1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,920 You know, there's tech news, and then there's, well, you know, like, tech news, and you're 2 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:16,000 about to get one of those for sure. 5G has been the fastest cellular network technology since it really started rolling out in 2019, 3 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:22,860 just in time to inject it into our bodies. But now, China's state-owned telecom, China Mobile, has announced it's rolling out something 4 00:00:22,860 --> 00:00:29,440 called 5.5G, which sources indicate has about another half a G. 5 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:34,680 Xiaomi says their 14 Ultra flagship phone supports the tech, reaching speeds of more 6 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:40,400 than 5 gigabits per second, while Oppo CEO Pete Lau posted a photo of his company's 7 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:45,760 Find X7 Ultra with a little 5GA in the top bar. 8 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:52,240 That's because the official name for 5G and a little bit more is actually 5G Advanced, 9 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,360 according to the group of standards bodies responsible for developing such tech, collectively 10 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:03,400 known as 3GPP, which is short for 3rd Gen Peepee. 11 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:07,680 That's only .5 of a joke, we're having fun. 12 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:14,840 It appears that Huawei started popularizing the term 5.5G last year as their brand name 13 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:20,040 for 5G Advanced, which is fair enough, because that just sounds like the premium tier of 14 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,940 5G, and I don't need another monthly subscription, unless it's to floakland.com, I'm sorry. 15 00:01:24,940 --> 00:01:30,100 But Americans don't have to worry about any fractional bonus Gs anytime soon, as the 16 00:01:30,100 --> 00:01:36,620 FCC and US carriers can't decide whether the 6GHz spectrum band should belong to 5G 17 00:01:36,620 --> 00:01:42,980 Advanced or 6G, which I think will be provided to the population as pills this time. 18 00:01:42,980 --> 00:01:49,500 OpenAI's flagship large language model GPT-4 Turbo has been surpassed by another model on 19 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:55,740 chatbot arena for the first time since chat GPT dropped onto society like a bomb being 20 00:01:55,740 --> 00:01:59,940 ridden by Will Smith eating spaghetti. That's how it felt. 21 00:01:59,940 --> 00:02:05,980 The new king of LLMs, according to the crowdsourced chatbot arena leaderboard, is Anthropics 22 00:02:05,980 --> 00:02:11,340 Claude III Opus, which launched a few weeks ago along with less powerful Claude III variants 23 00:02:11,340 --> 00:02:18,620 Sonnet and Haiku, which are neck and neck with some less powerful GPT-4 variants themselves. 24 00:02:18,620 --> 00:02:24,260 The upset is even more upsetting for OpenAI given that Anthropic was founded by former 25 00:02:24,260 --> 00:02:30,140 OpenAI employees, and now they're getting another $2.7 billion investment from Amazon 26 00:02:30,140 --> 00:02:38,180 so Jeff Bezos can talk to better AIs who understand him like no human can. 27 00:02:38,180 --> 00:02:44,900 But in equally interesting AI news, XAI just unveiled their updated GROC 1.5 chatbot which 28 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:50,700 is better at math and has a larger 128,000 token context window which will probably just 29 00:02:50,700 --> 00:02:58,140 make the boomer cringe humor worse. OpenAI announced they're testing usage-based monetization on the GPT store which could eventually 30 00:02:58,140 --> 00:03:03,540 provide a revenue stream for developers of all those custom GPTs that are awesome for 31 00:03:03,540 --> 00:03:08,340 generating not just copyright violations but TOS violations as well. 32 00:03:08,340 --> 00:03:13,980 OpenAI also revealed Voice Engine, a model that can replicate any voice off of a 15-second 33 00:03:13,980 --> 00:03:18,820 sample. Some of the most amazing habitats on Earth are found in the rainforest. 34 00:03:18,820 --> 00:03:22,980 In typical OpenAI fashion though, they're letting you know that they have it, but that 35 00:03:22,980 --> 00:03:26,980 it's far too dangerous to release until they get more investors on board. 36 00:03:26,980 --> 00:03:32,020 To be fair though, it seems like Voice Engine, or any of the other pretty good AI voice cloning 37 00:03:32,020 --> 00:03:37,820 tools out there, could easily dupe something like Chase Bank, which has let customers log 38 00:03:37,820 --> 00:03:42,940 in using voice identification since 2018 and haven't yet reconsidered that decision 39 00:03:42,940 --> 00:03:46,860 for some reason. You sound weird today, anyway, here's your money. 40 00:03:46,860 --> 00:03:50,860 Apple's mysterious machine that can update iPhones while they're still sealed in the 41 00:03:50,860 --> 00:03:58,100 box is real. A photo of the device, called Presto, was published by French-language tech site, Aigénolation. 42 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:03,340 I thought that was a tape of pasta, no that's prego. 