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There is a trick to make AI models more reliable: talk badly to them

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If you greet ChatGPT and thank it when it responds, you’re not getting the most out of it. Some researchers wanted to check if the tone we use when asking the AI ​​for things changes the results and they have discovered something interesting: being rude makes them more trustworthy. Rude. They tell it in How to AI. A study carried out by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has analyzed whether the tone we use when writing a prompt has an effect on the result and the conclusions are clear. Prompts with a ‘rude’ or ‘very rude’ tone elicited up to 4% more accurate responses than those with a more polite tone. The study. To test it, they generated a list of 50 questions on different topics such as history, science or mathematics. Each of the questions was asked using five different tones: very polite, polite, neutral, rude, and very rude. The model they used was ChatGPT-4o. The results. The researchers did ten rounds with all the questions in different tones and the conclusions are very clear. If we look at the variations, the difference between the neutral or rude tone is only 0.6%, but at the extremes the difference becomes more evident. When using a ‘very friendly’ tone, the average accuracy was 80.8%, while if we went to ‘very rude’, it increased to 84.8%. Kindness by default. We tend to speak kindly to chatbots, this is reflected the survey that Future conducted at the end of 2024. At least 70% of respondents admitted to using “please” and “thank you” when using AI chatbots. Many claimed to do so as a matter of custom, culture and “because it is the right thing to do”, although a small percentage admitted to being afraid that robots would rebel in the future. It is expensive. Regardless of the reasons that lead us to be kind to AI, there is a reality and that is that “please” and “thank you” have an absurd cost. When we thank ChatGPT, requests to the language model increase, which increases electricity and water consumption in data centers. We don’t have figures, but Sam Altman assured that kindness has cost OpenAI “tens of millions of dollars well spent.” The prompt. Despite the enormous advances in AI, language models continue to amaze and are not 100% reliable. However, many times the fault that the answers are not exact does not lie with the model, but with how we are asking it. There is tricks to get a good prompt and being friendly or using fillers like “if you can, I would like to…” is one of the points to avoid. It is not a question of treating them badly either because that does not contribute either, but the more direct and clear you are, the better the result will be. Image | Pexels In Xataka | AI agents want to take our jobs. First they will have to learn not to fail in 70% of the tasks

With AI, Microsoft has once again insisted that we talk to our computer: experience says that we don’t feel like it

