WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.880 Oh, thank god you're here. I've been absorbing tech news all day and my head is starting to feel like a balloon 00:00:05.880 --> 00:00:09.400 filled with concrete. But now I can let it all out. 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:16.480 Come share in my pain. Google is reportedly considering charging users for AI-powered searches once the tech 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:21.760 giant presumably comes up with a better name than Search Generational Experience. 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:25.240 It has to be good if it's gonna endure the year and a half before Google kills it. 00:00:25.240 --> 00:00:30.280 The report came from the Financial Times and Google has not denied that it entertained 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:35.240 those thoughts, partially due to the rise of other AI-powered conversational search tools 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:40.920 which make it a lot harder to plunk misleading sponsored links at the top of search results. 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:46.640 Just how paywalling Google's AI search would stop users from turning to other AI tools 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:50.840 that skim regular Google search results isn't clear. 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:56.120 And neither is the answer to whether OpenAI used YouTube videos to train its wildly impressive 00:00:56.120 --> 00:01:03.680 video generator, Sora. YouTube CEO Neil Mohan says if they did, that would break YouTube's rules. 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:09.040 A clarification it was necessary for him to make after OpenAI's CTO, Mira Muradi, told 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:14.960 The Wall Street Journal she's actually not sure about whether Sora was trained on YouTube 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:20.000 videos but not before taking a full three seconds to gift the internet with a new reaction 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:27.840 for all the AI Zoomers. In other AI news, courtesy of the King of Apple Rumor Dispersion, Mark Gurman... 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:36.280 Now that Apple's accepted that the Apple Car isn't happening, it's begun research 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:42.240 on an AI-powered home robot that could follow its user around their home so Tim Cook can 00:01:42.240 --> 00:01:46.600 see what you're up to. Oh, you're going to make a cup of tea now, that's... 00:01:46.600 --> 00:01:50.600 Oh, no, it's coffee, I love that. 00:01:50.600 --> 00:01:56.520 Such an AI robot, which I think legally could not be its name, may benefit from Apple's 00:01:56.520 --> 00:02:01.680 recent extensive research into optimizing language models to run on low-powered hardware 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:07.200 like iPhones. I don't have a transition into this last AI story, but guess what, Waymo Autonomous 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:12.440 Cars are now delivering food to Uber Eats customers in Phoenix, Arizona because AI is 00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:15.800 supposed to have taken all our jobs by now, we gotta speed this up. 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:22.080 Windows is being ditched in favor of Linux by Schleswig Horstein, one of Germany's 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:25.920 16 states and probably the name of a bottled drink you can't afford. 00:02:25.920 --> 00:02:31.280 The state government's approximately 30,000 employees will be joining the Linux Legion 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:36.600 and replacing their use of various other Microsoft services like SharePoint and Outlook with 00:02:36.600 --> 00:02:40.240 open source options like NextCloud and Mozilla Thunderbird. 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:43.600 Ascend my children, join me. 00:02:43.600 --> 00:02:48.440 The state already announced plans to switch from Microsoft Office to Libra Office back 00:02:48.440 --> 00:02:53.680 in 2021 and it looks like their resolve has only been strengthened since, probably thanks 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:58.800 to Microsoft Edge continuing to act like the browser version of Legend of Zelda's Navi 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:02.320 with ADHD. Hey! Hey! 00:03:02.320 --> 00:03:08.120 This isn't the first time a German region has tried to quit Microsoft though, the city 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:14.880 of Munich switched to Linux back in 2003, but eventually came crawling back in 2017. 00:03:14.880 --> 00:03:20.040 Open source software has come a long way though, so to the state government employees of Schleswig 00:03:20.040 --> 00:03:25.360 Horstein, allowing us to say this to you, viel Glück! 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:31.280 Microsoft announced a breakthrough in quantum computing error correction that could, crucially, 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:35.120 allow quantum computers to actually be used to compute things instead of what they're 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:38.560 used for now, which is generating esoteric press releases. 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:44.400 By pairing Microsoft's new Qubit virtualization system with IonTrap hardware, made by a company 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:50.000 called Quantinuum, I'm assuming as a joke, researchers from the two companies were able 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:55.320 to run more than 14,000 individual experiments without a single error. 00:03:55.320 --> 00:04:00.240 And they even diagnosed and corrected logical Qubits without destroying them, a development 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:06.200 that gave Microsoft's VP of quantum computing goosebumps, and I think gave me a second 00:04:06.200 --> 00:04:10.040 headache. I mean, it does sound kind of dope though. It sounds great. 00:04:10.040 --> 00:04:15.480 In all seriousness though, as far as my puny mind can tell, this is a big step forward 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:20.360 for this technology, and Jacob says it is too, so he knows about space. 