1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,640 Uh, March 15th, otherwise known as the Ibes of March. 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:07,240 To celebrate, I'll be getting stabbed 23 times at the end of this video. 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:10,560 A-2-L-I-N-U? 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:14,400 OpenAI has officially announced the sequel to GPT-3. 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:19,800 GPT-360. No, wait, Series X, no, sorry, GPT-4, 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:25,200 which they claim is more powerful, more creative, and more reliable. 7 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:30,000 It can also pass professional benchmarks like the LSAT and BAR exam 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,960 within the 88th percentile or higher, meaning that it's better than ever 9 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:38,840 at fulfilling parents' dreams. Early experimenters have managed to use GPT-4 10 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:44,120 to quickly recreate the classic game pong and to turn a simple sketch on an appkin 11 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:49,480 into a functioning website. I always have trouble with that. The new model is also supposedly less prone 12 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:52,680 to hallucination, which is interesting, 13 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:56,600 because shortly after it was unveiled, Microsoft announced that the new Bing 14 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,000 has apparently been running on GPT-4 the whole time. 15 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,200 Bing, while certainly powerful and creative, is not necessarily what most people would describe 16 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:10,000 as reliable and non-hallucinogenic, but hey, it's from Microsoft, so what do you expect? 17 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:15,000 But this hasn't dampened Microsoft's confidence. They apparently think the model is so good 18 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,960 that it won't need humans to help it figure out ethics 19 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:22,160 because the company eliminated their entire ethics 20 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:25,720 and society team from their Office of Responsible AI, 21 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:29,840 which I assume means that they have solved all the ethical problems related to AI 22 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,560 and it's gonna be smooth sailing from here on out, nothing could possibly go wrong. 23 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:37,960 We got an AI for that. Ever since Meta's open source GPT-3 level 24 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:41,640 large language model, Oama, had its training date leaked last month, 25 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,660 developers have been figuring out new and innovative ways 26 00:01:44,660 --> 00:01:50,200 to run it on just about everything. First on a Mac, then on Windows, then on a Pixel 6, 27 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,240 and even a Raspberry Pi, just like what you would do with real llamas, right? 28 00:01:54,240 --> 00:02:00,320 Giddy up. One of the key strengths of Lama is that it was designed to run with a single GPU. 29 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,360 And while it may chug like a cement smoothie on something like a Raspberry Pi, 30 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,920 it does successfully, well, not meet that run, 31 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:12,720 but walk anyway. Like a llama. Now, to be clear, this is still Meta's IP 32 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:17,240 and its terms of service do still apply. But sooner rather than later, 33 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,560 we're going to see the first hyper-individualized pocket AI, 34 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:26,160 which is great news because I've been looking for a way to make using a graphing calculator far more interesting. 35 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:30,400 Now it can graph columns. Insulting. Back when Windows 11 launched, 36 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:35,200 users rioted when they discovered that the new streamlined taskbar had lost much 37 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:40,280 of the functionality that it enjoyed back with Windows 10. It can't be moved to the top or the side of the screen. 38 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:45,440 Separate iterations of the same program would stack and couldn't be separated like those Lego bricks 39 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:48,800 that my daughter glued together. This has popularized mods 40 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:54,120 intending to reinstate that functionality. However, early previews into the newest version 41 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,200 of Windows 11 seem to indicate that Microsoft will be giving us one 42 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,200 of those little orange tools for our yelling. 43 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:05,000 Like a little spudgy thing. And we could see a return of the never combine option. 44 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,160 Nice. While they're at it, by the way, they might want to fix their VBS settings. 45 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:15,720 There was concern at launch that Windows 11's VBS and HVCI default might affect performance and they do. 46 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:21,360 Benchmarks show that default Windows VBS can actually slow down games as much as 10%, 47 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,680 even on top-end graphics cards. Thanks to Microsoft's insistence on improving things 48 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:30,600 by making them worse first. Well, what else are you gonna do? Hey, friends, Romans, tech enthusiasts, 49 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,080 lend me your ears. I come to say the buck quacks, not to praise them what is happening. 