WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.080 After patching out the popular duplication glitches in Tears of the Kingdom, 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:07.560 the litigation enthusiasts at Nintendo asked themselves, 00:00:07.560 --> 00:00:12.640 how do we make ourselves less popular today? And decided the answer would be sending Valve 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:15.640 a cease and desist, just pure tactics over there. 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:20.560 Dolphin, a widely used open source GameCube and Wii emulator, announced this weekend 00:00:20.560 --> 00:00:24.280 that its planned Steam release is indefinitely postponed. 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:28.880 Nintendo was arguing that if this software were released on Steam, it would violate 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:33.680 Nintendo's copyright by allowing people to play games they legally purchased in 4K. 00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:38.360 Obviously, you have to wait for the remaster. I can pirate Nintendo with just my voice. 00:00:38.360 --> 00:00:41.840 Woohoo! Jail. Now, as much as it hurts us to say this, 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:46.480 Nintendo's claim has a smidge more legitimacy in this situation than we're used to, 00:00:46.480 --> 00:00:49.960 as Dolphin does contain the Wii common key. 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:53.000 Nintendo's proprietary code for decrypting Wii games, 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:57.440 meaning that Steam would be on the hook for distributing copyright infringing materials 00:00:57.480 --> 00:01:00.520 starring pipe-dwelling Italians. Woohoo! 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:04.480 A spokesperson for Nintendo said that the existence of Dolphin harms development 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:09.360 and ultimately stifles innovation. Innovations like charging you a subscription 00:01:09.360 --> 00:01:14.680 to play older, uglier games. One innovation Nintendo has allegedly not achieved quite yet 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:18.920 is the prevention of Joy-Con Drift, with reports that the brand new tiers 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:22.800 of the kingdom pro controllers have stick drift right out of the box. 00:01:22.800 --> 00:01:25.920 Dual rail drifting. But obviously- What do they mean by Tokyo Drift? 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:29.360 It's cool over there. The answer to this is obviously that these controllers 00:01:29.360 --> 00:01:33.720 were never meant to be used. They were strictly for scalping on eBay. 00:01:33.720 --> 00:01:36.880 Today at Computex, NVIDIA announced ACE for games, 00:01:36.880 --> 00:01:40.440 a tool that enables AI-powered natural language interactions 00:01:40.440 --> 00:01:44.000 with NPCs. Finally, I'll be able to talk to the town's local 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:50.080 cheese munger about the finer points of aging cheeses and sourcing milks, wilting off gremlins. 00:01:50.080 --> 00:01:53.960 I wanna ask the dragon if he's busy later. We could fight now, I guess. 00:01:53.960 --> 00:01:59.320 The service is composed of several pieces. Devs can build and deploy customized language models, 00:01:59.320 --> 00:02:04.800 incorporate speech to text and text to speech so players can literally speak to the characters, 00:02:04.800 --> 00:02:09.680 and a facial animator that can match a character's facial expression to what the character is saying. 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:15.200 They showed off a video that both demonstrated the AI technology and the widest aspect ratio 00:02:15.200 --> 00:02:18.800 we've ever seen on YouTube. That was the real innovation. Wide load. 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:24.520 The demonstration was fine. If by fine, you mean weirdly formal speech patterns, 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:27.880 stone-faced animations, and emotionless dialogue. 00:02:27.880 --> 00:02:32.960 Like BioWare? Yes. A perfect replica of a modern Western RPG. 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:39.280 Like everything AI, some are worried this technology will cost future, if not present, jobs in the game industry. 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:44.560 Personally, I think it will create massive demand for Devs that can program new and inventive ways 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:47.680 to stop players from bothering the cheese munger for too long. 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:52.840 He's got work to do. He's got a family at home. He makes the cheese, he doesn't wanna talk about the cheese. 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:57.320 It's an intricate process. Something he knows nothing about because he's AI. 00:02:57.320 --> 00:03:00.800 He's not real. And Mark Gurman, AKA Edgar Allen, 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:03.920 posed the conqueror, Gurm, got to take a look. 00:03:03.920 --> 00:03:09.160 That's a deep cut. Got to take a look at Metta's unannounced Quest 3 headset 00:03:09.160 --> 00:03:13.480 to see how it stacks up to Apple's upcoming model. Since Gurman shoots like a Sherman, 00:03:13.480 --> 00:03:17.920 eradicating squirman, vermin, get ready for learning when I deliver Gurman's sermon. 00:03:17.920 --> 00:03:21.680 Thank you, Jacob. That was fire. Specifically, he commented on the brand new 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:25.280 color pass-through cameras, which offered a more lifelike experience 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:30.360 than the Quest 2's non-color pass-through cameras, which would only be lifelike in the 1940s 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:33.680 when everything was black and white. That's why old pictures are like that. 