Daily Tech News 16 April 2023

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Future ChatGPT versions could replace a majority of work people do today says Ben Goertzel, an idiot. (ZDNet)
"You don't need to be incredibly creative and innovative or make big leaps to do most people's jobs, as it turns out," said Goertzel.
Perhaps not, but if you're a pathological liar, people tend to notice.

And that's what ChatGPT is. It's inherent in the design, because it's a language model, not a fact model.
"Tools like Grammarly decrease the need for human copy editors," Goertzel said. "They don't entirely eliminate [the job] but they decrease that need. Automatic tools [can be used for] writing journalistic articles. They've been writing ... sports score summaries and weather reports for a long time."
Seeing some of the crap that passes for journalism, you could replace the whole lot with a short Perl script and get better results.

Tech News

Sales of hard drives have dropped by 35% in the past year maybe. (Tom's Hardware)

Maybe not, because half the numbers in the chart provided are obviously wrong, but sales do appear to be down.
Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, says UFOs may be probes sent down by an alien mothership to study mankind and steal our women and/or cows. (Politico)

Or maybe not, because that is stupid.
Kotlin 2 is here, with static extensions, collection literals, name-based destructuring, context receivers, and explicit fields. (Jetbrains)

I have no idea what any of those things are.
The perfect-ish notebook at an imperfect price: The 2023 Gigabyte Aero 16. (IT Pro)

Let's take a quick look at the specs:

16" 3840x2400 (16:10) 60Hz OLED screen
Intel Core i7 13900H (6P + 8E cores)
Nvidia RTX 4070 with 8GB VRAM
32GB RAM upgradeable to 64GB
1TB SSD upgradeable to 16GB (two M.2 PCIe 4.0 slots)
Two Thunderbolt 4 ports
One additional USB-C port
One USB-A port
HDMI
micro SD
Combo audio jack
Dedicated 240W power connector (it can also charge more slowly via USB-C)
The Four Essential Keys exactly where they should be

And it weighs in at a svelte 1.9kg. Or maybe 2.1kg, depending on whether you read Gigabyte's specs or the review.

There's just one small oint in the flyment: That model costs $2299 in the US - not cheap, but not unreasonable for a high-end laptop - but A$4999 down under.

Disclaimer: Aargh.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2023 04:01 AM (xhxe8)

2 G'day Skip

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 16, 2023 04:01 AM (BLOW1)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 16, 2023 04:03 AM (T4tVD)

4 Hello, all.

Aargh! is correct...

Hope you're well, Pixy!

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 04:04 AM (o0Fxd)

5 Morning all!

Made it to Florida yesterday.

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2023 04:05 AM (Zrzqo)

6 Aauuurrggghhh! ...Whatcha gonna do about it...

youtu.be/EPPGhGOyPHY

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 04:05 AM (o0Fxd)

7 Those women who age very nicely are the exception
See Bridget Fonda link downstairs, not one of the fore mentioned

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2023 04:06 AM (xhxe8)

8 Morning all!

Made it to Florida yesterday.
Posted by: Bruce

Its still there ?

Safe travels Bruce !

Posted by: JT at April 16, 2023 04:08 AM (T4tVD)

9 Its still there ?

Safe travels Bruce !
Posted by: JT

Yes it is.
Thanks JT.

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2023 04:12 AM (Zrzqo)

10 Sorry, I gots nuthin' about Tech...

"Cat" is being hubby's 'bed buddy' tonight. Just snoozin' and sleepin' at his feet. It's all good.

I'm the insomniac of the fam. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 04:13 AM (o0Fxd)

11 And Florida performed a miracle for my laptop.
At the hotel in Charleston, I signed on to the wifi. Laptop shows that I'm signed on to the wifi.

I go to any web page and the screen says....

Hmmm something is wrong we can't find that (or some such verbige)

I tried Brave, Firefox, and Safari. All the same message.
We get to the rental here in FLA, sign in with password and the laptop says Hellz yeah, let's see what Ace and the 'rons are up to.

