WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 Whoa, 2024, wow, we made it, that was close. 00:00:07.720 --> 00:00:10.880 Apple has confirmed that they got hoop dreams. 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:15.720 If by hoop, you mean gaming platform and not just NBA games. 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 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. 00:00:25.880 --> 00:00:32.760 With every M12 or three-powered Mac being able to play AAA games pretty fantastically. 00:00:32.760 --> 00:00:37.880 Even better, now that Apple's own impressive chips, Power iPhone, iPad and Mac, 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:42.200 porting games to work on all those platforms is simple and effective. 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:45.520 As demonstrated by Resident Evil 4 launching on Mac 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:48.760 and then recently on iPhone and running like a dream. 00:00:48.760 --> 00:00:53.080 The interview serves to confirm something that anyone who's seen their past few conference keynotes 00:00:53.080 --> 00:00:57.080 would have already surmised. That Apple is getting serious 00:00:57.120 --> 00:01:00.160 about making the Mac platform a lot friendlier to gamers, 00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:04.400 not only with improved performance, but also with support for more titles. 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:07.960 Other than the aforementioned game about immoral inhabitants, 00:01:07.960 --> 00:01:13.760 the Mac also got multiple Game of the Year award-winning RPG, Baldur's Gate 3, 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:18.120 and Lies of P. 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:22.720 Do people like that one? Honestly, I'm hoping Apple gaming only gets better, 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. 00:01:27.440 --> 00:01:30.760 J.K., you can buy the watches again. Go pick one up. 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. 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 00:01:41.080 --> 00:01:44.840 because it's the first major AI copyright lawsuit pertaining to news content 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? 00:01:47.880 --> 00:01:51.800 Please, thank you. The New York Times lawsuit claims that if provided 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 00:01:56.880 --> 00:02:01.360 the entire article nearly verbatim. The Times says this is evidence 00:02:01.360 --> 00:02:04.400 that OpenAI trained their models on NYT articles 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:08.080 without a license. And they also call for the destruction 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:13.120 of not only GPT 3 and 4, but any LLM trained on their content 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:16.760 and any citizen who harbored these models. Shoshana! 00:02:17.920 --> 00:02:23.500 Now, some have defended OpenAI by pointing out that chat GPT didn't memorize 00:02:23.500 --> 00:02:27.580 and then spit out these articles. It's just predicting the next word 00:02:27.580 --> 00:02:31.700 based on its training data, which is the whole internet. 00:02:31.700 --> 00:02:34.700 It's not copyright infringement per se, 00:02:34.700 --> 00:02:38.380 but even if that's true, the NYT's case is bolstered by the fact 00:02:38.380 --> 00:02:42.260 that some companies like Apple are pursuing deals to license content 00:02:42.260 --> 00:02:45.300 from news organizations to train their AI models. 00:02:45.300 --> 00:02:48.780 And in fact, OpenAI has already made a number 00:02:48.780 --> 00:02:53.780 of such deals. And even more fact, the New York Times approached OpenAI 00:02:53.780 --> 00:02:58.340 to make a licensing deal, but negotiations fell apart back in August. 00:02:58.340 --> 00:03:01.740 Ah, so that's the reason for all this. 00:03:01.740 --> 00:03:06.140 Hopefully this lawsuit can finally answer the question of whether chat GPT is alive. 00:03:06.140 --> 00:03:11.420 You know who's definitely not alive? Virtual influencers created by marketing agencies 00:03:11.420 --> 00:03:16.500 using AI image generators and disdain for the ineffable quality of the human soul. 00:03:16.500 --> 00:03:22.420 The Financial Times spoke to the founders of Barcelona-based ad agency, The Clueless, 00:03:22.420 --> 00:03:26.460 which is just perfect. They've been partnering hot brands 00:03:26.460 --> 00:03:29.460 with clueless virtual hot girl influencers, 00:03:29.460 --> 00:03:32.860 Maya Lima and Aitana Lopez, 00:03:32.860 --> 00:03:39.260 after being taken aback by the skyrocketing rates human influencers charge these days. 00:03:39.260 --> 00:03:42.540 What's a poor fashion brand like H&M to do? 00:03:42.540 --> 00:03:46.540 Pay famous humans an even greater multiple of the pennies 00:03:46.540 --> 00:03:49.780 they pay to the non-famous humans who make their clothes? 