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After 2 months of cringe-posting references to strawberries, OpenAI have released their latest model: o1. And AI heads are losing their minds.
Ostensibly, it's intended for the kind of thorny math and reasoning problems that LLMs tend to struggle with. The guts aren't public, but it seems to use chain-of-reasoning prompts to really force itself to 'think'.
So, is it any good? Is this a huge step change on the path to AGI. We investigate.
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Kickstarter. A gadget head's paradise... and hell.
The boys revisit the glory days of crowdfunding, what was the vibe that made it prolific, and the pitfalls that befell it. And, most importantly: what does it tell us about love?
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Published 12/03/24
The US Department of Justice wants to force Google to sell Chrome, its browser, for antitrust reasons.
It raises the question: who would buy it? Could it live as a standalone company? That opens a whole can of worms for your favourite tech podcast, as we talk about browsers and why they're such...
Published 11/26/24