- (sniffs) Hm, I do love the tech news.
Light, fragrant, a hint of existential dread,
yet so tangy.
- [Man Off Camera] But it has those utopian notes too.
- Eh.
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.
- [Man Off Camera] This guy's nuts.
- Did you see it?
- [Man Off Camera] Yeah.
- The engineer Blake Moline 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 Moline 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
Moline isn't offering any evidence other than
these logs to prove the AI meets
a scientific definition of sentient.
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.
Cause have you ever seen the Tom Cruise movie
with Jack Nicholson
- [Man Off Camera] Harts.
- 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 said 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.
- [Man Off Camera] 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% 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 E U V 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.
Late next year, assuming we don't get a repeat
of that whole 10 nanometer debacle.
Were you there for that jam?
Did you see
were you there when they were like two nanometers?
- [Man Off Camera] My whole adolescence
- Whole 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,
Loongson, is apparently developing a chip
that's expected to match the performance
of Zen three, not bad.
The problem is that it's not expected to be out
for another three years
and that is too 'loong' to wait.
- [Man Off Camera] No
- 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 Loongson 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.
Cores. That's my philosophy.
- [Man Off Camera] That's what AMD did.
- It's valid, it's a valid strategy.
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they might not even know where here
- [Man Off Camera] That's the opposite of T wrap
- 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.
- [Man Off Camera] Tesla.
- Yeah, 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.
- [Man Off Camera] I'm excited personally.
- Really?
- [Man Off Camera] 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 gonna miss 'em.
I like playing with them, making things drawing.
It's my fun desktop.
- [Man Off Camera] Art attack.
- I'm creative.
We saw plenty to be excited about
at the Xbox slash 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,
ALA no man 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're just movies
this week, subscribe.
A Plague Tale: Requiem,
the anticipated sequel to Plague Tail Innocence
is coming as well.
And Arc 2 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
- [Man Off Camera] Fort Horizon three
had Hot Wheels.
- They had Hot Wheels
- [Man Off Camera] And five is now getting Hot Wheels.
- There's too many of those.
Stop me if you've heard this one before
Meta is getting sued.
So everyone should stopping me right now.
- [Man Off Camera] 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.
- [Man Off Camera] 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 a Festivus dinner
- [Man Off Camera] 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 us
to experience the new service.
- [Man Off Camera] Your 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 that it figured it out
after almost 10 years since their
flashy announcement video.
- [Man Off Camera] Hey, 10 year old humans
can't do stuff either.
- That's fair enough.
And you can do stuff
including coming back on Wednesday.
- [Man Off Camera] Wednesday
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