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Dave and Chris discuss Apple receiving approval for a new hearing aid assist feature, Apple’s tabletop robot, Vehicle to Everything (V2X) technology, digital scent, and more.
Bryan’s got the scoop on a gaming rig that’s packing a surprising amount of power in a small package. Break it down, Bryan!
Bob, it depends on what you need, really.
If youre looking for a general use assistant then waiting and buying a computer with an assistant built in may be a good idea, but you may not need it if just asking questions to an online assistant or app is good enough to fit your needs.
A purpose built computer will likely have the processing power to do some things locally, but its all very dependent on what youre looking to have Ai do for you.
In terms of vendors, the market is splintered.
For chat assistants ChatGPT seems to be ahead still but their models run on datasets that are not updated as often as Google, but if youre looking at coding then CoPilot will likely serve you better, and if youre looking at image generation Midjourney gets very impressive results. There are all summarizer bots from different companies that transcribe and summarize conversations, there are bots are specializing in math, or examining images and providing descriptions, etc.
The best vendor is really just the one that is better at what you need assistance with, theres really not an overall do-it-all champion.
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