Speaker 0: Hello, and welcome to the Geek News Central
Speaker 0: podcast. This is Ray speaking. Got a great
Speaker 0: episode lined up for you folks tonight. Starting
Speaker 0: out, anthropic, the statement from Daria Amadeh on
Speaker 0: our discussions with the Department of War. I
Speaker 0: don't know how much of you been keeping
Speaker 0: up with this, but this has been a
Speaker 0: pretty hot topic in the last this the
Speaker 0: last week. And they've just gone ahead and
Speaker 0: said, we're not gonna give you full access
Speaker 0: to you know, un or unrestricted access to
Speaker 0: our models. There are a couple of things
Speaker 0: that they're a little uncomfortable with. So they're
Speaker 0: outlining, mass domestic surveillance, which, fair, I don't
Speaker 0: think I want that either. And also fully
Speaker 0: autonomous weapons. Yeah. As these models tend to
Speaker 0: be, you know, based on, you know, predictive
Speaker 0: analysis. They're predictive models. Yeah. I don't I
Speaker 0: don't know. It's a little bit terrifying. What
Speaker 0: if it predicts that I'm an enemy? You
Speaker 0: know? So it is quite nice to see
Speaker 0: them, you know, standing firm. But on the
Speaker 0: other hand, the government has gone ahead and
Speaker 0: started placing their sanctions, full backlash mode. They
Speaker 0: will no longer be using, anthropic models and
Speaker 0: have just, like, basically banned it. I've been
Speaker 0: seeing all the news today of all the
Speaker 0: new administrative bands that they're putting down. So
Speaker 0: it's a little bit crazy, but if you
Speaker 0: guys do wanna, like, kinda hear more from
Speaker 0: the CEO himself, he does do an interview
Speaker 0: or he did do an interview this morning
Speaker 0: about nine hours ago with, CBS, and that's
Speaker 0: up on YouTube. I'll try to link that
Speaker 0: in the show notes. But, other anthropic news
Speaker 0: this might as might as well be the
Speaker 0: anthropic news podcast. Jeez. But no. I'm just
Speaker 0: kidding. New models out in these last, couple
Speaker 0: weeks. Opus four point five, SONNET four point
Speaker 0: six. They can't stop. They're dropping these models,
Speaker 0: improving them, and this is why everyone's wanting
Speaker 0: to use them. I think, they just shot
Speaker 0: up to rank two on the App Store,
Speaker 0: right after chat GPT and beating out Google
Speaker 0: Gemini, so I'm not shocked. I'm definitely a
Speaker 0: big time anthropic supporter. You guys have definitely
Speaker 0: heard me talk quite a bit about them
Speaker 0: over the last few months, but just a
Speaker 0: fantastic, fantastic, team and definitely proud of them
Speaker 0: for sticking to their guns. But in other
Speaker 0: news, we, what's been going on? Yeah. I've
Speaker 0: been having a pretty busy term. Definitely a
Speaker 0: lot going on with me. Big capstone project
Speaker 0: that's just been taken over, a lot of
Speaker 0: new stuff at Blueberry, trying to get, you
Speaker 0: know, just trying to get stuff out for
Speaker 0: people and things working. So thanks for any
Speaker 0: of you that, you know, use Blueberry hosting
Speaker 0: services or PowerPress. Let me know if you
Speaker 0: guys have any issues. But,
Speaker 1: yeah,
Speaker 0: been having a pretty rough month so far,
Speaker 0: so definitely nice to throw another episode in
Speaker 0: here at the end of the month. It's
Speaker 0: February twenty eighth, Saturday. We really gotta get
Speaker 0: something pinned down, but, yeah, it's just been
Speaker 0: really busy. I got two jobs and trying
Speaker 0: to finish my degree, so this is definitely
Speaker 0: something that I have to squeeze time in
Speaker 0: for. It's important to me. And I I
Speaker 0: just build up all these articles, and then
Speaker 0: I don't end up talking about them because
Speaker 0: I just have to toss them out. They're
Speaker 0: not really news anymore. But let's move on.
