WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.640 Tech news comes and tech news goes. I try to make it stay for a while, but that never works. 00:00:05.640 --> 00:00:09.520 I can't, I can't control it. It doesn't listen. 00:00:09.520 --> 00:00:13.280 The humane AI pin, the first in a coming wave 00:00:13.280 --> 00:00:16.600 of small AI powered devices has launched. 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:21.280 And now everyone's upset. Tech reviewers are upset that the AI pin is expensive, 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:27.920 requiring a $700 purchase, plus a $24 a month T-Mobile 4G LTE subscription, 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:31.560 separate from your phone plan. It's incredibly slow to respond. 00:00:31.560 --> 00:00:35.800 It doesn't actually do what it's supposed to half the time. It overheats regularly, 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:39.720 makes you look like a weirdo in public, and that's only scratching the surface. 00:00:39.720 --> 00:00:45.120 But defenders of the AI pin are also upset because the tech reviewers just don't get 00:00:45.120 --> 00:00:50.400 that it's not meant to replace your smartphone. You shouldn't compare the AI pin to a smartphone. 00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:54.960 You should compare it to the first iPhone because both of them sucked at launch. 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:58.360 Listen, humane's head engineer Ken Kosienda 00:00:58.360 --> 00:01:04.600 admits that the revolutionary AI device his company just launched is frustrating sometimes. 00:01:04.600 --> 00:01:08.440 Occasionally, the AI simply won't listen and has to be sent to its room. 00:01:08.440 --> 00:01:12.840 But that doesn't mean you should write the pin off. Why don't you watch humane's YouTube videos 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:16.080 where they try to explain what the fuck this thing is? 00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:19.760 At the very least, it might humanize humane's CEO 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:23.080 and co-founder, former Apple designer Imran Choudhury. 00:01:23.080 --> 00:01:27.200 See, he's not sad all the time. Okay, now's the part where I say, 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:31.680 to be fair, the AI pin is an attempt to create a new category of device 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:36.360 which always comes with growing pains. Humane has posted a roadmap of upcoming features 00:01:36.360 --> 00:01:40.880 and to be honest, the idea of using just my voice for a bunch of things which currently require 00:01:40.880 --> 00:01:45.280 grabbing my phone sounds great. But this ain't it, chief. 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:49.920 Now, to wait a couple weeks for the Rabbit R1 to launch so we can do this all over again. 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.040 Apple announced that iPhone owners and repair shops 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:58.640 will be able to fix their devices with used parts from other iPhones and not have to deal 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:02.680 with a shameful error message for installing a part that wasn't genuine. 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:08.120 Oh, I can't believe you've done this. Apple has specified that the used parts affected 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:11.200 by this update, including face ID and touch ID sensors, 00:02:11.200 --> 00:02:16.360 screens, batteries and cameras, still have to be genuine Apple parts. 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:21.360 Third-party components will not work correctly. This is because of parts pairing. 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:25.360 Apple's practice of requiring an iPhone to validate whether a part is genuine, 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:30.160 which Apple hardware executive, John Turnes, convincingly called not evil. 00:02:30.160 --> 00:02:33.580 Okay. To be clear, Apple's announcement is unquestionably 00:02:33.580 --> 00:02:38.080 great news for repair heads. Just don't let Apple diehards know 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:41.520 that their devices have become more open. They don't seem to like that. 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:47.720 Here's a little something for everyone though. Mark Muadib, God Emperor German says that new Macs 00:02:47.720 --> 00:02:52.320 will be coming out later this year powered by Apple's new M4 chips, 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:56.800 which will pack extra AI smarts and come in three flavors, 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:01.680 code named Donan, Brava and Hydra. 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:05.000 I'm assuming because Apple's running out of synonyms for Ultra. 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.640 The Apple M4 Mucho Grande. Haven't used that one. 00:03:08.640 --> 00:03:12.720 If you use it, you owe me royalties. Like it or not, a bunch of other noteworthy AI news 00:03:12.720 --> 00:03:18.160 occurred this week, starting with the launch of UDO, an AI music generator created by a team 00:03:18.160 --> 00:03:23.400 of former Google DeepMinders. Together with the also very good Suno V3, 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:28.600 which launched a few weeks ago, we're basically having a Sora moment for AI music, 00:03:28.600 --> 00:03:34.040 except these tools are actually available. Meaning it's easier than ever to make a 50s pop ballad 00:03:34.040 --> 00:03:37.560 about how your friend soiled himself at work. It is a banger. 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:42.120 Or if you prefer a sad girl indie song about software license terms. 