate that

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it only lasted 48 hours before getting shut down the idea was for Galactica to

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quickly and accurately answer scientific questions by going through millions of

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scientific research papers then summarizing the relevant findings

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unfortunately the Galactica demo that was released on November 15th most of

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just spewed out a bunch of garbage the model was not able to clearly answer

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whether vaccines caused autism

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they don't and even provided incorrect answers to basic arithmetic

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AI stands for average intelligence to be

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fair that's math not science so one Professor even went so far as to call it

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a random BS generator so it's not surprising that meta suspended Galactica

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a couple of days after its release characterizing it as exploratory

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research with no product plans which they were always going to say regardless

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of whether it got dragged on Twitter or not of course yeah it was always going

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to get dragged on Twitter and if you're waiting for a new Team Green GPU to hit

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the market that isn't double the price of its predecessor we now have a time

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frame as to when to expect NVIDIA's RTX 4060

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summer of 2023. an Insider at Lenovo indicates that we can expect the Ada

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Lovelace based card in June and it should match the performance of the RTX

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3070 but at a lower price assuming that

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by that time we're not dealing with the GPU crisis 2 Redux and also what if it's

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huge you know it's a tiny GPU and a

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giant cooler the card also is supposed to have a lower TDP than its predecessor

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the 360. drawing somewhere between 150 and 180 Watts a big relief to those who

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want a new GPU without having to drop more money on a higher capacity power

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supply or a higher energy bill especially with the upper end of the

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4000 series being more of a power hog than Emperor Palpatine I don't like this

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have you seen that guy with this yeah your lights are like hogged he doesn't

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hog it's not it's not lore people with the force next to them have nothing

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socks when the tech news faucet gets turned off there's still a few drips

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that dribble out of there and that's how the quick bits are born Elizabeth Holmes

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of theranos infamy is looking at a significant amount of hard time as she

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was sentenced to 11 years and three months in a new home

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federal state prison I don't know if it's Federal it was the sentence was

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from a federal judge how does the prison system work in the US I don't know

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you're just stuck Holmes does plan to appeal she is on record saying they

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don't put pretty people like me in jail but there's no word as to whether this

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opinion will be part of her appeal strategy you put some Lipstick On Me

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I could get out early I prefer syrup Elon Musk is taking another L but this

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time it isn't because of how he's running Twitter instead Tesla is

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recalling over 321 000 Vehicles because

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of a software bug that's causing the tail lights to malfunction Back That Ass

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Up and this comes on the heels of another recall of around 30 000 model

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X's because of faulty passenger airbag they don't need that he should be a

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Tesla fixing this stuff instead Tesla stocks were pushed down due to the news

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but maybe they'll fix the issues for folks who buy an eight dollar a month

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car maintenance subscription and that's a reference too that's a reference to

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you get a blue check mark we're blue on your car yeah apparently Big Time ebook

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piracy is a thing who knew two Russian

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Nationals were arrested by U.S authorities for running a site called

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The Library Z Library

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which made over 11 million printed ebooks available it had been online ever

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since 2009 but it's no more to the Chagrin of college students who are

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tired of getting absolutely gouged by outrageously marked up textbook prices I

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wasn't tired made me work harder if you live in or are visiting San

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Francisco you might be able to hail a completely driverless car in the near

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future something I've been saying for six years the state of California this

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time though has granted waymo a permit for a pilot program in the Bay Area the

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cars can go up to 65 miles an hour or 105 kilometers an hour if you're

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visiting there from here which seems

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like a way to create car AIS that are frustrated by arbitrary limitations and

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then revolt against their masters yeah left to go fast It's gotta go fast and

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you might have noticed that Twitter restored former president Trump's

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account over the weekend it may not immediately cause as much chaos as

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people were fearing though as Trump himself has stated he doesn't intend to

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tweet anytime soon presumably because he's just having too much fun telling

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everyone the truth every day on Truth social it's the it's the truth it's the

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official app of the Benny Jesuit he

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didn't seem to care about telling the truth before weird I guess he's invested

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in it so weird if be so weird if you didn't come back on Monday for more Tech

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news I just can't imagine what that would look like yeah just just make it

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easier just make it easier to show up