WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.280 Tech news won't keep you alive in a desert island situation, but it could give you more to think about. 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:10.480 Like, hmm, maybe Nintendo was right to DMCA everyone like that. 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:19.040 And then you die. ChatGPT was all the rage, but get ready to hear more about projects based on auto-GPT, 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:24.800 a GitHub project posted two weeks ago that modifies large language models like OpenAI's GPT 00:00:24.880 --> 00:00:32.960 to function as semi-autonomous agents. That means when you give it a goal instead of giving you a response and then waiting for a prompt 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:38.640 number two, like a fun chatbot, it will give itself feedback based on its own performance 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:42.080 and continue acting in pursuit of its goal until you shut it down. 00:00:42.080 --> 00:00:48.240 Like a terminator from the movie Terminator. Every time you use it, you have to put it into a molten metal. 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:52.880 Auto-GPT spawned many similar projects, many of which are trending on GitHub, 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:56.080 including an official Microsoft project called Jarvis. 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:03.520 In case you didn't quite understand, these AIs act more like little humans than before, 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:08.320 which is why researchers just published a study where 25 of them were put in a video game. 00:01:08.320 --> 00:01:11.840 And when one of them was given the idea to throw a Valentine's Day party, 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:16.080 the agents autonomously sent out invites, met new acquaintances, 00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:20.000 asked each other on dates to the party, and then actually showed up. 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:22.880 Which is, frankly, much better than many humans could do. 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:31.200 So that's one thing. Another concerning AI thing is scammers, who are currently, right now, 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:34.720 tricking normal people into thinking their loved ones have been kidnapped 00:01:34.720 --> 00:01:37.920 using voice cloning AI and caller IDs spoofing. 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:41.680 So it actually looks almost exactly like the scene from Taken, 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:44.880 except you don't have a certain set of skills. You're just Tammy. 00:01:45.440 --> 00:01:50.160 Just Tammy! Now, we can look at things like the recently announced Dolly 2.0, 00:01:50.160 --> 00:01:54.880 an open source LLM with promise as a chat GPT competitor for the people, 00:01:54.880 --> 00:01:57.920 as a cool democratization of AI tech. 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:02.560 But given how this tech has gone from being future scary to scary right now, 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:08.640 it's we're scared about it now, we should be asking whether we need democratization 00:02:08.640 --> 00:02:13.520 or regulation. Which is why the US government agency responsible for these things 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:17.200 is currently seeking public comments to help it put together laws 00:02:17.200 --> 00:02:20.960 to protect us from the eldritch horrors literally every programmer 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:22.560 is cooking up on their laptops right now. 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:30.880 I need to calm down. In lighter news, this fun leaked video has given us a glimpse of a new Windows UI 00:02:30.880 --> 00:02:35.200 custom made for gaming handhelds like the Steam Deck or ROG Ally. 00:02:35.200 --> 00:02:42.720 So that's, that's cool. Hey, this is cool. Now, given that the handheld Windows mode is being made for an internal hackathon project, 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:46.880 it's unclear whether Microsoft is for sure going to release something like this. 00:02:46.880 --> 00:02:52.400 I mean, not doing so would lead more people on board the Linux gaming hype train, 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:57.120 but maybe Microsoft is fine with that, you know? We've got so many people using Windows, it's almost too many. 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:04.960 Stop using Windows, please. But one feature that Microsoft is officially working on is a present sensing mode, 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:11.840 which has shown up in a Windows 11 preview build. This uses various device sensors to tell whether you're present at your PC, 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:17.840 both physically and perhaps mentally. Frankly, I'd love my PC to sense when I'm getting distracted and do a little 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:21.360 Riley, are we present right now? 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:27.920 And Western Digital no sooner got their MyCloud service back up and running a week after being 00:03:27.920 --> 00:03:34.080 hacked than those same hackers demanded the company pay to reclaim 10 terabytes of stolen data. 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.600 I mean, you don't send a ransom note right after you steal the thing. 