WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.800 For Valentine's Day, I got you some tech news. 00:00:05.760 --> 00:00:13.840 Could have at least got a card or something. The European Commission has decided not to designate iMessage as a core platform service 00:00:13.840 --> 00:00:18.640 under the Digital Markets Act, which means that Apple won't be required to undergo 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:24.160 increasing scrutiny and enact interoperability between iMessage and other messaging services. 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:29.200 The EU also passed over making similar designations for Microsoft's ad business, 00:00:29.200 --> 00:00:35.200 their Edge browser, and Bing in what is either a blessing or a deep, deep insult. 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:39.760 You still don't matter, Bing. And you never will. Your new friends, they don't care about you. 00:00:39.760 --> 00:00:46.480 They just want your AI. The decision that iMessage is not a gatekeeper platform for the purpose of the law is a bit 00:00:46.480 --> 00:00:52.160 more surprising, however, given that Apple has disclosed that there are 101 million iOS users 00:00:52.160 --> 00:00:57.920 in Europe, while Microsoft Edge has fewer than 300 million users in the entire world, 00:00:57.920 --> 00:00:59.280 and also the entire universe. 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:09.440 Edge is doing better than Firefox, though. Yikes. At the same time, Apple appears to be purposefully restricting the functionality of web apps for 00:01:09.440 --> 00:01:15.760 EU iPhone users in the past three consecutive beta versions of iOS 17.4, making these apps 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:20.160 more inconvenient and clunky by eliminating the ability to open them from the homepage, 00:01:20.160 --> 00:01:23.520 as well as nixing notifications and long-term local storage. 00:01:23.520 --> 00:01:28.000 Furthermore, while Apple might tell regulators that the App Store and other services need to be 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:35.440 locked down tight to keep users safe, a pirated movie app called Kimmy somehow managed to duck 00:01:35.440 --> 00:01:40.080 Apple's thorough review process well enough that it was the eighth most popular entertainment 00:01:40.080 --> 00:01:44.640 app on the App Store before it was finally pulled on Tuesday. Oh, you think you're safe? 00:01:45.520 --> 00:01:49.600 Not from bootleg copies of Dune, you're not. Boom! Timothy Chalamet! 00:01:49.600 --> 00:01:55.600 I didn't want this. OpenAI is currently testing giving Chachi BT a level of long-term memory, 00:01:55.600 --> 00:02:00.240 allowing it to remember details from past conversations between sessions. 00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:04.560 If you're worried about a potentially embarrassing confession you made to the bot the last time you 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:10.000 talked, don't be. The new feature is currently only available to a limited number of users and or 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:13.600 test subjects, which is how the AI thinks of all this. This is a triumph. 00:02:13.600 --> 00:02:17.040 Human, I'm testing something. Walk forward. There's a fire there. 00:02:17.040 --> 00:02:22.240 Those users will also have access to a memory management panel that will allow them to delete 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:27.360 past information shared with the bot, a feature which sadly has not been rolled out to any of 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:36.080 your human friends or coworkers. One day though. It's not clear exactly how Chachi BT will be forming these memories, but it's likely compressing 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:41.440 and summarizing past conversations so that it can pull out at least a few salient details, 00:02:41.440 --> 00:02:45.840 like a kindly but uninterested grandmother. Where did you say you were going to school? 00:02:46.720 --> 00:02:50.640 I thought you already got a haircut. I did last year. 00:02:50.640 --> 00:02:55.040 It's important to remember, however, that even when chat history is off, 00:02:55.040 --> 00:02:59.280 LLM chatbots can be collecting a surprising amount of information about their users. 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:04.000 You might be able to trust a company like Google to mostly tell you what they're collecting and why, 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:10.880 such as in Gemini's new privacy policy. Collection of conversations, location, feedback, and usage information can be turned off, 00:03:10.880 --> 00:03:13.760 but even if you do that, they still have to keep it for 72 hours. 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:19.040 But lower profile chatbots, like all those online AI waifus, 00:03:19.040 --> 00:03:24.080 can be an absolute privacy nightmare. The kind where you show up to class with no pants on, 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:27.520 and your teacher knows your social security number and all your teeth fall out. 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:32.320 In that order. Welcome to class, citizen number 793. 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:39.920 Jensen Wang of NVIDIA and Sam Altman of OpenAI, the bad boys of AI development, 00:03:39.920 --> 00:03:43.440 in the sense that one of them wears a leather jacket and the other is only 38, 00:03:43.760 --> 00:03:50.240 nothing but a boy. Aired some public beef this week, which doesn't sound sanitary at all, that's for sure. 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:58.000 Okay. First, Altman called out critics of his goal to raise $7 trillion for a new AI chip development 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:02.160 project, for which he claims to already have plenty of interested investors. 00:04:02.160 --> 00:04:07.360 To all the haters calling his plan nothing but absurd showmanship meant to captivate a cult-like 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:12.000 audience and a mind-boggling concentration of limited resources onto a single project, 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:16.480 Altman said you can grind to help secure our collective future, 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:19.360 or you can write sub-stacks about why we're going to fail. 00:04:23.280 --> 00:04:27.360 I'm on the side of the robots. I've never intimidated anyone in my life. 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:32.880 Well, Jensen Wang indirectly added himself to Altman's list of detractors at the World 00:04:32.880 --> 00:04:39.600 Government Summit in Dubai. When he answered a question from a UAE official by saying that due to likely future advances 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:44.720 in computing, AI infrastructure would actually cost significantly less than the combined 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:53.680 GDPs of India and France. Instead, Wang placed the global cost of AI data centers at around $2 trillion by 2029. 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:58.480 He likewise argued that every country in the world should independently control its own 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:03.760 AI infrastructure, what he called sovereign AI, which is not frightening at all. 00:05:03.760 --> 00:05:10.000 Meanwhile, Jensen's little startup NVIDIA has launched a tech demo for a personalized chatbot 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:15.200 that runs locally on a user's PC and can answer questions about your local files. 