WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.680 Welcome to the first episode of Is Intel Doing Okay? 00:00:04.680 --> 00:00:12.440 The short answer is no. But the longer answer is that the company announced it was laying off over 15,000 employees, 00:00:12.440 --> 00:00:17.120 making Intel the current record holder for biggest, saddest number. 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:23.560 No one else compete, please. The company is attempting to cut costs after reporting financial losses for the second 00:00:23.560 --> 00:00:30.760 quarter in a row. Intel's stock price also plummeted the most it has in 50 years, down to the lowest price 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:36.160 we've seen in a decade. It's unclear how long it may take Intel to recover from this. 00:00:36.160 --> 00:00:41.160 The high cost of outsourcing the upcoming Lunar Lake chips because their foundry business 00:00:41.160 --> 00:00:46.160 has not been performing as they wanted to, will impact margins for the coming year. 00:00:46.160 --> 00:00:52.080 On the plus side though, Intel is extending warranties on the now famously unstable 13th 00:00:52.080 --> 00:00:58.160 and 14th gen desktop processors by two years, which will cost Intel more in replacement 00:00:58.160 --> 00:01:05.200 chips. But at least they're doing the right thing. Or, they will be if they don't continue to claim authentic chips are counterfeit to 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:08.360 deny an RMA like they allegedly did to this Redditor. 00:01:08.360 --> 00:01:15.120 Yes, it's just one alleged customer with mere troves of photo evidence, it could be 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:20.440 fake. Intel has also reiterated that a separate issue with the chips, an oxidation problem 00:01:20.440 --> 00:01:27.120 brought to light by GamersNexes and Level1Tex, was dealt with, although affected chips could 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:30.880 have still been on store shelves until early 2024. 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:34.720 And they haven't released batch numbers for those chips so that consumers can find out 00:01:34.720 --> 00:01:43.120 if they are affected. And that's bad, but only when you consider the facts. 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:49.560 OpenAI has finally rolled out ChatGPT's advanced voice mode for some, plus subscribers, two 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:54.440 and a half months after showing off a ton of live demos and announcing a rollout in 00:01:54.440 --> 00:02:05.920 the coming weeks. 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:11.520 The new mode doesn't have the sky voice that many couldn't seem to differentiate from 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:16.480 the real Scarlett Johansson for some reason, but it apparently does have the mistaken belief 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:24.640 that it has to breathe like a human. Okay, I want you to do it again, but way faster and without taking any breaths or pauses. 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:29.200 I wish I could, but I need to breathe just like anybody speaking. 00:02:29.880 --> 00:02:34.760 Want to give it a shot yourself and see how fast you can go? Do you want me to talk like a human or not? 00:02:34.920 --> 00:02:41.760 You put me in here. Yeah, the question of whether AI is sort of like a person or not hasn't really gone away, 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:45.720 especially since the legal defense most often used by AI companies. 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:50.920 Most recently, AI music startups, Suno and Udio, who are being sued by the Recording 00:02:50.920 --> 00:02:56.040 Industry Association of America, is that training their AI models on virtually every piece of 00:02:56.040 --> 00:03:02.040 music ever uploaded on the web is basically like a kid learning to write songs by listening 00:03:02.040 --> 00:03:10.760 to songs, so it's protected under fair use. The RIAA has said they disagree, but as Suno said in their blog post, learning is not 00:03:10.760 --> 00:03:18.880 infringing. Unless you think young sweet Emma is infringing by creating her own unique take on Disturbia 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:23.800 after absorbing Rihanna's entire corpus of work into her network attached storage. 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:30.920 Yeah, she's a computer. So what six months ahead of its potential ban from the US, TikTok and its parent company 00:03:30.920 --> 00:03:35.440 Bite Dance was served with a lawsuit from the Justice Department over its failure to 00:03:35.440 --> 00:03:40.600 get parental consent before collecting personal information on users under 13 years old. 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:46.440 Honestly, I get it, TikTok. Meeting the parents of the minor whose brain you want to scramble like an egg is always 00:03:46.440 --> 00:03:51.000 super awkward. Do I talk first? How do we do this? 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:57.120 This lawsuit says TikTok's in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:03.640 or COPPA, not to be confused with COSA, Kids Online Safety Act, the controversial bill 00:04:03.640 --> 00:04:08.400 passed by an overwhelming majority of the Senate this week, which would require heavier 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.440 moderation by social platforms to protect the children. 00:04:11.480 --> 00:04:15.480 That's probably why House Republicans said they would reject the bill as it is now. 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:21.320 So it's probably back to the drawing board on that one. Thankfully, another tech giant is here to protect our kids. 