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2023 04:17 AM (Zrzqo)

12 Someone I think has grown older gracefully is Joan Baez. Smart enough not to try surgery

Posted by: Common Tater at April 16, 2023 04:18 AM (tG4O4)

13 Wakey wakey!

youtu.be/TnwqUEelQjE

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 04:19 AM (o0Fxd)

14 Admittedly there is a terrible standard, things are different for women, a premium is placed on looks and youth and all that goes with it.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 16, 2023 04:19 AM (tG4O4)

15 Wakey wakey!

youtu.be/TnwqUEelQjE
Posted by: JQ

Great song...Thanks

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2023 04:22 AM (Zrzqo)

16 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 16, 2023 04:24 AM (MBGMJ)

17 True, Common Tater!

A woman must be *attractive* and *voluptuous* but also *thin* and *wealthy/well-born* and ...and ...and

otherwise... MEH!

I am none of the above. Therefore: "no soup for me"

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 04:26 AM (o0Fxd)

18 As of early morning today, Chicago has 9 shot and killed, 23 wounded.

The Dem convention is going to be lit!

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2023 04:27 AM (Zrzqo)

19 I am none of the above. Therefore: "no soup for me"
Posted by: JQ

Can you make soup? Or at least open a can of soup without breaking down and needing a safe space?

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2023 04:29 AM (Zrzqo)

20 Yeah, Bruce, I can make soup... just cryin' in my beverage that I wasn't ever a Popular Girl

youtu.be/OzCMXR3NgX8

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 04:31 AM (o0Fxd)

21 youtu.be/qwZ_u_UKb0Q

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 04:37 AM (o0Fxd)

22 Yeah, Bruce, I can make soup... just cryin' in my beverage that I wasn't ever a Popular Girl

youtu.be/OzCMXR3NgX8
Posted by: JQ

Heh. Wife said that she wasn't part of the Kool Kids when she went to HS. After she retired she found that some of the "girls" she was friends with would get together every month for a lunch. This has turned into a mini reunion every month at a local place in my wifes hometown. She gets to as many as she can.
Tells me that she likes to get there early so she can sit with the 5 or 6 that she knew in HS.
I tell her she gets there early so she can sit at the Kool Kids table

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2023 04:37 AM (Zrzqo)

23 Never was part of the Kool Kidz Clan..

I lived in the "correct" neighborhood, but parents weren't wealthy and connected to the local 'elite'. Meh.

Our house got 'egged' a few times, cuz me & bro were not in the In Crowd

Haven't been to a HS reunion yet, and plan to not EVER attend.

F 'em.

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 04:41 AM (o0Fxd)

24 youtu.be/BSG64FsSxG4

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 04:43 AM (o0Fxd)

25 Haven't been to a HS reunion yet, and plan to not EVER attend.

F 'em.
Posted by: JQ

I went to my 10th and enjoyed it. Went to the 25th and wondered who the heck most of these people were.
Saw pictures of the 40th and thought I know some of the guys because of sports, but the women, not so much.

I didn't go to my 50th.

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2023 04:43 AM (Zrzqo)

26 W*rked with one of the hi-society witches at former jerb.

She was oh-so-catty and chided me about 'the old days' once in a while (I tried to avoid her but not always successful)

So stupid. Anyway, she'd ask me if I'd planned to attend whatever HS reunion... I'm like: No. Why would I? Didn't graduate. (Had GED months before "Graduation Day" anyhow.)

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 04:50 AM (o0Fxd)

27 Everybody Loves Raymond: High School

https://tinyurl.com/4renpby5

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 16, 2023 04:51 AM (MBGMJ)

28 High school was just another event to endure before entering Real Life.

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 04:56 AM (o0Fxd)

29 18 As of early morning today, Chicago has 9 shot and killed, 23 wounded.

The Dem convention is going to be lit!
Posted by: Bruce

Probably won't have the civility and decorum of the convention that opened the movie 'The Warriors'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 16, 2023 04:57 AM (D8mow)

30 youtu.be/jTZHHQplIX8

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 05:02 AM (o0Fxd)

31 "Didn't graduate. (Had GED months before "Graduation Day" anyhow.)"

Th ptbs wouldn't do that here. You had to wait until after your class graduated before they issue that piece of paper.