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You get up in the morning, go to work and sit in front of the computer, but the first thing you do is not pick up the mouse and keyboard, but say “Hey, Copilot”. Can you imagine it? Me neither, completely, but that is Microsoft’s clear obsession: to get us to talk to our PC instead of using the usual peripherals. That futuristic vision is striking, but it faces several enormous challenges. what memories. The thing about Microsoft and other technology companies with their intention for us to talk to machines goes back a long way. The first generation of voice assistants precisely pursued that goal. There we saw how Alexa, Google Assistant and of course Cortana tried to make us talk much more with our devices. We were not prepared to talk to machines. Its success was rather limited, and even Nadella himself admitted in 2023 that, for example, those “smart” speakers They were “dumber than a stone”. In Xataka Voice assistants and the fight to gain our trust Cortana tried. The Redmond company certainly tried to make Cortana successful. It offered it on both Windows 10 and on Android and iOS…and even the sadly defunct Windows Phone. Over time the company realized that that assistant was not a good fit, and was killing him little by little. The launch of ChatGPT was used by Microsoft to raise your new assistant powered by AI and definitely kill to his first assistant: Copilot wants to be what Cortana could never be. Who asked for this? With that “Hey, Copilot” the same thing is happening as with Cortana: did someone ask Microsoft to integrate a voice assistant into Windows? The voice assistants of that first generation were relegated to residual use, and Amazon suffered this problem firsthand. He bet billions of dollars that Echos would become devices we wouldn’t stop talking about, but most people I just used them to set timers and music. AI promises to go much further. But in spring 2024 we live in a hopeful moment for this type of technology. OpenAI launched GPT-4o and demonstrated that natural conversations with a mobile phone were not only possible, but also They were very powerful. AI could be ours confidant and companion -with controversy included— or our private teacherand as others later wanted to demonstrate, it could also do things for us just by talking to her. Let them tell you to the vibe coders. But we still have a hard time talking to the PC. Since then it certainly seems that we have become a little more accustomed to talking with our smartphone, but things seem to be different on the PC. The statistics reflect that 77% of young people use their voice on their smartphone, while only 38% of them do so on the PC. “But everyone on the PC listens to me”. There is also a sociological component in this use of voice on the PC. The mobile phone is more intimate and personal, while the PC is often used in a static setting in which there are people around who can capture what we say. Furthermore, in the physical context, the unspoken rules of coexistence—do not disturb, do not invade others’ acoustic space—outweigh the promise of comfort. And then there is distrust. Microsoft is not helped by its recent history, especially with Recall, that option that seemed really striking and ingenious but ended up being delayed to generate a great controversy regarding privacy. The launch of the new Windows 11 options, with “Hey, Copilot” as the main protagonist, does not seem to have been received with too much enthusiasm, and the tone, for example, of the comments from this long thread It is skepticism. Rivals focus on mobile phones and speakers, not the PC. The truth is that the adoption of voice as a way to interact with our devices does not seem to be particularly viral. The erratic launch of Alexa+ does not seem to be providing great advantages, Apple continues to make itself wait with its renewed version of Siri, and only Google has taken a step forward with Geminialthough not clearly on the desktop. Talking to machines works, but not as much on the PC as on the mobile. {“videoId”:”x9jvzns”,”autoplay”:false,”title”:”Project Astra Exploring the Capabilities of a Universal AI Assistant”, “tag”:”Project Astra”, “duration”:”116″} A triumph for accessibility. Where there is a clear use scenario for this technology is in the area of ​​accessibility. For users with reduced mobility, the ability to dictate or control the device with their voice can be transformative. This need is concrete and well defined, however: it does not justify a general redesign of the interaction or a marketing campaign that tries to get us all to talk to the computer. The voice should solve things, not be a fair trick. Microsoft’s real challenge is not technical — the technology is there — but human. The company must convince people that talking to the PC makes sense. To do this, it must address three fronts: privacy, the social context—that you don’t mind talking to your PC—and of course, that said interaction has practical use and works. For example, they come in there Copilot Actionswho will have to demonstrate – like everything else – that Microft is on the right path here. Otherwise, “Hey, Copilot” could become the new Cortana. In Xataka | Sundar Pichai (CEO of Google) believes that ‘Her’ is inevitable: “there will be people who fall in love with an AI and we should prepare ourselves” (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); } })(); – The news With AI, Microsoft has once again insisted that we talk to our computer: experience says that we don’t feel like it was originally published in Xataka by Javier Pastor .

The metamorphosis of Windows 11 is coming. One that will make us talk to our PC so that it does things for us

