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Can HP make you like them once again? Humanoid robotics with AI may be closer than we believe. Scientists discover that talking like a character from Star Trek can enhance your AI outcomes. And the number of iPhones would it require to comprise the cash Apple blew before it eliminated its self-driving electrical vehicle?
All this and more on the “you can’t make this things up” edition of Hashtag Trending. I’m your host, Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and TechNewsDay in the United States.
HP is attempting to make you like them once again.
We like the cost of these printers, however who amongst you has not gone to purchase ink for that brand-new purchase then asked yourself if it would not simply be less expensive to purchase a brand-new printer once again?
We constantly understood that the ink jet printers were a lot like shaving razors. They’ll offer you the printer to get you connected, and after that you need to purchase the ink.
Which created an entire market of filling up cartridges and after that 3rd party or no-name ink.
Printer producers, HP being the most widely known, began making their printers so they would not enable less expensive 3rd celebration ink. They stated it was for our own great– due to the fact that these knock off cartridges might hurt our printer.
That didn’t discuss well. Individuals felt they purchased the printer, and after that they deserved to do whatever they desired.
HP attempted– ink on membership. Individuals who didn’t utilize up their limitation on printers were grumbling that they should not have to pay for more ink than they utilized.
HP is attempting another technique.
Their All-In-One strategy lets you lease the printer, beginning at a low cost of $6.99 United States monthly.
You get the printer. You get the ink. You get an assurance that customers to the HP All-In Plan will get a brand-new printer and all the ink they require, together with access to HP’s “24/7 Pro Live assistance.” If a customer comes across an issue that HP can not repair from another location, the business assures to change the malfunctioning printer the next organization day totally free.
They get rid of the “relentless battle” of printer ownership by supplying a problem-free printing option.
Will this make you enjoy HP once again? Will this stop the criticism and class action matches?
It may– till you check out the small print. Yes, it’s $6.99 monthly however you can just print 20 pages monthly. After that, you pay more, depending upon the variety of pages. You can pay in between $8.99 as much as $60.99
I forecast that the next Reddit post will have to do with somebody who purchased this All In One plan and got a much larger expense than they believed.
Sources consist of: [PCMag](https://www.pcmag.com/news/hp-targets-the-haters-with-printer-rental-subscription-plan.
For how long do you believe it’s going to be before humanoid robotics struck the labor force.
And will they have the ability to repair the printer?
Tip: There’s a few of them working now in business varying from BMW to even Canadian Tire.
And do not be amazed if they can do some extremely detailed things.
A brand-new humanoid robotic start-up Figure has actually brought in considerable attention and financial investment, with a “who’s who” of Silicon Valley ponying up enough to provide the business an evaluation of $2.6 billion.
Figure is at the leading edge of incorporating bipedal robotics with dexterous hands into the labour force, and there’s a great deal of other business attempting to participate the action.
Guess who is working with this robotic maker Figure? You do not require an AI to determine that OpenAI’s is working to bring abilities in processing and thinking from language to humanoid robotics
Do not fret. We have guarantees from robotics business that these robotics are not here to take our tasks. They will initially carry out jobs that are too harmful or recurring for human beings. And they stress “upskilling” as a method to re-train displaced employees for more satisfying functions within the exact same field.
They’ll change us.
That’s a long method off.? Nope. Silicon Valley’s Brett Adcock, the “flying taxi” leader, believes we’ll see robotics move into the labor force in about 2 years.
And I put some links to videos in the program notes. It’ll make you question.
As the late Jimmy Buffet stated, “my occupational threat is being … my profession’s simply not around.”
Sources consist of: Axios
Roboticmoving a dog crateto a conveyor belt
Roboticmaking coffee
Tesla’s Robot Optimustaking a walk
Sanctuary’s Phoenixtaking your high blood pressure
Forget all those timely management course on YouTube.
A brand-new research study has actually exposed that AI chatbots carry out much better at fixing grade-school-level mathematics issues when triggered to react as if they are a Star Trek character.
2 scientists from VMware in California performed a research study, which was at first reported by New Scientist and released on arXiv on February 9, 2024.
Their examination intended to check out the effect of “favorable thinking” triggers on AI efficiency, an idea that has actually gotten attention amongst those working to enhance chatbot outputs.
I’ve checked out things like this before where psychological triggers appear to work much better. One research study stated that if you put feeling into your timely, it would work. I began stating that I would be fired if the responses were incorrect.
I do not understand if it worked, however it resembles chicken soup. “Can’t hoit.”
It simply explains how little we truly learn about how these unbelievable algorithms can show behaviours that we do not comprehend.
These scientists believed “favorable thinking” needs to not affect a computer system’s efficiency, however they might have discovered proof recommending otherwise.
The research study included feeding 3 Large Language Models (LLM)– Mistral-7B5, Llama2-13B6, and Llama2-70B7– with 60 human-written triggers developed to motivate the AIs. These triggers differed from inspirational declarations like “This will be enjoyable!” to affirmations of the AI’s abilities. The designs were then charged with fixing the GSM8K, a dataset of grade-school-level mathematics issues, to figure out the efficiency of each timely.
What were the best-performing triggers for the Llama2-70B design?
Talk like Star Trek.
Their timely particularly asked for the AI to browse through turbulence and find the source of an abnormality, utilizing expressions similar to a Starfleet leader’s log. This Star Trek-themed timely substantially enhanced the design’s math-solving capabilities, an outcome that both shocked and puzzled the scientists.
The research study highlights the unforeseeable nature of AI systems and the detailed aspects that can affect their efficiency. While the precise factors behind the Star Trek trigger’s efficiency stay uncertain, it recommends that the method concerns are framed can significantly affect AI output quality.
Catherine Flick, a scientist at Staffordshire University, UK, discussed the findings, stressing that AI designs do not genuinely comprehend the context of the triggers however rather gain access to various sets of weights and likelihoods based upon the input.
This research study demonstrates how little we understand about AI behaviour. Include that to your list of methods to enhance AI efficiency through thoroughly crafted inputs.
Is this guy actually informing me my triggers will be much better if I talk like a Star Trek character. I understand what you are believing.
Captain, I can’t think my ears.
I canno think your ears either, Mr. Spock.
Sources consist of: Company Insider
And speaking of costing more than you believed possible …
We covered the story about the death of Apple’s self driving electrical automobile called “Project Titan.”
Obviously, Apple blew a cool $10 billion on that job before they ended. (I will never ever tire of that pun– tire– get it?)
And it ends up that this might have been Dodgy from the start (Dodgy?)
Some workers called the task “the Titanic catastrophe,” showing doubts about its expediency. Okay, I can’t outshine that a person. Titan– Titanic. They were requesting for that.
It appears the just clever relocation Apple made was not purchasing Tesla. They remained in conversations with Elon Musk however Apple eventually chose it would be too tough to incorporate Tesla into its “environment.”
Yeah. They put the brakes on that offer (got ta love it) and missed out on the reward of having actually Elon associated in some method with the Apple brand name.
You understand something? Apple still has numerous millions in money and prepares to take advantage of the understanding and developments acquired from dealing with the automobile, consisting of AI-powered AirPods with electronic cameras, robotic assistants, and enhanced truth innovations.
All of that IP will have a brand-new lease on life.
Could not withstand.
Sources consist of: Mac Rumors
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