WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.120 Look, I wish I could say that Apple announced a sentient robot 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:09.880 that can do perfect Tim Cook impression, so I don't have to, but no, it's iPads. 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:16.040 Apple made a series of big announcements today, most notably the launch of the new M4 chip, 00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:19.720 which the company says is designed to be an AI powerhouse. 00:00:19.720 --> 00:00:23.960 So obviously Apple will be launching it first in their new iPad Pro. 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:28.040 So your mom's next tablet, it's gonna be jacked. 00:00:28.040 --> 00:00:31.560 That is unless she goes with the new M2 powered iPad Air, 00:00:31.560 --> 00:00:36.000 which bizarrely is ever so slightly heavier and thicker 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:39.680 than either the 11 inch or 13 inch Pro models. 00:00:39.680 --> 00:00:43.640 What are we doing here? The M4 is a three nanometer chip 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:49.260 with four performance cores and six efficiency cores, plus an upgraded neural engine that Apple says 00:00:49.260 --> 00:00:54.100 is quote, more powerful than any AI PC available today. 00:00:54.100 --> 00:00:58.260 But the Snapdragon X laptops aren't out yet, and that sounds like fear. 00:00:58.260 --> 00:01:04.620 I can smell it. The M4's GPU has also been upgraded, and it means that the new iPad Pro will be the first iPad 00:01:04.620 --> 00:01:07.860 to feature ray tracing and hardware accelerated mesh shading. 00:01:07.860 --> 00:01:12.380 So you heard it here first PC gamers, time to throw your computer in the garbage, okay? 00:01:12.380 --> 00:01:17.060 I'll kick that. According to Apple, the new chip is 50% faster 00:01:17.060 --> 00:01:22.340 than the M2, which is always what they do. They were not comparing it to the M3, 00:01:22.340 --> 00:01:27.340 and it's twice as efficient. Apple also launched the new Pencil Pro, 00:01:27.340 --> 00:01:30.540 which they say is loaded with tech, 00:01:30.540 --> 00:01:33.540 packed to the gills, and it can do a barrel roll. 00:01:33.540 --> 00:01:36.700 Though I'm not sure why it would have to unless you're a graphic artist trying to work 00:01:36.700 --> 00:01:40.580 while taking enemy fire. Just kidding, that would be useful 00:01:40.580 --> 00:01:43.820 for altering the pen stroke as you work. 00:01:43.820 --> 00:01:48.780 Continuing another fine Apple tradition, the pen also has zero backwards compatibility 00:01:48.780 --> 00:01:51.980 and will only function with M4 model iPad Pros 00:01:51.980 --> 00:01:55.780 and M2 model iPad Airs. For what reason? 00:01:55.780 --> 00:02:01.140 But if you're not immediately looking to invest in an iPad, but you'd still like a taste of Apple's AI accelerated 00:02:01.140 --> 00:02:05.700 hardware, well, you're in luck. If you also happen to be an AI data center, 00:02:05.700 --> 00:02:10.540 Apple is apparently working on dedicated chips for commercial AI processing purposes. 00:02:10.540 --> 00:02:15.020 Okay, that's according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal, who I trust, 00:02:15.020 --> 00:02:18.120 because they're named after three of my favorite inanimate objects. 00:02:18.880 --> 00:02:22.520 Ah. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:27.160 OpenAI is reportedly developing a chat GPT powered search engine. 00:02:27.160 --> 00:02:30.640 This is according to a Bloomberg source familiar with the matter, 00:02:30.640 --> 00:02:35.920 but there's also been a recent registration for the domain search.chatgbt.com, 00:02:35.920 --> 00:02:39.400 which must mean something. A serious chat GPT search function 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:43.820 could potentially rival Google search, so long as it doesn't share the same downsides 00:02:43.820 --> 00:02:49.800 as Google's own AI infused search features, which recently told internet funny man at drill 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:54.400 that the best way to pass a kidney stone was to drink large volumes of piss. 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:58.300 You don't know until you try it. Chat GPT can already pull up some search results 00:02:58.300 --> 00:03:03.740 for certain queries, such as weather info. However, this feature is only available to paid users 00:03:03.740 --> 00:03:09.580 and its current capabilities are extremely narrow. OpenAI hasn't confirmed this potential new search feature, 00:03:09.580 --> 00:03:14.160 but they have stated that they're developing a new tool called Media Manager, 00:03:14.160 --> 00:03:19.400 which will allow creators and content owners to flag their works as available or unavailable 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:23.240 for use in AI training. The company will also be launching a tool 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:26.680 that can detect images created by Dal E3. 