Month: January 2023

Episode 2 of The Last of Us has made it clear that the series lives up to the original video game, and its good numbers (its audience has increased by 22% from the first to the second chapter) make people talk about renewing it for a Season 2 in which Abby should appear.

The appearance of the clickers has meant that this second chapter will be remembered for the terror it has aroused. However, not everything has finished working in the series… or at least that is the opinion of some fans of the saga.

The character of Tess, played more than effectively by the Australian Anna Torv, is the protagonist throughout the chapter. As in the game, she is the one who shows Joel’s evolution throughout the first act and the one in charge of laying the foundations of the dystopian world in which they live. However, there are certain differences between her appearance in the series and her role in the PlayStation 3 game that have not convinced everyone.

The main difference is not shown so much in their role as in their attitude. In the original game, Tess is a very competent smuggler who makes all the important decisions alongside Joel. He is not afraid of violence and exercises it with even more force than Joel, without ever doubting his actions.

A more sensitive and less radical Tess

This causes Robert to have a special fear of Tess, who is shown as a rebel without a cause. In the original game, she tandems with Joel and both are seen as very dangerous people in Boston, and she is the one making all the deals and handling “The Business”. However, here she is quite a bit more sensitive and tries to handle other avenues before resorting to direct action.

In addition, her presentation in the series already makes it clear that she is quite different from how she was shown in the game. In this one she appears shouting that she is not a firefly to the FEDRA agents. Ignoring her protests, the officers throw her to the ground, handcuff her and take her away. This serves to portray the ferocity of FEDRA, but it is something that the Tess in the video game would not have allowed.

On the other hand, the signs of the love he feels for Joel (and vice versa) in the series become much more evident than in the video game, even sharing a bed (and with a very clear ending). This helps us feel more empathy for Tess at the end of the second episode, but it leaves her again as a woman who puts sensitivity to work above, and it is something that does not quite fit with the original Tess.

Finally, Tess’ death in episode 2 occurs under similar circumstances to her death in the game, but with a rather drastic twist. After crossing Boston to deliver Ellie to a group of fireflies, Joel and Tess arrive at the rendezvous site and realize that they have been completely wiped out by the fungus. But, just before, Tess had been bitten by an infected and knows her time is limited. Tess pleads with Joel to take Ellie away from the scene and pin his hopes on her. As a horde of infected head towards them, she sets the whole place on fire to save them.

However, in the game the infected were exchanged for the Phaedra, and Tess ends her life in a shootout. Craig Mazin, however, has justified this change as it makes more sense for the infected to be the ones chasing the heroes instead of Phaedra. It’s a change that helps increase the threat of the series, but it leaves some loose ends in the plot that fans will miss.

ChatGPT Pro is closer than ever. Users are counting down the hours to get their hands on it, which promises to expand the chatbot’s already amazing capabilities. As of today, a Reddit user has already managed to pay the necessary amount to access this version. Unfortunately, it seems that at the moment you will not be able to use it.

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Reddit is a wonderful place to say the least. Millions of users meet daily in the subforums to talk and discuss all kinds of issues: memes, absurd videos and implausible stories represent only the tip of the iceberg of everything that Reddit can offer.

Naturally, followers of artificial intelligence also have several subforums to post their experiments and ramblings. So it was to be expected that ChatGPT, the very famous OpenAI chatbot, would also have its own.

Due to the success that ChatGPT has achieved, the OpenAI guys have decided to monetize their service to “guarantee” the correct operation of the tool. Consequently, now ChatGPT will have a payment plan, called ChatGPT Professional. According to what we know at the moment, it would work by subscription and would cost about $42 per month, not a cheap price.

The information has been confirmed through the official Discord server. In addition, the company launched a Google form for users to sign up for the waiting list to try the version “Pro”. However, it seems that a Reddit user has decided to bypass this entire process.

As he tells in his post, the ChatGPT website gave him the possibility to pay for the Professional version of the chatbot. Without hesitating for a second, he was encouraged to pay the $42 to enjoy the service before anyone else. Nothing could be further from the truth: OpenAI has taken its toll, but ChatGPT Professional still hasn’t made an appearance.

