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After licking the air like a lizard for some reason, |
CEO Sam Altman made a few fairly big announcements. |
First off, the company introduced what they're calling GPTs, |
custom versions of ChatGPT built for specifics 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. |
OpenAI also announced GPT-4 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 OpenAI 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 little Mateo 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 three years of dramatic tension. |
I can only hope this ends in a passionate makeout, 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 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 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'm based. |
You don't get it, Judge. |
Epic is based on love sarcasm. |
My family has been using the same Quick Bits recipe since 1964. |
Except we took out all the asbestos and lead. |
We did. |
We did take it out, right? |
It'll stick to your ribs. |
It's 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 MomomoUS posted benchmarks from Crossmark on Twitter, |
I'll still call it that sometimes, |
showing chips with names like Intel Core Ultra 9 185H, |
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 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, One X, Series X situation. |
Just, please, be better, Intel. |
MediaTek has announced its new flagship mobile processor, |
the Dimensity 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 Dimensity 9300 will only use four big cores |
and four ultra large cores for its processor. |
Chonky though it may be, |
MediaTek still claims a 15% increase in single core performance, |
a 40% increase in multi-core performance, |
and 33% 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 comin'. |
Oh Lord, he corin'. |
Xbox has announced a multi-year partnership with InWorld AI, |
a company with an AI character engine |
they claim makes multi-modal characters, |
meaning they can react to your speech and to visuals in-game. |