1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Whoa, 2024, wow, we made it, that was close. 2 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:10,880 Apple has confirmed that they got hoop dreams. 3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:15,720 If by hoop, you mean gaming platform and not just NBA games. 4 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:21,200 I'm sorry, here's the news. In an interview with Inverse, Apple representatives explained that Apple Silicon 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:25,880 has changed the game for Apple. I didn't realize that was a pun when I wrote it, but awesome. 6 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:32,760 With every M12 or three-powered Mac being able to play AAA games pretty fantastically. 7 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:37,880 Even better, now that Apple's own impressive chips, Power iPhone, iPad and Mac, 8 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:42,200 porting games to work on all those platforms is simple and effective. 9 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,520 As demonstrated by Resident Evil 4 launching on Mac 10 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,760 and then recently on iPhone and running like a dream. 11 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:53,080 The interview serves to confirm something that anyone who's seen their past few conference keynotes 12 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:57,080 would have already surmised. That Apple is getting serious 13 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:00,160 about making the Mac platform a lot friendlier to gamers, 14 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:04,400 not only with improved performance, but also with support for more titles. 15 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,960 Other than the aforementioned game about immoral inhabitants, 16 00:01:07,960 --> 00:01:13,760 the Mac also got multiple Game of the Year award-winning RPG, Baldur's Gate 3, 17 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:18,120 and Lies of P. 18 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:22,720 Do people like that one? Honestly, I'm hoping Apple gaming only gets better, 19 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:27,440 even if Apple only wants more people to buy their MacBooks because you can't buy their watches anymore. 20 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:30,760 J.K., you can buy the watches again. Go pick one up. 21 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:36,640 OpenAI was sued by the New York Times last week for copyright infringement relating to chat GPT. 22 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:41,080 And I haven't had a chance to talk about it because I was on vacation. So now I wanna talk about it 23 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:44,840 because it's the first major AI copyright lawsuit pertaining to news content 24 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,880 and it could actually have a big impact. So can I just talk about it for a second? 25 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,800 Please, thank you. The New York Times lawsuit claims that if provided 26 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:56,880 with a URL and a bit of the beginning text from a Times article, chat GPT will reproduce 27 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:01,360 the entire article nearly verbatim. The Times says this is evidence 28 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,400 that OpenAI trained their models on NYT articles 29 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,080 without a license. And they also call for the destruction 30 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:13,120 of not only GPT 3 and 4, but any LLM trained on their content 31 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,760 and any citizen who harbored these models. Shoshana! 32 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:23,500 Now, some have defended OpenAI by pointing out that chat GPT didn't memorize 33 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:27,580 and then spit out these articles. It's just predicting the next word 34 00:02:27,580 --> 00:02:31,700 based on its training data, which is the whole internet. 35 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:34,700 It's not copyright infringement per se, 36 00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:38,380 but even if that's true, the NYT's case is bolstered by the fact 37 00:02:38,380 --> 00:02:42,260 that some companies like Apple are pursuing deals to license content 38 00:02:42,260 --> 00:02:45,300 from news organizations to train their AI models. 39 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:48,780 And in fact, OpenAI has already made a number 40 00:02:48,780 --> 00:02:53,780 of such deals. And even more fact, the New York Times approached OpenAI 41 00:02:53,780 --> 00:02:58,340 to make a licensing deal, but negotiations fell apart back in August. 42 00:02:58,340 --> 00:03:01,740 Ah, so that's the reason for all this. 43 00:03:01,740 --> 00:03:06,140 Hopefully this lawsuit can finally answer the question of whether chat GPT is alive. 44 00:03:06,140 --> 00:03:11,420 You know who's definitely not alive? Virtual influencers created by marketing agencies 45 00:03:11,420 --> 00:03:16,500 using AI image generators and disdain for the ineffable quality of the human soul. 46 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:22,420 The Financial Times spoke to the founders of Barcelona-based ad agency, The Clueless, 47 00:03:22,420 --> 00:03:26,460 which is just perfect. They've been partnering hot brands 48 00:03:26,460 --> 00:03:29,460 with clueless virtual hot girl influencers, 49 00:03:29,460 --> 00:03:32,860 Maya Lima and Aitana Lopez, 50 00:03:32,860 --> 00:03:39,260 after being taken aback by the skyrocketing rates human influencers charge these days. 51 00:03:39,260 --> 00:03:42,540 What's a poor fashion brand like H&M to do? 52 00:03:42,540 --> 00:03:46,540 Pay famous humans an even greater multiple of the pennies 53 00:03:46,540 --> 00:03:49,780 they pay to the non-famous humans who make their clothes? 