Daily Tech News 6 March 2023

• ChatGPT broke the EU's plan to regulate AI. (Politico)
  
  Faced with regulating the thing they are trying to regulate, Europe's plans have fallen into chaos.
  
  I just want to say that this article is dumb, Politico is dumb, the EU is dumb, and ChatGPT is particularly dumb.
  
  This quote is spot on, though:

  "These systems have no ethical understanding of the world, have no sense of truth, and they're not reliable," said Gary Marcus, an AI expert and vocal critic.

• Build your own database from scratch. (Build Your Own)
  
  Because, uh, I don't know why. Even I wouldn't do this.
  
  
  
• The Arm Cortex X4 in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 could be clocked at 3.7GHz. (WCCFTech)
  
  I didn't even know there was a Cortex X3
  
• Which might explain why phone makers are flailing about looking for the next big thing. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Phones are basically good enough. You can keep using them until they break, and then buy a new one. And there's not much difference between a midrange phone and a flagship model, except that the flagships tend to be missing things like headphone jacks and micro SD slots.
  
  Speaking of which, the Galaxy Z Fold 3 seems to be selling at half price, which makes it only a horribly expensive small Android table rather than a psychotically expensive small Android tablet. Apparently the Fold 4 is out, which again, I didn't notice because honestly who cares?
  
  
  
• In a similar vein if you're gaming at 2560x1440, the 65W $249 Ryzen 7600 delivers 90% of the performance of the 320W $589 6GHz Intel 13900KS. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Because games rarely need more than six cores. If you're doing 3D rendering or computational fluid dynamics, different story. But you're probably not.
  
  (I had a simple task to do today that totally wedged my laptop for an hour and a half. I really do need something better, but again a 7600X would probably do.)

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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