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I hate you!
She's still possessed.
As Wired explains, the software engineer in question
used a service called JobGPT
from the accurately named Lazy Apply
and landed around 20 interviews out of the 5,000 applications,
compared to the other 20 interviews he got after manually applying to 200 to 300 jobs.
40 interviews and still unemployed.
I'm not sure the amount of applications is the problem.
Some recruiters quoted in the article are okay with the applicants using AI tools,
but others likened it to asking out every woman in the bar
regardless of who they are,
which is apparently a bad thing.
Oh, well, sorry for being too nice, my lady.
And it'd be nice if all you came back on Friday
for more tech news, no matter who you are,
unless you're Jeffrey Gardner from middle school.
F*** you, Jeff.
Stop where you are.
How did you access this feed?
This stream requires level five security clearance.
I'm just kidding.
This is pre-recorded video.
I can't do anything.
Former Apple product designers have launched the Humane AI pin.
It's essentially a $700 GPT-4 powered shirt dongle
with cell service, cameras, and a laser projector.
But it may not be as stupid as it looks.
Humane's founders are former Apple exec,
Bethany Bongiorno, Bongiorno, something,
and designer Imran Chaudhri, who going by his website,
apparently did nothing for 20 years but file patents.
That may explain why he looks like he needs a nap all the time.
Humane says the pin doesn't run apps.
It simply accomplishes whatever you tell it to using AI,
but its camera and mics are not always recording.
You have to tap it and you'll hear audio come out of its personic speaker,
creating an intimate bubble of sound,
unlike other speakers that don't do bubbles at all.
Elton John did walls.
When you do want the camera to record,
the AI pin's trust light will turn on,
which is ironic, given you should never trust someone wearing that many bracelets.
You can hold up your hand to access some controls by a laser,
but you can also hold up nuts like D's
and ask the dongle,
how much protein is this?
How much protein is in D's nuts?
It's unclear if this feature will work on anything the camera can see.
Strangely, even though Chaudhri said the AI pin has a quote,
it runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset,
and that means it's really fast.
It erroneously listed the best places to see the next total solar eclipse
as Exmouth, Australia and East Timor,
which are the best places to see this year's eclipse back in April.
Similar, easily provable errors were made
during the unveiling of both Bing Chat and Google Bart,
and you'd think there'd be a lesson here,
but to be fair,
Imran may have been sleep talking in the video.
We can't tell.
Humane will have until next year to fix the AI pin when it launches for $699 at $700,
plus they required $24 a month subscription.
I can't wait.
I can.
Pre-order.
In more AI news,
OpenAI blamed a DDoS attack for its periodic outages on Wednesday,
according to a status page that doesn't exactly scream $29 billion company.
Initially, OpenAI's CEO and backup video game character asset, Sam Altman, said,
ChatGPT's new features were simply more popular than the company had anticipated.
Turns out that popularity was actually malice,
as misleadingly named hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the attack.
The next day, OpenAI became unpopular with best friend and possibly lover Microsoft
when the company blocked its employees from using ChatGPT.
You'd think it was a response to the attack,
but Microsoft claims the block was an error,
or maybe they don't feel the same connection anymore.
These days, there's a lot more AI fish in the sea, after all.
Samsung's newly announced Gauss.
Gauss can supposedly translate audio and text in real time.
That's pretty hot.
And Amazon says its Olympus AI's parameters are double the size of GPT-4's.
We understand if you're having second thoughts, Microsoft.
You're a trillion-dollar company.
At some point, you'll leave your current AI wife for a younger model.
Speaking of Amazon's massive assets,
the company is now offering low-cost primary health care as a Prime membership benefit.
Did your arm fall off?
Prime members...
Members can get same-day delivery directly to a surgical suite.
Is this true or not?
I can't...
this is Black Mirror.
I don't know.
That's a joke, right?
Seriously, though, for an extra $9 a month or $100 per year,
members can get 24-7 on-demand virtual care
and schedule next-day or even same-day appointments
at hundreds of primary care offices across the US.