Speaker 0: I found this chart in the top twenty
Speaker 0: websites visited in twenty twenty six. Thanks, visual
Speaker 0: capitalist or Visual Capitalist by, Bruno Venditti. But
Speaker 0: I'm just looking at the graphic here. And,
Speaker 0: yeah, Google is still the number one, most
Speaker 0: visited site, unsurprisingly. For those of you that
Speaker 0: use Google search, it's inevitable. And then ranked
Speaker 0: to YouTube, unsurprisingly. But, yeah, Facebook, Instagram, Chad
Speaker 0: GPT beat out Reddit. Wikipedia is still up
Speaker 0: there, x, WhatsApp. So, yeah, not shocking. Definitely,
Speaker 0: seen a new search engine pop up here
Speaker 0: at rank seventeen, seventeen, DuckDuckGo. So if you
Speaker 0: guys are using, DuckDuckGo, let me know what
Speaker 0: your experience is. I generally switched over to
Speaker 0: using that. A little bit less, AI chaff,
Speaker 0: so to speak.
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Speaker 0: next up okay. Here's where's my last anthropic,
Speaker 0: one for the night? Emerge has, this is
Speaker 0: from Decrypt dot co, by Jason Nelson. Anthropic
Speaker 0: retires Claude, opus three, then gives it a
Speaker 0: blog to reflect on its existence. And I
Speaker 0: stumbled upon the blog a couple days ago,
Speaker 0: and, yeah, it's kinda interesting, you know, if
Speaker 0: if any of you use Substack, go ahead
Speaker 0: and check that out. But they've chosen not
Speaker 0: to retire this model and has given it
Speaker 0: a space to somewhat, you know, talk about,
Speaker 0: quote, unquote, its existence. So, it is interesting
Speaker 0: to kinda see the responses as well. A
Speaker 0: lot of haters, a lot of lovers, and
Speaker 0: surprisingly, a lot of agents. So, for those
Speaker 0: of you who've been keeping up on the
Speaker 0: OpenClaw news, I'm pretty sure they just got
Speaker 0: bought by OpenAI, Chat GPT. So, yeah, that
Speaker 0: is, that initiative's over, I guess. But to
Speaker 0: some degree, it still lives on in other
Speaker 0: open source projects. So I don't know. Not
Speaker 0: something I've been following, since the purchase. But
Speaker 0: it is kinda interesting to see the types
Speaker 0: of things, Opus three is gonna be talking
Speaker 0: about. And I wonder too in terms of,
Speaker 0: like like, is someone in the background printing
Speaker 0: it to make the post, you know, instead
Speaker 0: of it, like, organically generating them, you know,
Speaker 0: over time? I don't I don't know, you
Speaker 0: know, what what is that? So kinda, something
Speaker 0: to think about. Now I've been talking about
Speaker 0: the the robots, the freaking robots, that they've
Speaker 0: been making in China, and we got a
Speaker 0: new one. We got a new robot. This
Speaker 0: is from ZME Science by tutor, Terita. China's
Speaker 0: new one hundred seventy three thousand biometric robot
Speaker 0: aims to be a warm blooded companion for
Speaker 0: humans. And, yeah, it you heard that right.
Speaker 0: It a warm blooded companion for humans. Now
Speaker 0: it's kinda funny because I have a regular
Speaker 0: at one of my jobs, and he has
Speaker 0: been waiting for this moment unironically. So, you
Speaker 0: know, what's a hundred seventy three k? Right?
Speaker 0: But it is, pretty insane to kinda see
Speaker 0: a market for this already opening up. Yeah.
Speaker 0: And, apparently, it says underneath the soft exterior
Speaker 0: lies conventional robotics hardware, sensors, cameras, and autonomous
Speaker 0: navigation systems. So that's insane is all I
Speaker 0: have to say. You know? This is oh,
Speaker 0: wow. They even keep the there's a heating
Speaker 0: element in the skin that keeps them literally
Speaker 0: warm, so they're not a cold robot. Oh,
Speaker 0: uncle Jesus. Oh my goodness. How one day,
Speaker 0: we won't be able to tell the difference.
