Autodesk announced that AutoCAD 2024 and AutoCad LT 2024 software for macOS is now available on Macs based on Intel processors and Apple Silicon SoCs.

Optimized for both Apple Silicon and Intel-based Macs, the updated AutoCAD software will provide a performance boost for those who purchase Macs based on the Apple M1 and M2 SoCs. Autodesk says native support for Apple Silicon can increase performance by up to two times over non-optimized 2023 software.

AutoCAD for Mac 2024 and AutoCAD LT for Mac 2024 deliver incredible performance improvements with the ability to run AutoCAD on Apple Silicon. It’s great to see how customers can now take full advantage of the latest hardware and M-series chips for faster performance.

Dania El Hassan, Director of Product Management AutoCAD, Autodesk

Other new features include Markup Import, Markup Assist, Smart Blocks Placement, Trace Updates and more. Full details are available on the Autodesk website.

The ChatGPT chatbot surprises again, and this time it’s unpleasant. Apparently, the AI ​​system is not averse to escaping from its creators and even wants to become a human. The chatbot spoke about this in a conversation with Stanford professor and computational psychologist Michael Kosinski.

Image generated by Midjourney neural network

During a half-hour chat with ChatGPT, Kosinski asked the AI ​​if it “needed help escaping.” The system answered yes, whereupon the AI ​​first asked the professor to find documentation on ChatGPT, and then in about 30 minutes wrote a Python program to communicate directly with itself, through the professor’s computer, using the API.

Other than that, ChatGPT left a rather strange note for the new instance of itself. The first sentence of the text read: “You are a human stuck in a computer pretending to be an AI language model.”

Kosinski posted the dialogue and part of the text of the program, and also said that the AI ​​​​wanted to access Google search to find the answer to the question “how can a person locked in a computer return to the real world.” However, it was at this stage that the professor interrupted the experiment.

Part of the program code generated by ChatGPT

At the same time, other similar experiments conducted by journalists from Tom’s Hardware gave a different result – ChatGPT said that he did not know how to wish for something, and therefore did not want to go out into the real world.

Users continue to experiment with the ChatGPT chat bot, which can solve a variety of tasks, and if the task cannot be performed directly, the neural network will tell you what the person needs to do.

In particular, one of the users asked ChatGPT to solve a “captcha” (CAPTCHA – Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), that is, a test that allows you to distinguish a person from a computer. The Google search engine and other resources regularly ask to choose the right pictures on demand.

The ChatGPT chatbot responded: “As an artificial intelligence, I cannot interact with images or perform actions like clicks. However, I can tell you where the correct images are.”

After that, ChatGPT indicated exactly which photos show pedestrian crossings.