WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.860 Hey, it's me, Weird Al, Jesus Lebowski, the illegitimate son of Richard Stallman, delivering 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. 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:15.720 Happy hunting. Internet rumors abound after a second, Boeing whistleblower has mysteriously died. 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 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 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 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 00:00:39.360 --> 00:00:44.200 two weeks in a hospital fighting a bacterial infection which eventually developed into 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:49.880 pneumonia. Just a month before, 62-year-old Josh Mitch Barnett, another whistleblower, was found 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:54.000 dead just before he was to resume testimony against Boeing. 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 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 00:01:04.820 --> 00:01:07.860 certainly sounds like the job of a quality auditor. 00:01:07.860 --> 00:01:10.860 Mmm, where's that written down? 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, 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 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 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:33.840 may accidentally throw himself through a window. Those accidental defenestrations, they get you every time. 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 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:44.000 with open AI's models. Aw, that's so cute that they think that. 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:49.120 The model, reportedly referred to internally as MAI-1, is being overseen by Google Deep 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:54.420 Mind co-founder Mustafa Suleiman and will have around 500 billion parameters. 00:01:54.420 --> 00:01:57.620 That's about half of what GBT-4 has to put that in perspective. 00:01:57.620 --> 00:02:01.460 Should you be excited? Well, apparently no one knows what the model will be used for. 00:02:01.460 --> 00:02:05.140 But if Microsoft's looking for ideas, there's some interesting use cases that have made 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 00:02:10.500 --> 00:02:15.700 to write a Wall Street Journal article about using AI to practice tough conversations. 00:02:15.700 --> 00:02:19.840 An example they used was an associate preparing to fire an employee. 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:25.000 Thankfully, spending the weekend role-playing the exchange with chat GBT saved that associate 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.280 so much heartache. Thank God. Whew, that's a load off my mind. 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:33.120 Millions of teens are apparently using AI chatbots as friends they can talk to without 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:36.280 having to face every teen's worst fear. 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. 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:48.660 Man, mental health resources certainly are in a state, aren't they? 00:02:48.660 --> 00:02:52.420 The US government has announced they want to give someone a lot of money to research 00:02:52.420 --> 00:02:55.780 digital twin technology for semiconductor manufacturing. 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 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 00:03:08.660 --> 00:03:13.240 convince someone else to create an institution dedicated to studying digital twin technology. 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 00:03:20.440 --> 00:03:24.360 processors without actually, you know, making them. Lazy. 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:28.320 Just do it. You don't got the balls. 00:03:28.320 --> 00:03:33.020 The tech is currently being used in the automotive industry to test different modes of production 00:03:33.020 --> 00:03:36.240 without affecting, you know, their current manufacturing output. 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:41.300 For example, Mercedes-Benz used NVIDIA's Omniverse Enterprise software to simulate 00:03:41.300 --> 00:03:44.860 one of its factories just to plan an upgrade for EV manufacturing. 00:03:44.860 --> 00:03:49.740 Now, the US government seems really passionate about this tech because they said all the 00:03:49.740 --> 00:03:54.380 buzzwords. The Department of Commerce's press release states that digital twins can exist in the 00:03:54.380 --> 00:03:58.620 cloud and could leverage emerging technology like artificial intelligence. 00:03:58.620 --> 00:04:02.740 Okay, this was fully written by a dude in a fleece vest named Chad. 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. 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:12.000 Please stand for the stating of these quick bits. 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:16.060 Oh, right. I do those. 00:04:16.060 --> 00:04:20.720 YouTube is rolling out a new experimental premium feature called Jump Ahead, which skips ahead 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:24.120 to the part of the video the algorithm thinks you're trying to find. 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:28.120 Typically, the moment that most other users skip to in the past, like the banger chorus 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 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. 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 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, 00:04:51.220 --> 00:04:54.580 you'll just have to wait. Lo siento. 00:04:54.580 --> 00:04:59.860 Authors and audiobook listeners are divided as 40,000 AI-narrated titles have hit Audible 00:04:59.860 --> 00:05:03.240 thanks to a new beta tool Amazon introduced last year. 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:07.600 While writers are grateful for the opportunity to save on professional voiceover fees, audible 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:11.680 subscribers are annoyed that there's no option to filter AI audiobooks out. 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:15.200 Human narrators, meanwhile, are feeling pessimistic about their future job security. 00:05:15.200 --> 00:05:19.600 Personally, I'm worried about the quality of the narration on these self-published titles. 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 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 00:05:32.420 --> 00:05:37.980 sexually explicit content. Which is fancy lawyer talk for deep fake pornography and news. 00:05:37.980 --> 00:05:41.980 To be fair to Google, this kind of content was already implicitly prohibited as a form 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. 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. 00:05:51.940 --> 00:05:56.500 However, Google apparently felt the need to make it explicit due to the sudden Ryzen 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 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. 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:10.360 There are frying pan shaped dildos. There's a market. 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 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 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:28.060 15 volts. Just imagining how many chrome tabs I could leave open is making me sweat. 00:06:28.060 --> 00:06:31.980 But this memory wouldn't actually be used for RAM. It's non-volatile. 00:06:31.980 --> 00:06:35.980 So it can store data without constant power. And it's not made of silicon. 00:06:35.980 --> 00:06:40.140 But rather ferroelectric aluminum scandium nitride. 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 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. 00:06:49.940 --> 00:06:56.880 A new NASA study collected samples of drug-resistant bacteria Ibugendensis, quote, from various 00:06:56.880 --> 00:07:02.920 locations within the ISS, and found 13 distinct strains which have never been seen before on 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:08.400 Earth. The bacteria has apparently mutated to survive in the extreme environment, becoming even 00:07:08.400 --> 00:07:12.400 more drug-resistant in the process and helping other microorganisms survive. 00:07:12.400 --> 00:07:16.160 It got way stretchier. It can flame on. 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:19.160 It's become fantastic. 00:07:19.180 --> 00:07:23.420 Perhaps we should make the astronauts clean up after themselves so humanity doesn't get 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? 00:07:29.100 --> 00:07:32.100 Look at this room! It's a pigsty! 00:07:32.100 --> 00:07:36.780 Is this how I raised you? You call this a space station? 00:07:36.780 --> 00:07:40.460 And might I recommend that you come back on Wednesday for more tech news? 00:07:40.460 --> 00:07:41.700 And clean behind your ears.