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