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Episode 373 - The Pumpkin Party · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network. This is Alice
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Cooper, the original Techno Todd and you're listening to tech Talk Radio. Welcome
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to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean toward
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Click, and I'm Justin. And now, if you don't know, we
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are the show that delves into technology, computers and the Internet. As we
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cut that down without a script, I only took us three tries. Well,
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good to have Slick with us this week. We've been talking about a
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whole bunch of things pre show, so Slick he kind of came in just
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as we got started. But I'll tell you there's a lot going on in
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the world of tech. There is. Not only do you have big,
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huge news screens where we're gonna be talking about Balder's Gate, which we're gonna
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be talking about preferences of headphones we're gonna be talking about, but we're gonna
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talk about the creative stylings of Justin and something he has created that is absolutely
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blowing my mind. All Right, So some people have heard about mid Journey
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and can you kind of explain Justin what mid Journey is all about. Well,
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mid Journey is just one of the many facets of this new AI wave
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of technology, artificial intelligence. You know a lot of people have heard about
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chat, GPT and bard and Microsoft bing Chat. You know, these are
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the text based AI programs that will you know, write things for you or
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look up answers or even you know, help you solve coding problems or whatever.
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But mid Journey is the visual aspect of AI. So what mid Journey
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does is it's a Discord server. Now Discord is kind of like you know,
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it's it's a chat it's a giant chat room. But there's you know,
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millions of different you know, chat rooms you can join, and mid
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Journey is one of them. You do have to pay for it. It
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used to be freed during the beta test, but now you have to pay.
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I think I pay ten bucks a month. That bad, Yeah,
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and I get like two hundred images or whatever. But basically, what you
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do is you go to mid Journey, you give it a prompt, but
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now you tell it what you do. This all in within Discord. Still
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within discord, Yes, okay, so you're in Discord. You're in the
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Discord server for mid Journey, and there's there's guides if you don't know what
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I'm talking about. There's guides, it'll tell you how to do it.
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But what you do is you give the bot a prompt and so what I've
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said in the past and and Slick. If you go to the zoom chat
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you can see some of the images that I posted earlier. But for instance,
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what I did with this one is I told it to generate an image
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of three guys. Because I didn't know you were joining Slick at this point,
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so I said, generate an image of three guys discussing technology on a
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podcast, one of them being older, slightly slightly middle Eastern descent, one
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of them being middle aged, white guy a little bit slender, and the
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third guy glasses and just a tiny heavy set. I'm not saying you're fat,
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Sean, just I'm trying to I'm trying. I'm trying to just give
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it some ideas between sugarcoated. That one didn't he I'm not saying these you're
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not fat, Sean, you're just big boned yea here, But I told
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it to That's that was the prompt I gave it, and it generated an
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image and we'll post them up on the website. It's kind of interesting because
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it is a photo realistic image. Now it's obviously not us. These are
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not even real people. It looks real, it looks like real people.
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Wait, so these are There's not These aren't pulled from a stock photo somewhere
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creating I mean initially yeah, because the thing has got a train. I
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mean, the AI has to train. So it looks at millions and millions
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of images and it puts little, tiny pieces together to form new things.
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Now, during the pre show, Sean was discussing about how AI is good
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at a lot of different images, but one thing it can't do. Sean,
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what was it again? You said, hands and feet? Hands and
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feet? Now, why why is that? Why can't it do that?
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Apparently it can't count digits on your finger because there are other images where you'll
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look and you'll see a person with like two hands, well I mean two
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hands on one side out of their arm, or a hand cut an arm,
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or a hand coming out of their hand, or like six fingers,
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you know. So to segue out of that a little bit, right,
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it's that it busted a artist who does content for Wizards of the Coast,
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for duns and dragons. Right, So some people notice, like why are
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the hands and the feet of these wolves the pause of these wolves so terrible?
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And then he's like, oh, yeah, I used AI to finish
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some of my artwork, and Wizards is like, what, we don't use
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AI at any of our work. Yeah, we don't pay for it's already
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published. Oh wow, you see, I don't understand. I'm looking at
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this and if you're looking at this to the blog, it is mind boggling.
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Uh. You know, Slick is looking at this for for the first
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time. I just can't believe these aren't real people that somewhere have you know,
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uploaded their photo to you know, resume exchange, and it's just grabbing
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him because it really, honestly, we don't even have we don't even have
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a group shot of us that looks that great. Okay, yes, truthfully,
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yes, but we're gonna post a couple more pictures because there are some
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pictures that are just completely jacked up. What were you thinking when you asked
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mid Journey to create this? Okay, So Slick, look at the third
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the third image total. The third image total. I told it to generate
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women celebrating pumpkin spice season, and it generated women women celebrating pumpkin spice season.