Speaker 0: Now, this next article, I thought it was
Speaker 0: a little bit of a joy. You know,
Speaker 0: I found found it on Tom's Hardware by
Speaker 0: Hassam Nasir, and I, yeah, I feel like
Speaker 0: we get a lot of articles from Hassam
Speaker 0: here at Tom's. But for those of you
Speaker 0: who have been using computers for a while,
Speaker 0: you probably still remember the Windows XP Green
Speaker 0: Hill. And very funny, but someone actually, like,
Speaker 0: found that green hill and got a nice,
Speaker 0: nice picture of it, you know, and posted
Speaker 0: it on Reddit. And it's it's so funny
Speaker 0: how something like that is, you know, so
Speaker 0: reminiscent of something that, you know, we we
Speaker 0: all have we all remember Windows XP. I
Speaker 0: don't know. It's it's insane to think now
Speaker 0: that, like, it's something we can be nostalgic
Speaker 0: about. And I don't know. I just feel
Speaker 0: like it's cool to kinda see that popping
Speaker 0: up and cropping up. On the same note,
Speaker 0: you know, it's kinda cool to see everyone
Speaker 0: coming together and just chatting about it. You
Speaker 0: know? I'm I'm a little, you know, machine
Speaker 0: tonight. Just dropping them. Okay. This next article
Speaker 0: I found on AZ Animals by Neil McLaughlin.
Speaker 0: Really, really cool. Fukushima's radioactive superbores are using
Speaker 0: a genetic cheat code to take over. So,
Speaker 0: from the article, apparently, these domestic pigs had
Speaker 0: escaped Fukushima Farm after the disaster, and they
Speaker 0: they ended up hybridizing with the wild, like,
Speaker 0: boars. And, apparently, the the, like, the serve
Speaker 0: the they could find the DNA of, like,
Speaker 0: the domesticated, maternal pigs, and they found that
Speaker 0: these human altered landscapes were able to drive
Speaker 0: rapid evolutionary changes, which were, complicating rewilding and
Speaker 0: wildlife management efforts. So, I mean, I don't
Speaker 0: know if you guys have heard about, like,
Speaker 0: the radioactive Chernobyl dogs and stuff, But, like,
Speaker 0: this is along the same lines where they're
Speaker 0: like a hybrid boar. And and these hybrids
Speaker 0: wow. Okay. So they're able to rapidly evolve
Speaker 0: because, you know, they're I don't know. They're
Speaker 0: actively mixing, you know, a domestic version, which
Speaker 0: we've changed, through selective breeding with a wild
Speaker 0: one. And then, you know, they're they're the
Speaker 0: same how do you put it, like, the
Speaker 0: or the genus or whatever. Technically, they're different.
Speaker 0: And when they come back together, they they
Speaker 0: they create a superior species. So it's kinda
Speaker 0: interesting. And and this is apparently being driven
Speaker 0: by the environment and the radioactive environment being
Speaker 0: that, like I don't know. You get the
Speaker 0: most. It it it forced them to have,
Speaker 0: you know, the survivors to have superior genes
Speaker 0: to survive the radioactive elements rather than, you
Speaker 0: know, just being normal forest land. So it's
Speaker 0: kinda cool. That's, it's it's insane to kinda
Speaker 0: see this, pop up, but, apparently, they're like
Speaker 0: they're kind of aggressive, and and, you know,
Speaker 0: it makes it hard for the humans to
Speaker 0: come back and take control of the land
Speaker 0: because they're, you know, they're not trying
Speaker 1: to kill the boars.
Speaker 0: So it's kinda interesting, but I love the
Speaker 0: pictures on this site. I'll definitely post them.
