It seems like everyone lately is asking ChatGPT, a new chatbot from OpenAI running on GPT-3.5, questions. I’ve watched it generate small fictional opuses about the characters of Avengers and pen a whole laptop review in the style of Joanna Stern. But Professor Tom Goldstein didn’t have to ask the chatbot a single thing to math out how much it might be costing OpenAI to run the bot. He estimates it’s approximately $100,000 per day.
Developer Neal Agarwal made a site where you can pick any location on the planet, pick the size, velocity, and angle of an asteroid, and send it careening into the land. The site then explains in excruciating detail what happens when as a result of the asteroid. The thing that surprised me? The fireball.
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5 out of 10 results on the first page of Google returned recent stories about SBF and the FBI considering extradition. Interesting!
GPT-3 regularly scrapes the internet to teach itself language, but one redditor suspected it was teaching itself using AO3’s over 10 million works of fanfiction. And it turns out that yup, GPT-3 is training itself using fanfiction and now knows the mechanics of the “omegaverse” werewolf porn trope better than most humans. Fanfic authors are already locking their works down to avoid further mining.
Disney is hyping the excellent new Willow TV show with a bunch of merchandise based on the original film, including this currently on-backorder “vintage style” Willow action figure that comes with a tiny dessert-shaped ugly baby.
As with the previous major cast announcements for this show, there are almost zero details on whom each actor is playing. But I had fun scrolling through the list and trying to decide who was an elf, a human, or a harfoot.
Engineers are Georgia Tech are working on a machine that would re-create different farts and use it to train an AI to listen in on our most personal medical secrets. Inverse spoke to the developers of the Synthetic Human Acoustic Reproduction Testing. It’s a gas.
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Amazon’s biggest Kindle ever is also the first to let you pair it with a stylus for note-taking. But crummy document syncing and lackluster software hold this E Ink device back.
Thirty years after the movie, Willow is back — and he’s got great hair, a great ensemble cast, and a super-fun adventure for you to watch.
An Android E Ink tablet isn’t for people looking for a smooth and seamless experience, but if you’re reading across a wide variety of apps, its flexibility is unparalleled.