1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,860 Hey, it's me, Weird Al, Jesus Lebowski, the illegitimate son of Richard Stallman, delivering 2 00:00:04,860 --> 00:00:09,560 tech news for you to listen to while you think of people to compare me to in a YouTube comment. 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:15,720 Happy hunting. Internet rumors abound after a second, Boeing whistleblower has mysteriously died. 4 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:20,020 45-year-old Joshua Dean was one of many people to come forward in recent years following 5 00:00:20,020 --> 00:00:27,820 two 737 MAX 8 crashes that killed a combined 346 people and a recent 737 MAX 9 that suffered 6 00:00:27,820 --> 00:00:33,960 a blowout at the beginning of this year. Both things that shake my confidence in the practice of throwing metal tubes full of people 7 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:39,360 through the air. The reportedly healthy Dean suddenly passed away at the end of last month after spending 8 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:44,200 two weeks in a hospital fighting a bacterial infection which eventually developed into 9 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:49,880 pneumonia. Just a month before, 62-year-old Josh Mitch Barnett, another whistleblower, was found 10 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:54,000 dead just before he was to resume testimony against Boeing. 11 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:59,340 Nothing suspicious there. Dean was working for Boeing supplier Spirit Aero Systems as a quality auditor when he 12 00:00:59,340 --> 00:01:04,820 was fired last year. He alleges that that was in retaliation for him raising safety concerns, something that 13 00:01:04,820 --> 00:01:07,860 certainly sounds like the job of a quality auditor. 14 00:01:07,860 --> 00:01:10,860 Mmm, where's that written down? 15 00:01:10,860 --> 00:01:17,860 Prove it. It's not in the handbook. He wasn't the only whistleblower afraid of backlash from Boeing, however, Sam Salepor, 16 00:01:17,860 --> 00:01:22,940 who as of reporting is still alive, said he feared physical violence during a U.S. Congressional 17 00:01:22,940 --> 00:01:28,480 hearing last month. Salepor should maybe stick to single-story buildings for the time being, otherwise he 18 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:33,840 may accidentally throw himself through a window. Those accidental defenestrations, they get you every time. 19 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:40,640 Some of those Windows are so beautiful. In lighter news, Microsoft allegedly has a new in-house AI that they think can compete 20 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:44,000 with open AI's models. Aw, that's so cute that they think that. 21 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:49,120 The model, reportedly referred to internally as MAI-1, is being overseen by Google Deep 22 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:54,420 Mind co-founder Mustafa Suleiman and will have around 500 billion parameters. 23 00:01:54,420 --> 00:01:57,620 That's about half of what GBT-4 has to put that in perspective. 24 00:01:57,620 --> 00:02:01,460 Should you be excited? Well, apparently no one knows what the model will be used for. 25 00:02:01,460 --> 00:02:05,140 But if Microsoft's looking for ideas, there's some interesting use cases that have made 26 00:02:05,140 --> 00:02:10,500 headlines recently. An adjunct professor at Stanford teamed up with the CEO of a leadership development firm 27 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:15,700 to write a Wall Street Journal article about using AI to practice tough conversations. 28 00:02:15,700 --> 00:02:19,840 An example they used was an associate preparing to fire an employee. 29 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:25,000 Thankfully, spending the weekend role-playing the exchange with chat GBT saved that associate 30 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,280 so much heartache. Thank God. Whew, that's a load off my mind. 31 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:33,120 Millions of teens are apparently using AI chatbots as friends they can talk to without 32 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,280 having to face every teen's worst fear. 33 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:42,280 Other teens. Make sense? Some adults are using AI to speak with dead relatives and deal with their grief. 34 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:48,660 Man, mental health resources certainly are in a state, aren't they? 35 00:02:48,660 --> 00:02:52,420 The US government has announced they want to give someone a lot of money to research 36 00:02:52,420 --> 00:02:55,780 digital twin technology for semiconductor manufacturing. 37 00:02:55,780 --> 00:03:01,140 For those unaware, a digital twin is basically a one-to-one virtual simulation of a physical 38 00:03:01,140 --> 00:03:08,660 system in the real world. America's Department of Commerce is offering $285 million in Chips Act funding to try and 39 00:03:08,660 --> 00:03:13,240 convince someone else to create an institution dedicated to studying digital twin technology. 40 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:20,440 I mean, why do it yourself when you can pay someone? The hope is that the tech can accelerate semiconductor manufacturing by allowing companies to test 41 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:24,360 processors without actually, you know, making them. Lazy. 42 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:28,320 Just do it. You don't got the balls. 43 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:33,020 The tech is currently being used in the automotive industry to test different modes of production 44 00:03:33,020 --> 00:03:36,240 without affecting, you know, their current manufacturing output. 45 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:41,300 For example, Mercedes-Benz used NVIDIA's Omniverse Enterprise software to simulate 46 00:03:41,300 --> 00:03:44,860 one of its factories just to plan an upgrade for EV manufacturing. 