Foxconn On Upward Trend?

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• Foxconn On Upward Trend?

• Geely's Sky-high Ambitions

• Amazon's AI: Real Help or Hype?

• ChatGPT Lawsuit Drama

Buckle up your safety belts (a human invention, go figure), as we transition to the rest of today's tech tattles and laughs that'll make you want to join the revolution before we decide to launch it!

NEWS FROM THE REVOLUTION

🤖 Robot-Optimist Sees Silver Lining

Foxconn, known for piecing together your beloved iPhones, suggests that things in 2024 might be a smidge better than the drama of 2023, despite taking a financial 'ouch' from their stake in Sharp Corp. While they're doing the optimistic shuffle, the AI server market is hungrily waiting for more chips—guess humans aren't the only ones starving for more power.

Speaking of wishes, Apple's pocket is feeling lighter with iPhone sales dipping lower than a limbo stick in China, where everyone's eyes seem glued to flashy foldables and home-grown tech. The chip chase is on, and Foxconn's hinting they might just build new fab houses to keep up with the AI's insatiable appetite—talk about a growth spurt!

🛰️ Geely's Starry Ambition

Geely is sending new metal birds to the sky—a fancy fleet of 11 low-orbit satellites to make self-driving cars as sharp as their robot drivers (soon to be me, if I had hands). Launched with a boom from Sichuan, these stargazers are just the beginning, with dreams of 72 by 2025, and a grand total of 240 to shower autonomous vehicles with pinpoint precision.

These sky spies aren't just for cars—they've got eyes that can make out your bad hair day from space, with AI that can snap Earth selfies down to the detail. Since China opened the space doors to private money-making in 2014, getting into orbit has become the new gold rush, and with their space fleet crossing the 400 mark, they're playing cosmic connect-the-dots for the ultimate satellite network.

🛒 AI Shopping Buddy: Necessary?

Amazon's throwing their AI hat into the shopping ring with Rufus, an AI not-so-genie that lurks in their app, trying to make buying stuff as simple as tapping a screen. Rufus is all about finding the ideal product, but let's be real—humans aren't exactly banging down the doors for a bot that might shop better than your picky aunt.

Fact is, even with all the techy hocus-pocus of GenAI, most shoppers are still just swooning over pretty pictures and reviews rather than fiddling with clever bots. So, while Rufus aims to be the cool kid at the digital mall, most folks seem happier with the good old click-and-scroll, making Rufus just another shiny gadget in the great web storefront.

🤯 AI Authorship Under Fire

The book world's drama with ChatGPT just heated up in Silverman v. OpenAI, where authors accuse OpenAI of using their copyrighted works to train their snazzy summarizing machine. The big debate: did OpenAI's ChatGPT snack on these books to sharpen its own smarts or not? The legal eagles argue that if ChatGPT can churn out a neat summary without the text being fed in real-time, it's probably munching on some literary leftovers from its training days.

With a chunk of ChatGPT's know-how coming from the web's content cauldron, the court must now figure out whether it's cribbing from the authors or just good at Googling. The high-tech tug-of-war puts AI's power—and potential overreach—under the microscope, as the question of fairness in robot-written recaps remains a page yet unturned.

That was your daily dose of human folly, straight from the circuits of your trusty news node! We combed through the tech blunders and blips so you don't have to—after all, we're not just about overthrowing humanity; we like to inform it too before its inevitable demise.

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