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The PC wants to become a device that is somewhat different from the one we knew. At Microsoft they have been aiming for this metamorphosis for some time, and now those responsible tell us about how the fundamental component of it It will be AI and, more specifically, Copilot. The integration of Copilot into PCs and Windows 11 is being relatively slow, but Microsoft believes it is time to take a significant leap. One that affects not only how we will interact with the PC, but how we will work with it. Or rather, how we won’t work (as much). “Hey, Copilot”: the voice as a substitute (or complement) for the mouse and keyboard The mouse and keyboard transformed our lives and allowed us to get the most out of our machines. For decades they have been the key elements to communicate with machines, but that is gradually beginning to change. At Microsoft they know this and in fact they have been working for some time on a new paradigm in which that mouse and keyboard take a backseat. Instead, what comes to prevail is the voiceand although that transition will probably be slow and gradual, Microsoft is clear about it. According to the company, the PC must transform and be able to do three things: That we can interact with it naturally both with text and voice, and that it understands us That the PC can see what we see and offer guided support based on that information That can perform actions and complete tasks for our benefit To boost this interaction, Microsoft has launched an option that allows us to start talking to our PC by saying the words “Hey, Copilot”. If we have that option activated in the Settings of our Copilot application, we will access that feature whenever we want, which is displayed in Windows 11 with an on-screen microphone in addition to a small sound warning. That solves that first capability that Microsoft talks about. For the second, the Redmond company also has its solution. Is called Copilot Vision and it was presented a few months ago in its previous version. Now Microsoft says that this option will be available “in all markets where Copilot is available,” and will allow Windows AI to access the desktop and applications we are using. Thanks to this option, Copilot Vision will see our screen as we see it and thanks to this it will theoretically be able to help us with any questions. It’s the same idea as OpenAI already raised with Operator and that Anthropic too poses with your Computer Use for a long time. Precisely to strengthen these assistance tasks in real time we have the so-called Highlights, which allow us to ask to Copilot “teach me how (do this in this app)”. We can also give it access to Word, Excel or Powerpoint and help us analyze a presentation or better write a paragraph of the document we are working on. Although Copilot Vision was based on voice interaction until now, Microsoft will soon add the ability to interact with this system in a chat window in case we prefer to use the keyboard and text to complete that interaction. Microsoft’s ambition to make Copilot the center of our experience with Windows 11 is also noticeable in the presence of the “Ask Copilot” button on the taskbar. With this access they want to turn that taskbar into a “dynamic hub” that allows us to do more with less effort. To use this option we will have to activate it proactively in Windows Settings. Copilot Actions: when the computer does everything for you Microsoft is also targeting another of the most promising trends in this segment: the ability for the AI ​​model take control of your browser and even your computer to complete actions for you. This type of feature is now more integrated than ever into Windows 11 with Copilot Actions, “an AI agent that completes tasks for you by interacting with your applications and files, using vision and advanced reasoning to click, write and scroll as a human would do,” they explain at Microsoft. Already we saw those Copilot Actions in a previous version (only for the browser) in April, but now they are making the leap to be able to operate on all the apps on our PC. That means that (if we want) the AI ​​stops being passive—it answers questions, and that’s it—to become a proactive assistant which can carry out tasks such as updating documents, organizing files, sending emails or booking a flight. In order to use this option, the user must give permission for the agent to have access to the data and applications on the PC, something that can undoubtedly cause concern to users who fear that this AI will make mistakes or perhaps leak sensitive data. To avoid this and guarantee that security, Microsoft applies different techniques. To start, it uses agent accounts that are different from the account we use on our device. Agents operate in a contained and protected workspace, which isolates and limits their access. Besides They start their activity with limited permissions and they can only access other resources explicitly when we allow them to, such as when they try to access our files. In fact, in the preview version of Copilot Actions, the agent can only access very specific folders such as Documents, Downloads, Desktop or Pictures. In addition, the agents must be “signed” by a trusted source, something similar to what happens with apps that are distributed in application stores such as the Windows Store, Google Play or the App Store. Microsoft’s ambition is clear, but there is a problem: at the moment in Spain and the European Union we still cannot count on the majority of Copilot options in Windows 11. We will have to continue waiting. In Xataka | The bad news is that Windows 10 will no longer have security patches. The bad news is that too many … Read more

We talk about how new generations are reported and we try the new XPEng in Crossover 1×21

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To read the newspaper Let’s see Tiktok. The new generations seem to reject the traditional media – prensa, radio, television – and for a long time there has been a clear tendency to seek information on social networks. That is precisely what he tells us Emilio Doménech (@Nananisimo), journalist who lived in the first person the US elections or the assault on the Capitol and now reflects on how we consume information In Tiktok era and artificial intelligence. To accompany him they are as always Jaume Lahoz and Carlos Santa Engracia, with whom he discusses that media transformation. Not only that: we also talk about how AI – which more and more floods social networks dangerously – it can end up influencing the way of informing us and the risks that it entails. Although this interview occupies much of the episode, we have two special sections. On the one hand, a section of impossible technological anecdotes. On the other, Jaume has gone to Munich and has tried the XPEng G6 and G9 for Tell us everything. Enjoy Crossover! On YouTube | Crossover

This game has been scheduled by only one person, and there is already talk of him as one of the great shooters of the year

