Tech Meme

Chloe Xiang / VICE: Microsoft researchers claim GPT-4 showed early signs of AGI, with performance close to human levels in tasks spanning coding, medicine, law, psychology, more  —  The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model’s clear limitations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chloe Xiang / VICE: Microsoft researchers say GPT-4 showed early signs of AGI, with performance close to human levels in tasks spanning coding, medicine, law, psychology, and more  —  The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model’s clear limitations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yoel Roth / Techdirt: Some national security concerns about TikTok are valid, but forcing it to divest its US operations could undermine TikTok’s ability to fight adversarial threats  —  from the when-government-demands-backfire dept  —  Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: In his first visit to China since 2020, Tim Cook praises Apple’s “symbiotic kind of relationship” with China, amid Apple’s moves to diversify from the country  —  Chief executive’s visit comes despite rising trade and geopolitical tensions between Beijing and US Lees verder op Tech Meme

Irregular Ideas: LLMs will demolish barriers for software creation and unleash the next great technology cycle, marking a kind of Gutenberg moment for the software industry  —  There is immense hyperbole about recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Intel: Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, the author of Moore’s Law, dies at 94  —  Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94.  —  The foundation reported he died peacefully on Friday, March 24, 2023, surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lisa Baertlein / Reuters: A look at Amazon’s efforts to offset its shipping costs by raising Prime subscription prices, increasing the minimum purchase free shipping threshold, and more  —  There is no such thing as free shipping.  —  Even so, Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and other online retailers who use so-called free delivery … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: AI chatbots comparison test: ChatGPT is the most verbally dextrous, Bing is best for getting information from the web, and Bard is surprisingly limited  —  The web is full of chattering bots, but which is the most useful and for what?  We compare Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: An affidavit shows how the FBI arrested Conor Fitzpatrick, aka Pompompurin, the alleged admin of BreachForums; the DOJ says it caused the forum to go offline  —  The Justice Department also said it conducted a “disruption operation” that caused BreachForums to go offline. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft threatens to cut rivals’ Bing search index access if they use it for their AI chat tools and warns at least two customers of violating terms  —  Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines … Lees verder op Tech Meme