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Why but just because people were talking about pumpkin spice season happening, and
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women love pumpkin spice for some reason. The places it got the pumpkin lattes
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and doggy treats. To understand how his brain kind of pulls things to give,
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well, I just I just randomly think of things. I'm like,
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oh, that'd be a cool prompt, and I generated this. But now
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this third image, look, if you look at him, we'll post them
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on the blog. First off, the eyes of the women are completely jacked
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up. They look they look like aliens. One person's face is just completely
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melting. What the heck I mean, it's it's really really messed up.
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I think there's a woman pulling another woman's chin down like the Scream. It
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looks like the Scream mass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The pumpkins are
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there, you know, they look good, the big Lives. And she
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looks like a nineties WWE wrestler, yes, with the face paint on,
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like the ultimate warrior woman. Face is melting in her arm is like disappearing
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in a foam of pumpkinness. But but the thing is is these are these
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look real I mean, for the most part they look real, and so
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it's it's it's funny to see what AI can generate based on what you give
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it. Now, you don't have to do photo realistic stuff. You could
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do artwork. You could be like, oh, I want an artistic representation
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of blah blah blah, and it will do that. You can even give
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AI an image. You can take an image, a real image, and
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say make this a little different, and it will generate a new image based
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off the image you've given it. And could you put one in there that
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would say, like, uh, you know, upload a photo of Slick
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and then say give Slick more more hair. Could but I could probably won't
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because he's got another there's no need for that to go. Yeah, there's
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no need to reach back end time. Yeah, that was always I was
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sitting here thinking maybe it's a good thing I came in late today because I'm
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freedom with Justin. Would or could have said to go, oh, and
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by the way, this other guy, let me let me describe him to
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you. Yeah, or Sean, I mean, Sean looks perplexed. Do
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you have a favorite pumpkin picture? I like the last pumpkin picture, which
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you'll be able to see yeah, oh it's awful. Yeah, I mean,
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it's just it's just the way they're positioned. Like you can see the
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one woman's chest is blending into the arm of the other girl who's wristled quick
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like it's broken in six places. Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah,
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yeah. It looks like her hand is completely malformed. She's holding onto
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a spoon that's mystically floating in the air. The best part about the best
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part about mid Journey, though, is you don't necessarily even have to subscribe
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to use. I mean you don't. You can't give it your own prompt
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unless you subscribe, But you can still join the discord channel and look at
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all the different photos that other people have been generating, and it will tell
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you the prompt that they're using. So you'll see a prompt of you know,
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I'm just looking right now at some random thing. Let's see here.
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Do you also none of these women's bottom teeth, Well, there they are,
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but it's a weird jaw thing. And it's again it's got to be
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the AI is having a problem recreating not only hands. Yeah, but yeah,
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well there's there's another one here. There's the prompt this guy just posted
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something. It said, abstract illustration of a Hispanic woman standing in a pile
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of spaghetti. And it literally draws a an artwork. It's not photo realistic.
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It's artwork of a Hispanic woman wrapped in spaghetti like a wearing like a
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spaghetti dress. Why would why would somebody come up with something like that?
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I don't know, dude, Internet, Literally, anything you could think of,
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somebody's drawn it. You know, we've seen the commercials too. Did
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you guys see the pizza commercial that was done with AI. It's awful.
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Maybe we could put that was scary. We could put that in the block
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too. So they created They basically told and you think about this, the
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artificial intelligence, you tell it create this, and it created this pizza commercial
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that had people enjoying pizza that was like melting into their face and and it
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was horrific. It was like a scary movie. But a I is able
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to do this kind of thing. Now, imagine now if you took this
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picture justin like the last picture you created, uh, with the the Asian
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woman walking away from the fire. You want to say, why you created
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that? I think that's that's actually pretty good. Oh well yeah, so
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I took a picture of It's basically kind of like that Hollywood shot where somebody's
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walking away from an explosion, right, but they're walking, they're walking towards
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the camera, and this happens to be an Asian woman walking away from an
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explosion. And my idea behind that was a story was I was trying to
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get Eric ready for bed, and I told him, Hey, Eric,
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it's it's time for bed, get ready for bed. Well, as he
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was starting to get ready, I went upstairs to get his bed ready,
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and during that time, my wife decided to pull out some like origami paper
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or something and start cutting things. And Eric was like, ooh, I
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want to try. Yeah. So I come downstairs and I'm like, what
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the heck, dude, I said bedtime, and my wife just goes all
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right, I'm gonna go take a shower and just walks off. And so
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this represents her starting an explosion of anger when I'm telling my kid to get
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ready and Jesus walks away. That's perfect, but it actually looks. This
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one really looks if you were to deal with that image and you went back
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in time ten years ago, maybe maybe even fifteen years ago, you could
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you showed that to somebody may be blown away. They be thinking you were
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the greatest photographer in the world. Yeah, to be able to end to
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that. And then this last one I just posted. I literally just did
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this on mid journey while we were talking. It is Mortal Kombat characters drawn
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in the art style of studio Ghibli. Oh wow, that's actually really good
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as well. Yeah, that's really good. Now, what are your restrictions
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when you use these? You can't do anything that's pornographic. You can't do
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anything that shows harm or death. I mean you can. You can tell
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it show me a picture of death, and it will draw like the character
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of death. Yeah, but you can't say, show me somebody getting their
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head cut off or something. They won't do that, I mean it won't,
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it won't. Yeah. It has limitations, and you can appeal like
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I've I've told it to do things, and it's like, oh, we've
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we've blocked your request because we think it's not right, and I can.
