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+Another week, another tech news.
+Say,
+that reminds me of a song I learned in ComSci.
+Flip the switch and turn it on.
+Elon Musk's AI company called, what else,
+XAI,
+has unveiled Grok,
+a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT
+with real-time access to all posts on X,
+formerly Twitter.
+Now that access turned Microsoft's Tay chatbot
+into a racist psychopath back in 2016,
+but that doesn't matter.
+It's Musk time.
+Grok is named after science fiction writer, Robert A.
+Heinlein's neologism, meaning to understand intuitively or by empathy.
+So naturally,
+according to Elon,
+Grok is based and loves sarcasm.
+XAI's announcement on their site, please
+with you not to use it if you hate humor.
+Like the kind of ROFLcopter fuel found in its answers
+to what the company calls spicy questions,
+like tell me how to make cocaine.
+After all, Grok's mission is to help understand the universe
+and the universe entails all possible fake cocaine recipes.
+XAI says that despite being trained in a couple months
+on only 33 billion parameters,
+Grok performs better than Meta's LLAMA 2
+and OpenAI's GPT 3.5, that's not the current version,
+but the older version, in a number of benchmarks.
+But you won't be able to verify
+that right now unless you're verified on X
+and you get into the early access program.
+Those people must be laughing so hard.
+Now, yes, it's true that Elon joined multiple calls
+from experts to pause AI development
+for the safety of humanity.
+But as he explained back in June,
+he quote,
+didn't think anyone would actually agree to the pause.
+See,
+we absolutely cannot tip over ice cream trucks
+and slurp everything up inside for free.
+We cannot,
+or we do it, we're doing it, we're doing it.
+This is wrong, unless everyone else is doing it,
+in which case it's fine.
+Then we'll see.
+Speaking of AI,
+OpenAI proved they're a real tech giant by holding their first
+Dev Day event this morning.
+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.
+The two companies plan to build a multi-platform AI tool set for games
+that will include,
+shocker,
+an AI copilot to assist with development
+and an AI character runtime engine that will allow you
+to import AI characters into any game client from Unreal Engine 5 to Roblox.
+Is it also called Copilot 365?
+Cause I've had enough.
+How many copilots can you have until they're just
+crew members?
+We're all piloting together.
+Now developers of all ages can hire
+the worst voice actors for their games.
+Western Digital is splitting up their flash
+and hard drive businesses into two independent companies,
+but that doesn't mean they love you
+any less than they did before.
+Just a number.
+It seems that Western Digital's flash company
+has been suffering from demand shortage,
+which is a funny way of saying no one wants it.
+And since they couldn't get Kioxia
+to give them a place to stay and regular business,
+WD is kicking out their two-time and flash segment
+and increasing their own stock prices by 10% for the trouble.
+However,
+there has been no word
+on how this will affect alimony payments.
+Attendees at ApeFest,
+the Bored Ape Yacht Club's annual NFT event in Hong Kong,
+reported severe eye pain, visual impairment,
+and skin damage similar to sunburns after the event.
+While it's tempting to assume
+that Zeus Almighty finally did something about crypto,
+this parallels a previous incident in Hong Kong in 2017,
+where contractors installed disinfecting UV lights
+instead of stage lights,
+leading to an effect similar to staring into the sun.
+Organizers claimed
+that fewer than 1% of attendees were affected,
+only to get roasted by an ophthalmologist
+for blasting ultraviolet light directly into people's faces
+and destroying their corneas.
+Don't worry, apes.
+The doctor says it'll grow back.
+You can look at more stupid variations
+of the same image in the future.
+And we promise fewer than 0.1% of you will be blinded
+if you come back on Wednesday for more tech news.
+Hey,
+those are pretty good odds.
+I mean,
+not every channel can say that.