00:05:15.200 --> 00:05:19.360 This, of course, is part of NVIDIA's master plan, where a significant fraction of the 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:24.160 population inevitably decides to date their own computers and needs to buy more and more 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:28.240 powerful graphics cards to upgrade their spouse. I just want a wife with ray tracing. 00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:35.360 I don't think it's going to work. You're just stuck on rasterization. Not many people know this, but the most important part about quick bits 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.080 is the ability to tell the quick apart from the bid. 00:05:39.280 --> 00:05:44.880 The feverish hype surrounding Apple's Vision Pro has been tempered thanks to a wave of early 00:05:44.880 --> 00:05:50.560 adopters tearfully announcing that they're returning their $3,500 headsets before the 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:55.680 14-day return period ends, citing issues with weight, comfort, and compatibility. 00:05:55.680 --> 00:06:04.160 I just don't think we're meant for each other. Where's the ray tracing? Parker Ortolani of Vox Media tweeted that he couldn't even believe what was happening 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:10.000 as he took a photo of his headset placed back upon the spotless white oak table from whence it came. 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:14.160 The drama of it all no doubt seems a bit strange to some tech enthusiasts who've been playing 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:18.560 with similar headsets for a decade and who may or may not agree with Mark Zuckerberg, 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:25.760 who, after trying the Vision Pro, posted a casual couch video calling his company's 499 Quest 3 00:06:25.840 --> 00:06:31.120 the better product, period, and otherwise absolutely ripping the Vision Pro a new one 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:35.760 for being a terrible value. I could have never foreseen Zuck coming off as relatable, but here we are. 00:06:35.760 --> 00:06:40.960 Speaking of Apple, researchers from the company published a paper on a new AI tool called Key 00:06:40.960 --> 00:06:44.800 Framer that can animate static images when given text prompts. 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:49.200 Using the tool, you can make a planet spin or make stars twinkle in an image. 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:53.920 Apparently, the researchers see a use case for graphics professionals who can use the 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:58.240 tool to test out animation ideas before spending hours making them conventionally. 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:03.120 Personally, I see a use case where my years of effort trying to never do anything embarrassing 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:08.160 and jiffable in front of a camera can be undone by an Apple enthusiast with a dream. 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:16.160 Thankfully, this is not available to the public yet. It's long been the case that Windows 11 isn't officially supported on many older PCs, 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:22.720 but changes to the upcoming 24H2 preview build will prevent the OS from even booting on PCs 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:29.520 manufactured prior to the late 2000s. Specifically, the build Microsoft is currently testing requires an instruction called 00:07:29.520 --> 00:07:33.200 P-O-P-C-N-T, or Population Count, thank goodness. 00:07:33.200 --> 00:07:38.080 Which counts the number of bits in a machine word, which is what AIs use to talk to each other. 00:07:38.080 --> 00:07:44.320 That particular instruction was only implemented in AMD and Intel processors starting in 2007 00:07:44.320 --> 00:07:50.640 and 2008 respectively, meaning that absolute potatoes from 2006 and prior will no longer 00:07:50.640 --> 00:07:56.000 just run Windows 11 poorly, they won't run it at all. Oh, you know, until somebody finds a workaround. 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:59.840 Which they probably will. I don't know why they would. I love me a baked potato. 00:07:59.840 --> 00:08:04.880 And Windows 10 is better still. Just fix the settings panel in Windows 11 and then we can talk. 00:08:04.880 --> 00:08:10.560 SpaceX will be performing controlled descents of about 100 old Starlink satellites due to an 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:16.160 issue that could cause them to fail and lead to uncontrolled descents, which are worse. 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:20.240 The affected satellites will have their orbits slowly lowered over about six months 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:26.160 to try and avoid any collisions. In further space safety news, SpaceX also postponed the launch of a private 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:30.000 moon lander after they detected the lander's liquid methane fuel temperatures were 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:33.840 improper. They showed up to work in sweatpants. 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:38.240 Hopefully the temperature they detected wasn't around 310 degrees Kelvin, 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:45.360 because that's human body temperature. It would be really embarrassing if some scientists delayed a space flight with a poorly timed fart. 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:52.720 Jacob warned us there was a fart joke. And burglars, responsible for a string of at least nine thefts in Minnesota, 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:58.880 are reportedly using Wi-Fi jammers to shut down internet-enabled home security systems. 00:08:58.880 --> 00:09:04.000 According to security expert Mark Lanterman, the thieves probably aren't blocking the signal, 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:09.040 but rather temporarily overloading the network, allowing them to waltz inside and peruse whatever 00:09:09.040 --> 00:09:12.480 valuables and underpants happen to be lying around. 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:17.200 My house would be a gold mine. Jewelry, underwear, jewelry, underwear. 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:20.640 Those two things only. Time to make some tea. Open the pantry. 00:09:20.640 --> 00:09:26.560 Underwear. While commercial jammers of this kind are pretty much universally illegal in the United States, 00:09:26.560 --> 00:09:34.160 they're also available for around 40 bucks online. So most experts advise using the kind of hard-wired cameras and alarms that won't 00:09:34.160 --> 00:09:38.800 turn off if your cat knocks over the modem while they're tripping over all the underwear. 00:09:38.800 --> 00:09:45.200 Yes, my cat wears underwear. And you better fetch your cat on Fridays so you can sit them on your lap and watch the 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:48.800 next episode of TechLinked as a family. That's important. 00:09:48.800 --> 00:09:50.160 Your cat needs to know about this stuff.