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:30.120 Now, in other maybe, maybe not open AI news, 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:36.160 the mysterious and extremely powerful AI model that briefly appeared on the LMSIS benchmarking site 00:03:36.160 --> 00:03:41.160 under the name GPT2 chatbot has apparently resurfaced 00:03:41.160 --> 00:03:45.080 under the names, I'm a good GPT2 chatbot 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:48.480 and I'm also a good GPT2 chatbot. 00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:53.880 Don't get it mixed up. The first time GPT2 showed up, there was uncertainty about what the heck it was, 00:03:53.880 --> 00:03:57.360 but this time, a day before it reappeared, 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:02.640 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted, I'm a good GPT2 chatbot, 00:04:02.640 --> 00:04:05.840 seemingly confirming that these are two new models 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:10.560 that OpenAI is testing or possibly that Sam Altman has been 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:14.160 an AI chatbot this entire time. Can't wait until they launch Sam Altman too. 00:04:14.200 --> 00:04:18.440 The original guy was just Sam Mann and then they kept iterating. 00:04:18.440 --> 00:04:24.480 ByteDance is suing the United States government over its decision to ban TikTok next January, 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:29.320 unless ByteDance sells the app. According to the suit, Congress is using a nebulous 00:04:29.320 --> 00:04:34.240 and unproven threat to national security to justify what is otherwise an infringement 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:37.600 upon American TikTok user's First Amendment rights. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.960 The American government insists that their law is not a ban, 00:04:40.960 --> 00:04:45.640 but rather a forced divestment. Of course, ByteDance probably can't sell TikTok 00:04:45.640 --> 00:04:49.800 even if they wanted to because the Chinese government would have to consent to the sale, 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:53.440 which it's not going to. It's kind of a leave room for Jesus situation, 00:04:53.440 --> 00:04:56.680 but instead of the son of God, it's Xi Jinping. 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:00.880 Accordingly, ByteDance argues that TikTok is being held to a different standard 00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:05.440 than other similar platforms, such as ex formerly known as Twitter, 00:05:05.440 --> 00:05:08.800 whose second largest investor is a Saudi prince. 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:12.440 And look, I know Saudi Arabia is technically a US ally, 00:05:12.440 --> 00:05:16.160 but just because someone's supposed to be your friend doesn't mean they're not also 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:19.360 a brutal authoritarian dictatorship. I mean, we didn't know. 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:23.880 The US does have a history of restricting foreign ownership of TV and radio stations, 00:05:23.880 --> 00:05:28.480 but there's some argument that a private platform featuring user-generated content 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:32.200 isn't quite the same thing. American TikTok users could always switch 00:05:32.200 --> 00:05:37.000 to another similar platform, or they could always throw their smartphone into the sea 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:40.040 and finally be free of the curse of modernity. 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:45.400 Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Whose bits are the quickest of them all? 00:05:46.320 --> 00:05:51.560 Snow White. Oh, she gets all the mirror stuff. 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:57.800 ASUS may have leaked the new naming scheme for AMD's mobile chips, and it's bad. 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:01.000 According to a now-deleted page of ASUS' website, 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:04.480 the company's upcoming VivoBook 16 OLED laptops 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:09.480 will be powered by a Ryzen AI9 HX170. 00:06:10.880 --> 00:06:15.160 A CPU whose name seems to have more subtitles than Daenerys Targaryen. 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:21.520 Some outlets are comparing the AI part of the name to Intel's Ultra branding, but it seems more obvious 00:06:21.520 --> 00:06:26.080 that it's a continuation of the ongoing trend to put AI in everything. 