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:38.200 It was different back then. No wonder grandma's still grumpy. Gurman wrote that the pass-through rendering 00:03:38.200 --> 00:03:42.200 of the real world allowed him to use his phone while also wearing the headset, 00:03:42.200 --> 00:03:45.440 the whole point of us building these things so we could use our phone. 00:03:45.440 --> 00:03:48.760 The genius of this is you can leave the headset on forever, 00:03:48.760 --> 00:03:52.600 so you never have to deal with the embarrassing red marks that leaves on your face. 00:03:52.600 --> 00:03:56.760 Gurman also mentioned the Quest 3 is far lighter and thinner than the Quest 2 00:03:56.760 --> 00:04:01.520 and has much improved performance due to its second generation Snapdragon XR2 chip. 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:07.800 Comparing the headset to Apple's upcoming one, Gurman called the Quest 3 about a fifth as much in cost 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:12.920 while being more than a fifth as compelling, which is often how tech link gets compared to LTT. 00:04:12.920 --> 00:04:16.280 To ensure standardized measurement, we keep the original quick bit 00:04:16.280 --> 00:04:20.840 in a vacuum sealed container within a vault. And we no longer make eye contact. 00:04:20.840 --> 00:04:25.480 We learned that lesson. ASUS decided to solve the burning GPU problem once and for all 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:28.720 by announcing a graphics card with no power cables. 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:32.820 You just look at it. All the power comes from a second PCI-E connector 00:04:32.820 --> 00:04:36.480 that allows for 600 watts to be delivered to the card. Pretty good. 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:41.040 The connection is proprietary and requires the use of a compatible ASUS motherboard. 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:45.960 So if anything goes wrong, you'll have to deal with ASUS's customer support twice. 00:04:45.960 --> 00:04:51.320 So it's a bit of a trade-off. A recent study has found that AI writing assistants 00:04:51.320 --> 00:04:54.480 can affect the opinions of their human users. 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:58.040 Researcher Maurice Jacquesche had participants write essays 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:02.520 about if social media is good for society while using an AI writing assistant. 00:05:02.520 --> 00:05:07.120 One group's assistant was made to be biased towards positive opinions of social media, 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:10.240 while another's was biased towards negative opinions. 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:15.400 Jacquesche found the assigned assistant's bias affected both the essay and the opinions 00:05:15.400 --> 00:05:18.740 of the participants they shared in attitude surveys afterward. 00:05:18.740 --> 00:05:23.800 So go ahead and use AI to help you write your English lit essay if you're fine getting gaslit 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:27.920 into believing you actually enjoyed Moby Dick. Based on a real story, 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:31.200 way more cannibalism in real life. There's a bunch of Quakers, 80's around the corner. 00:05:31.200 --> 00:05:34.800 Oh, there's real history. We're learning something. According to the European Union, 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:38.320 Twitter has pulled out of the EU's voluntary standards 00:05:38.320 --> 00:05:43.780 program intended to fight disinformation. The EU's internal market commissioner announced it 00:05:43.780 --> 00:05:48.520 on the platform itself while mentioning that Twitter will be required to combat disinformation 00:05:48.520 --> 00:05:52.520 come August 25th when the Digital Services Act comes into effect. 00:05:52.520 --> 00:05:56.520 I don't believe anything I read on Twitter. No, thanks to this. But instead of just tweeting that, 00:05:56.520 --> 00:06:01.560 the commissioner added, obligations remain. You can run, but you can't hide. 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:05.800 Which leads me to believe that Europe is manufacturing bureaucratic terminators. 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:10.360 Elon, you son of a bitch. Sign the form. 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:15.300 Recently surfaced internal documents show that Sony patented a handheld device 00:06:15.300 --> 00:06:20.180 very similar to their recently announced Project Q as far back as 2015, 00:06:20.180 --> 00:06:23.580 leading to the shocking revelation that cutting a controller in half 00:06:23.580 --> 00:06:28.660 and gluing a screen in the middle is something you can patent. Despite possibly eight years of development, 00:06:28.660 --> 00:06:34.020 rumors among industry insiders indicate that the handheld has a whopping three to four hours 00:06:34.020 --> 00:06:40.220 of battery life equivalent to half a steam deck or fittingly one whole Wii U gamepad. 00:06:40.220 --> 00:06:43.140 When did that come out again? Was it 2015? No. No. 00:06:44.140 --> 00:06:49.300 And a law firm suing a Colombian airline submitted a brief citing six cases 00:06:49.300 --> 00:06:53.180 that don't exist because they were made up by ChatGPT. 00:06:53.180 --> 00:06:58.620 One of the lawyers behind the brief admitted in an affidavit that he had used the AI in his research, 00:06:58.620 --> 00:07:03.980 but worry not, he double checked its work by asking it if it was lying in what its sources were. 00:07:03.980 --> 00:07:08.700 A ChatGPT, a lying liar who lies, responded that of course the cases were real 00:07:08.700 --> 00:07:14.060 and he could find them on legal research platforms like Westlaw and LexisNexis, 00:07:14.060 --> 00:07:18.300 which of course he didn't check if those were real. Those are real websites. 00:07:18.300 --> 00:07:21.580 Those are real websites. But you'll wanna check back on Wednesday 00:07:21.580 --> 00:07:25.180 for more tech news. If you don't, the EU's internal market commissioner 00:07:25.180 --> 00:07:29.860 will come visit you while you're sleeping and you don't want that. 00:07:29.860 --> 00:07:33.540 They're your taxes. Trust me. It's not fun. 00:07:33.540 --> 00:07:35.060 I saw you think that.