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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. |