Posted by: Like it mattered at April 16, 2023 05:02 AM (89Sog)

32 >>>Kotlin 2 is here, with static extensions, collection literals, name-based destructuring, context receivers, and explicit fields. (Jetbrains)
I have no idea what any of those things are.

May a bot wrote it.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2023 05:03 AM (Ww1lp)

33 Kotlin 2 is here, with static extensions, collection literals, name-based destructuring, context receivers, and explicit fields. (Jetbrains)
I have no idea what any of those things are.

May a bot wrote it.
Posted by: m

Meps!!
We are from France.

...Beldar...

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2023 05:04 AM (Zrzqo)

34 Maybe a bot wrote it.
-->Maybe a bot wrote it.

Coffee seems required.

Posted by: m at April 16, 2023 05:05 AM (Ww1lp)

35 Probably helped that I GED'd in a different state than HS...

Had to apply for a waiver from Board of Education due to my age (16) at the time

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 05:05 AM (o0Fxd)

36 I saw were Ft Lauderdale FLA area got about 20 inches of rain the other day.

Is that caused by the same thing that causes the drought conditions in FLA too?

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2023 05:09 AM (Zrzqo)

37 Never went to a class reunion after all these years. Not even sure they do it anymore.. The school still looks the same outside (with a new large addition) and has A/C now. I remember not being a sports hero, and where my locker was, I have no interest in getting together and talking about who married who, and who has divorced who. Looking at my report cards from that era, surprised I even graduated. Social Studies was about the only class I liked, and none of the social justice classes, they have today!

Posted by: Colin at April 16, 2023 05:09 AM (8p0Zk)

38 "Social Studies" was my *least favorite* class. Ugh! Such bullsh!t. But that was Jhigh.

HS didn't fk around with that-- went straight into english comp & lit, math, biology, etc...

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 05:14 AM (o0Fxd)

39 Good morning morons

I had a blast in h.s. We had all the regular social groupings but they seemed quite fluid and everyone got along pretty well. Everyone went to everyone's parties with few problems.

This was post-disco but pre-AIDS.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2023 05:15 AM (EZebt)

40 youtu.be/PBAl9cchQac

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 05:21 AM (o0Fxd)

41 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 16, 2023 05:23 AM (ju2Fy)

42 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.
Posted by: olddog in mo

Morning!

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2023 05:27 AM (Zrzqo)

43 This was post-disco but pre-AIDS.
------------

Oh, if only! LOL

I was in HS at the height of Disco.

Bleh. Much preferred "rock" at the time.

youtu.be/acISuX2aBrI

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 05:28 AM (o0Fxd)

44 Sean Kirkpatrick sounds like he needs the Cartman Treatment.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 16, 2023 05:30 AM (iCHdt)

45 I'm watching the miracle of the Holy Fire ceremony from yesterday at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2023 05:33 AM (EZebt)

46 Morning, Bruce. What part of FL you visiting?

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 16, 2023 05:40 AM (ju2Fy)

47 youtu.be/duM0aMz3BfE

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 05:41 AM (o0Fxd)

48 The hot and humid part.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2023 05:41 AM (EZebt)

49 Morning, all!

HS reunions? I went to the 10th with the future Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 (which increased my social credit score, lemme tell ya). Everybody looked about the same, except hair styles had changed -- shorter, usually. A lot of the cute girls were still cute, but the boys were starting to show receding hair lines. Had some fun. Went to the 20th, and that was generally pretty sad: less hair (including on some of the women!), more body weight and double chins and wrinkles. The most recent anniversary ending in a 0 would have fallen during the Sniffle Scare. Who knows if they even had it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2023 05:43 AM (omVj0)

50 youtu.be/CkkQPxoxJJY

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 05:44 AM (o0Fxd)

51 Morning, Bruce. What part of FL you visiting?
Posted by: olddog

Near Bradenton on the Gulf.

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2023 05:44 AM (Zrzqo)

52 The hot and humid part.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

HA!!