In fact, many users have shown disbelief at the situation denounced. However, he himself provided screenshots that testified to his version. At the moment, ChatGPT Pro does not have a definite release date, so this user will have no choice but to stick with the free version. Of course, it is somewhat difficult: the web is saturated with the high number of requests it receives daily.

If you are a programmer or software engineer, it is more than likely that you have been fascinated by the capabilities of ChatGPT, the conversational model developed by OpenAI. ChatGPT has become a phenomenon by itself since its release in November 2022 and its users number in the millions.

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ChatGPT is based on the GPT-3 language model, which is also proprietary to OpenAI. It has more than 175 million parameters and is trained with a large amount of text, which gives it great generative abilities.

However, one of the most captivating aspects has been its ability to write code. Just tell him what you want him to do and he can build anything from web pages to applications or even games. Some of the languages that ChatGPT masters are Python, C and Javascript, widely used in development environments.

As is often the case in these cases, there are those who see this as an excellent support tool thanks to the time savings involved. On the other hand, the more catastrophic ones believe that ChatGPT could “eliminate” the classic figure of the programmer.

Contrary to what is happening with imagers and artists, the more creative writing sector seems to be breathing easy (for the time being). Novelists, copywriters and journalists have noted that ChatGPT is not yet at a “worrying” stage. The results that OpenAI’s chatbot produces do not take into account many of the aspects that are key to good prose: little personality, prone to factual errors and with no apparent objective that manages to convey emotion.

It is different with programming. The only thing that matters is that the code works according to what is requested and needed, no more. Effectiveness takes precedence over everything else, something logical if we take into account that the technical aspect is very important when it comes to programming. Even so, don’t think that ChatGPT is going to reduce engineers and programmers to ashes.

To begin with, ChatGPT is only capable of creating very simple programs. In fact, if you ask for something too complex, the chatbot will politely send you off to fry asparagus. Therefore, currently ChatGPT would serve more as an assistant when programming. However, this does not mean that it cannot evolve to offer a better service.

So, what can ChatGPT really offer a programmer today? Many industry professionals seem to agree on one thing: it is a very valuable tool. Thanks to ChatGPT, you could generate frameworks and preview versions of more “complicated” applications. In other words, it could create the basis for faster development times.

Artificial intelligence is often talked about with fear and admiration. Will it create jobs? Will it demolish what we already know? While ChatGPT will speed up the completion of tasks, it is a fact that it will also create new needs and jobs. This includes the much criticized “prompt engineer” or what is the same: giving instructions to generative models to get the most out of them.

If you want to rest easy, at the moment this technology is unlikely to replace everything you’ve learned about coding and engineering. Your knowledge is still very necessary, even if you change how you use it to carry out your work. In the end, all those who are able to take this technology and use it to their advantage will prosper.

Microsoft Teams is down. Those in Redmond are currently investigating a service interruption that has left thousands of users without access to their applications including Microsoft Teams and Outlook.

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For the moment, Microsoft has not communicated how many services have actually been affected, but thanks to Downdetector we have been able to find out more. The Downdetector website tracks the crashes that occur, thanks to its own sources and reports from users. The crash seems to have affected more Microsoft services, such as Microsoft 365 and Xbox Live.

The problems began in the early hours of the morning, when almost 4,000 Outlook and more than 1,400 Teams incidents were reported in the UK region. However, the problems have not been confined to the old continent: India and Japan are also part of the affected countries, with more than 3,900 incidents recorded with Teams in India alone.

During the problems, most users were disconnected and unable to use any of the functions of Microsoft Teams, one of the most affected services. In fact, Microsoft itself was aware of the situation and made it known through its official Twitter profile.

Moments later, the company confirmed that they had “identified a possible network problem”. As is often the case during outages, users flocked to social media to complain and #MicrosoftTeams became a trending topic.

Although it may not seem so serious, it is worth emphasizing that Microsoft Teams is used by more than 280 million people around the world. In addition, it has also become an essential tool for many companies, which today have seen their workflow affected by outages.