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You can click a button to appeal it and it gets sent to a moderator
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who's a human who will actually review it and say nah, I'm not going
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to allow that, or yeah, okay, I'll allow that, and then
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it will generate the image if they do allow it. So there are restrictions
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on what you can and cannot generate, all right, So if somebody wants
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to do this, what they need to do is set up a discord their
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own discord, well, which is not that hard to do, right.
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You can you can get the mid journey bought in your discord. I don't
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personally know how to do it. I'm actually on so I just went to
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mid journey dot com and you can sign up. You can. You can
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sign it right there, and it will tell you everything about how to use
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it and what it is, and uh yeah, it'll tell you how to
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join the discord server and I will tell you how to you know, generate
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images. Well, now, when I tried to sign up, it took
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me unbeknownst to me. You'll find it like a second to third screen that
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you're creating an account on discord right right, And we have it. We
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have a tech talk radio account that only I think you know, only the
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three of us are on nobody. I don't really get on it enough,
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but I need to. I want to because I think there's a lot of
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a lot of things we can have some fun with Well, you still got
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to make us admins. You haven't even done that yet. Yeah, you're
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an admin, i'd like, Sean. Oh no, you're an admin.
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Sean. You bumped out before I got a chance to do to add you.
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So I'll make you an admin too, and then we could have we
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could have some fun with this. But to be able to create this,
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how long is the process for you to say, say, the picture with
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the three guys sitting around the Apple computer, which is funny, that's that's
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pretty cool. But how long did it take to create that the let's see
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from the initial prompt? Uh? Then I went through like about seven variations
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of it to try to find that perfect one about five minutes. Wow.
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You know a lot of the companies are really trying to find a way to
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integrate AI into Topaz is one of those. Uh, and I'm gonna be
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taking a look at their Topaz Photo AI. They also a video AI program
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which actually can take like something shot four eighty and enhance it for seven twenty.
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Now, Sean, you know what that means. I mean, basically,
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you could take away that that eighties seventies VHS look and give it a
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crisp feel a crisp look to it using their AI. Their photo AI top
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has this photo. AI can actually make stuff a lot sharper looking, which
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is is kind of neat. And Adobe is also doing this, and Sean
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has already given us a demo with that with Generative Phil. Have you still
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been playing around with that seen at all? Nope? No, you know.
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I mean, you guys are talking about AI and I'm kind of zoning
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out of here right yet you're not a I know that AI is going to
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change the world, and I need to get on board, but I just
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can't do it. I can't get into it. I can't. Well,
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do you really need to get on board though? Is it absolutely necessary?
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I mean, because it'll come for my industry, Yes, it will come,
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but you need to get in. I work for an industry leader in
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the broadcast world, so I have to know it. I have to get
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on board because we're already integrating it. We're already integrating stuff and the biggest
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part of our job for AI is logging. So yeah, somebody doesn't Somebody
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doesn't have to sit down and watch the screen and say player number twenty five
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yards at three minutes on the clock, two outs, one inning whatever.
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Right, AI is scraping all that data and just putting it into the metadata.
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We're already using all of our highlights for and you know who knows that
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I'm also allowed to say this, right, but it's like the major ality
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of our highlights from sports that are being broadcast are done by AI. We
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feed our we feed our game feed into a program, right, that then
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cuts highlights based on parameters that the people programs bring the content, not the
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program. Yeah, I'm sure a programmer, but like the content creator for
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the social media says all right, I need these style of highlights, and
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it just shops it up and spits them out. Wow. So there's nobody
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sitting there logging and watching the game going all right, player twenty they scored
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a touchdown clip that here's the metadata player name that we're time whether all that
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stuff, It just does it. They're also saying right now that that AI
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is the fastest growing job into sta out there. I mean, there are
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jobs posted that are offering five hundred thousand dollars per year to program AI.