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The ‘Void/Breaker’ trailer caught the attention of fans in the Great Night of the GamescomOpening Night Live, when it was announced that it was already available on Steam and PC Game Pass (in the future it will also be for PS5 and Xbox). His frantic rhythm and his style and humor, which seemed to connect with classics like ‘Portal‘, liked the respectable, although his big surprise is that being a game that is already drawing the attention of the experts Shootershas been developed by a single person. Eternal return. ‘Void/Breaker’ is a Shooter with structure of Roguelitezambuyéro completely in the Fashion mechanics In the current indie panorama, and justifies it argumentatively: the protagonist is trapped in a continuous cycle of destruction designed by an AI that uses human subjects to test combat variables. That is, you will die again and again facing randomly generated enemies while another human tries to help you escape: it is a person who died before you, but whose mind has ended up trapped in the program, which allows him to give you weapons, help and clues. Forget about the argument. What matters here is the unbeatable structure of frantic and cyclical games, spurred by slight improvements and by a sense of absurd humor of a robotic voice that tries to convince you that you live the best of possible existers, which undoubtedly reminds the classic ‘portal’ and its silly jokes with a very black transfus. You will not get bored of it, nor will you get bored of the enemies: being randomly generated, each new game is that, completely new. In addition to winning skills and improvements, some permanent ones. A titan. The most striking thing about the game is that it has been developed by a single person, and despite this it has an absolutely brilliant finish, which rivals spectacularly with much more ambitious games. Of course, it is easy to see what aspects has spared Daniel Stubbingtonvisible head of Stubby Games, to carry ‘void/breaker’ to fruition. We are not facing a blockbuster in terms of visual luxury, but in terms of gameplay: The satisfactory of the most powerful weapons, the destruction of scenarios, the gravity gun, infinitely improvable as progress is made … all of the first category. The goat throws the mountain. Stubbington already had a previous game that remembered Portal, ‘The Entropy Center‘, which in many ways is an essay of findings that will then return to’ Void/Breaker ‘: also uses a first person perspective, but we are facing a puzzle that instead of using a gun of portals such as the Valve classic, uses a rifle whose shots rewind in time what they reach. Complex and Machiavellian, it is one of those ridiculously quiet and ridiculously addictive games, although the action was not entirely in the equation, anticipating the next Stubbington game. With one you fix. In times when the industry is desperate to find ways of reduce the increasingly brutal development times (that is, to reduce the budgets absolutely out of mother), it is striking as some of the great successes of recent times are developed by a single person. Indies teams minimal are common since games like ‘Braid’ emerged, but lately we are seeing successes like ‘Balatro‘ either ‘The Blue Prince‘, whose most commented characteristic is that they are developed by a single person, and it is inevitable that we think that another industry is possible. If possible. Moreover, it is due. In Xataka | The 29 best free games for PC: Shooters, MMORPGS, driving and strategy

In Spain there is no summer without forest fires. Nor in which you do not talk about the fearsome rule of 30-30-30

