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if you find TechLink to be an enrichment in your life I invite you to write a

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kind little comment below when I'm all snuggled up in bed tonight I'll read

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some of them to my cat then he'll have to respect me in the wake of an Oxford

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study that suggested barely anyone uses AI tools on a daily basis three major AI

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companies have rolled out feature updates for their chatbots in an attempt

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to make them useful for someone other than coders and Tech Bros left over from

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the crypto bubble opening I's ostensibly less evil cousin anthropic announced

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tool use for Claude allowing it to perform tasks and manipulate data AI

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search engine perplexity announced Pages which will create research reports on

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any topic that can be customized shared or presumably handed into your teacher

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and open aai just gave free chat GPT users the ability to upload images and

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files and use custom gpts those features

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were previously paywalled which as this fan points out obviously points towards

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something special coming for for paying users maybe chat GPT could be our Mom

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they're going to give us something so special like an AI mom open AI also just

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announced chat GPT u e edu which

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basically gives schools an education discount to convince them to use it and

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it comes on the heels of a report claiming the company finally signed that

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rumored Apple deal to put their aite Tech in the next iPhone that same report

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claims Sam ultman has discussed transforming open AI from a wacky capped

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profit controlled by a nonprofit into either a b Corporation allowed to care

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about something other than benefiting shareholders or a regular old for-profit

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company but it's only because that might be necessary to achieve a Utopia

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designed by Sam's machine God and populated by sentient robots after

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they've killed us all off okay it's a trust him it's worth it Tik Tok is

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working on a modified version of its recommendation algorithm that would not

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share any backend with its Chinese counterpart Duan and thus potentially

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save the app from being banned in the US that's all according to Insider sources

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who spoke to Reuters but not according to Tik Tok who immediately tweeted that

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the report is misleading and inaccurate

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but seemed to be referring specifically

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to the claim that a US Centric algorithm would enable by dance to sell ticket

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talk they didn't explicitly deny they're

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working on such an algorithm in fact Crystal who the reports co-author says

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that when she reached out for comment on the story Tik Tok told her the info was

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correct to be fair they probably didn't read the whole thing before getting

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bored and swiping up but even if Tik Tok survives in the US it may have to deal

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with upcoming bills like this one from New York's Governor that could ban

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smartphones in schools and then how will kids ignore their history class to watch

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another kid tell them that Helen Keller wasn't real or play

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chess on Tik Tok on their phones

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oh yeah Google has confirmed that this

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week's massive document leak revealing key details about how its search

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algorithm works is real after taking two

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days to cover their ears and pretend everything's fine as required by law the

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tech giant didn't get into specifics they only cautioned against making

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inaccurate assumptions about search based on out of context outdated or

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incomplete information suggesting that the public trust Googles demonstrably

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inaccurate public statements instead Google also took a moment to put up a

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blog post explaining why Google searches new AI overviews told people it was okay

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to put glue in pizza sauce and eat rocks last week step one it's good for you it

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gave those answers simply because prior to those screenshots going viral

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practically no one asked Google how many rocks they should eat how would Google

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search know that it wasn't okay to eat one Little Rock if it had never thought

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about it before H Google says AI overviews cited a satirical article

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recommending eating rocks because of a data void issue there's just hardly any

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info on the web about whether eating rocks is okay formatted as an answer to

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the question of how many rocks one should eat we we can all chuckle at this

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understandable error what would be even more

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on ground news we can see that when this story appeared earlier this month more

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left leaning Outlets reported on it than right leaning sources ground news can

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plus their blind spot feature allows you to see what stories may only have

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Link in the description it's quick bits

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time why haven't you written a comment yet Spotify has announced that they will

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be giving refunds to customers who bought car thing after the company

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announced they would be remotely bricking all car things they initially

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offered purchasers well uh nothing some who

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complained were offered a few months of Spotify Premium but wouldn't you know it

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the company suddenly started offering refunds not long after a class action

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lawsuit was filed accusing Spotify of misleading customers by selling a

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product that would quickly be rendered unusable but ah are they doing anything

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about all the e-w they're creating has the ocean or any of the fish hired a

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lawyer I didn't think so you say you're a fish prove it Google cloud has

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released a public explanation for how it wound up accidentally deleting a

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customer account two weeks ago namely somebody on Google's end accidentally

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left a parameter blank now that might not sound like an issue worthy of an

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Entre ire blog post from a multi-billion dollar company but the customer in

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question was Unis super an Australian

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pension fund charged with managing 135

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billion Australian dollar dues on the

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bright side the accounts have been successfully restored on the less bright

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side apparently your life savings can be wiped out in an instant if a dude named

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Robert droptable decides to sign up for a

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401k the internet Arch the organization that runs the Wayback machine was hit

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with a several day long dos attack involving tens of thousands of fake

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information request per second according to the archives director of Library

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Services while the exact motivation for the attack is unknown a group called SN

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black meta has taken credit for the assault by posting what appears to be

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the profile picture of an edgy 14-year-old from the early 2000s what

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who could possibly understand what's going on in his dark mind AI company the

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simulation has announced showrunner an

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app that wants to be the Netflix of AI

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with AI generated original series the TV

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shows are pretty creative there's one about super intelligent AI devices uh

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family drama about two siblings that create an AI version of their dead mom

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there's even a horror anime about a future where humans choose to physically

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augment themselves with AI technology

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even worse they want Watchers of these shows to generate their own episodes yes

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because the thing that will surely make AI generated TV shows better is

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fanfiction and a Creator on Chinese video site Billy Billy has gone viral on

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social media thanks to an incredibly intricate custom tank Simulator for

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World of Tanks using soda bottles for shells uh meta Quest 2 as a periscope a

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Logitech driving wheel and some kind of crank situation to control the main gun

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it looks fing awesome and frankly if we could take all the resources currently

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being used to generate AI slot for the internet and build more stuff like this

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I wouldn't have to fish for nice comments to read to my cat to be happy I

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was joking I don't have a cat what I actually require to be happy is that you

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come back on Monday for more Tech news okay or I will

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cry no pressure