the FTC is open an investigation into open AI over potential consumer harm but
how can it harm consumers when you can't even eat it I'm Jacob Rush this is techlinked and
this is a 20-page letter sent to open AI by the FDC requesting documents
regarding the company's large language model development and training practices
as well as openai's data security the
FTC obviously has a lot of questions about things like March's chat CPT bug
that revealed users chat and payment information and how openai refines its
models to prevent chat gbt from hallucinating and making up facts on top
of all that the FTC also intends to investigate if Sam Altman may have
raised his incredibly popular AI child on private information and they're not
the only ones in legal trouble for data collection a class action lawsuit has
been filed against Google for allegedly stealing data to train their chatbot
Bard filed by the same Law Firm that filed a similar class action lawsuit
against openai last month this newer lawsuit claims Google has
been secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the Internet by
Americans if true this would be the most Brazen American theft since Nick Cage
saw the Declaration of Independence my favorite documentary can you believe
that they kept the camera rolling long enough to get the sequel I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence
it's almost as good as a documentary where he fights animatronics LG
Electronics is planning to offer a subscription-based home as a service
platform for its appliances want seasonal DLC for your dishwasher want an
AI assistant for your oven want unlockable premium content on your
fridge no well that's too bad the
motivation for the change was of course money you see LG realize that tragically
the average household will buy at most one four thousand dollar premium smart
fridge every decade but they would strongly prefer that you simply paid
them forever instead LG outlined its goal to increase its annual income from
51 billion dollars to 78 billion dollars over the next six and a half years an
increase of 53 percent through these kinds of subscriptions to do this they
plan to spend 39.5 billion dollars on research and development it's not like
half of what you want to make that doesn't seem right I don't know if the
math works out there I'm kidding I'm kidding I know it's over time it's worth
noting that last year LG had its highest revenue ever but alas executive want
number go up I would hope that consumers would put their foot down and refuse to
engage with this obvious money grab but you just know there's a bunch of
whales that are going to blow thousands of dollars on microwave transactions man
I can't wait to get the freaking red microwave Cosmetic Skin
the perseverance Rover has found signs of organic matter on Mars according to a
study published in nature organic matter in this case is molecules containing
carbon bonded to hydrogen or other carbon atoms not evidence that there
used to be martians growing artisanal Farm to Table produce a team on Earth
was able to find the matter using an instrument on the Rover called scanning
habitable environments with Raman and luminescence for Organics and chemicals
or Sherlock to its friends and sexual conquests using Sherlock researchers
looked at 10 locations in the massive Jezreel crater and found organic
compounds at all 10. now organic compounds are the building blocks of
life but this doesn't mean there are aliens on Mars especially since everyone
knows they left years ago to abduct transients under orders from Bigfoot
correct determine the origin of the compounds and whether they are evidence
Mars once sustained life they need to be brought to Earth via the Mars return
Mission but that might be difficult because the U.S Senate just slashed the
mission's budget due to ballooning costs and I have to say how disheartening it
is to learn that Bigfoot has infiltrated the US government how can you not see
that he's a very very large creature and full of just covered in hair how can you
not tell read the signs wake up sheeple
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are like the little forehead kisses your mom used to give you except now you're
grown up and you're receiving them from a large bearded man
I like to think it's more special ASUS has confirmed that the Rog allies SD
card reader can malfunction under certain thermal stress conditions this
issue has been a big deal recently due to the popularity of the handheld PC
fortunately ASUS said they will be releasing an update to help mitigate the
issue but it may have the side effect of increasing fan noise something that is
only ever good if you're a live band and I'm not a live band ASUS I'm a person
why can't you see me for who I am Google has launched public testing of notebook
LM previously known as project Tailwind which is probably why its logo looks
like a stylized cartoon fart just like that it's essentially a mini AI
assistant trained on your own documents according to google a med student could
upload Neuroscience articles and ask notebook LM to create a glossary of key
terms related to dopamine which has gotta suck for all the residents who
just graduated can you imagine that what am I gonna do with all these notes I
just made oh currently notebook LM is
available only for Google Docs and only in the United States because the rest of
the world has sealed America behind an airtight glass Dome
I'm sorry if this is how you found out you'll never be able to see your
girlfriend that lives in Canada that you totally made up The Institute of electrical and electronics Engineers or
I has released a new standard for a
light based communication Network I.E li-fi it's like Wi-Fi but it's made of
Lies if by lies you mean photons and I do the idea of li-fi has been around for
years and could increase data transfer speeds up to 100 over existing Wi-Fi but
it's been difficult to implement hopefully one day our children will be
able to Blind Pilots with a single laser carrying an AI upscale 4K 14 Gigabyte
copy of the Star Wars holiday special
that's what the pilots will sound like when they crash to their deaths the CEO
of tiny build the studio that publishes hello neighbor a game about spying on
people indicated that he might possibly be spying on his employees maybe but
don't worry it's for their own good at a conference he described how tiny build
uses AI to monitor its workers for Burnout which he himself called
bizarrely black mirrory apparently it
involves identifying workers that use the words I and me too often and talk a
lot in meetings and then firing them but the CEO has since said this was all
purely hypothetical so just forget about what you heard and start using the Royal
Wii at staff meetings I think we need more breaks we have been working too
hard and Ubisoft has announced a
collaboration with haptic skin suit maker oh whoa oh whoa I don't know how
to pronounce it for the upcoming Assassin's Creed Mirage the product page
for the Assassin's Creed Mirage Edition haptic gaming system promises you will
be Basim the protagonist of the game and
I believe oh well based on the library of simulated Sensations advertised on
their site including light abdominal wound severe abdominal wound being shot
and being shot but with an exit wound you know when I think of the fun parts
of gaming I always think of the Grievous injuries my character suffers why not
simulate something enjoyable like a pat on the back or my dad saying he's proud
of me I haven't had milk for years but I'll be
proud of you if you come back on Monday for more techlinked of course I'm always
proud of you but I'm just less proud of you when you disappoint me
so don't