00:03:49.780 --> 00:03:54.740 No, the answer according to an analytics report from Instagram is to create a campaign 00:03:54.740 --> 00:04:01.300 with famous people that don't even exist. That makes these campaigns 91% cheaper per impression 00:04:01.300 --> 00:04:04.780 because people that don't exist don't need to be paid as much. 00:04:04.780 --> 00:04:09.020 They still need a little though. Virtual content creators are becoming more prominent 00:04:09.020 --> 00:04:13.940 in South Korea and elsewhere, complete with followers who leave comments 00:04:13.940 --> 00:04:18.700 about how beautiful they are. What are you, what are you doing? 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? 00:04:24.020 --> 00:04:27.780 What? No, I don't know, maybe she'll see it, it's pretty hot. 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, 00:04:32.180 --> 00:04:35.740 but then there were more, I don't know how that jar works. 00:04:35.740 --> 00:04:38.900 Do you own a Vizio TV in California? 00:04:38.900 --> 00:04:42.420 You may be entitled to a portion of a $3 million payout 00:04:42.420 --> 00:04:46.860 as a result of a now settled class action lawsuit brought against the TV company 00:04:46.860 --> 00:04:51.660 for advertising its TV's 120 Hertz and 240 Hertz refresh rates, 00:04:51.660 --> 00:04:56.140 which were, in many cases, just 60 Hertz plus motion smoothing, 00:04:56.140 --> 00:04:59.860 a feature known in the land of the nerds as Geeksbane. 00:04:59.860 --> 00:05:03.220 The individual payouts won't be enough to buy a new TV, 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. 00:05:08.220 --> 00:05:12.300 Again, you did it last year, it keeps turning itself back on, wha? 00:05:12.300 --> 00:05:17.220 Google may be planning to add maps driving mode to its ever-largeening graveyard, 00:05:17.220 --> 00:05:20.380 according to code strings discovered by 9 to 5 Google, 00:05:20.380 --> 00:05:24.580 because the only thing Google does better than building things is destroying them, 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. 00:05:29.740 --> 00:05:34.500 9 to 5 Google believes the strings in question indicate driving mode will be deprecated 00:05:34.500 --> 00:05:39.380 in February of this year, which is 2024 in case you forgot, 00:05:39.380 --> 00:05:42.380 more than a year after Google shut down the similar 00:05:42.380 --> 00:05:47.140 but different Google Assistant driving mode, which also followed the perishing 00:05:47.140 --> 00:05:51.220 of Android Auto for phone screens. Hey, maybe just stop trying 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. 00:05:57.260 --> 00:06:02.180 Hey, want some fun science news? A team at Michigan State University have made progress 00:06:02.180 --> 00:06:09.300 in developing a living building material that can self-heal clean pollution from the air, 00:06:09.340 --> 00:06:13.300 and only rarely absorb nearby people to implant their eggs in. 00:06:13.300 --> 00:06:17.020 Pretty good. Intended for use with special 3D printers, 00:06:17.020 --> 00:06:20.140 the material is a micro-rich ink of sorts, 00:06:20.140 --> 00:06:25.420 created from agricultural waste or the parts of plants that farmers can't sell. 00:06:25.420 --> 00:06:28.820 Also, a major ingredient in my grandma's signature stew, 00:06:28.820 --> 00:06:33.100 which is why I'm so strong. When Mr. Beast asked his ex-followers, 00:06:33.100 --> 00:06:36.740 which sounds like I'm saying former followers, which is why I'll keep saying Twitter 00:06:36.740 --> 00:06:39.780 until they make me stop, anyways, when Jimmy asked his followers 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, 00:06:45.220 --> 00:06:48.620 telling Senior Beast to upload the vid on Twitter. 00:06:48.620 --> 00:06:51.740 Beast Wars replied that this platform's monetization 00:06:51.740 --> 00:06:55.860 wouldn't fund a fraction of the millions of dollars his videos cost to make, 00:06:55.860 --> 00:07:01.340 essentially telling the world's richest man, he can't afford them, gotcha. 00:07:01.340 --> 00:07:07.060 Perhaps thinking Mr. Beast was missing something, crypto guy replied, post on both? 00:07:07.100 --> 00:07:10.820 Perfectly explaining why he's into crypto. And a number of creative works 00:07:10.820 --> 00:07:14.700 have entered the public domain, including Mickey Mouse. 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 00:07:18.380 --> 00:07:23.580 is the original character as depicted in the 1928 Steamboat Willie cartoon. 00:07:23.580 --> 00:07:27.100 This is already being taken advantage of by creators like Corridor Digital, 00:07:27.100 --> 00:07:30.780 who straight up re-uploaded Steamboat Willie, because why the heck not? 00:07:30.780 --> 00:07:34.060 But also by the creators of just announced horror game, 00:07:34.100 --> 00:07:38.340 Infestation 88, featuring a creepy, zombified Mickey. 00:07:38.340 --> 00:07:42.580 Another entry in the same weird tradition that brought us the groundbreaking film, 00:07:42.580 --> 00:07:47.460 Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey. We're finally free to use these characters 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, 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 00:07:57.420 --> 00:08:00.740 where you are on Wednesday, as long as you're here on time.