Tech News: Microsoft Says Goodbye to Internet Explorer
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🗓️ 14 June 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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This week, we're seeing Microsoft's browser Internet Explorer come to an end as Google pulls the plug (officially) on Google Talk. Plus we learn about Apples second-generation mixed reality hardware even before the company announces the first one, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. |
| 0:08.5 | Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm your host Jonathan Strickland, I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how the tech |
| 0:18.0 | are ya. |
| 0:19.0 | It's time for the tech news for Tuesday, June 14, 2022. |
| 0:24.7 | Our first news item is about Google's conversation model AI that's called Lambda, L-A-M-D-A. |
| 0:33.5 | Now I covered this in yesterday's Tech Stuff episode, but in case you missed it, here is |
| 0:38.5 | the short version. |
| 0:40.6 | An engineer at Google working in the Responsible AI Division was suspended from his job |
| 0:47.2 | after saying the AI might be sentient. |
| 0:51.5 | The engineer Blake Lemoine shared a transcript of a few conversations that he and a colleague |
| 0:57.0 | of his had with the conversation engine during which the engine argued that it was conscious |
| 1:03.5 | and that it experienced emotions. |
| 1:06.4 | Google suspended the engineer for violating a confidentiality policy which undoubtedly |
| 1:11.1 | helped fuel speculation about the model's alleged sentience. |
| 1:15.3 | Now several AI experts have weighed in on this and the general consensus is that Lambda |
| 1:20.2 | is nowhere close to being sentient or conscious. |
| 1:23.8 | It's just good at what it's supposed to do, which is to generate conversational dialogue. |
| 1:29.4 | But as Gary Marcus, who is the founder of Geometric Intelligence, but what that really does |
| 1:35.2 | is it just means Lambda is a very advanced version of autocomplete. |
| 1:40.7 | Lambda uses statistics to determine what to say next. |
| 1:44.7 | So imagine you had a truly enormous database that contains practically all the conversations |
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