Yeah, this is always my wifes trip. I tell people that we're paying good money to get into the weather that I hate back home

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2023 05:45 AM (Zrzqo)

53 In 1988 I did go to a 75th anniversary of the founding of my high school. A couple of the teachers I remembered from my years were still there, and it was fun to talk with them. But the place had become a kind of remedial high school; the classrooms were dolled up for us evening visitors, showing how they were teaching the basics (!) of English and arithmetic. The place is still going; it's the school Sandra Bullock spent $$$ to bring back after Hurricane Katrina. I'm proud that I went there *then*.

Trivia: Both Lee Harvey Oswald (though he did not graduate) and Clay Shaw (much earlier) graduated from my school.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2023 05:47 AM (omVj0)

54 I took Mrs. F. for her first visit to Florida where she met my entire family for the first time at lib little sister's wedding, including the Canadians.

It was a real-life Seinfeld episode for 3 days.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2023 05:51 AM (EZebt)

55 And I visited my old grammar school in the fall of 2012 when they were open as a polling place for a Saturday local election. The classrooms are air-conditioned now, and the big auditorium, which took up most of the ground floor, had been broken up by partitions, though maybe that was for the election. Now they've renamed it for something politically expedient, as they have my junior high. Blech.

A tour guide once tried to tell me that Lee Harvey Oswald had attended that school. I'm pretty sure that when LHO was 6-11 years old, he and his mother did not live here at all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2023 05:51 AM (omVj0)

56 youtu.be/Kz5scjSQ_WE

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 05:52 AM (o0Fxd)

57 Raining here, though not cold. Who knows if I will be able to work out. Maybe I can wash and doll up the car this pm once the roads dry somewhat.

Stirling the Damned Black Kitten woke me by pushing his cold nose into my face and then galloping around the bed, pouncing on God knows what. He thinks I'll feed him early. He is wrong.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2023 05:54 AM (omVj0)

58 "Oh, are you awake?"
-Stirling

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2023 05:56 AM (EZebt)

59 youtu.be/-G8KmNF-xc4

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 05:59 AM (o0Fxd)

60 Nood !

Posted by: JT at April 16, 2023 06:01 AM (T4tVD)

61 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 16, 2023 06:03 AM (mIvbT)

62 youtu.be/hxjEXXSLl_4

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 06:04 AM (o0Fxd)

63 JQ you are definitely post-disco. Pet Shop Boys?

I don't think so.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2023 06:04 AM (EZebt)

64 Dude. I may be old, but I'm not DEAD

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 06:07 AM (o0Fxd)

65 https://youtu.be/Oj3gIqTsOXc

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 06:07 AM (o0Fxd)

66 San Franpsycho

I'm beyond 2x age 29...

50th reunion coming up!

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 06:10 AM (o0Fxd)

67 In the 'old days' I could *smell the difference* between Columbian, Thai, Sensemillia, and Michuacan...

Now? It all just REEEKS of skunk. Bleh!!!!!!

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 06:13 AM (o0Fxd)

68 No such thing as Matanuska Thunderf*k anymore... it's all skunky sh!t.............

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 06:18 AM (o0Fxd)

69 ... Maybe tcn can correct the record?

Posted by: JQ at April 16, 2023 06:18 AM (o0Fxd)

70 1TB SSD upgradeable to 16GB
Wait, what?! Did you mean upgradeable to 2TB or to 16TB maybe?

Posted by: GWB at April 16, 2023 07:22 AM (NJ9MR)

71 GWB, you beat me to it. I have the same question. The source link mentions 1TB and does not mention upgrade options, at least not in the table they showed.

Posted by: bradc at April 16, 2023 07:31 AM (4Nfhp)

72 The corgi girl is out back barking amd charging corner to corner playing "get off my lawn" with the small herd of whitetails that live in the woods behind. She's Lily and will be 4 in December.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 16, 2023 08:29 AM (KiBMU)

73 Women or cows? We may have fpund a way to put the trans movement to good use.

Posted by: Anotheranon at April 16, 2023 08:32 PM (geoTH)

74 What's ᥙⲣ, all is going nicely here and ofcourse every one is sharing facts, that's truly gоod, keep
up wrіting.

Posted by: overstate at April 24, 2023 12:52 AM (KCbAq)

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