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Yep. And there are people that now that maybe you used to be proficient
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in IT sell or word or Lotus one, two three, you know,
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or maybe you could type sixty words per minute. Now, honestly, a
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company is going to look at you a little better if you say I have
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experience with AI, whether it be Chat GPT, uh you know, or
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the new enterprise Chat GPT which they've just announced, or any of these any
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of these AI programs that can actually help you. It used to be you
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could say I know how to work illustrator. Well, now you need to
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be able to to create faster and even maybe even more dynamic using these AI
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tools, whether you use imagine somebody comes to you say yeah, I could
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create using Correll, which is great. But if they come in and say
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I could use Correll, I could use Illustrator, and I can use mid
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Journey, They're gonna look at oh mid Journey, oh wow, because they've
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heard of it. So it's going to create more of an environment. Especially
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the kids are in school now. I don't know if anybody's teaching them the
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stuff. But Sean, you're not you're not a big fan of this.
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No, I didn't say I wasn't a fan. I just I it doesn't
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fit my work style, it doesn't fit my vision of technology. Doesn't fit
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me, and that that's not to say it doesn't fit everybody else. But
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it's just my interpretation of what technology technology should be and how it impacts our
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lives is not AI. It's not to me and I have talked about this
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before. We are as a society are dumb. And that's that's just me
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saying it. Right. We are so ingrained with technology and our faces are
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in everything. There is zero creativity. There's zero art outlet, there's an
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and Yeah, people are ingesting content by the so much content all the time,
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but when is it too much? Yeah? When does your brain have
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a time to shut off and process the content you've seen, the content you've
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read, the content you've heard, right, the content that you've created.
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Would you draw a piece of art? You've got to post it? Say,
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I ran into this with with just my art and general online. I
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had had this immense pressure to just produce content because people wanted to see it.
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Well, I was burned out. I don't want to produce content,
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but people were like, hey, you stop posting pictures on the you know,
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I really like to see your pictures. Yeah, because right, well,
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I mean look at it from a mental capacity, right, and AI
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is going to this is again, this is me just on a soapbox.
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AI is stifling the creativity of the human mind because I don't have to think
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about anything anymore. I don't have to think about a story prompt, I
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don't have to think about an image. I can just type show me this,
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and it's going to spit it out, whereas before you had to be
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creative to put it all together. Well yeah, I mean, and granted,
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okay, it's it's it's enabling people that maybe aren't artists to generate art,
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and that's cool. But to me, that's scary because it's you're not
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You are disconnecting yourself from the creative process that makes us human. I think
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the marketplace is going to weed that out, though, because to me,
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that's the shotgun approach. You know, you've got creative content, doesn't mean
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it's good content, doesn't mean it's targeted content, you know, doesn't doesn't
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even mean it's correct content. It's just content, you know. I kind
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of wonder buddy of mine is a really good photographer. It's great. It
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takes some great photos, and lately a couple of the photos he's shown me,
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it's to me it's mind blowing where he's gone out on a photo shoot
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and it hasn't been the best conditions. Sean, you know more than anybody,
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especially even flying drones. Uh, sometimes the conditions just aren't going to
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be right. You get dunked. That's that's part of that's part of the
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business, right. But instead, what a lot of photographers are doing now
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is they're taking these photos and they're there. It's they'll fix it in the
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mix. It's that old term. It's a you know, it's an old
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video post. Yeah, the fix it. We'll fix it in post.
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You know, you'll fix it afterwards. And now the fixing, a lot
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of it's being done by AI, where they'll suddenly, well we don't need
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that building there, let's take that out and that building can be wiped.
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We're using generative fill from Adobe and some of the other you know, AI
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tools that are available. It does all of that because you still have to
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be careful, especially if you look at at the photos that we have on
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our blog now of how many fingers do these people have, how many hands
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do they have. They're a little little and I think Sean, you've mentioned
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this word before. Uncanny valley. Oh, yeah, you're you're gonna see
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that no matter what, right, And it's just becoming more of a thing
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and people are getting used to it, which is fine, but there's still
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that unsettling feeling when you look at something going, yeah, that's been treated
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by AI. You even said it earlier, Andy, you can tell what
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an article is AI written just because it doesn't feel right, it doesn't Is
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there going to be what's the new term? Is it gonna on canny valley?