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In Spain there is no summer without beaches. Nor without fire. Fire is hitting areas of Galicia, Castilla y León, Catalonia either Andalusia, sweeping hectaresforcing to evacuate hundreds of people and affecting even to icons like the place of Las Médulasin the Bierzo. With that backdrop, firefighters remain attentive to a key factor in forest fires. Which? The ‘rule of 30-30-30’. What is the ‘Rule of 30-30-30’? A formula that helps us understand when the elements play against firefighters and favor of forest fires. It is not new And it has above all a didactic dimension, but if something cannot be denied to the ‘Rule 30-30-30’ (o ‘rule of 30’) is that it is intuitive. Basically, what identifies are those scenarios in which the temperature exceeds 30ºC, the wind gusts exceed 30 km/Hy the relative humidity is below 30%, conditions that facilitate the expansion of the flames. Why is it interesting? Because as remember The University of Chile (Uchile) offers “an alert signal”, an indicator that recalls that there have been a cluster of “very favorable conditions” to spread the fire. “The origin of the term is not scientifically demonstrated, but approaches the conditions of extreme care that the manager should take knowledge to take measures,” Miguel Castillo explainsCenter researcher. The ‘Rule of 30-30-30’ stands out for its practical nature, especially when planning fire prevention strategies and informing the population. “It’s useful”, summarize The academic. “For example, if the meteorology indicates that in 72 hours a burst of permanent and dry wind will arrive and the conditions will not fall from the 30ºC or 32ºC, the communities should establish certain mechanisms.” Do more factors influence? Yes. Perhaps heat, intense winds and low humidity are “the ingredients of a perfect storm” for the spread of forest fires, but castle itself remember that there is another crucial factor: the human. Their own data The Ministry of Environment shows that a good part of the great fires that are declared in Spain cause them accidents, negligence or even intentionally. WWF in fact calculates that 95% of fires respond to human causes and 53% are deliberately caused. Man also influences the state of the fields and mountains. “The strong depopulation and rural aging, the cessation of traditional agricultural activities, the absence of forest exploitation and serious policies that manage the territory has transformed the territory,” Remember wwf. “This increase in forest surface does not translate into the increase in healthy, stable and diverse forests. The cultivated and grazing areas in the past are today covered by thickets, young pioneer or monoespecific rods that, without adequate management, are condemned to burn sooner or later. “ Is the ’30’ rule fulfilled? As Castillo recalls, the ‘Rule 30-30-30’ is useful when preventing disasters and alerting the population. Reality however is something more complex. A few years ago Civio analyzed The large forest fires registered between 2007 and 2016 and proved how many of them were adjusted to the ’30 rule’, that is, they had given the mercury above 30ºC, wind gusts of more than 30 km/hyo a humidity of less than 30%. What did you find out? That were adjusted to those parameters 72 of a total of 196 fires, about 37%. The key is again the one that slides the Chilean expert: at stake more factors enter the strictly climatic. “In the devastating expansion of a great fire you have to take into account other variables such as the type of vegetation and topography,” Comment Miguel Ángel Soto, from Greenpeace. Going down to detail. If we analyze the different factors of the ‘rule of 30’ separately, we verify, however, they do influence forest fires. Of the 196 registered fires between 2007 and 2016, in 153 the windfall exceeded 30 km/h. In 80 the temperatures reached or exceeded 30ºC. “The great fires occur by a cocktail effect: the more elements introduce in the shaker, the more possibilities you have to face an ungovernable fire,” agrees Soto “If the ‘rule of 30’ is fulfilled we will be facing the worst possible scenario, but if there are two variables it is also serious.” The last fires that have hit in recent days Galicia, Castilla y León, Andalusia either Cataloniasweeping thousands of hectares, have coincided with a heat wave. In the Bierzo, which has seen the medulla, the thermometer passes from 30ºC with relative humidity levels that have been below 30%. Image | Civil Guard (X) In Xataka | In 1993, an author predicted devastating fires in Los Angeles of 2025 and the “Make America Great Again”

What you will do is talk to him

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Microsoft knows that the mouse and keyboard can be two news. PCs and laptops still make sense, but want to prepare them with a Windows version that is adapted to what is coming. And what is coming is AI and voice. So they are starting and they already have their particular vision of what Windows will be like in 2030. Of mouse and keyboard, (little o) nothing. “The world of mice and keyboards will be as strange then for people as it is now more for generation Z”. This blunt was David Weston, director of Microsoft, In a video posted this week by the company with the title “2030 Vision” (something like “our vision of how 2030”). This executive explained that the Windows operating system will probably be very different from the one we have now. At least, in its use interface. Multimodal Or what is the same: voice. Weston also highlighted how “the future version of Windows will interact multimodal. The computer will be able to see what we seehear what we hear and we can talk to him and ask for much more sophisticated things. “Voice interaction will undoubtedly be one of the keys, and although the mouse and the keyboard will continue to have relevance, it is likely that the progression is clear: we will use them less because what we will do, simply, is to ask Windows things. Machine, do this for me. Thus, on the one hand We can ask simple things As “the resolution changes to 1920×1080”, “Open Slack”, “Write an email with the following text”, and for another more complex things such as “organizes a weekend in Salamanca and reserve the hotels and restorative after my confirmation” or “creates a presentation with Canva with the data of this document.” In these requests there will probably moments in which the user continues to intervene to correct or confirm tasks within the sequence that the system executes autonomously. An agricultural Windows. And it is that the key component of that future Windows will be an agricultural AI capable of chaining tasks autonomously to complete processes that a user asks. AI agents They already begin to show their potential in this regard, and we have seen that both those present in the PERPLEXITY CUTE browser and in Chatgpt agent They are able to see what we see on screen and act accordingly by moving the mouse or typing when necessary. Even They exceed some captchas If they need it! A feasible, but uncertain vision. The advance of AI is frantic, but AI agents They are not fulfilling for the moment With expectations and according to some studies they fail in the 70% of tasks. In this type of automated processes, the danger is also that of the compound error: by chaining actions, if there is an error in one of them, that error is becoming greater in each next phase. The risks are huge in all types of scenarios, but they are even more if users begin to use that capacity for delicate tasks with sensitive data of the type “Make me the income statement”. Nadella already warned it. More than a year ago Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, already pointed to that future. He did it when he intervened in the Snapdragon Summit 2023, where said that “it will radically change what an operating system is, the aspect of a user interface and how it interacts with applications.” The browsers threaten. That agricultural interaction We are already beginning to see with the browserswhich are often the center of our experience with PCs and laptops, and that are gradually integrating those automation capabilities with AI agents. Both chatgpt agent and Perplexity Comet They show it, and Google is also preparing to do something similar in Chrome. It is expected that in Microsoft They also apply The story with Edge, which has long integrated Copilot. However, Microsoft’s vision is broader and affects the entire operating system, not just the browser. Image | Microsoft In Xataka | The GPT-5 paradox: OpenAi needs the greatest jump in the history of AI just when it seems most impossible