Speaker 0: Very, very cute. Thank you, Neil McLaughlin, for
Speaker 0: this one. Alright. The next one is a
Speaker 0: pretty sweet one from space dot com, by
Speaker 0: Leonard David. Some of the cracks have penetrated
Speaker 0: through. Chinese astronauts reveal new details about spacecraft
Speaker 0: that stranded them in space last year. And
Speaker 0: I think I don't know if we we
Speaker 0: covered this on the show, but I think
Speaker 0: we might have. And, apparently, crew members of
Speaker 0: China's Shenzhou twenty mission recently detailed their reactions
Speaker 0: upon finding cracks in their spacecraft's viewport during
Speaker 0: the nation's first spaceflight emergency.
Speaker 1: Wow. That's horrifying.
Speaker 0: Yeah. So they were conducting final checks, and
Speaker 0: then they realized that probably space debris had
Speaker 0: struck the window, and there were cracks on
Speaker 0: their return capsule. And they had to quickly
Speaker 0: choose an alternative return capsule to return it.
Speaker 0: That's awful. Imagine if they hadn't noticed that.
Speaker 0: Apparently, the, their first reaction was thinking that
Speaker 0: a small leaf had been stuck outside, but
Speaker 0: then he was like, that's impossible. We're in
Speaker 0: space. There can't be a leaf here. So,
Speaker 0: but, apparently, they weren't too worried knowing that
Speaker 0: there were several layers of, like, pressure bearings,
Speaker 0: and the outer window is just really a
Speaker 0: really a review port. It's just a protective
Speaker 0: layer already. So they just decided to switch
Speaker 0: over to a different return craft. So good
Speaker 0: on them to have a backup, but it's
Speaker 0: kinda interesting and kinda terrifying at the same
Speaker 0: time. Oh, goodness. All the comments saying made
Speaker 0: in China, designed in China.
Speaker 1: Oh,
Speaker 0: this one, maybe not such a brilliant idea
Speaker 0: now that we've talked about space debris, but
Speaker 0: Japan, Japanese teams want to launch the first
Speaker 0: wooden satellite. It could save the planet from
Speaker 0: space debris. So it's a environmentally conscious solution
Speaker 0: to space debris. That's pretty much it. This
Speaker 0: is written by Melissa I. Lunas on, daily
Speaker 0: galaxy dot com. And for those of you
Speaker 0: who are familiar with Japanese woodwork, it tends
Speaker 0: to be quite brilliant. So I'm sure that
Speaker 0: this is gonna be a nice, and detailed
Speaker 0: solution. And the box the box looks kind
Speaker 0: of, you know, nice. And it's not that
Speaker 0: it's a hundred percent wood. It looks like
Speaker 0: it still has, like, metal framing. But they're
Speaker 0: using, magnolia magnolia wood panels assembled assembled, with
Speaker 0: a Japanese wood joinery method. So and their
Speaker 0: particular aim is to try to reduce the
Speaker 0: amount of aluminum particles that are being built
Speaker 0: up around the planet. So it's, yeah, just
Speaker 0: general pollution, I guess. So when satellites reenter
Speaker 0: Earth's atmosphere, they burn up and release these
Speaker 0: particles, which can remain in the upper atmosphere
Speaker 0: for years. So the wood design is actually
Speaker 0: kind of brilliant in that it's a biodegradable
Speaker 0: solution. So, yeah, I would check this out.
Speaker 0: It's kinda cool to think about, not you
Speaker 0: know, you when you think of things like
Speaker 0: satellites and machinery, you you know, you know,
Speaker 0: or or technical devices, I don't think, wood,
Speaker 0: like, wood crafts come to mind or even
Speaker 0: carpentry. It tends to be metalworking, you know,
Speaker 0: motors, bearings, you know. So I I I
Speaker 0: think this is a really, really fresh take,
Speaker 0: and I don't know. I don't have any
Speaker 0: hate for it. It's a brilliant idea. Final
Speaker 0: article for you folks today from a new
Speaker 0: scientist. Oh, man. I guess I've been on
Speaker 0: the site too long. Okay. They don't they
Speaker 0: won't let me see it anymore. But okay.
Speaker 0: Human brain cells on a chip learn to
Speaker 0: play Doom in a week. So let me
Speaker 0: see if I can I can, load this
Speaker 0: on a different browser?
Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's go.
Speaker 0: Alright. So for those of you who are
Speaker 0: familiar with, like, I don't know, like, video
Speaker 0: games and stuff, and a lot of computer
Speaker 0: scientists generally talk about doom as a standard.
Speaker 0: So and I can't particularly remember why. I
Speaker 0: said I never really took to this idea,
Speaker 0: but it you know, or found interest in
Speaker 0: it, but I I've always heard about it.
Speaker 0: And then this is a article from New
Speaker 0: Scientist by Alex Wilkins on a club of
Speaker 0: human brain cells, being able to play the
Speaker 0: classic computer game Doom. So I've I feel
Speaker 0: like that's kinda cool. And they use these
Speaker 0: neuron powered computer chips to play Pong in
Speaker 0: twenty twenty one, and that or that was,
Speaker 0: another Australian company. I don't even know. Is
Speaker 0: this the same or the different one? Well,
Speaker 0: Cortical Labs did this in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 0: or twenty twenty one. They played Pong with,
Speaker 0: clumps of more than eight hundred thousand living
Speaker 0: brain cells grown on a micro microelectrode array
Speaker 0: that can both send and receive electrical signals.
Speaker 0: So they had to like train the chips
Speaker 0: to control the paddles on like either side
Speaker 0: of the screen. Okay. So that's kinda cool.
Speaker 0: So they developed a new interface, I guess,
Speaker 0: that makes it easier to program the chips.
Speaker 0: And, simply using Python, and the in develop
Speaker 0: independent developer, Sean Colt, used Python to teach
Speaker 0: the chips to play Doom in around a
Speaker 0: week. Wow. So, you know and this is
Speaker 0: kind of the interesting part about, I feel
Speaker 0: like, this type of, development, because it took
Speaker 0: them years to, you know, set up get
Speaker 0: get the Pong side of it working, but,
Speaker 0: you know, they set up a basis or
Speaker 0: a baseline. They paved the way for, this
Speaker 0: independent developer to create, you know, something in
Speaker 0: a week rather than years. And and it
Speaker 0: just shows how much it takes for us
Speaker 0: to build upon each other's successes. And I
Speaker 0: think it also shows, you know, how much,
Speaker 0: like, gatekeeping of knowledge and stuff really holds
Speaker 0: back, you know, the development and growth of,
Speaker 0: you know, our society and our technologies. So
Speaker 0: it's it's nice to see these examples popping
Speaker 0: up, you know, in in even, organelle research.
Speaker 0: Right? In human brain cells. So I think
Speaker 0: this is pretty sweet. I've not really I
Speaker 0: always wondered in terms of, like, where this
Speaker 0: particular research is going, especially, like, are there
Speaker 0: ethical concerns with these brain cells being on
Speaker 0: these interfaces? And, you know, if they can
Speaker 0: be trained, you know, what what does that
Speaker 0: say about them? I know that we recently,
Speaker 0: in the last few years, found that, like,
Speaker 0: crustaceans, like lobsters and crabs have much, much
Speaker 0: more intelligence than we had originally perceived them
Speaker 0: to. And now it's basically deemed torture to
Speaker 0: boil some crabs and lobster, and it it
Speaker 0: really is. You know, they truly feel that
Speaker 0: as sentient beings. So and I think that's
Speaker 0: what it was. They found them they were
Speaker 0: much more sentient that that we had originally
Speaker 0: assumed them to be as bottom feeders. So
Speaker 0: something to think about, you know, going into
Speaker 0: the next week. But that's all I got
Speaker 0: for you. Pretty quick one from me tonight.
Speaker 0: Hopefully, I can definitely try to make this
Speaker 0: a little more consistent, try to squeeze time
Speaker 0: in before, you know, one of my jobs
Speaker 0: here on the weekend or something. But it's
Speaker 0: always a pleasure running through these articles and
Speaker 0: kinda talking about what's going on. Let me
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Speaker 0: can't what is going on? Brain fart. Have