54 00:03:49,780 --> 00:03:54,740 No, the answer according to an analytics report from Instagram is to create a campaign 55 00:03:54,740 --> 00:04:01,300 with famous people that don't even exist. That makes these campaigns 91% cheaper per impression 56 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:04,780 because people that don't exist don't need to be paid as much. 57 00:04:04,780 --> 00:04:09,020 They still need a little though. Virtual content creators are becoming more prominent 58 00:04:09,020 --> 00:04:13,940 in South Korea and elsewhere, complete with followers who leave comments 59 00:04:13,940 --> 00:04:18,700 about how beautiful they are. What are you, what are you doing? 60 00:04:18,700 --> 00:04:24,020 I mean, sure, follow them, you know, use the coupon code or whatever, but who, who are you talking to? 61 00:04:24,020 --> 00:04:27,780 What? No, I don't know, maybe she'll see it, it's pretty hot. 62 00:04:27,780 --> 00:04:32,180 One time I stuck my hand in the quick-miss jar and I touched the bottom and I thought they were all gone, 63 00:04:32,180 --> 00:04:35,740 but then there were more, I don't know how that jar works. 64 00:04:35,740 --> 00:04:38,900 Do you own a Vizio TV in California? 65 00:04:38,900 --> 00:04:42,420 You may be entitled to a portion of a $3 million payout 66 00:04:42,420 --> 00:04:46,860 as a result of a now settled class action lawsuit brought against the TV company 67 00:04:46,860 --> 00:04:51,660 for advertising its TV's 120 Hertz and 240 Hertz refresh rates, 68 00:04:51,660 --> 00:04:56,140 which were, in many cases, just 60 Hertz plus motion smoothing, 69 00:04:56,140 --> 00:04:59,860 a feature known in the land of the nerds as Geeksbane. 70 00:04:59,860 --> 00:05:03,220 The individual payouts won't be enough to buy a new TV, 71 00:05:03,220 --> 00:05:08,220 but it should do something to offset your labor of changing the settings at your parents' house. 72 00:05:08,220 --> 00:05:12,300 Again, you did it last year, it keeps turning itself back on, wha? 73 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:17,220 Google may be planning to add maps driving mode to its ever-largeening graveyard, 74 00:05:17,220 --> 00:05:20,380 according to code strings discovered by 9 to 5 Google, 75 00:05:20,380 --> 00:05:24,580 because the only thing Google does better than building things is destroying them, 76 00:05:24,580 --> 00:05:29,740 like a toddler making a tower out of blocks. It's going down as soon as it's done. 77 00:05:29,740 --> 00:05:34,500 9 to 5 Google believes the strings in question indicate driving mode will be deprecated 78 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:39,380 in February of this year, which is 2024 in case you forgot, 79 00:05:39,380 --> 00:05:42,380 more than a year after Google shut down the similar 80 00:05:42,380 --> 00:05:47,140 but different Google Assistant driving mode, which also followed the perishing 81 00:05:47,140 --> 00:05:51,220 of Android Auto for phone screens. Hey, maybe just stop trying 82 00:05:51,220 --> 00:05:57,260 to make special maps driving modes only to immediately kill them, maybe just stop you're already making another one, okay. 83 00:05:57,260 --> 00:06:02,180 Hey, want some fun science news? A team at Michigan State University have made progress 84 00:06:02,180 --> 00:06:09,300 in developing a living building material that can self-heal clean pollution from the air, 85 00:06:09,340 --> 00:06:13,300 and only rarely absorb nearby people to implant their eggs in. 86 00:06:13,300 --> 00:06:17,020 Pretty good. Intended for use with special 3D printers, 87 00:06:17,020 --> 00:06:20,140 the material is a micro-rich ink of sorts, 88 00:06:20,140 --> 00:06:25,420 created from agricultural waste or the parts of plants that farmers can't sell. 89 00:06:25,420 --> 00:06:28,820 Also, a major ingredient in my grandma's signature stew, 90 00:06:28,820 --> 00:06:33,100 which is why I'm so strong. When Mr. Beast asked his ex-followers, 91 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:36,740 which sounds like I'm saying former followers, which is why I'll keep saying Twitter 92 00:06:36,740 --> 00:06:39,780 until they make me stop, anyways, when Jimmy asked his followers 93 00:06:39,780 --> 00:06:45,220 to go watch his new video on YouTube, Elon Musk agreed with a reply from a crypto guy, 94 00:06:45,220 --> 00:06:48,620 telling Senior Beast to upload the vid on Twitter. 95 00:06:48,620 --> 00:06:51,740 Beast Wars replied that this platform's monetization 96 00:06:51,740 --> 00:06:55,860 wouldn't fund a fraction of the millions of dollars his videos cost to make, 97 00:06:55,860 --> 00:07:01,340 essentially telling the world's richest man, he can't afford them, gotcha. 98 00:07:01,340 --> 00:07:07,060 Perhaps thinking Mr. Beast was missing something, crypto guy replied, post on both? 99 00:07:07,100 --> 00:07:10,820 Perfectly explaining why he's into crypto. And a number of creative works 100 00:07:10,820 --> 00:07:14,700 have entered the public domain, including Mickey Mouse. 101 00:07:14,700 --> 00:07:18,380 But don't get too excited, the only version of Mickey that's now free to use 102 00:07:18,380 --> 00:07:23,580 is the original character as depicted in the 1928 Steamboat Willie cartoon. 103 00:07:23,580 --> 00:07:27,100 This is already being taken advantage of by creators like Corridor Digital, 104 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:30,780 who straight up re-uploaded Steamboat Willie, because why the heck not? 105 00:07:30,780 --> 00:07:34,060 But also by the creators of just announced horror game, 106 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:38,340 Infestation 88, featuring a creepy, zombified Mickey. 107 00:07:38,340 --> 00:07:42,580 Another entry in the same weird tradition that brought us the groundbreaking film, 108 00:07:42,580 --> 00:07:47,460 Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey. We're finally free to use these characters 109 00:07:47,460 --> 00:07:52,380 to make things that are lame and bad. But you'll never be lame and bad in my eyes, 110 00:07:52,380 --> 00:07:57,420 as long as you show up on Wednesday again for more tech news. I'm just kidding, I love you no matter 111 00:07:57,420 --> 00:08:00,740 where you are on Wednesday, as long as you're here on time.