WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.640 Uh, March 15th, otherwise known as the Ibes of March. 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:07.240 To celebrate, I'll be getting stabbed 23 times at the end of this video. 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:10.560 A-2-L-I-N-U? 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:14.400 OpenAI has officially announced the sequel to GPT-3. 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:19.800 GPT-360. No, wait, Series X, no, sorry, GPT-4, 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:25.200 which they claim is more powerful, more creative, and more reliable. 00:00:25.200 --> 00:00:30.000 It can also pass professional benchmarks like the LSAT and BAR exam 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.960 within the 88th percentile or higher, meaning that it's better than ever 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:38.840 at fulfilling parents' dreams. Early experimenters have managed to use GPT-4 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:44.120 to quickly recreate the classic game pong and to turn a simple sketch on an appkin 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 00:00:49.480 --> 00:00:52.680 to hallucination, which is interesting, 00:00:52.680 --> 00:00:56.600 because shortly after it was unveiled, Microsoft announced that the new Bing 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:00.000 has apparently been running on GPT-4 the whole time. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:04.200 Bing, while certainly powerful and creative, is not necessarily what most people would describe 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:10.000 as reliable and non-hallucinogenic, but hey, it's from Microsoft, so what do you expect? 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:15.000 But this hasn't dampened Microsoft's confidence. They apparently think the model is so good 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.960 that it won't need humans to help it figure out ethics 00:01:18.960 --> 00:01:22.160 because the company eliminated their entire ethics 00:01:22.160 --> 00:01:25.720 and society team from their Office of Responsible AI, 00:01:25.720 --> 00:01:29.840 which I assume means that they have solved all the ethical problems related to AI 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:33.560 and it's gonna be smooth sailing from here on out, nothing could possibly go wrong. 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:37.960 We got an AI for that. Ever since Meta's open source GPT-3 level 00:01:37.960 --> 00:01:41.640 large language model, Oama, had its training date leaked last month, 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:44.660 developers have been figuring out new and innovative ways 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, 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:54.240 and even a Raspberry Pi, just like what you would do with real llamas, right? 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. 00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:04.360 And while it may chug like a cement smoothie on something like a Raspberry Pi, 00:02:04.360 --> 00:02:07.920 it does successfully, well, not meet that run, 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:12.720 but walk anyway. Like a llama. Now, to be clear, this is still Meta's IP 00:02:12.720 --> 00:02:17.240 and its terms of service do still apply. But sooner rather than later, 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:20.560 we're going to see the first hyper-individualized pocket AI, 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. 00:02:26.160 --> 00:02:30.400 Now it can graph columns. Insulting. Back when Windows 11 launched, 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:35.200 users rioted when they discovered that the new streamlined taskbar had lost much 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. 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 00:02:45.440 --> 00:02:48.800 that my daughter glued together. This has popularized mods 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:54.120 intending to reinstate that functionality. However, early previews into the newest version 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:57.200 of Windows 11 seem to indicate that Microsoft will be giving us one 00:02:57.200 --> 00:03:00.200 of those little orange tools for our yelling. 00:03:00.200 --> 00:03:05.000 Like a little spudgy thing. And we could see a return of the never combine option. 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. 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. 00:03:15.720 --> 00:03:21.360 Benchmarks show that default Windows VBS can actually slow down games as much as 10%, 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:25.680 even on top-end graphics cards. Thanks to Microsoft's insistence on improving things 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, 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. 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, 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:43.320 as well as Maker Suite, a browser app for developers 00:03:43.320 --> 00:03:47.360 that leaves all the intensive computation to Google's cloud servers 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:53.160 and lets you focus on presumably, making? Google is also expanding generative AI support 00:03:53.160 --> 00:03:58.000 in Vertex, a platform that helps businesses train and launch machine learning models. 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:01.880 And Thropic, a Google backed company founded by former open AI employees, 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 00:04:06.040 --> 00:04:09.720 this week in machine learning and AI? No, everything's AI right now. 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, 00:04:14.720 --> 00:04:19.720 et cetera, something, and something, something. Meta is firing another 10,000 employees, 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:24.600 roughly 13% of its global workforce, as part of its year of efficiency. 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. 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:30.840 Isn't that every year in China, Andy? 00:04:31.960 --> 00:04:36.680 That is some, that is some tone deaf branding for the thousands of working professionals 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:41.240 and their families who have lost their jobs. I bet they workshopped that for a while. 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:45.520 We had an earlier wave of 11,000 efficiencies four months ago, 00:04:45.520 --> 00:04:49.120 meaning that meta employees have been decimated twice. 00:04:49.200 --> 00:04:52.880 And that's in the original meaning of the word, meaning reduced by around a tenth. 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 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:02.520 your own army, not the opponent. It was like a punishment, presumably for not having sex. 00:05:02.520 --> 00:05:07.120 Microsoft has announced yet another deal, extending call of duty to another platform. 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:10.920 This time, cloud gaming powerhouse, Boosteroid, 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 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:18.640 that Boosteroid is the largest indie cloud gaming service 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. 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. 00:05:29.400 --> 00:05:34.200 Pretty, pretty, please. And I suppose after granting access to Cod 00:05:34.200 --> 00:05:37.920 to both Nintendo and NVIDIA, and having Sony turn it down, 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 00:05:43.320 --> 00:05:46.820 to offer the franchise to. I can't wait to see modern warfare running 00:05:46.820 --> 00:05:49.900 simultaneously on PC, Xbox, Switch, 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. 00:05:54.080 --> 00:05:57.180 Cyber crime ring, Emotet is back again 00:05:57.180 --> 00:06:00.260 and back to its old tricks of using botnets 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. 00:06:06.400 --> 00:06:11.340 They've been active on and off since 2014 going on hiatus for extended periods, 00:06:11.340 --> 00:06:14.380 presumably because some of their members were serving time. It got sleepy. 00:06:14.380 --> 00:06:17.900 It's sleepy, okay, got it. Only to rise again with new techniques 00:06:17.900 --> 00:06:23.060 to evade security and cause trouble. They're like cicadas, but with malware. 00:06:23.060 --> 00:06:26.260 This time, they were spotted sending a malicious image macro 00:06:26.260 --> 00:06:29.660 embedded in an attached 500 megabyte word document, 00:06:29.660 --> 00:06:33.420 which is way above the file size limit of many security scans, 00:06:33.420 --> 00:06:39.940 but I guess not everybody scans. And the file contained large experts excerpts, 00:06:39.940 --> 00:06:43.340 is that the word? Excerpts from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, 00:06:43.340 --> 00:06:46.860 which is a pretty big book and it also had macros. 00:06:46.860 --> 00:06:51.500 Wow, good job. SpaceX is getting ready to test its new starship 00:06:51.500 --> 00:06:56.540 in the next month, which founder Elon Musk gives a 50-50 chance of success. 00:06:56.540 --> 00:06:59.580 This is a quote. I'm not saying it will get to orbit, 00:06:59.580 --> 00:07:04.300 but I am guaranteeing excitement. While this doesn't exactly inspire confidence, 00:07:04.300 --> 00:07:10.340 it will certainly incentivize people to tune into the presumably available live stream of the launch, 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. 00:07:14.460 --> 00:07:18.540 They're both options. The game. The fault, dear viewers, is not in our tech news, 00:07:18.540 --> 00:07:21.660 but in ourselves. Return on Friday for more TechLinked 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. 00:07:27.460 --> 00:07:30.460 Every week. Every week, unless you fight better.