00:06:26.080 --> 00:06:29.320 AI, I put that on everything. 00:06:29.320 --> 00:06:33.000 Unironically, that's what's happening. Where's the beef? 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:38.120 Boeing has admitted that employees had been skipping 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:41.800 inspections of their 787 Dreamliner airplanes, 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:45.440 but marking the work as complete anyway. 00:06:45.440 --> 00:06:49.280 While a worker at Boeing was praised for reporting the issue to the company 00:06:49.280 --> 00:06:52.440 in an email to employees, a report from safety experts 00:06:52.440 --> 00:06:58.520 in February found Boeing had major issues with its safety culture, claiming that many employees feared 00:06:58.520 --> 00:07:04.120 retaliation for reporting safety concerns. Hopefully, Boeing can fix their culture soon, 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:08.960 since they're trying to launch a spacecraft to the ISS. Also, maybe Boeing should try mastering airplanes 00:07:08.960 --> 00:07:11.960 before moving on to the final boss of non-terrestrial travel. 00:07:11.960 --> 00:07:16.240 I don't know, just an idea. Intel and Qualcomm have been forbidden 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:19.280 from exporting any of their chips to Huawei. 00:07:19.280 --> 00:07:24.600 On Tuesday, the US government revoked both companies' licenses to export what few processors 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:28.400 they were still allowed to sell to the beleaguered Chinese tech giant. 00:07:28.400 --> 00:07:32.160 But economics are a funny thing. The move actually looks like it will hurt 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:35.680 Intel's bottom line. While Huawei seems to be doing just fine, 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:38.800 thanks to China investing heavily in chip development 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:42.560 in response to US trade restrictions. Restriction, restriction, restriction. 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:46.240 I'm Sean Connery. We started with banning chip sales to China, 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:50.400 and then we tried to ban TikTok, and it really should have been the other way around. 00:07:50.400 --> 00:07:53.500 Micron and Lenovo have released the first laptops 00:07:53.500 --> 00:07:56.960 compatible with the new LP-CAM 2 standard, 00:07:56.960 --> 00:08:01.280 a new memory format that's significantly faster, more efficient, and more compact 00:08:01.280 --> 00:08:06.720 than the old Sodim RAM modules were all used to. It's also a lot easier to replace or upgrade 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:12.000 compared to soldered RAM. iFixit called it awesome, and they were so excited, 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:14.520 they even said the word heck. 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:20.320 Micron is currently shipping their first modules, which can either be bought individually 00:08:20.320 --> 00:08:25.360 or as part of Lenovo's seventh gen ThinkPad P1 workstation laptop. 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:30.320 Though I'm not sure why you'd buy it on its own without the only device it's currently compatible with. 00:08:30.320 --> 00:08:33.240 Maybe just a look at it. Jessica really likes it. 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:38.480 It's pretty. It's beautiful. And Microsoft has provided US spy agencies 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:42.200 with a generative AI model based on GPT-4 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:45.960 that can be run locally, according to a report from Bloomberg. 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:51.680 Every service based on OpenAI's models other than this one has to call the company servers to function. 00:08:51.680 --> 00:08:58.080 Bloomberg quotes a senior executive at Microsoft as saying, it's the first time a major large language model 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:03.320 has operated fully separated from the internet, completely ignoring Meta's Lama models 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:07.920 in what I can only assume is an attempt to start a diss track battle with Mark Zuckerberg. 00:09:07.920 --> 00:09:11.480 Good luck. I can't wait. The Kendrick and Drake thing have slowed down. 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:15.680 I need my fix. And we might have to start a diss track battle with you 00:09:15.680 --> 00:09:21.080 if you don't come back on Friday for more tech news. And let's be honest, neither of us wants that. 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:24.840 I've been doing some research and I got a lot of dirt on you. Okay, let's be smart here.