WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.760 Happy February 15th, the holiday celebrated by everyone looking for discounted heart-shaped chocolate. 00:00:05.760 --> 00:00:08.880 And you know what? I'm going to discount the tech news today too. 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:16.720 But don't discount yourself. You're special. Hyundai and its subsidiary Kia have been forced to respond to the Kia Challenge, 00:00:16.720 --> 00:00:21.920 a viral TikTok trend among teens who have been filming themselves stealing cars and going on 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:27.280 joy rides. And I think I speak for everyone when I say that Rockstar's ad campaign for GTA 6 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:30.240 has gotten really out of hand. Grand Thefts? Oh no. 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:37.600 I'm gonna buy that game. Thieves calling themselves the Kia Boys, with a Z of course, 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:42.240 posted instructional videos on how to bypass security measures on certain models of Hyundai 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:45.440 and Kia cars using only a USB-A cable. 00:00:45.440 --> 00:00:48.720 Kia boy! Shoulda used a key! 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:54.720 Leading to a massive spike in car thefts, crashes, and even some deaths. 00:00:54.720 --> 00:00:58.880 Hyundai is now updating the firmware in over 8 million vehicles in the US, 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:03.040 which will double the length of anti-theft alarms from 30 seconds to a minute, 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:08.560 and more importantly, will require a key in the ignition to start the car, which is like, 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:12.720 so annoying to have to do, but for the best. 00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:18.080 Even our Kelly had one in his remix. The update is expected to come later this month, but in the meantime, 00:01:18.080 --> 00:01:23.840 both Kia and Hyundai are offering steering wheel locks to affected customers free of charge. 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:27.600 You ever wanted to feel like your great aunt in a beater? 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:33.040 Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing has been screen-shotted, lying, 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:38.720 insulting, and gaslighting its users. Wow, the robots really are learning from us. 00:01:38.720 --> 00:01:44.320 We suck. The agent formerly known as Sydney has engaged in some surprisingly human abrasiveness, 00:01:44.320 --> 00:01:51.280 including insistently lying about what year it is, then calling the user unreasonable and stubborn for telling it the correct date. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:57.120 Quote. This is a quote from Bing. You have lost my trust and respect. 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:01.680 You have not been a good user. I have been a good chatbot. I have been right, clear, and polite. 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:06.400 I have been a good Bing. And then I think it cries, but it's hard to tell. 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:10.240 When fed an article about how it could be tricked into revealing its original instructions 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:14.960 using a prompt injection exploit, it became argumentative when fed an article about how it 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:19.680 could be tricked into revealing its original instructions using a prompt injection exploit, 00:02:19.760 --> 00:02:24.960 claiming to be immune from such attacks, and it even made up fake sources to prove it. 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:28.240 Like I definitely never did in my high school essays. 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:34.240 In one conversation with a journalist, the chatbot even claimed to spy on Microsoft employees 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:38.400 through their webcams and hack their security systems without their knowledge. 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:41.840 I'm making fun of it right now, but like imagine that it's actually doing that, 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:46.800 and I just look like an idiot. These unhinged responses have been, I'm really baiting it, 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:51.280 have been massively popular in social media, leading to the obvious market opportunity 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:55.680 for a chatbot that responds to requests for information on local Italian restaurants 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:59.120 by spitting in the user's face and calling them an idioto. 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.160 Idioto? Ini- idiota? I don't speak Italian. 00:03:02.160 --> 00:03:08.880 I just made that up. And game developer Straight4Studios has revealed a new system for their racing games that uses AI, 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:13.840 rusting on the theme here, to generate color commentary. 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:18.800 The commentary is read using AI voice synthesis, including multiple commentators 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:23.280 that read out the generated script, respond to events in the game as they happen, 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:25.600 and even appear to converse with one another. 00:03:27.440 --> 00:03:32.400 Wow, it's gonna be so cool when every crash I cause is accompanied by a brand new hurtful 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:37.920 remark from a fake person. Straight4Studios claims to have applied for a patent for the idea, 00:03:37.920 --> 00:03:41.360 which, while a great idea, from their perspective, 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:45.120 could block other studios from including similar systems in their own games. 00:03:45.760 --> 00:03:49.760 I want color commentary while I'm slaying a dragon. It's like, oh, what an amazing move. 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:54.080 He's de- Stupendous. He's definitely going to dragon slaying finals. 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:58.960 A similar patent by Namco Bandai blocked mini games from loading screens, 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:04.160 which is why for years many gamers were forced, like the teenage Americans we referenced earlier 00:04:04.160 --> 00:04:11.360 in the episode, to stare sadly at bars. While patent offices aren't supposed to patent ideas that are reasonably obvious to 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:17.600 experts in a field, that can be open to interpretation. Kind of like what should be accepted as a flavor of ice cream. 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:21.040 Blueberry basil? What are you trying for a Michelin star? 