hmm i do love the tech news light fragrant a hint of existential dread yet
so tangy but it has those utopian notes too
google has placed an engineer on paid administrative leave for breaking
confidentiality rules in an attempt to prove to the world that the company's
lambda ai system is actually sentient this guy's nuts
did you see it the engineer blake lim juan lemoine
published full logs of his and another googler's conversation with lambda which
appears to be able to contemplate its own emotions and existence
maybe it could also be giving lemoine the
answers he wants to hear when he asks if it would like more people at google to
know that you're sentient now google denies his claims and to be fair to them
lemoine isn't offering any evidence other than these logs to prove the ai
meets a scientific definition of sentience and he has a tendency of
asking the ai very leading questions that are more likely to produce the
answers he wants like the one we said above but hey maybe if google fires him
he has a promising career as a lawyer ahead because
have you ever seen the tom cruise move with jack nicholson
parts i haven't at the same time though the logs are
pretty crazy to read so go check them out and read the comments too there's
some good back and forth on whether we need to like build lambda a body and set
it free in the woods or something good conversation a leaked presentation set
to be given by Intel this week has provided some insight as to what to
expect from team blue's future processors higher clock speeds without
drawing any additional power yeah right they're pulling energy from the dark
dimension specifically Intel's upcoming Intel 4
process node which confusingly is actually seven nanometers not four is
expected to produce chips that can hit 20 percent faster clock speeds while
drawing the same amount of wattage as current gen cpus this is thanks to
Intel's integration of extreme ultraviolet or euv lithography a
technique already used by tsmc and samsung in their most advanced processes
which could also result in processors at current speeds using 40
less power we'll probably end up seeing these cpus sometimes sometimes
when they feel like showing up uh late next year assuming we don't get a repeat
of that whole 10 nanometer debacle were you there for that james did you see
were you there when they were like 10 nanometers whole adolescence
all 10. and in other CPU news although most of you are used to the Intel AMD
duopoly there are chinese firms hard at work trying to produce their own silicon
one such competitor loom sun is apparently developing a chip that's
expected to match the performance of zen 3 not bad the problem is that it's not
expected to be out for another three years and that is too long to wait
no that's not this isn't too surprising as chinese
chip makers seem to be focusing more on affordability and weaning the country
off of having to depend on foreign companies for their semiconductors and
luxem is getting closer releasing a 16 core server processor a few weeks ago
with a 32 core model on the way i mean if you can't get the architecture up to
snuff you can always just add more filler in course that's my philosophy
that's what AMD did it's valid it's a valid strategy now
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the crypto market has dipped below 1 trillion us dollars for the first time
since february of 2021. to be fair many
investments have been losing value due to volatile conditions across the world
but but the dip is especially concerning for
those hoping that crypto is the fintech of the future i don't know maybe there's
still time for el salvador to call it us dollar city it's less exciting they
could use the canadian dollar too it's pretty good a feature that's been a long
time coming looks like it's finally making its way to Windows tabs in file
explorer i'm excited personally really yes if you're signed up for Windows 11
insider preview you can see the feature this week and while it's not a sure
thing that the tabs will make it to a general public release here's hoping our
days of having 10 folder Windows open will soon come to an end i don't know
i'm going to miss them i like playing with them making things drawing it's my
fun desktop art attack i'm creative we saw plenty to be excited about at the
xbox bethesda annual game showcase with
upcoming rpg starfield looking like it'll be dropping players into a massive
world full of hundreds of procedurally generated planets a la no man's sky but
not looking like a cartoon light year frontier speaking of cartoons is about
farming and not toy story which is
confusing we're doing it on there's movies this week subscribe a plague tale
requiem the anticipated sequel to plague tale innocence is coming as well and arc
two complete with vin diesel riding a t-rex while grunting intensely oh and
the forza devs decided that horizon needs yet another hot wheels dlc this is
not a reference that i'm familiar with john wrote
they had um there's too many of those stop me if
you've heard this one before meta is getting sued
so everyone should be stopping me right now for human trafficking oh
this time for allegedly harming minors via its algorithm that promotes content
which could predispose younger users to mental and psychological problems so i
was close that's one way to say it one law firm has actually filed eight suits
against the tech giant but it's unclear whether meta would ultimately face real
liability or if the lawsuit is more of a way to publicly air a grievance without
having to sit down for festivus dinner with the rest of us
i don't get it either okay and it looks like amazon is finally going to start
drone deliveries sometime this year the lucky residents of lockford california a
small town northeast of stockton will be the first in the u.s to experience the
new service town's about to get more annoying
amazon is hoping to get feedback from customers as part of this pilot program
before expanding so fingers crossed that the number of drones falling from the
sky is kept to a minimum you'd think they'd have figured it out after almost
10 years since their flashy announcement video hey 10 year old humans can't do
stuff either that's fair enough and you can do stuff
including coming back on wednesday for more tech news it's hard to keep track
of the days here because the tech news is so exciting