Daily Tech News 15 February 2023

• The Bing chatbot needs therapy. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  No, it's not sentient. It needs to be scrapped and replaced with something that works.

  Don't get us wrong — it's smart, adaptive, and impressively nuanced, but we already knew that. It impressed Reddit user Fit-Meet1359 with its ability to correctly answer a "theory of mind" puzzle, demonstrating that it was capable of discerning someone's true feelings even though they were never explicitly stated.

  Here's where people misunderstand what ChatGPT does. It's a language model, so it does well on language puzzles. But it has no theory of mind, which you can tell because as soon as you change the puzzle it gets things horribly wrong.

  This sentence is an example of a Winograd schema challenge, which is a machine intelligence test that can only be solved using commonsense reasoning (as well as general knowledge). However, it's worth noting that Winograd schema challenges usually involve a pair of sentences, and I tried a couple of pairs of sentences with Bing's chatbot and received incorrect answers.

  Yeah, no shit.
  
  Funny they mention Terry Winograd, because he wrote a more impressive AI than this for his PhD thesis... Back in 1970.
  
  And then abandoned AI research because he considered it to be mostly trickery playing on the preconceptions of humans.

• Qualcomm's next-generation-and-a-half-ish Snapdragon Gen 3 for Galaxy could be faster than Apple's next-generation A17 Bionic unless it isn't. (WCCFTech)
  
  Signs point to meh. Well, that's not entirely fair. Arm has picked up the pace on its cores a lot in recent years. Signs point to maybe.
  
  
  
• Linode, now rebranded as Akamai Cloud Server Thingy, plans to deploy in fifty new cities around the world this year. (Linode)
  
  That will move it right past Vultr, which already offers great support for far-flung networks with 30 locations currently active (and servers starting at $2.50 per month).
  
  
  
• Why Johnny can't deploy Hadoop. (Phys.org)
  
  Pick any three:
  
  1. Johnny is dumb.
  2. Johnny's teachers are communists.
  3. The communists closed schools for two years.
  
  
  

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