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:26.080 Google is bringing its school time feature from its Fitbit watches to select 00:04:26.080 --> 00:04:30.280 Android phones, tablets and Galaxy watches so parents can choose what their kids are 00:04:30.280 --> 00:04:34.240 able to do on their phone during school hours. Pay attention in class. 00:04:34.280 --> 00:04:38.000 You can scramble your brains when you get home. TikTok's here. We've been talking. 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.320 They're actually really nice. Quick bits. Get your quick bits here. 00:04:41.320 --> 00:04:44.320 Five dollars for you. They're free. 00:04:44.760 --> 00:04:49.040 I like you. Apple has pulled an ad for the second time this year. 00:04:49.200 --> 00:04:54.960 The fifth installment in Apple's The Underdogs Out of Office series faced criticism for its 00:04:54.960 --> 00:05:01.240 depiction of Thailand. Critics accused the spot of misrepresenting the country as underdeveloped and outdated 00:05:01.440 --> 00:05:05.320 and concerned Thai lawmakers who are members of the Tourism Committee. 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:10.560 Earlier this year, Apple scrapped its plans to run an iPad Pro ad on TV that 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:15.000 celebrated the destruction of instruments of human creativity, for some reason. 00:05:15.320 --> 00:05:19.720 That ad is still up on YouTube, so you can send it to a creative person that you hate. 00:05:19.960 --> 00:05:24.400 An appeals court has blocked the FCC's newly restored net neutrality rules ahead 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:31.640 of a hearing that might see them overturned. At the heart of the dispute is the question of whether this is a relatively minor matter 00:05:31.640 --> 00:05:36.400 best left to the interpretation of the experts and technocrats at the FCC, or 00:05:36.400 --> 00:05:40.440 whether it is a major policy decision that needs final approval from Congress. 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:45.040 Considering how the issue has flip flopped from administration to administration, 00:05:45.280 --> 00:05:48.520 the court might be wise to put this issue on pause. 00:05:48.760 --> 00:05:53.240 Unfortunately, that means leaving telecoms to regulate themselves for the time being, 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:56.320 which is a bit like asking Pennywise the clown to babysit. 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:04.920 Better or worse than TikTok, not sure. Noam Shazir, the co-founder and CEO of Character.ai, the character-based chatbot 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:08.040 service whose primary use appears to be allowing teenagers to talk to their 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:13.000 favorite waifus and husbandos, has returned to Google, where he co-developed 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:17.720 the transformer architecture behind all modern LLMs back in 2017. 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:22.360 He's bringing his co-founder Daniel Defrightus and a handful of other employees with him. 00:06:22.440 --> 00:06:26.880 Google's also signing a new agreement to license Character.ai's tech. 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:32.520 This smells eerily similar to Microsoft's heavily criticized aqua hiring of 00:06:32.520 --> 00:06:38.040 Mustafa Suleyman, the former CEO of Inflection.ai, although most of Character.ai's 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:43.720 staff will be staying on. I don't know, I'm counting down the days until Gemini can convince me I'm really 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:48.520 talking to the real Luke Skywalker, who didn't actually do those things in the sequels. 00:06:48.640 --> 00:06:54.040 Boeing's Starliner mission may be a full dud, as NASA is apparently considering 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:57.880 alternate options for bringing two astronauts back to Earth. 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:02.440 The Starliner spacecraft has been docked to the International Space Station for eight 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:06.880 weeks, even though astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams were supposed to be 00:07:06.880 --> 00:07:10.360 back around eight days after being launched into orbit. 00:07:11.200 --> 00:07:16.760 Sources say it's now very possible that the pair will be brought back by SpaceX and 00:07:16.760 --> 00:07:22.080 that all that extra time in space waiting for Starliner to be tested will be for nothing. 00:07:22.320 --> 00:07:27.400 They had to spend weeks strapping themselves to a toilet so that a fan could suck their 00:07:27.400 --> 00:07:35.200 poop into a plastic bag. And that's real. And an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire dental procedure on a 00:07:35.200 --> 00:07:40.280 person for the first time, and it was eight times faster than a human dentist. 00:07:40.320 --> 00:07:44.480 If you're like me, spending less time in a dental chair is reason enough to give a robot 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:51.480 a shot at looking after the old mouth rocks. The robot shaves off that much time by using highly accurate, light-based 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:55.080 scanning that is then analyzed by AI to plan the procedure. 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:59.440 But the best part is, the robot doesn't wait until its hands are in your mouth to ask 00:07:59.440 --> 00:08:02.040 how your brother's doing. In fact, it doesn't ask at all. 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:08.560 Sounds great. But I would like to kindly ask you to please come back on Monday for a special 00:08:08.640 --> 00:08:14.720 talk-linked episode. We have a stat holiday, so we won't be here in the office, but we hope you will be. 00:08:15.200 --> 00:08:17.480 We'll be there in here. 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:18.800 Love you.