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After licking the air like a lizard for some reason,
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CEO Sam Altman made a few fairly big announcements.
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First off, the company introduced what they're calling GPTs,
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custom versions of ChatGPT built for specifics purposes,
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that can be built, shared, and sold on the GPT store.
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Don't call them apps.
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Do not call them that.
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Sam says he's still figuring out how revenue sharing will work,
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but we do know building your own GPT won't require any coding knowledge.
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You can build GPTs using GPT,
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like parents editing their embryos' genes,
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so the eventual child never disappoints them.
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OpenAI also announced GPT-4 Turbo,
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with a massive 128K context window,
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meaning it could accept prompts up to 300 pages long,
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an assistance API to help developers make series that don't suck,
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price decreases across the board,
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and perhaps most interesting to me,
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Copyright Shield,
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a commitment to pay legal costs for OpenAI customers
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who get sued for copyright infringement over AI-generated works.
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Similar promises are made by IBM, Microsoft, Adobe, and more,
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at the same time that some of those same companies
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are trying to make sure copyright holders aren't screwed over by generative AI,
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which is now so pervasive,
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you can use it in freaking Microsoft Paint.
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Honestly, I don't care if little Mateo didn't know what he was generating on the family computer.
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He's going to jail.
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Google went to court today to defend itself from Epic Games,
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who accused Google of anti-competitive behavior
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concerning the Play Store way back in August 2020,
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after three years of dramatic tension.
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I can only hope this ends in a passionate makeout, but we'll see.
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If this sounds familiar,
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it's because Epic went through this whole song and dance with Apple already,
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only to pretty much lose.
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And if you have no idea what I'm talking about,
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I made a tech longer on it.
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Just save that for later.
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Epic Games may have a slightly stronger case with Google though,
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as there's loads of evidence
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Google has gone out of their way to wall off their supposedly open garden.
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But I don't know,
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Google did publish a blog post on Thursday,
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essentially explaining how they're actually right,
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and they definitely don't make deals with companies
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to stop Epic's attempts to compete with the Play Store.
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So it's right there.
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On the other hand, another thing that might help Epic get what it wants is
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once again, leveraging the power of gamers.
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Fortnite re-released the original island map on the weekend,
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breaking its own records for concurrent players.
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We need those guys on deck again
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to flood the trials call-in line once more,
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and implore the judge to subscribe to their YouTube channels.
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It's the only way.
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Your honor, I'm based.
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You don't get it, Judge.
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Epic is based on love sarcasm.
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My family has been using the same Quick Bits recipe since 1964.
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Except we took out all the asbestos and lead.
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We did.
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We did take it out, right?
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It'll stick to your ribs.
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It's good for you.
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And your lungs!
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Intel announced a while back
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that they were changing the naming scheme for their core processors,
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and now leaks have given us a taste of
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how much getting used to that is going to suck.
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Leaker MomomoUS posted benchmarks from Crossmark on Twitter,
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I'll still call it that sometimes,
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showing chips with names like Intel Core Ultra 9 185H,
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which is thought to be the flagship notebook chip in the Meteor Lake family.
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But don't get that confused with the Intel Core Ultra 150U,
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which is part of the Raptor Lake U family refresh.
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Both chips are part of what Intel is now calling First Gen Core,
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after the 14th gen released.
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And while I might agree that having less digits in the name is better,
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I'm hoping this doesn't become a Xbox One, One X, Series X situation.
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Just, please, be better, Intel.
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MediaTek has announced its new flagship mobile processor,
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the Dimensity 9300,
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or as I like to call it,
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the Density 9300,
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because unlike other chips that use a combination of big performance cores and smaller efficiency cores,
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the Dimensity 9300 will only use four big cores
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and four ultra large cores for its processor.
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Chonky though it may be,
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MediaTek still claims a 15% increase in single core performance,
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a 40% increase in multi-core performance,
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and 33% greater efficiency over its predecessor, the Dimensity 9200.
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The idea is to allow more AI processing to stay on the chip rather than the cloud,
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in which case, bigger, might just be better.
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Oh Lord, he comin'.
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Oh Lord, he corin'.
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Xbox has announced a multi-year partnership with InWorld AI,
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a company with an AI character engine
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they claim makes multi-modal characters,
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meaning they can react to your speech and to visuals in-game.
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