The FTC is open in an investigation into open AI over potential consumer harm.
But how can it harm consumers when you can't even eat it? I'm Jacob Rush.
This is TechLinked, and this is a 20-page letter sent to open AI by the FTC,
requesting documents regarding the company's large language model development
and training practices, as well as open AI's data security.
The FTC obviously has a lot of questions about things like March's chat GPT bug
that revealed users' chat and payment information and how open AI
refined its models to prevent chat GPT from hallucinating and making up facts.
On top of all that, the FTC also intends to investigate
if Sam Altman may have raised his incredibly popular AI child on private information.
And they're not the only ones in legal trouble for data collection. A class action lawsuit has been filed against Google for allegedly stealing data
to train their chatbot Bard, filed by the same law firm
that filed a similar class action lawsuit against open AI last month.
This newer lawsuit claims Google has been secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by Americans.
If true, this will be the most brazen American theft since Nick Cage
sold the Declaration of Independence. My favorite documentary.
Can you even believe that they kept the camera rolling long enough to get the sequel?
I'm gonna steal the Declaration of Independence. It's almost as good as a documentary where he fights animatronics.
LG Electronics is planning to offer a subscription-based home-as-a-service platform
for its appliances. Want seasonal DLC for your dishwasher?
Want an AI assistant for your oven? Want unlockable premium content on your fridge?
No? Well, that's too bad. The motivation for the change was, of course, money.
You see, LG realized that tragically, the average household will buy at most
one $4,000 premium smart fridge every decade.
But they would strongly prefer that you simply paid them forever instead.
LG outlined its goal to increase its annual income from $51 billion to $78 billion
over the next six and a half years. An increase of 53% through these kinds of subscriptions.
To do this, they plan to spend $39.5 billion on research and development.
It's not like half of what you want to make. That doesn't seem right.
I don't know if the math works out there. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I know it's over time.
It's worth noting that last year LG had its highest revenue ever.
But alas, executive want number go up.
I would hope that consumers would put their foot down and refuse to engage with
this obvious money grab, but you just know there's a bunch of whales that are
going to blow thousands of dollars on microwave transactions.
Man, I can't wait to get the freaking red microwave cosmetic skin.
The Perseverance rover has found signs of organic matter on Mars,
according to a study published in Nature. Organic matter in this case is molecules containing carbon bonded to hydrogen
or other carbon atoms, not evidence that there used to be Martians growing
artisanal farm-to-table produce. A team on Earth was able to find the matter using an instrument on the rover
called scanning habitable environments with ramen and luminescence for
organics and chemicals or Sherlock to its friends and sexual conquests.
Using Sherlock, researchers looked at 10 locations in the massive Jezero crater
and found organic compounds at all 10. Now, organic compounds are the building blocks of life,
but this doesn't mean there are aliens on Mars. Especially since everyone knows they left years ago to abduct transients
under orders from Bigfoot. What you're saying is no f***ing Sherlock.
Correct. To determine the origin of the compounds and whether they are evidence
that Mars once sustained life, they need to be brought to Earth
via the Mars return mission, but that might be difficult because the U.S. Senate just slashed the mission's budget due to ballooning costs.
And I have to say how disheartening it is to learn that Bigfoot has infiltrated the U.S. government.
How can you not see that? He's a very, very large creature and full of just covered in hair.
How can you not tell? Wake up, sheeple!
Quick bits are like the little forehead kisses your mom used to give you.
Except now, you're grown up and you're receiving them from a large, bearded man.
I like to think it's more special. ASUS has confirmed that the ROG Ally's SD card reader
can malfunction under certain thermal stress conditions.
This issue has been a big deal recently due to the popularity of the handheld PC.
Fortunately, ASUS said they will be releasing an update to help mitigate the issue.
But it may have the side effect of increasing fan noise, something that is only ever good if you're a live band.
And I'm not a live band, ASUS. I'm a person. Why can't you see me for who I am?
Google has launched public testing of Notebook LM, previously known as Project Tailwind,
which is probably why its logo looks like a stylized cartoon fart.
Just like that. It's essentially a mini-AI assistant trained on your own documents.
According to Google, a med student could upload neuroscience articles
and ask Notebook LM to create a glossary of key terms related to dopamine,
which has got to suck for all the residents who just graduated. Can you imagine that?
What am I going to do with all these notes I just made?
Oh! Currently, Notebook LM is available only for Google Docs and only in the United States,
because the rest of the world has sealed America behind an airtight glass dome.
I'm sorry if this is how you found out. You'll never be able to see your girlfriend that lives in Canada that you totally made up.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IE,
has released a new standard for a light-based communication network, i.e. Li-Fi.
It's like Wi-Fi, but it's made of lies. If by lies, you mean photons, and I do.
The idea of Li-Fi has been around for years and could increase data transfer speeds up to 100% over existing Wi-Fi,
but it's been difficult to implement. Hopefully, one day, our children will be able to blind pilots with a single laser
carrying an AI upscaled 4K 14 Gigabyte copy of the Star Wars Holiday Special.
That's what the pilots will sound like when they crash to their deaths.
The CEO of TinyBuild, the studio that publishes Hello Neighbor,
a game about spying on people, indicated that he might possibly be spying on his employees, maybe.
But don't worry, it's for their own good. At a conference, he described how TinyBuild uses AI to monitor its workers for burnout,
which he himself called bizarrely black mirror-y.
Apparently, it involves identifying workers that use the words
I and me too often and talk a lot in meetings and then firing them.
But the CEO has since said this was all purely hypothetical,
so just forget about what you heard and start using the Royal Wii at staff meetings.
I think we need more breaks. We have been working too hard.
And Ubisoft has announced a collaboration with haptic skin suitmaker,
Owo, Owo, I don't know how to pronounce it, for the upcoming Assassin's Creed Mirage.
The product page for the Assassin's Creed Mirage edition haptic gaming system
promises you will be Basim, the protagonist of the game.
And I believe Owo, based on the library of simulated sensations advertised on their site,
including light abdominal wound, severe abdominal wound, being shot,
and being shot, but with an exit wound.
You know, when I think of the fun parts of gaming, I always think of the grievous injuries my character suffers.
Why not simulate something enjoyable, like a pat on the back,
or my dad saying he's proud of me? Unrealistic.
I haven't had milk for years. But I'll be proud of you if you come back on Monday for more tech length.
Of course, I'm always proud of you, but I'm just less proud of you when you disappoint me.
So don't.