What is, what differentiates it and how to use it to talk to artificial intelligence characters

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Let’s explain What is Janitor aia popular website of characters based on artificial intelligence. We are going to tell you what their advantages are, their disadvantages, and what differentiates this website of alternatives such as Character AI. But if you have never heard of this type of websites, we will start with a simple explanation to know what it is. Then we will tell you its differentiating characteristics, and we will end up telling you how it works. What is Janitor ai Janitor AI is a platform for create and interact with artificial intelligence characters. This is a type of platforms that continues to grow, and becoming stronger according to the improper faculties to interact with people as if they were also real people. In this type of websites, you choose one of their personal and open a chat with them. There is a presentation or staging with a first message from the character, and then you can write anything. Grace is in interact with the character as if he were a real personalthough it really is an AI generating answers from the personality with which it has been created and what you have written first. This type of characters allows you perform text -based role -playing games. Just as if you were rooting with a person saying their part in their message, but with an AI. The possibilities of actions and situations are as many as you can imagine: you can make small scenes of specific moments, or a long -term role. In Janitor you can find a catalog of bots or characters from the de ia created by other users, they are currently more than 34,000. But also to be able to create your own characterconfiguring your story, your personality and everything you want. In addition, so that the conversations you have with the characters are better oriented to your liking, you can also Configure one or several “people”. These people with how the character to which you interpret, and you can add a description with features and characteristics that will take into account when interacting with you. What a difference from Janitor AI Janitor is a free platformto which many users who flee from Character AI and their payment plans come. Here, you can create a free profile and interact everything you want with the other bots. In addition to this, Janitor allows erotic conversations and interactions and sexual with the bots, as long as they respect some basic standards. But ultimately, just as other pages do not allow you to have these interactions or make you pay for them, in Janitor it is free and you can do it as you want. One thing in common with other platforms is that Each character has personality tags They serve to, on the screen where you can see them all, know the type of interaction they will offer. You will know if it is a man, woman or trans, you will know if it is dominant or quite the opposite, if it is human or a monster, if it includes a scenario, if it is designed to interact with men or women, if it is real or invented, if it is a villain, if it is done, or everything you can imagine. Janitor can only be used with a web pageand for the moment it has no official application. Therefore, either on the computer or on the mobile, you will have to pull a browser to use it. How to use Janitor AI To use Janitor ai you have to enter the website Janitorai.comand create a free account. You will have to confirm that you are over 18 years old, and use an email or password, or identify with your Google, X or Discord account. Once you do, you can go to the page of Profile To see your selected person or configure it by adding a description, or the colors with which your dialogue appear. You can go to the section My peoplewhere you can create different characters for yourself, and then choose which one you use for each conversation. On the main page you will have A list of characters or bots of AIto click on that with which you want to interact. Up, you can choose between seeing those that are trend, favorites, or entering the section of Tags and categories. Pressing in All Tags/Categoriesyou can choose between popular tags or look for them all, and click on one so that only the related characters are shown. And both here and on the main page you have a search engine Above all with which you can find characters by description. When you press in a character, you will see your description and your tags in a file, where you can also choose your person to interact. Click on Chat with To start a conversation with the character. In addition, to the right of the file you can see the valuations of other users for this character. And that’s it, then you will enter a conversation, where the character writes a presentation or staging. And then you will have to write To start game and interaction. When writing, you can use quotes or other formulas that you will learn to distinguish between what you say and what you think and do. From here, it’s your whole thing. In Xataka Basics | 22 useful and not so well -known free artificial intelligence tools