43 00:04:03,340 --> 00:04:08,220 Presto is reportedly being rolled out to Apple stores across the US this month, allowing 44 00:04:08,220 --> 00:04:14,180 iPhone users to skip the annoying initial updating process and get right to that undeserved 45 00:04:14,180 --> 00:04:20,940 feeling of superiority. But while Presto is undoubtedly cool, it would be more cool if it worked for AirPods, which 46 00:04:20,940 --> 00:04:26,900 cannot be manually updated at all. Putting your devices close together and hoping the update happens would feel better if there 47 00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:33,500 was a magic box involved. Speaking of updates though, Google lets slip on a landing page for Android messages that 48 00:04:33,500 --> 00:04:39,700 iOS support for RCS, or rich chat services, will arrive this fall. 49 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:43,220 It looks like they didn't mean to let that slip though, Google's now taken that part 50 00:04:43,220 --> 00:04:47,780 of the site down, but TechCrunch confirmed it's still there in the source code. 51 00:04:47,780 --> 00:04:51,700 When that rolls out, iPhone users, you have my permission to feel superior. 52 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:55,380 Only the richest of chats for you. 53 00:04:55,380 --> 00:05:01,100 How expensive was this chat? What would life be like without any quick bits? 54 00:05:01,100 --> 00:05:12,300 I don't know, they never let me outside. The China specific GeForce RTX 4090D can apparently be overclocked to non-D levels. 55 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:17,560 The 4090D is a cut down version of NVIDIA's flagship 40 series cards, meant to comply 56 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:22,420 with US sanctions on China that the full fat card did not comply with. 57 00:05:22,420 --> 00:05:28,500 Now a Hong Kong based tech and review site has shown that the ROG Strix 4090D specifically 58 00:05:28,500 --> 00:05:33,980 is able to be overclocked, achieving performance comparable to a Founders Edition 4090, but 59 00:05:33,980 --> 00:05:39,700 not defeating the point of D's nuts. 60 00:05:39,700 --> 00:05:43,980 Qualcomm has apparently been giving demos to select members of the press to show off 61 00:05:43,980 --> 00:05:49,940 their ARM powered Snapdragon X Elite laptop chips gaming prowess. 62 00:05:49,940 --> 00:05:54,060 The company flew several influencers to their headquarters in San Diego to give demos of 63 00:05:54,060 --> 00:05:58,300 Baldur's Gate 3, Control and Redout 2. 64 00:05:58,300 --> 00:06:02,440 While many are calling the games playable in their coverage, there are some important 65 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,620 caveats, especially to the Baldur's Gate 3 demos. 66 00:06:05,620 --> 00:06:10,620 It looks like these machines were apparently able to achieve about 30 FPS at 1080p with 67 00:06:10,620 --> 00:06:16,660 low settings, but the demos are all of the prologue fight, which is set in a small area, 68 00:06:16,660 --> 00:06:19,900 not the demanding open world of the rest of the game. 69 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:24,420 It's kind of like demonstrating you can swim by standing up in the shallow end of the pool. 70 00:06:24,420 --> 00:06:33,460 A new GPU made entirely by a one man operation can run quake at 60 frames per second. 71 00:06:33,460 --> 00:06:39,780 Pack it up, NVIDIA. Fury GPU is the brainchild of game software developer Dylan Berry, who has been working 72 00:06:39,780 --> 00:06:43,060 on the project in his spare time for the last four years. 73 00:06:43,060 --> 00:06:50,660 The GPU runs off a custom Vulcan-like graphics API and does not feature programmable shaders. 74 00:06:50,660 --> 00:06:56,060 Berry intends to open source the whole project after he sorts out some legal issues. 75 00:06:56,060 --> 00:07:03,820 Apparently, since the project is tangentially related to his day job, he needs to make sure 76 00:07:03,820 --> 00:07:10,260 he's not breaking any agreements that he's signed. 77 00:07:10,260 --> 00:07:20,260 But as soon as he does that, get ready to LAN party like it's 1996, baby. 78 00:07:20,260 --> 00:07:25,980 New York City's My City chatbot, which is intended to answer questions related to starting 79 00:07:25,980 --> 00:07:31,820 a business, has instead been caught freestyling and telling users to break the law. 80 00:07:31,820 --> 00:07:37,860 To be clear, the bot isn't straightforwardly advocating a life of crime, it's just hallucinating 81 00:07:37,860 --> 00:07:42,420 an alternative set of laws where it's not illegal to discriminate against tenants on 82 00:07:42,420 --> 00:07:47,180 rental assistance and it's totally cool to fire an employee whistleblower in retribution 83 00:07:47,180 --> 00:07:53,820 for reporting safety violations. Don't worry though, it's an equal opportunity merchant of chaos because it also claims that 84 00:07:53,820 --> 00:07:59,380 you can't fire an employee for taking a trip to the zoo on company time or evict a tenant 85 00:07:59,380 --> 00:08:03,820 for setting fire to the building. So all bets are off. 86 00:08:03,820 --> 00:08:13,780 And researchers at ETH University in Zurich, Switzerland have used machine learning to 87 00:08:13,780 --> 00:08:19,480 teach a quadripetal robot called enimal parkour. 88 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:25,860 The enimal, which looks and moves like a possessed lawnmower, uses a camera and an advanced neural 89 00:08:25,860 --> 00:08:31,380 network to learn how to navigate obstacles through trial and error and murder. 90 00:08:31,380 --> 00:08:36,620 The robot is intended to one day be used to scout unstable terrain that might be dangerous 91 00:08:36,620 --> 00:08:42,220 to human workers or terrain in which human workers could hide from it. 92 00:08:42,220 --> 00:08:46,900 And on a scale of 1 to 10, our next episode is at least an 8. 93 00:08:46,900 --> 00:08:52,140 So come back on Monday for a talk linked on Florida's social media ban for kids under 94 00:08:52,140 --> 00:08:58,860 14. We're taking the day off so you can listen to what Jacob and I had to say about that.