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Is a filter? Is there going to be a is that? Is
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that a blanket term? Now for that uneasy feeling about content that's produced by
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AI, we get we get close to about one hundred maybe one hundred and
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fifty pieces of email every day, pitches, stories, uh, stuff that's,
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you know, highlighting an event that is happening, whether it be here
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in southern Arizona or you know around the globe that you know maybe we will
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want to cover. And I've gotten to that point where I reach that uncanny
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valley when I'm reading an email because I feel that email is using the words
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that AI would be using, or I just don't feel it's really a human
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that's that's typed it, that's that come up with the wording. For example,
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we we have used chat GPT. I'm I don't mind saying it.
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I create every and you don't. I have a very busy schedule, so
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when we decide to post our show, I always create a show synopsis,
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which usually means we do the show. I go back listen to the show,
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and as I'm listening to the show, I'm typing up, yeah,
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okay, we talked about this, Okay, we talked about that, we
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talked about this, we talked about that, and I'll go ahead, and
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I'll I'll go ahead and write it. And now I've what I've done is
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I've took I thought, well, maybe I can highlight this a little more,
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and I have put it into chat GPT and what comes back usually is
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something like wow, I didn't expect that, where it's this too much,
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it's like over the top, like this exciting episode of tech Talk Radio,
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groundbreaking technology, and I feel, no, no, no, that's not
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what I read that. And I'm like, Andy had too much coffee,
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or that's chat GPT one of the two. But I noticed something recently in
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one of those that we had done, and I thought, okay, I
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go in and I edit it, And I think that's what you have to
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do with chat TPT when you're doing an article or a story, edit it.
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If you want to help it, help you guide along, Fine,
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go in and edit it. But I miss some thing. I noticed that
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justin on his name it was it was crylic So the j was done by
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chat GPT in this different type of j. My ja's were all perfect,
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but the AI that I didn't Okay, i'll let that go. I'll let
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that go. It was all so you really you can't rely one hundred percent
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on it. It still needs that human interaction. Not will it be will
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you know the the enterprise edition fix that? Will it? There'll be further
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renditions. Will there be chat GPT five that will fix some of that?
24:37
I don't. I don't know. And that's that's where it starts getting a
24:40
little scary, like skynet like you talked about the other day. So you
24:44
mentioned that, you mentioned the Gmail part of it or email part of it.
24:48
August twenty nine, Google launched its Duet AI for Google Workspace. Ah,
24:52
now what's that going to be? And well, no, I was
24:56
also going to mention because you just mentioned skynet. I was about to say
25:00
as of the recording August twenty ninth, which is today. Today is the
25:03
day that Skynet becomes self aware in the movie. Oh oh that's right.
25:08
Yeah, that's what I've been trying to say. I've been trying to jump
25:11
that in there, like, hey, happy happy Skynet becoming self aware day.
25:15
Yeah, that's right for Terminator fans, I no idea, are they
25:18
making another Terminator movie making? Wait, I swear I saw it. See
25:23
that's the thing with AI, you don't know anymore. I saw it an
25:27
ad on YouTube and it said it had John Cena in it. It had
25:32
Schwartzenegger in it, and I thought, okay, I thought he was done
25:34
with this. So how do you know if it's real or not? Well,
25:38
because they can do it with AI. I mean, look at this
25:41
picture I'm posting in Chawer here. We can post this to this. This
25:44
picture just got generated. This. There's a really fun Facebook group that I'm
25:48
on actually called Cursed AI, and it's just pictures of things. This is
25:52
Tupac. Tupac going to the beach to enjoying going to the beach to enjoy
25:56
ice cream. That is AI. Well, I mean Ita does, but
26:02
not well, I mean a little bit. Maybe Sam is yeah, yeah,
26:06
like but yeah that looks wrong, but yeah it does, it does,
26:10
it does. But I'm just saying like, this is this is what
26:12
AI can generate. If you're on Facebook, go look up Cursed AI and
26:17
join it. It's funny. It's just funny because it's got some crazy photos
26:21
on it. All right, listen, we gotta take a break. We
26:22
come back brand new screens from Samsung. If you're thinking about getting a new
26:26
screen for outdoor, Slick, you might want this, you know, maybe
26:30
you could talk to the powers it be. It's something for an outdoor thing,
26:33
would be great, something new for your desktop. Although my experience with
26:38
the lower end model wasn't the entirely we'll talk about that when we come back.
26:42
I'm Andy Taylor, I'm sean to Weird, Oh, I'm Slick,
26:47
and I'm justin. Find us on the internet at tech talk radio dot com.
26:49
We'll be right back and now back to tech talk radio. We've been
26:55
talking about AI. Yeah, but what happens if you need to rely on
26:57
AI in an emergency? There was an article written that says, don't ask
27:02
Siri or Alexa for CPR instructions. Really, why what are they saying?