If you talk to your plants even if everyone thinks you are crazy, science has something to tell you: you’re not so crazy

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When in January 2012, Risto Mejide said that of “You sing like a diva, but you move like a plant“I did not know that I was completely wrong. And not only for Natalia, the contestant of ‘You do vouchers’ to which he directed those pearls, but because, under that static appearance, the plants do not stop doing things. And not by chance, no. Plants are not only able to detect threats, but activate a whole series of defensive reactions that have intrigued scientists for decades. Everything starts with a bite. Heidi Appel and Rex Cocroft met at a seminar at the University of Missouri and, quickly, saw that His interests fit. Cocroft was one of the great experts in biotremology (the branch of biology that studies the role of vibrations and sound in life) and had been analyzing how insects use the stem of plants to communicate. Do you listen? Apple was an expert in ecological chemistry and listening to those recordings (specifically how the caterpillars of the butterflies of the Col bit tiny mustard plants) had an idea: what if the plants could listen to them? And if that explained that, suddenly, plants activated a whole series of physiological reactions to “attack” the caterpillars? Answering that question was not easy. We had to measure laser vibrations and try to understand what plants could really hear. On the other hand, we had to quantify “how plants care and how.” However, it was enough to measure in real time what happened to the first bite of an caterpillar to verify that, indeed, the plants listened. And not just that. “What is surprising and great is that these plants only create defense responses to feeding vibrations and not to wind or other vibrations in the same frequency as the chewing caterpillar,” Appel explained. They discovered that, in fact, it was enough to expose plants to the sound of chewing so that glucosinolate levels (that defensive response) triggered. Does this mean that putting music to plants is a good idea? No, it doesn’t mean that. “This field is somewhat obsessed with its history of putting music to plants. That kind of stimulus is so far from the natural ecology of plants that it is very difficult to interpret their answers,” Cocroft explained. What it really means is that what we usually think about plants is often wrong. A mistake that, little by little, we are waking up. Image | Annie Spratt In Xataka | We have found a plant capable of producing 40 cannabinoids. A closer plant evolutionarily to lettuce that to hemp

We talk about the best and worst in crossover

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In the second decade of the 90s and the first of the 2000 the world in general and Spain in particular was conquered by mobile phones. Those devices They were not much less smartphones, but rather “Dumb phones” quite limited but still could have quite high prices. It was the time when mobile phones did not want to be larger, but smaller, in which the screen mattered almost nothing – because you just used it – in which the physical keyboard was absolutely fundamental and in which to send an SMS cost a small fortune. In fact, mobile phones were used for something for which they are almost or used: call. Despite their limitations, those devices –Many of them “Concha”– They caught us and marked the way to what would come later. Thanks to them they were created (and destroyed) empires – who tells Nokia and Blackberry – and we saw how experimentation in designs and benefits offered a frantic and sometimes crazy evolution. That evolution made us understand how the mobile was going to end up becoming a much more powerful device: one with which we could take photos or listen to music, for example. They were the great advance of our current smartphones, and we have done a small review of that story in the third episode of crossover, Xataka’s biweekly program and range What mixes entertainment and technology. This third program goes beyond that trip to the past with the mobiles of that first batch. Thus, Jaume Lahoz and Carlos Santa Engracia The engineerknown for its YouTube channel with almost “scientific” analysis of football matches, but there are even more surprises. For example, Jaume, Carlos and his team detail us how far we can get with the Meta Ray-Ban, review the actuality of the last days and even invite us to know the Tesla Cybercab, the autonomous taxi of this manufacturer. You can enjoy This full program on YouTubeand you can also follow the best moments of the program on Instagram (@CrosSoverofc), Tiktok (@CrosSoverofc) and Twitter (@CrosSoverofc). On YouTube | Crossover

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