Food & Tech 🥑
This Week in Review ☕️: The New Viral Technology everyone is talking about | Google is under threat | Crypto Billionaire arrested in Bahamas | The Top Food Trend of 2023 | Climate Change Summit begins
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Tech 📲 : "ChatGPT"-the new tech thats gone viral viral and what everyone is talking about right now!
To put it simply, ChatGPT is a powerful chatbot released by the AI company 'OpenAI'. You can ask anything and get an answer instantly; the new Google basically.
Just a hunch guys but we STRONGLY suspect that ChatGPT is actually a group of customer service agents from India that reply to your queries super duper fast
Actually, many are taking to social media to say it’s "way better than Google". Google gives you a bunch of answers you have to go through. ChatGPT just gives you the answer.
Short $GOOGL?
PS. It's freaky how eerily similar ChatGPT sounds to some toxic people we know- the ability to have a bullshit comeback to absolutely ANYTHING on the spot 🙈
It’s also very easy to use. Just write a message, and ChatGPT will write back "in a conversational way".
It's been trained on a sh*tload of conversational text so the replies are in a colloquial tone.
Within five days of its launch, its user count CROSSED 1 million. In comparison:
Time it took to reach 1 million users:
💡Netflix- 3.5 years
💡Facebook-10 months
💡Spotify- 5 months
💡Instagram- 2.5 months
💡ChatGPT- 5 days
What's fascinating is the number of people getting onboard with it! Jeff Dean, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Fabrice Ballard- some of the world's top engineers. We can already feel this being f**king GINORMOUS.
The AI revolution is going to reach the masses in the next 12 months. Get READY
Our Thoughts💡: Therapy is expensive but venting to ChatGPT is free. The choice is clear.
Crypto 📈: Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in Bahamas on US request.
The New York Times is asking for a moment of solace during this difficult time lmao
Hmm.. Isn't it weird that NOTHING happened to SBF for a good month but just hours before he was scheduled to testify before Congress, he got arrested?
Our Thoughts💡: Dude's about to get Epsteined. There is no way these powerful Democrats will let him spill the beans and take em' down with him
SBF has been charged with: Wire fraud, Wire fraud conspiracy, Securities fraud, Securities fraud conspiracy and Money laundering, according to the New York Times.
The former CEO of FTX has hired the same attorney that defended Ghislaine Maxwell and El Chapo.
Figures. This is the guy you hire when you know you're 100000% guilty
However, before SBF serves time, US prosecutors would have to secure an extradition from the Bahamas which could be a lengthy process.
The US and the Bahamas have had an extradition treaty in place since 1931. Because Bankman-Fried hasn’t been convicted in the Bahamas yet, US prosecutors had to secure an arrest warrant and provide sufficient evidence to the Bahamians that he had committed a crime, CNBC.
Our Thoughts💡: We're more interested in SBF's multi-million dollar Bahamas mansion which must currently look like a dorm after students have left for Christmas.
600-acres, 18-hole golf course, a 71-slip mega yacht marina.. for someone who claims he doesn't have much to his name, he sure likes to fool us every damn time
Food 🥘 : We've scoured the internet to bring you one of the biggest food trends that will be everywhere in 2023: Familiar Foods.
Yep, fast food nostalgia searches are up 90% and will continue to rise in the coming year.
Old-school comfort foods that remind you of your childhood (think Mac & Cheese, Heinz Purple Ketchup and Vanilla Coke) are BACK.
TikTok creators have definitely played a part by focusing on food from past eras. While what's nostalgic to people varies, dishes like pizza toast to halwa to prebiotic soda have gone viral on the video app.
The hashtag #vintagerecipes already has 31.3mn views and is growing daily.
A company capitalizing on the trend already is Kelloggs. Kellogg's is relaunching one of their Pop-Tarts flavors from the 90s- Frosted Grape- complete with grape-filled jelly, sugar frosting and purple sprinkles.
Sure, you could eat about 5 tablespoons of butter straight for that amount of saturated fat but hey, at 2 bucks a piece, it's a bargain.
Our Thoughts💡: What's your comfort food and why is it McDonalds?
PS. McDonalds just brought back its McFlurry but with an oreo twist & it is rocking America's tastebuds right now.. 👇🏻
Climate Change 🌏 : COP15 has begun. Governments have gathered together in Montreal to discuss all climate-related issues from pesticides to plastic.
These are the key targets of COP15, according to The Guardian:
💡Protecting Earth- Over a 100 countries propose to conserve atleast 30% of land and ocean by the end of the decade
💡Pesticides- A target to reduce pesticide use by at least two-thirds
💡Preventing extinctions – Several clauses on protecting the 1 million species that are estimated to be facing extinction from human behavior have been proposed
💡Plastic pollution- In March, world leaders agreed to draw up a legally binding treaty on the plastic waste that fills Earth's oceans. COP15 aims to enforce that treaty
💡Nature restoration- A target to restore at least 2.5 billion acres of degraded terrestrial, marine and coastal ecosystems has been proposed, roughly the size of China.
💡Invasive species- The spread of alien animals and plants that overcome and destroy ecosystems is an expensive problem that needs to be overcome
Quicker Bites:
Biden to sign marriage-equity bill into law.
France advances to semifinals at World Cup, beats England 2-1.
Morocco topped Portugal 1-0 in quarter-finals this past weekend.
Indonesia's controversial sex laws will not affect foreign tourists visiting Bali.
Supporters of Brazil's defeated Bolsonaro attack police headquarters.
Scores of executions feared in Iran as 23-year old hanged in public killing.
Nationwide winter storm set to bring everything from blizzard to tornadoes in the US.
Alicia Keys debuts her 1st holiday album.