27:07
Most of them will give you incorrect data. None of them told you to
27:11
call nine on one, Oh my god, And they just basically say,
27:14
don't rely on. To test the efficiency the efficacy of the project, they
27:18
asked eight CPR instructural questions the four major AI assistant programs. Thirty four percent
27:23
of them provided verbal or textual instructions, while twelve percent only offered verbal answers.
27:29
Less than a third of those responses suggested calling any type of emergency service.
27:33
Oh, they kind of left that one out, didn't they. If
27:36
somebody's calling, hey, how do I perform CPR? You would think the
27:37
first thing you would say was call nine one one. Yeah, picked them
27:41
on, faon stomach, jump on back, so you know, just relying
27:47
on you know, I get it, I get it right. It's an
27:48
emergency. Some people don't know what to do. So the first thing to
27:52
think is, let's ask hey, Siri how to do CPR or Heimlich maneuver
27:56
or anything like that. And my phone just lit up. It's it's listening
27:59
to me now. I was working for a large radio group here in Arizona.
28:04
Actually there were worldwide, and it was funny because answer, yeah,
28:11
he gave me. It gave me how to do the hybrepreneuver. Oh my
28:14
lord, bend over a chair. Anyway, I was working working for a
28:18
large radio group and we had started using AI Voice AI, which I still
28:22
have credits and we've we've used it once in a while just for fun,
28:27
and it basically I talked into a microphone and it's a voice of celebrity coming
28:30
out. Some of them are good. You have to voice kind of like
28:33
with that celebrity, and we featured that on the show. We actually got
28:37
an email from corporate saying no more, no use of any AI artificial intelligence
28:45
voice on the radio, that we couldn't do it because they were concerned of
28:51
the legalities. They were concerned of somebody that provided this voice, that voice
28:56
was being manipulated could then come and sue for royals or sue for copyright because
29:02
it's or superslide. It's so right now like uncharted territory. You know the
29:10
fact that you can have Arnold Schwarzenegger say I support this candidate or I support
29:15
this product, does it does not mean it's right. And just imagine what
29:21
this next presidential election is going to look like uh. And it's scary because
29:25
a lot of AI is being used. I mean, all right, let's
29:26
let's we don't want to go down this road. But let's face it,
29:30
the photos that came out or the photo that came out, the booking photos
29:33
of you know, the Giuliani and President Trump in the whole bit, have
29:37
already been used by AI to recreate different settings. And you know, I
29:41
think when we get closer to the election, we'll probably see people using this.
29:45
So you have to take everything with a grain of salt seriously, even
29:52
more than a grain of salt. Yeah, even you to be Salt Bay.
29:56
Salt Bay, that's famous meme. Yes, And it's kind of scary.
30:02
Now. We also used AI to do a transcript last week. So
30:07
within Zoom there are different AI of what they you want to call them,
30:12
I guess programs or whatnot that you can utilize and like apps, And so
30:18
we had to do it and it was so far off. It would say
30:22
it knew our voices, it knew, but it would sometimes say, oh,
30:27
Justin talked about this, when it was me talking about it or Sean
30:32
talked about this. Some companies are now clamping down on the use of zoom
30:36
Ai transcripts because they're saying they're getting it wrong. Yeah, so it was
30:41
Microsoft teams. I mean they're not oh yeah teams. I've seen many government
30:45
meetings where the words that were being written at the bottom of the screen was
30:49
nowhere near what the official government person was saying. It was misspelling names and
30:56
calling them, calling the representatives different names. Was it was not good.
31:02
Now, Sean, you've you've kind of run into that too, they're kind
31:03
of saying. Just from a security standpoint, right, especially in there are
31:10
restrictions on because we're also a research institution, so there are major restrictions on
31:18
what platforms could be used for conferencing when dealing with sensitive material. So it's
31:25
you know, on a camp in a campus setting, right, you have
31:26
your typical they use chat GPT to write to write their articles that that typical
31:32
type of stuff too. So it'll be interesting to see how the students react
31:34
to it and how it goes forward. And I'm interested to see how it
31:37
goes right, But it's just from a security standpoint, the university is nervous
31:44
about it and where that data is going and what it's being collected for.
31:48
So well, not only that, you're you're generally giving them access so that
31:52
you've got a third party provider that is capturing that transcript. You're giving them
31:56
access to your Zoom account. They become a member of that conversation. And
32:00
that's that's what made me feel a little uneasy when we did the transcript last
32:05
week. I already got ahead and deleted the app and not using it anymore
32:09
after that experience. But you're you're giving them access to that, and that's
32:14
that's You've got to be really careful of that, you know. And it's
32:17
just sucking up more information and sticking into somebody's database as well, exactly.