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:27.480 I mean, I only studied, I studied astrophysics. It's such a big step that Microsoft is announcing the industry is now moving from level one 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:33.840 foundational to level two resilient quantum computing, a proclamation that for me kind 00:04:33.840 --> 00:04:38.200 of skirts the line between the George Bush Mission Accomplished banner and Google declaring 00:04:38.200 --> 00:04:43.360 quantum supremacy back in 2019, like the tech giant version of Michael Scott. 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:47.000 What are Qubits for the answer? 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:53.040 Look deep inside your mind, whoop, not that deep, that's, oh, oh god. 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:56.840 Roku, the Portland main of smart TV makers. 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:02.200 Apparently wants to become the bond villain of smart TV makers by showing ads on the company's 00:05:02.200 --> 00:05:07.000 TVs, even when you're just using it to play Xbox or PS5. 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:12.360 Roku filed a patent for a system that would allow Roku TVs to detect when a device connected 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:17.440 to it via HDMI has paused, at which point the TV can display an ad. 00:05:17.440 --> 00:05:24.160 I mean, you're not using it, you might as well. The patent also explores ways to determine what content you are interacting with, of 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:30.120 course, so they can display more relevant ads. It's not just evil, it's boring evil. 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:35.920 This is why Amazon and Google are beating you. You could be evil, but like be interesting, you know, that's all I'm saying. 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:40.760 YouTube is experimenting with a new feature called Jump Ahead among a limited group of 00:05:40.760 --> 00:05:46.800 YouTube premium subscribers. They say the feature will skip right to what its algorithm thinks you're looking for based 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:54.560 on a user's behavioral data. They also said AI a whole bunch, which has got to be a compulsion of some kind. 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:59.440 How it works is that after a user double taps on mobile to skip forward 10 seconds, they'll 00:05:59.440 --> 00:06:04.720 be given a button that lets them jump ahead to whatever the computer thinks is the next 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:10.520 best moment for you, which is probably when Riley Murdock whips out his Tim Cook impression. 00:06:10.520 --> 00:06:16.320 Haha, he is so funny, that Riley. Jessica, you really think I'm funny? 00:06:16.320 --> 00:06:24.720 No. Sony has announced a new medium format image sensor with a whopping 247 megapixels in a 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:31.560 package approximately the same size as the 150 megapixel sensor in Hasselblad's H6D 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:36.720 series cameras. Break that down for me, right, dog? That's exciting, isn't it, Andy? 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:42.400 And while it's true that photographers and videographers are so over the megapixel race, 00:06:42.400 --> 00:06:47.080 it's unquestionably noteworthy that a medium format sensor could produce an image with 00:06:47.080 --> 00:06:52.520 a resolution of 19,200 by 12,800 pixels. 00:06:52.520 --> 00:06:58.840 19K by 12, you just bought an 8K TV, you look so stupid right now. 00:06:58.840 --> 00:07:03.640 To be fair, according to Sony's website, this sensor is for industrial use in visual 00:07:03.640 --> 00:07:08.800 inspection devices, but such sensors have found their way into consumer cameras before, 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:17.040 so this was definitely worth telling you about. A San Diego startup has designed a new chip architecture that can run CPU, GPU, and AI 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:21.800 workloads simultaneously on the same cores. 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:28.000 Startup Xsilicon Inc. hopes their CGPU platform will be heavily adopted in segments with strict 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:32.680 power to performance ratios like the automotive and embedded computing markets. 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:38.160 The startup's work joins the likes of Libre SoC, an open source project that apparently 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:40.240 had its funding pulled in February. 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:47.600 Hopefully Xsilicon won't have that issue, since they're making CGPU open standard. 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:51.560 It's like open source, except that it's very different and you get to make money. 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:57.200 And Nothing, the tech company, has announced two upcoming Nothing Earbuds on the Nothing 00:07:57.200 --> 00:08:00.800 website by which I mean Twitter. Haha. 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:08.000 Haha. However, it seems that following the Nothing Ear 2, they've decided to go the Valve route 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:17.440 and give up on trying to count any higher. They've thus announced the Nothing Ear and the lower end Nothing Ear Open Bracket Lower 00:08:17.440 --> 00:08:21.280 Case A Closed Bracket. Alright. Haha. 00:08:21.280 --> 00:08:25.320 According to Nothing, they've removed the numbers in order to focus on the product and 00:08:25.320 --> 00:08:29.720 the unique experience it delivers, which is a bit like admitting you can't walk and 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:38.480 chew gum at the same time. It's hard. But I can thank you for watching at the same time as I tell you to come back on Monday for 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:43.280 more tech news. It's not actually true, because I did that sequentially, but... 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:46.240 Yeah! Come back!