47 00:03:44,860 --> 00:03:49,740 Now, the US government seems really passionate about this tech because they said all the 48 00:03:49,740 --> 00:03:54,380 buzzwords. The Department of Commerce's press release states that digital twins can exist in the 49 00:03:54,380 --> 00:03:58,620 cloud and could leverage emerging technology like artificial intelligence. 50 00:03:58,620 --> 00:04:02,740 Okay, this was fully written by a dude in a fleece vest named Chad. 51 00:04:02,740 --> 00:04:08,360 There's no way it wasn't. He's wearing way fares. The factory will be conscious and it will be my friend. 52 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:12,000 Please stand for the stating of these quick bits. 53 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,060 Oh, right. I do those. 54 00:04:16,060 --> 00:04:20,720 YouTube is rolling out a new experimental premium feature called Jump Ahead, which skips ahead 55 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,120 to the part of the video the algorithm thinks you're trying to find. 56 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:28,120 Typically, the moment that most other users skip to in the past, like the banger chorus 57 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:32,560 of a hit song or that one time on the WAN Show when Linus mistakenly claimed he used 58 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:37,860 to say the hard R a lot while Luke's entire life flashed before his eyes live on camera. 59 00:04:37,860 --> 00:04:45,900 The front door of the building has never looked so enticing. Currently, the Jump Ahead feature is only available on the YouTube Android app and only 60 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:51,220 for select English language videos. So if you're an iPhone user or if you're watching this but you don't speak English, 61 00:04:51,220 --> 00:04:54,580 you'll just have to wait. Lo siento. 62 00:04:54,580 --> 00:04:59,860 Authors and audiobook listeners are divided as 40,000 AI-narrated titles have hit Audible 63 00:04:59,860 --> 00:05:03,240 thanks to a new beta tool Amazon introduced last year. 64 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:07,600 While writers are grateful for the opportunity to save on professional voiceover fees, audible 65 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,680 subscribers are annoyed that there's no option to filter AI audiobooks out. 66 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,200 Human narrators, meanwhile, are feeling pessimistic about their future job security. 67 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:19,600 Personally, I'm worried about the quality of the narration on these self-published titles. 68 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:24,280 Not just anyone can narrate works like Chuck Tingles Pounded in the Butt by my book, Pounded 69 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:32,420 in the Butt by my own butt. Google is banning ads for apps and websites that generate, distribute, or promote synthetic 70 00:05:32,420 --> 00:05:37,980 sexually explicit content. Which is fancy lawyer talk for deep fake pornography and news. 71 00:05:37,980 --> 00:05:41,980 To be fair to Google, this kind of content was already implicitly prohibited as a form 72 00:05:41,980 --> 00:05:47,580 of sexually explicit content. Like come on guys, it doesn't stop being smud just because a robot made it. 73 00:05:47,580 --> 00:05:51,940 It just smells a bit more burnt. Yeah, and it doesn't make me feel as warm when I hug it. 74 00:05:51,940 --> 00:05:56,500 However, Google apparently felt the need to make it explicit due to the sudden Ryzen 75 00:05:56,500 --> 00:06:02,960 ads promoting these deep fake tools. Even some of these services pretending to be innocuous apps in order to sneak onto legitimate 76 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:07,360 app stores. Kind of like a shipping a dildo in a package shaped like a frying pan. 77 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,360 There are frying pan shaped dildos. There's a market. 78 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:16,960 They don't work as well. They're only for pansexuals. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new type of memory that can 79 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:23,040 operate at temperatures as high as 600 degrees Celsius for more than 60 hours at less than 80 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:28,060 15 volts. Just imagining how many chrome tabs I could leave open is making me sweat. 81 00:06:28,060 --> 00:06:31,980 But this memory wouldn't actually be used for RAM. It's non-volatile. 82 00:06:31,980 --> 00:06:35,980 So it can store data without constant power. And it's not made of silicon. 83 00:06:35,980 --> 00:06:40,140 But rather ferroelectric aluminum scandium nitride. 84 00:06:40,140 --> 00:06:43,140 And it's a good thing we discovered silicon first because putting valley in front of the 85 00:06:43,140 --> 00:06:49,940 other one would be a real mouthful. And the International Space Station is so dirty, it's bred new life. 86 00:06:49,940 --> 00:06:56,880 A new NASA study collected samples of drug-resistant bacteria Ibugendensis, quote, from various 87 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:02,920 locations within the ISS, and found 13 distinct strains which have never been seen before on 88 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:08,400 Earth. The bacteria has apparently mutated to survive in the extreme environment, becoming even 89 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:12,400 more drug-resistant in the process and helping other microorganisms survive. 90 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:16,160 It got way stretchier. It can flame on. 91 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,160 It's become fantastic. 92 00:07:19,180 --> 00:07:23,420 Perhaps we should make the astronauts clean up after themselves so humanity doesn't get 93 00:07:23,420 --> 00:07:29,100 taken out by a space-bred superbug? Might I recommend sending their moms to the ISS to shame them? 94 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:32,100 Look at this room! It's a pigsty! 95 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:36,780 Is this how I raised you? You call this a space station? 96 00:07:36,780 --> 00:07:40,460 And might I recommend that you come back on Wednesday for more tech news? 97 00:07:40,460 --> 00:07:41,700 And clean behind your ears.