32:22
And all this data we're putting out there. You know, we've worried about
32:24
stuff that we've we've typed. Well, now it's audio, it's voices,
32:30
it's you know, you you wonder why you know Hollywood's on strike some of
32:32
these actors are you know, they know they they're not stupid. They know
32:37
that. We've we've even seen images that have been used where they've used AI
32:43
to create people in like a sports environment in the stands and then you look
32:47
at them and it's like mid journey where their arm is all whacked out or
32:51
or you know, their faces is whacky, but it doesn't matter because they're
32:54
kind of blurred out, but they're still in the background, you know.
32:59
So that's made people very nervous when we talk about the who owns the rights?
33:06
Right? With all this AI actor stuff? Right, who owns if
33:09
a studio generates content with an actor's likeness or their voice, who owns the
33:15
rights? Yeah? Does an act like does an actor own the rights for
33:19
their own for their like they should own the rights for their likeness and their
33:22
video, right, But if it's not generated by them, is it technically
33:28
theirs? So with all this AI generated stuff, who can come back and
33:34
claim copyright over something? So say I create a piece of art for my
33:38
dungeon and dragon Stream and I make huge months of money on it. Can
33:44
anybody that introduced a piece of art to that AI generation come now and claim
33:50
copyright on any small piece of my content? Can get it taken down or
33:53
do anything? Right, So it's like, it's not just the content,
33:59
it's the who owns the content? Yeah, the big question too. Recently
34:04
Patrick Swayzey, who's been you know who passed on some years ago. They're
34:07
doing a Dirty Dancing kind of a direct sequel. There was a sequel,
34:12
but it was pretty bad. But this will be with Jennifer Gray and the
34:15
whole bit. Well, we know Jerry Orbox no longer with us, who
34:17
was in that, but Patrick Swayzey no longer with us, and apparently they
34:21
there have been a lot of talk about them, you know, contacting the
34:23
family and supposedly he's going to be in it in some way or another,
34:29
whether it be like they did with Ghostbusters, which was one of the best
34:32
AI recreations CGI having you know, Harold Ramos in the film after he was
34:38
dead. It was one of the best, far far better than the selvester
34:43
stallone One where they recreated him in a younger form in that Superhero film that
34:47
was on Netflix, which came out about a year or two years ago.
34:52
Yeah, or even Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian. The guy that created the
34:57
other guy that created it on YouTube was much better, and he created using
35:01
deep fake technology, you know, the one they used. The Lucas arts
35:06
didn't look that great. No, you know, so I don't I don't
35:08
know, all right, speaking of how things look, Uh, if you've
35:13
been thinking about getting yourself a bigger TV. Samsung is making that possible now
35:19
on television on Fox eleven this past last week, I showed a couple of
35:23
cool ideas from Samsung. Number one, Samsung has the Disney frame justin you
35:29
probably love this because your your son loves Disney, right, my wife does?
35:35
Yeah? Yeah, Sean, you like Disney, don't you. Yeah.
35:37
I'm in partial, I'm not. I don't pray to the House of
35:40
Mouse. You don't pray the house of Mouse. I bow to the House
35:45
of Him, though, ye do. Oh Marvel, yes, well this
35:49
is this is kind of cool because Marvel, of course is the Disney Disney
35:52
property, right so I'm afraid so so they've they've celebrated with this one hundred
35:57
anniversary of Disney by putting out what they call the frame. It's available in
36:00
fifty five, sixty five, and seventy five inch. It's a bezel frame
36:04
that has you know it brushed aluminum. S is you know, Disney one
36:07
hundred on it and Samsung provides the four k Q a QLED on that or
36:14
OLED. But either way, when the power when the TV powers off,
36:19
what you get is a hundred different images that will rotate as a piece of
36:22
art. So you have this black canvas you know on your wall that when
36:29
you turn it off, it's the TV. Oh yeah, there was there's
36:30
TV there. Well, now it's a piece of art because it's showing you
36:34
scenes from Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Star Wars, all of that that
36:38
can be on that screen. You can't have your favorites in the whole bit.
36:42
You get up to one hundred of them. It's starting price, I
36:45
believe for the fifty five inches around sixteen ninety nine, which you know you
36:50
can buy a TV really cheap now, so I don't know, you know,
36:52
if it's worth it for that, But then they they've added do you
36:57
guys remember last It was last year May of last year. I took a
37:00
look at the Samsung forty nine inch big TV, the big screen for your
37:05
desktop, the monitor, and I didn't have good luck because they're very fragile.
