Daily Tech News 19 January 2023

• I'll be working on the comment system this weekend. I don't expect any major interruptions, but if there are any hiccups, that will be the cause.
  
  
  
• Mark Zuckerberg has made it is goal to develop AGI - artificial general intelligence - with Meta now joining OpenAI and Google in the race. (The Verge)
  
  What a shame then that none of those companies are actually working on AGI.
  
  They're all putting a lot of effort into LLMs, but going from that to making actual working artificial intelligence is like trying to build houses by practicing caber tossing. With an enormous amount of effort you might eventually produce something vaguely house shaped that somebody could live in, but it's so obviously stupid that nobody would ever try.

• Microsoft has set 16GB as the minimum memory for AI-enabled Windows PCs. (WCCFTech)
  
  I'd recommend 32GB as the minimum for any Windows PC, unless you're fortunate enough to still be running Windows 7, in which case you can comfortably get away with half that.
  
  The laptop I'm typing this on has 16GB. It's using 40GB. And it's not doing very much.
  
  
  
• Leaked benchmarks of Nvidia's upcoming 4070 Ti Super show it just 10% behind the 4080. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Considering the 4080 was $1199 and the 4070 Ti Super will be $799, that's a good deal. Well, it would be a good deal at $499; at $799 it's as good a deal as you will find right now.
  
  
  
• YouTube hasn't made the site worse for adblock users just recently - that is, not in the past week. Recent reports of worsening problems are due to people running multiple ad blockers at once. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Don't do that unless you know exactly what you are doing. Like running multiple anti-virus programs, it's likely to cause weird problems and slow your computer down.
  
  
  

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