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:47.680 We couldn't do these things before. Other models released this week include Mixdral 8X22B, 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:52.600 which French startup, Mistral, dropped as a 281 Gigabyte torrent file, 00:03:52.600 --> 00:03:56.160 and Gemini 1.5 Pro, which is now available to developers 00:03:56.160 --> 00:04:02.300 through Google's Vertex AI platform. Open AI released a new version of GPT-4 Turbo, 00:04:02.300 --> 00:04:05.640 but didn't initially describe what was different about it, 00:04:05.640 --> 00:04:10.400 other than saying it's majorly improved. Sam Altman chimed in to clarify 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:14.760 that it's significantly smarter and more pleasant to use. 00:04:14.760 --> 00:04:18.480 To be specific though, it's more good and less bad. 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:23.600 Open AI eventually did post benchmark results showing that it's kind of better at math. 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:28.120 I don't know, maybe the two researchers just fired by the for-profit non-profit 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:32.880 for allegedly leaking information, no more. We should ask them before they start their own company 00:04:32.880 --> 00:04:36.980 and get billions from Microsoft. QuickBits aren't called QuickBits because they're fast. 00:04:36.980 --> 00:04:41.320 They're made out of QuickLine, and if you touch them, they cause severe irritation. 00:04:41.320 --> 00:04:44.920 My life is pain. Discord has shut down the servers 00:04:44.960 --> 00:04:50.160 for Nintendo Switch emulators, Suyu and Sudachi, and completely disabled 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:55.600 the Discord accounts of their lead developers. The platform claims there was a court ordered injunction 00:04:55.600 --> 00:05:00.520 for the takedown of materials on those servers, likely because both Suyu and Sudachi 00:05:00.520 --> 00:05:06.240 started life as forks of Yuzu, the emulator Nintendo sued all the way to hell. 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:11.400 And that's not the only bad news for Suyu-enthus-Suyu-seists, all right. 00:05:11.400 --> 00:05:14.780 According to someone claiming to be a Suyu developer, 00:05:14.780 --> 00:05:19.740 the emulation project is dead, or rather, it's no longer a thing. 00:05:19.740 --> 00:05:23.300 That's beautiful. I hope that's what my kids say about me and my funeral. 00:05:23.300 --> 00:05:26.560 Intel has decided to discontinue boxed versions 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:29.900 of their 13th gen core K series CPUs, 00:05:29.900 --> 00:05:36.000 something that may seem like a surprising move seeing that boxed 12th gen chips are still alive and well, 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:41.660 but it makes a bit more sense when you consider that all the discontinued SKUs are based on the same silicon 00:05:41.660 --> 00:05:46.260 that's being used in the newer, better, 14th gen K series chips. 00:05:46.260 --> 00:05:51.380 Essentially, the 12th gen chips are like your dog and 13th gen is a kid, okay? 00:05:51.380 --> 00:05:58.420 Hear me out. I think Jacob wrote this one. A dog can't replace a kid, but a newer, better kid can. 00:05:58.420 --> 00:06:02.220 Mm, not sure. You just get rid of the old one 00:06:02.220 --> 00:06:06.060 and call the new one by the old one's name. No one knows the difference, everyone wins, 00:06:06.060 --> 00:06:09.260 except the older kid. Instagram is taking a bold new step 00:06:09.260 --> 00:06:12.500 in the fight against unsolicited dick pics 00:06:12.500 --> 00:06:15.700 by introducing a feature that proactively scans images 00:06:15.700 --> 00:06:19.540 sent as DMs for nudity and then blurs it. 00:06:19.540 --> 00:06:23.100 Now this feature will be on by default for users under 18, 00:06:23.100 --> 00:06:28.140 but it's also an option for grown adults who don't want every app to turn into a hookup app. 00:06:28.140 --> 00:06:31.540 We have LinkedIn for that. The feature will also gently prompt users 00:06:31.540 --> 00:06:36.260 to reconsider if they appear to be trying to send a nude image. 00:06:36.260 --> 00:06:41.980 According to Meta, the feature isn't just to shield our poor innocent eyes from unexpected danglage, 00:06:41.980 --> 00:06:44.980 but also to undermine blackmailers who use nudes 00:06:44.980 --> 00:06:49.860 to encourage unsuspecting users to send them potential extortion material. 00:06:49.860 --> 00:06:53.020 Beware, she might say boobs in bio, 00:06:53.020 --> 00:06:59.020 but that is just her siren song, calling unwary sailors to dash themselves upon the rocks. 00:06:59.020 --> 00:07:04.540 It's dangerous out there. Google has announced that they will be making several AI editing tools for Google Photos 00:07:04.540 --> 00:07:09.540 available for free to all users, including Magic Editor, Magic Eraser, 00:07:09.540 --> 00:07:14.540 Photo Unblur, and Portrait Light. The features were previously exclusive to Pixel users 00:07:14.540 --> 00:07:19.340 and Google One subscribers, while free users had a limited number of uses every month. 00:07:19.340 --> 00:07:23.860 The Magic Eraser feature will be particularly useful if you're looking to gradually delete yourself 00:07:23.860 --> 00:07:28.140 from all of your loved ones' photos and gaslight them into believing you never existed. 00:07:28.140 --> 00:07:31.900 It's at least one use case. And Microsoft has apparently been pushing 00:07:31.900 --> 00:07:35.420 full-screen pop-up ads to Windows 10 users, 00:07:35.460 --> 00:07:40.020 encouraging them to switch to Windows 11, despite the fact that many of their computers 00:07:40.020 --> 00:07:45.020 aren't even eligible to run Windows 11, a fact that the ad itself acknowledges. 00:07:45.020 --> 00:07:48.660 Windows 10, you can't get it, but pretty nice, huh? 00:07:48.660 --> 00:07:53.940 Official Windows 10 support will soon be ending, of course, and continued security updates for the next year 00:07:53.940 --> 00:07:58.420 will cost $61 per device. The upgrade to Windows 11 is free. 00:07:58.420 --> 00:08:02.380 You just need to buy a whole new computer, but you don't need anything to come back on Monday 00:08:02.380 --> 00:08:07.340 for more tech news. If the internet gets shut off, just, you know, sit in front of your monitor 00:08:07.340 --> 00:08:09.540 and imagine what the tech news would be like.