if you find TechLink to be an enrichment in your life I invite you to write a
kind little comment below when I'm all snuggled up in bed tonight I'll read
some of them to my cat then he'll have to respect me in the wake of an Oxford
study that suggested barely anyone uses AI tools on a daily basis three major AI
companies have rolled out feature updates for their chatbots in an attempt
to make them useful for someone other than coders and Tech Bros left over from
the crypto bubble opening I's ostensibly less evil cousin anthropic announced
tool use for Claude allowing it to perform tasks and manipulate data AI
search engine perplexity announced Pages which will create research reports on
any topic that can be customized shared or presumably handed into your teacher
and open aai just gave free chat GPT users the ability to upload images and
files and use custom gpts those features
were previously paywalled which as this fan points out obviously points towards
something special coming for for paying users maybe chat GPT could be our Mom
they're going to give us something so special like an AI mom open AI also just
announced chat GPT u e edu which
basically gives schools an education discount to convince them to use it and
it comes on the heels of a report claiming the company finally signed that
rumored Apple deal to put their aite Tech in the next iPhone that same report
claims Sam ultman has discussed transforming open AI from a wacky capped
profit controlled by a nonprofit into either a b Corporation allowed to care
about something other than benefiting shareholders or a regular old for-profit
company but it's only because that might be necessary to achieve a Utopia
designed by Sam's machine God and populated by sentient robots after
they've killed us all off okay it's a trust him it's worth it Tik Tok is
working on a modified version of its recommendation algorithm that would not
share any backend with its Chinese counterpart Duan and thus potentially
save the app from being banned in the US that's all according to Insider sources
who spoke to Reuters but not according to Tik Tok who immediately tweeted that
the report is misleading and inaccurate
but seemed to be referring specifically
to the claim that a US Centric algorithm would enable by dance to sell ticket
talk they didn't explicitly deny they're
working on such an algorithm in fact Crystal who the reports co-author says
that when she reached out for comment on the story Tik Tok told her the info was
correct to be fair they probably didn't read the whole thing before getting
bored and swiping up but even if Tik Tok survives in the US it may have to deal
with upcoming bills like this one from New York's Governor that could ban
smartphones in schools and then how will kids ignore their history class to watch
another kid tell them that Helen Keller wasn't real or play
chess on Tik Tok on their phones
oh yeah Google has confirmed that this
week's massive document leak revealing key details about how its search
algorithm works is real after taking two
days to cover their ears and pretend everything's fine as required by law the
tech giant didn't get into specifics they only cautioned against making
inaccurate assumptions about search based on out of context outdated or
incomplete information suggesting that the public trust Googles demonstrably
inaccurate public statements instead Google also took a moment to put up a
blog post explaining why Google searches new AI overviews told people it was okay
to put glue in pizza sauce and eat rocks last week step one it's good for you it
gave those answers simply because prior to those screenshots going viral
practically no one asked Google how many rocks they should eat how would Google
search know that it wasn't okay to eat one Little Rock if it had never thought
about it before H Google says AI overviews cited a satirical article
recommending eating rocks because of a data void issue there's just hardly any
info on the web about whether eating rocks is okay formatted as an answer to
the question of how many rocks one should eat we we can all chuckle at this
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time why haven't you written a comment yet Spotify has announced that they will
be giving refunds to customers who bought car thing after the company
announced they would be remotely bricking all car things they initially
offered purchasers well uh nothing some who
complained were offered a few months of Spotify Premium but wouldn't you know it
the company suddenly started offering refunds not long after a class action
lawsuit was filed accusing Spotify of misleading customers by selling a
product that would quickly be rendered unusable but ah are they doing anything
about all the e-w they're creating has the ocean or any of the fish hired a
lawyer I didn't think so you say you're a fish prove it Google cloud has
released a public explanation for how it wound up accidentally deleting a
customer account two weeks ago namely somebody on Google's end accidentally
left a parameter blank now that might not sound like an issue worthy of an
Entre ire blog post from a multi-billion dollar company but the customer in
question was Unis super an Australian
pension fund charged with managing 135
billion Australian dollar dues on the
bright side the accounts have been successfully restored on the less bright
side apparently your life savings can be wiped out in an instant if a dude named
Robert droptable decides to sign up for a
401k the internet Arch the organization that runs the Wayback machine was hit
with a several day long dos attack involving tens of thousands of fake
information request per second according to the archives director of Library
Services while the exact motivation for the attack is unknown a group called SN
black meta has taken credit for the assault by posting what appears to be
the profile picture of an edgy 14-year-old from the early 2000s what
who could possibly understand what's going on in his dark mind AI company the
simulation has announced showrunner an
app that wants to be the Netflix of AI
with AI generated original series the TV
shows are pretty creative there's one about super intelligent AI devices uh
family drama about two siblings that create an AI version of their dead mom
there's even a horror anime about a future where humans choose to physically
augment themselves with AI technology
even worse they want Watchers of these shows to generate their own episodes yes
because the thing that will surely make AI generated TV shows better is
fanfiction and a Creator on Chinese video site Billy Billy has gone viral on
social media thanks to an incredibly intricate custom tank Simulator for
World of Tanks using soda bottles for shells uh meta Quest 2 as a periscope a
Logitech driving wheel and some kind of crank situation to control the main gun
it looks fing awesome and frankly if we could take all the resources currently
being used to generate AI slot for the internet and build more stuff like this
I wouldn't have to fish for nice comments to read to my cat to be happy I
was joking I don't have a cat what I actually require to be happy is that you
come back on Monday for more Tech news okay or I will
cry no pressure