• ChatGPT cannot think, only speak.  (foobuzz)
  
  This is quite a good examination of how ChatGPT works and why it can look very smart sometimes only to immediately fall on its face a moment later.
  
  It is literally incapable of thinking if it's not talking.
  
  On the other hand, we all know people like that.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Why would I need an RTX 4090?  It's a $1600 card and the most complicated game I play is Cities: Skylines...
  
  
  
  Oh.
  
  Well, it remains to be seen if the game actually looks like that.
  
  
  
• Corsair has announced 192GB DDR5-5200 memory kits starting at $725.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Which isn't cheap, but that's a lot of memory.
  
  They also have 48GB DDR5-7000 RAM starting at $275, which isn't cheap but that's very fast.
  
  
  
• But if you try these new memory kits - all based on Micron's 24Gbit RAM chips - on an AMD motherboard, you're in for a bad time.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  As in, your operating system won't boot.  There should be BIOS updates out before too long, but right now these kits only work on Intel boards.
  
  
  
• React is holding me hostage.  (A blog for ants)
  
  JavaScript UI frameworks need to burn.  All of them.