50 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:39,840 It's a quote, it's a quote Linus. Google has launched an API for its own LLM Palm, 51 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,320 as well as Maker Suite, a browser app for developers 52 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:47,360 that leaves all the intensive computation to Google's cloud servers 53 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:53,160 and lets you focus on presumably, making? Google is also expanding generative AI support 54 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:58,000 in Vertex, a platform that helps businesses train and launch machine learning models. 55 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,880 And Thropic, a Google backed company founded by former open AI employees, 56 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:06,040 has launched its own chat, but Claude, is this a new segment we do that's just like 57 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,720 this week in machine learning and AI? No, everything's AI right now. 58 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:14,720 Everything was AI. Uh-huh, there's something, something, there's a whole bunch of them, Ulysses, Archibald, 59 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:19,720 et cetera, something, and something, something. Meta is firing another 10,000 employees, 60 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:24,600 roughly 13% of its global workforce, as part of its year of efficiency. 61 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:28,560 You know, I haven't heard of that one. You got the year of the rabbit, the year of the direct, the year of efficiency. 62 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,840 Isn't that every year in China, Andy? 63 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:36,680 That is some, that is some tone deaf branding for the thousands of working professionals 64 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:41,240 and their families who have lost their jobs. I bet they workshopped that for a while. 65 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:45,520 We had an earlier wave of 11,000 efficiencies four months ago, 66 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:49,120 meaning that meta employees have been decimated twice. 67 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,880 And that's in the original meaning of the word, meaning reduced by around a tenth. 68 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:56,880 Yeah, I actually had to look that up because I didn't realize that you would decimate 69 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:02,520 your own army, not the opponent. It was like a punishment, presumably for not having sex. 70 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:07,120 Microsoft has announced yet another deal, extending call of duty to another platform. 71 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,920 This time, cloud gaming powerhouse, Boosteroid, 72 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:14,800 which you have almost certainly never heard of. So then I'll be the one to tell you 73 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,640 that Boosteroid is the largest indie cloud gaming service 74 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:23,280 currently with a reported user base of around four million. So we're, so we don't have to be rude Linus. 75 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:29,400 Okay, this is all part of Microsoft's campaign to convince regulators to let it acquire Activision Blizzard. 76 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:34,200 Pretty, pretty, please. And I suppose after granting access to Cod 77 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:37,920 to both Nintendo and NVIDIA, and having Sony turn it down, 78 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:43,320 Microsoft is now really scraping the bottom of the barrel here looking for another major gaming platform 79 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,820 to offer the franchise to. I can't wait to see modern warfare running 80 00:05:46,820 --> 00:05:49,900 simultaneously on PC, Xbox, Switch, 81 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:54,080 and Samsung Smart fridge. That's really gonna make Sony jealous. We are truly on the best timeline. 82 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,180 Cyber crime ring, Emotet is back again 83 00:05:57,180 --> 00:06:00,260 and back to its old tricks of using botnets 84 00:06:00,260 --> 00:06:06,400 to spam your email pretending to be a response from a known contact using your actual name. 85 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:11,340 They've been active on and off since 2014 going on hiatus for extended periods, 86 00:06:11,340 --> 00:06:14,380 presumably because some of their members were serving time. It got sleepy. 87 00:06:14,380 --> 00:06:17,900 It's sleepy, okay, got it. Only to rise again with new techniques 88 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:23,060 to evade security and cause trouble. They're like cicadas, but with malware. 89 00:06:23,060 --> 00:06:26,260 This time, they were spotted sending a malicious image macro 90 00:06:26,260 --> 00:06:29,660 embedded in an attached 500 megabyte word document, 91 00:06:29,660 --> 00:06:33,420 which is way above the file size limit of many security scans, 92 00:06:33,420 --> 00:06:39,940 but I guess not everybody scans. And the file contained large experts excerpts, 93 00:06:39,940 --> 00:06:43,340 is that the word? Excerpts from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, 94 00:06:43,340 --> 00:06:46,860 which is a pretty big book and it also had macros. 95 00:06:46,860 --> 00:06:51,500 Wow, good job. SpaceX is getting ready to test its new starship 96 00:06:51,500 --> 00:06:56,540 in the next month, which founder Elon Musk gives a 50-50 chance of success. 97 00:06:56,540 --> 00:06:59,580 This is a quote. I'm not saying it will get to orbit, 98 00:06:59,580 --> 00:07:04,300 but I am guaranteeing excitement. While this doesn't exactly inspire confidence, 99 00:07:04,300 --> 00:07:10,340 it will certainly incentivize people to tune into the presumably available live stream of the launch, 100 00:07:10,340 --> 00:07:14,420 whether it's to see it make it into orbit or see it make it into oblivion. 101 00:07:14,460 --> 00:07:18,540 They're both options. The game. The fault, dear viewers, is not in our tech news, 102 00:07:18,540 --> 00:07:21,660 but in ourselves. Return on Friday for more TechLinked 103 00:07:21,660 --> 00:07:27,460 or face trial for Crimes Against Rome. That's right, you or one of your nine friends could die. 104 00:07:27,460 --> 00:07:30,460 Every week. Every week, unless you fight better.