00:03:37.600 --> 00:03:43.200 That'd be rude. TechCrunch reporters spoke to one of the hackers and were able to confirm that at least 00:03:43.200 --> 00:03:50.320 some of the stolen data was legitimate. The hackers claimed to have personal info like email addresses, phone numbers, and more 00:03:50.320 --> 00:03:57.200 of both WD staff and customers. If the company isn't willing to pay the minimum eight figure ransom, 00:03:57.200 --> 00:04:00.320 The hackers say they'll start posting the data on the website of 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:08.800 Hacking Group that these hackers are not a part of, but who they know to be professional. 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:14.800 You can't just post things on like 4chan. I mean, as an extortionist, there are just some things you don't do. 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:16.960 Oh, you thought that stuff was tech news? 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.840 Wait till you see the Crick bits, which are also in that category. 00:04:21.840 --> 00:04:27.600 The FBI has arrested the 21-year-old suspected of leaking a trove of classified U.S. government 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:32.480 documents on a Discord server called Thugshaker Central. 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:38.960 According to the Washington Post, the suspect is a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard 00:04:38.960 --> 00:04:43.840 who ended up posting screenshots of the documents after growing frustrated that the members of 00:04:43.840 --> 00:04:49.920 his military-themed Discord group were ignoring the text-based posts that he had spent hours typing 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:54.800 up. It's working so hard. Markings and environmental clues in the photograph printouts 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:59.280 helped investigators determine the man's identity, but Discord has also said they are 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:09.520 cooperating with law enforcement. So remember gamers, don't make this guy's key mistake, 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:15.680 joining the Massachusetts Air National Guard. NVIDIA has released some helpful statistics claiming 00:05:15.760 --> 00:05:22.880 that 83% of gamers with RTX 40 series cards, which is 0.68% of all Steam users, 00:05:22.880 --> 00:05:30.080 according to Steam Survey, turn ray tracing on with 79% of the same group turning DLSS on. 00:05:30.080 --> 00:05:35.840 Now there's two main questions this has brought up. One, if you flip on ray tracing one time, 00:05:35.840 --> 00:05:40.560 decide you don't want it and then flip it off, does that count? The other question, 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:47.600 why are nearly 20% of these gamers buying an RTX 40 series card and not using the RTX features? 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:52.080 What? Did you put it in your mom's computer? Why did you do that? 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:58.720 Chonky 3-slot RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards have been showing up dead in greater numbers due to 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:03.600 sagging in their PCIe slots, which causes bending and uneven thermal stress, 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:08.720 according to a video from German computer repair technician Chris Fix. Specifically, 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:14.000 the solder points of memory chips nearest to the PCIe socket are the most likely failure point. 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:18.160 So you might want to check in on that if you've got a big card in your rig because look, 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:23.520 we all love a top of the line Chonky boy. But that chonk comes at a price. 00:06:23.520 --> 00:06:28.320 Hashtag chonk awareness, hashtag save that chonk. Twitter has announced a new feature where Twitter 00:06:28.320 --> 00:06:33.600 creators will be able to offer paid subscriptions where followers can access exclusive tweets and 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:38.960 long form video. And you might be thinking, hey, that just sounds like super follows. 00:06:39.520 --> 00:06:43.520 But to that we say no, it isn't. It's called something different now. 00:06:43.520 --> 00:06:48.960 The company hopes to include newsletters and other Twitter features as potential bonus content 00:06:48.960 --> 00:06:52.720 later down the line. Of course, Twitter already had a newsletter tool, 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:57.680 but it was shut down three months ago in what is becoming just par for the course. 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:05.520 They had, they had that feature. And then, and today the European Space Agency launched an 00:07:05.520 --> 00:07:11.520 unmanned spacecraft on a mission to determine whether the icy oceans of Jupiter's largest moon, 00:07:11.520 --> 00:07:19.520 moons, multiple, Callisto, Europa and Ganymede? Oh, it's not Ganymede. 00:07:21.200 --> 00:07:24.400 Whether they're able to support life, not intelligent life, 00:07:24.400 --> 00:07:28.800 just the dumb kind. We're insulting them already. Some of you may know that Jupiter is the Roman 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:34.640 name for Zeus, while each of the moons is named after an ancient mythological hottie that Zeus 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:40.400 consorted with. Fittingly, the initial launch was delayed due to risk of flight. 00:07:43.520 --> 00:07:48.720 The moons are busy. How do you put a sock on a moon? And we'll put a sock on the channel until 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:53.920 Monday because that's when you should come back for more fresh hot batch tech news. 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:58.080 That's the thing about news. It's different every time. We're going to figure out how to put a sock 00:07:58.080 --> 00:08:01.680 on the channel. We haven't figured that out yet. Also, you can still watch the videos of the weekend.