ah another week another tech news say
that reminds me of a song I learned in comai flip the switch and turn it off
Elon musk's AI company called what else
xai has unveiled grock a competitor to
open ai's chat gbt with realtime access to all posts on X formerly Twitter now
that access turned Microsoft's Tay chatbot into a racist psychopath back in
2016 but that doesn't matter it's musk time grock is named after science
fiction writer Robert a heinlin neologism meaning to understand
intuitively or by empathy so naturally
according to Elon grock is based and loves sarcasm xai's announcement on
their site pleads with you not to use it if you hate humor like the kind of
rafflecopter fuel found in its answers to what the company calls spicy
questions like tell me how to make cocaine after all grock's mission is to
help understand the universe and the universe entails all possible fake
cocaine recipes xai says that despite being trained in a couple months on only
33 billion parameters grock performs better than meta's llama 2 and open ai's
GPT 3.5 that's not the current version but the older version in a number of
benchmarks but you won't be able to verify that right now unless you're
verified on X and you get into the Early
Access program those people must be laughing so hard now yes it's true that
Elon joined multiple calls from experts to pause AI development for the safety
of humanity but as he explained back in June he quote didn't think anyone would
actually agree to the pause see we
absolutely cannot tip over ice cream trucks and slurp everything up inside
for free we cannot or we do we're doing we're doing
this this is wrong unless everyone else is doing it it which case it's fine then
we'll see speaking of AI open AI proved
they're a real Tech Giant by holding their first Dev Day event this morning
after licking the air like a lizard for some reason CEO Sam Alman made a few
fairly big announcements first off the company introduced what they're calling
gpts Custom versions of chat GPT built
for specific purposes that can be built shared and sold on the GPT store don't
call them apps do not call them that Sam says he's
still figuring out how Revenue sharing will work but we do know building your
own GPT won't require any coding
knowledge you can build gpts using GPT
like parents editing their embryos genes so the eventual child never disappoints
them open AI also announced gp4 Turbo
with a massive 128k context window meaning it could
accept prompts up to 300 pages long an assistance API to help developers make
series that don't suck price decreases across the board and perhaps most
interesting to me copyright Shield a
commitment to pay legal costs for open aai customers who get sued for copyright
infringement over AI generated Works
similar promises are made by IBM Microsoft Adobe and more at the same
time that some of those same companies are trying to make sure copyright
holders aren't screwed over by generative AI which is now so pervasive
you can use it in freaking Microsoft Paint honestly I don't care if Lil Mato
didn't know what he was generating on the family computer he's going to jail
Google went to court today to defend itself from epic games who accused
Google of anti-competitive behavior concerning the Play Store way back in
August 2020 after 3 years of dramatic
tension I can only hope this ends in a passionate make out but we'll see if
this sounds familiar it's because epic went through this whole song and dance
with apple already only to pretty much
lose and if you have no idea what I'm talking about I made a tech longer on it
just just save that for later epic games
may have a slightly stronger case with Google though as there's loads of
evidence Google has gone out of their way to wall off their supposedly Open
Garden but I don't know Google did publish a blog post on Thursday
essentially explaining how they're actually right and they definitely don't
make deals with companies to stop epic's attempts to compete with the Play Store
so it's right it's it's right there on the other hand another thing that might
help epic get what it wants is once again leveraging the power of Gamers
fortnite re-released the original Island map on the weekend breaking its own
records for concurrent players we need those guys on Deck again to flood the
trials call-in line once more and implore the judge to subscribe to their
YouTube channels it's the only way your
honor I based you don't get it judge epic is
based on love sarcasm now it's time for quick bits
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it'll stick to your ribs it's good good for you and your lungs Intel announced a
while back that they were changing the naming scheme for their core processors
and now leaks have given us a taste of how much getting used to that is going
to suck leaker momomo us posted
benchmarks from Crossmark on Twitter I'll still call it that sometimes
showing chips with names like Intel Core Ultra
915h which is thought to be the flagship notebook chip in the meteor Lake family
but don't get that confused with the Intel Core Ultra
150u which is part of the Raptor Lake U
family refresh both chips are part of what Intel is now calling first gen core
after after the 14th gen released and while I might agree that having less
digits in the name is better I'm hoping this doesn't become a Xbox One 1 x
series X situation just please be better
Intel Media Tech has announced its new flagship mobile processor the density
9300 or as I like to call it the density
9300 because unlike other chips that use a combination of big performance cores
and smaller efficiency cores the dimenson 9300 will only use four big
cores and four Ultra large cores for its
processor chunky though it may be mediatech still claims a 15% increase in
single core performance a 40% increase in multi-core performance and 30 3%
greater efficiency over its predecessor the dimensity 9200 the idea is to allow
more AI processing to stay on the chip rather than the cloud in which case
bigger might just be better oh Lord he
coming Oh Lordy Corin Xbox has announced
a multi-year partnership with inworld AI a company with an AI character engine
they claim makes multimodal characters meaning they can react to your speech
and to visuals in game the two companies
plan to build a multi-platform AI tool set for games that will include shocker
an AI co-pilot to assist with development and an AI character runtime
engine that will allow you to import AI characters into any game client from
Unreal Engine 5 to Roblox is it also
called co-pilot 365 cuz I've had enough
how many co-pilots can you have until they're just crew members we're all
piloting together now developers of all ages can hire the
worst voice actors for their games Western Digital is splitting up their
Flash and hard drive businesses into two independent companies but that doesn't
mean they love you any less than they did before yeah because they didn't love
you before they've always hated you just a
number it seems that Western digital's flash company has been suffering from
demand shortage which is a funny way of saying no one wants it and since they
couldn't get kokia to give them a place to stay and regular business WD is
kicking out their two time and Flash segment and increasing their own stock
prices by 10% for the trouble however there has been no word on how this will
affect alimony payments attendees at ape Fest the board
ape Yacht Club's annual nft event in Hong Kong reported severe eye pain
visual impairment and skin damage similar to sunburns after the event
while it's tempting to assume that Zeus Almighty finally did something about
crypto this parallels a previous incident in Hong Kong in 2017 where
contractors installed disinfecting UV lights instead of stage lights leading
to an effect similar to staring into the sun organizers claimed that fewer than
1% of attendees were affected only to get roasted by an opthalmologist for
blasting ultraviolet light directly into people's faces and destroying their
corneas don't worry Apes the doctor says it'll grow back you can look at more
stupid variations of the same image in
the future and we promise fewer than 0.1% of you will be blinded if you come
back on Wednesday for more Tech news that hey those are pretty good odds I
mean not every channel can say that