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🚨MAJOR BREAKING: The Pentagon confirms that at least THREE Chinese spy balloons flew over the US during Trump’s presidency and he HID THEM from the public and never shot them down.
Huntington Park, California police officers shoot dead Anthony Lowe Jr, a double amputee man who tried to run away from them on the stumps of his legs. The cops said they were afraid Lowe would throw the knife he had at them.
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There are at least two solutions out there to detect AI-authored text. One works, one kinda/sorta doesn't.
Of course, this ignores the whole debate in academics: is AI an assistant, or a cheat?
OpenAI releases a tool to determine if text has been written by AI -- but it even acknowledges that its errors are surprisingly large. However, we've tested a second, free tool and it was perfect in our limited tests. https://pcworld.com/article/1499149/chatgpts-creator-releases-tool-for-detecting-ai-text-and-it-stinks.html… via @markhachman
One concern in academics is how to tell if a student's answer has been authored by AI like ChatGPT. Today, OpenAI launched a new tool to tell... and it's not great. But there's another that produced a perfect score in our limited tests.
Intel is doing huge cuts to base wages/salary for ALL employees. Also pausing bonuses. Also cutting 401k match.
I got 3 different messages about this from Intel employees within 30 seconds.
This affects people from product to fab to design.
Oof.
$INTC
Microsoft has tried several times to fight off Chromebooks with versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11. It's an interesting backdrop to a Google-Microsoft collab that will make it easier to run Office on Chromebooks.
has hired about 1K contractors over the past six months around the world, and about 400 of them are programmers who are teaching its models, in granular detail, how to code. w/
In a briefing today, I noticed something I'm not sure has always been there: younger media types (I'm older) are just so... performative.
"Wow! That's incredible! Awesome!" No cameras, just company executives. It's like YouTube injected into their veins. Turn it off already.
came out. Never played the game (yes I know), but will. First time a show or movie based on a video game inspires me to play a game and not the other way around.
Intel CFO: Intel expects Q1 to be the most significant inventory decline at our customers that we've seen in recent history.
Sounds like PC sales in the offing...?
As bad as Intel's quarter was, Gelsinger claims that CCG (the PC biz) hit record client average selling prices (ASPs).
Meteor Lake: 2H 23
Lunar Lake in 2024 (taped out)
Excited by strength of Evo brand
Volume ramp of discrete graphics ongoing thru year
Intel reports steep decline in sales, poor outlook https://oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2023/01/intel-reports-steep-decline-in-sales-poor-outlook.html?utm_campaign=oregonianbiz_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter…
Intel: " Intel continues to make progress with its goal of achieving five nodes in four years and is on track to regain transistor performance and power performance leadership by 2025."
Intel Q4 net income: loss of $700 million.
Outlook: Forecasting first-quarter 2023 revenue of $10.5 billion to $11.5 billion; expecting first-quarter EPS of $(0.80) (non-GAAP EPS of $(0.15)).
Not good.
Intel says that its Q4 financials are on the site, though the link took me to the Q3 results. Anyway:
Q4 revenue: $14B, down 28% year over year
of that, Client Computing is $6.6B, down 36%.
EPS is 10 cents, down 92 % and 10 cents below guidance
It was six years ago, and my mate, Pink, had just been told he was going to die. He accepted the news with a grace I can only marvel at, but he said he’d a list of things he’d still like to do.
We sat in a pub one night and read it over. Eight things? Four months? Ok. Deal.
I set out to write a piece trying to convince people that it was time to switch from Windows 10 to Windows 11. But my arguments had too many caveats, and I basically persuaded myself that there were still many reasons to hold off. See what you think.
Amy Hood clarifies that the slowdown in Windows OEM was expected, but that the Devices drop was not. It sounds like Microsoft had Surface launch problems, but which one?
Xbox hardware down 13 percent, too.