WEBVTT 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 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, 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 00:00:22.860 --> 00:00:29.440 called 5.5G, which sources indicate has about another half a G. 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:34.680 Xiaomi says their 14 Ultra flagship phone supports the tech, reaching speeds of more 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 00:00:40.400 --> 00:00:45.760 Find X7 Ultra with a little 5GA in the top bar. 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, 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:56.360 according to the group of standards bodies responsible for developing such tech, collectively 00:00:56.360 --> 00:01:03.400 known as 3GPP, which is short for 3rd Gen Peepee. 00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:07.680 That's only .5 of a joke, we're having fun. 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:14.840 It appears that Huawei started popularizing the term 5.5G last year as their brand name 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:20.040 for 5G Advanced, which is fair enough, because that just sounds like the premium tier of 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. 00:01:24.940 --> 00:01:30.100 But Americans don't have to worry about any fractional bonus Gs anytime soon, as the 00:01:30.100 --> 00:01:36.620 FCC and US carriers can't decide whether the 6GHz spectrum band should belong to 5G 00:01:36.620 --> 00:01:42.980 Advanced or 6G, which I think will be provided to the population as pills this time. 00:01:42.980 --> 00:01:49.500 OpenAI's flagship large language model GPT-4 Turbo has been surpassed by another model on 00:01:49.500 --> 00:01:55.740 chatbot arena for the first time since chat GPT dropped onto society like a bomb being 00:01:55.740 --> 00:01:59.940 ridden by Will Smith eating spaghetti. That's how it felt. 00:01:59.940 --> 00:02:05.980 The new king of LLMs, according to the crowdsourced chatbot arena leaderboard, is Anthropics 00:02:05.980 --> 00:02:11.340 Claude III Opus, which launched a few weeks ago along with less powerful Claude III variants 00:02:11.340 --> 00:02:18.620 Sonnet and Haiku, which are neck and neck with some less powerful GPT-4 variants themselves. 00:02:18.620 --> 00:02:24.260 The upset is even more upsetting for OpenAI given that Anthropic was founded by former 00:02:24.260 --> 00:02:30.140 OpenAI employees, and now they're getting another $2.7 billion investment from Amazon 00:02:30.140 --> 00:02:38.180 so Jeff Bezos can talk to better AIs who understand him like no human can. 00:02:38.180 --> 00:02:44.900 But in equally interesting AI news, XAI just unveiled their updated GROC 1.5 chatbot which 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 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 00:02:58.140 --> 00:03:03.540 provide a revenue stream for developers of all those custom GPTs that are awesome for 00:03:03.540 --> 00:03:08.340 generating not just copyright violations but TOS violations as well. 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 00:03:13.980 --> 00:03:18.820 sample. Some of the most amazing habitats on Earth are found in the rainforest. 00:03:18.820 --> 00:03:22.980 In typical OpenAI fashion though, they're letting you know that they have it, but that 00:03:22.980 --> 00:03:26.980 it's far too dangerous to release until they get more investors on board. 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 00:03:32.020 --> 00:03:37.820 tools out there, could easily dupe something like Chase Bank, which has let customers log 00:03:37.820 --> 00:03:42.940 in using voice identification since 2018 and haven't yet reconsidered that decision 00:03:42.940 --> 00:03:46.860 for some reason. You sound weird today, anyway, here's your money. 00:03:46.860 --> 00:03:50.860 Apple's mysterious machine that can update iPhones while they're still sealed in the 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. 00:03:58.100 --> 00:04:03.340 I thought that was a tape of pasta, no that's prego. 00:04:03.340 --> 00:04:08.220 Presto is reportedly being rolled out to Apple stores across the US this month, allowing 00:04:08.220 --> 00:04:14.180 iPhone users to skip the annoying initial updating process and get right to that undeserved 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 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 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 00:04:33.500 --> 00:04:39.700 iOS support for RCS, or rich chat services, will arrive this fall. 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 00:04:43.220 --> 00:04:47.780 of the site down, but TechCrunch confirmed it's still there in the source code. 00:04:47.780 --> 00:04:51.700 When that rolls out, iPhone users, you have my permission to feel superior. 00:04:51.700 --> 00:04:55.380 Only the richest of chats for you. 00:04:55.380 --> 00:05:01.100 How expensive was this chat? What would life be like without any quick bits? 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. 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 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:22.420 with US sanctions on China that the full fat card did not comply with. 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 00:05:28.500 --> 00:05:33.980 is able to be overclocked, achieving performance comparable to a Founders Edition 4090, but 00:05:33.980 --> 00:05:39.700 not defeating the point of D's nuts. 00:05:39.700 --> 00:05:43.980 Qualcomm has apparently been giving demos to select members of the press to show off 00:05:43.980 --> 00:05:49.940 their ARM powered Snapdragon X Elite laptop chips gaming prowess. 00:05:49.940 --> 00:05:54.060 The company flew several influencers to their headquarters in San Diego to give demos of 00:05:54.060 --> 00:05:58.300 Baldur's Gate 3, Control and Redout 2. 00:05:58.300 --> 00:06:02.440 While many are calling the games playable in their coverage, there are some important 00:06:02.440 --> 00:06:05.620 caveats, especially to the Baldur's Gate 3 demos. 00:06:05.620 --> 00:06:10.620 It looks like these machines were apparently able to achieve about 30 FPS at 1080p with 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, 00:06:16.660 --> 00:06:19.900 not the demanding open world of the rest of the game. 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. 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. 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 00:06:39.780 --> 00:06:43.060 on the project in his spare time for the last four years. 00:06:43.060 --> 00:06:50.660 The GPU runs off a custom Vulcan-like graphics API and does not feature programmable shaders. 00:06:50.660 --> 00:06:56.060 Berry intends to open source the whole project after he sorts out some legal issues. 00:06:56.060 --> 00:07:03.820 Apparently, since the project is tangentially related to his day job, he needs to make sure 00:07:03.820 --> 00:07:10.260 he's not breaking any agreements that he's signed. 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. 00:07:20.260 --> 00:07:25.980 New York City's My City chatbot, which is intended to answer questions related to starting 00:07:25.980 --> 00:07:31.820 a business, has instead been caught freestyling and telling users to break the law. 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 00:07:37.860 --> 00:07:42.420 an alternative set of laws where it's not illegal to discriminate against tenants on 00:07:42.420 --> 00:07:47.180 rental assistance and it's totally cool to fire an employee whistleblower in retribution 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 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 00:07:59.380 --> 00:08:03.820 for setting fire to the building. So all bets are off. 00:08:03.820 --> 00:08:13.780 And researchers at ETH University in Zurich, Switzerland have used machine learning to 00:08:13.780 --> 00:08:19.480 teach a quadripetal robot called enimal parkour. 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 00:08:25.860 --> 00:08:31.380 network to learn how to navigate obstacles through trial and error and murder. 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 00:08:36.620 --> 00:08:42.220 to human workers or terrain in which human workers could hide from it. 00:08:42.220 --> 00:08:46.900 And on a scale of 1 to 10, our next episode is at least an 8. 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 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.