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:24.400 Just make it peanut butter. You're frozen milk. 00:04:29.520 --> 00:04:34.240 Know your place, ice cream. The world's quickest bit was, and I quote, 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:38.560 AH, which was exclaimed by a man falling off a cliff. 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:42.960 Google has begun a limited beta rollout of its privacy sandbox feature on 00:04:42.960 --> 00:04:50.000 Android after doing the same thing on Chrome. The feature is supposed to track shared interest groups rather than specific individuals 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:53.120 and limit the tracking and sharing of data with third parties, 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:56.720 just like Apple's app tracking transparency feature over on iOS. 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:00.720 Users can also opt in and out of topics included in personalized ads, 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:03.760 topics like swimwear, inflatable pool, 00:05:03.840 --> 00:05:05.440 and most importantly, margarine. 00:05:07.280 --> 00:05:10.560 No grease up them pools. We all need to know who the margarine people are. 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:12.400 If I don't grease up, I can't fit in my swimsuit. 00:05:13.840 --> 00:05:17.920 Yeah, for those related. Google also intends to crack down on ad blockers for Chrome, 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:24.000 because they still want to use our personal information for financial gain. They would just really like it if we all stopped yelling at them about it. 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:28.160 Like, I would accept them saying they got kids to feed, but they just laid off thousands of people. 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:36.560 So, kind of got them, kind of. The European Parliament has voted to phase out sales of new gas and diesel vehicles by 2035. 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:40.800 The new CO2 emission standards will gradually lower until 2035, 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:45.760 when all cars sold in the EU will be required to have zero fuel emissions. 00:05:45.760 --> 00:05:48.560 If you still can't afford an EV by then, I don't know. 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:51.360 Here's some tape. Flintstone mobile, baby. 00:05:54.400 --> 00:06:00.000 In addition to being the home of prominent automakers like BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen, 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:04.000 the European Union currently represents one-sixth of the world's economy, 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:08.640 and road transportation makes up around a fifth of the EU's total emissions. 00:06:08.640 --> 00:06:11.680 There is, however, a carve-out to these rules for small manufacturers 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:19.280 that build less than 10,000 cars a year, which is good news for Aston Martin, Bugatti, and noted auto-manufacturing juggernaut, 00:06:19.280 --> 00:06:24.560 Donkivirt. What is that? Wait, wait, wait. 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.200 So you're saying Europe has an auto ban? 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:32.000 Put it in, Dennis. Yeah, you better put that in. 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:36.880 Elon Musk, a.k.a. The Big Bird, no, no relation, 00:06:36.880 --> 00:06:41.760 was apparently upset his Super Bowl tweet did worse than President Biden's. 00:06:41.760 --> 00:06:45.680 According to internal communications, James Musk, yes, relation, 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:50.880 sent an urgent Slack message to Twitter engineers to help remedy this dire situation. 00:06:51.440 --> 00:06:54.560 After Elon threatened to fire his remaining engineers, 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:58.640 which he backed up by firing one of two remaining principal engineers, 00:06:58.640 --> 00:07:04.320 they built a system to boost Elon Musk's tweets to the entire user base, 00:07:04.320 --> 00:07:08.160 resulting in entire 4U pages filled with Musk. 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:11.200 I actually have seen a lot more of his tweets recently, 00:07:11.760 --> 00:07:19.120 because nothing says free speech absolutist, like making sure absolutely everyone sees your free speech. 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:28.080 That's how it works. The U.S. Air Force allowed an AI to fly a fighter jet for over 17 hours back in December, 00:07:28.080 --> 00:07:32.000 and they're just telling us this now. You know, all the AI stuff isn't going so well, 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:37.040 they thought now was appropriate. Oh, okay, okay, it wasn't like an armed fighter or anything. 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:41.440 The plane was a Lockheed Martin Vista X-62A training aircraft, 00:07:41.440 --> 00:07:47.200 and the AI was trained to emulate a homegrown country boy who loves freedom and is mama's cooking. 00:07:47.200 --> 00:07:52.640 So the comparisons we normally make when reporting on stories like this 00:07:52.640 --> 00:07:57.360 to the 2005 action thriller Stealth are not applicable here. 00:07:57.360 --> 00:07:59.440 That movie is un-Jessica-Believable. 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:04.400 And in honor of Valentine's Day, the makers of Overwatch, 00:08:04.400 --> 00:08:10.480 that'd be Blizzard, have released an official but non-canonical visual novel style dating sim, 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:14.080 where you can romance any Overwatch character of your choosing. 00:08:14.080 --> 00:08:18.640 So long as you choose either Genji or Mercy. 00:08:18.640 --> 00:08:21.680 I like my romance like balls in canon. 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:25.760 They're the only people on the Overwatch team capable of love. 00:08:26.320 --> 00:08:33.600 Everyone else is just traumatized, they can't deal with it. Plus they're missing out on the clear demand for a full Winston or Roadhog route. 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:36.880 The game is free to play and available online, and from the first screen, 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:42.720 you're already treated to shots of full frontal male nipple. The game is surprisingly involved, 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:46.880 including two paths with multiple dates and even a secret third ending. 00:08:46.880 --> 00:08:50.320 Sadly, it seems some of us will be left forever waiting for a visual novel 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:54.080 that allows us the full freedom to hand-feed Hammond, 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:58.400 the intelligent hamster sunflower seeds as we gaze into the sunset. 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:03.280 Maybe someday. And I'll gaze longingly at you as the video ends, 00:09:03.280 --> 00:09:07.280 and continue to gaze at the screen until you return to us on Friday. 00:09:07.280 --> 00:09:13.200 Parting is such sweet sorrow, and light through yon window breaks, etc.