37:09
The first one we got I bought from Amazon and I showed it on
37:14
TV, but the side there was a little split on the side, so
37:19
you had a little rays coming out. So I took it back. I
37:22
actually set it back to Amazon, went and bought one at best Buy.
37:25
I got it home, got it all set up and it looked like somebody
37:29
had taken a baseball bat or a baseball and threw it at the screen,
37:32
and it was oh my gosh. Yeah, So I took it back.
37:35
I got my money back, and that was it. I ended up settling
37:37
with a thirty nine inch television a monitor for my desktop. Well, Samsung
37:44
has now announced a fifty seven inch curved screen for your desktop, which replicates
37:52
two four KSE screen side by side. So if you're looking to enhance your
37:57
desktop, imagine fifty seven inches on your desk top. That is ridiculous.
38:04
I mean, I know a guy that I used to work with, he
38:06
uses I think it's like a sixty inch monitor. I mean really, he
38:10
he like lays back in his chair like I'm talking about like Matrix style you
38:14
know, or whatever, or like more like a more like Wally, you
38:17
know, when they all laying him back in their recliner and he's just looking
38:20
up at this massive monitor. His monitor resolution is insane. Wow, but
38:24
expensive. Now with that, now here's the one I know Sean wants and
38:29
slick and justin. An eighty five inch model called the Samsung Terrace was just
38:35
announced today. It's an upgraded Neo QLED panel weather resistant Samsung Gaming Hub and
38:44
it can be basically put outside, so it comes in encased in this you
38:49
know, this this material that gives it that weather resistance. And it's available
38:53
for pre order through September tenth for a measly price of nineteen thousand, nine
39:00
hundred and ninety nine dollars. Did you sam nineteen thousand dollars? So that
39:07
matters for the terrorists? Full Sun Samsung Neo co q Led four K.
39:13
Yeah, would you what do you have in your your screening room now?
39:17
Sean? The screen is one hundred and twenty two inch projector. It's a
39:24
project projection. But that's not not an actual TV. It's but does it
39:29
matter? It is four K? It is four K? But does it
39:32
matter? I mean, does it matter that it's a projection versus having a
39:36
screen there on the way? Yeah, totally. Really, I'm sure gotta
39:39
be dark. It's gotta be dark if you're gonna watch a projector. Yeah.
39:43
Yeah, And I mean I've got it set up with the lights and
39:45
stuff, and I enjoy it. And it's fun to watch football games and
39:50
you know, New Year's and stuff like that down here, and you know,
39:52
when I'm sitting at my computer, I'll have something else on the TV
39:55
if I'm watching something, or if I'm watching a stream or something, and
39:58
I don't want to take up either, honors. It's just right there and
40:01
I'm twenty five feet away from it. Maybe, Yeah, it's about twenty
40:06
five feet from here to the screen. So if it's big enough to see
40:08
everything, and I put movies on it all time. If one of our
40:12
listeners was to ask you, Sean, do I really need four K?
40:15
What's the difference between say they've got a ten ADP monitor versus a four K.
40:20
What are they going to see with the four K? So so yeah,
40:24
I mean that that's complicated. That's a loaded question because yeah, you
40:28
can have four K, but if it's not anything above sixty herds, it's
40:31
going to be the same. Your experience is gonna be the same. Right,
40:36
I really want the higher refresh rate, but you don't need You don't
40:39
need four K, right, But it's just like you didn't need ten eighty
40:45
when seven twenty was a standard. It's just getting cheaper to get the higher
40:50
quality. So just wait. But if I don't have cable, I'm running
40:52
off an antenna do I get a better picture if I'm able to get so
40:58
there are I think there's only one or two ATS three point ATSC three point
41:02
a stations out there right now. No, no, no, no,
41:05
no, no, no, they are way more than that. Now,
41:07
yeah, slicks, they actually push This is the standard actually out now.
41:10
I don't standards been out now. I've been trying to follow this into my
41:15
knowledge. There like three maybe four go ahead, which is the guy that
41:20
just got done working in television for the last fifteen years. This guy,
41:23
Wait, do you get fired again? The adults are talking now. No,
41:27
there are plenty of ATSC three stations out there right now, but they
41:30
are not all broadcasting ten ADP or not even I don't even think any of
41:35
them are broadcasting four K. But they are upgrading to ten ADP because most
41:39
stations had been always broadcasting in seven twenty P because that's where they get their
41:44
feed from. So by going ATSC three, you are getting ten ADP.
41:47
So it definitely looks better. Still not four K, but it definitely looks
41:52
better. All Right, we gonta take another quick break. We come back
41:53
with more of tech Talk Radio. We're gonna talk a little bit about Apple's
41:57
announcement, and we want to find out about Balder's Gate. When we did
42:00
the show last week, the game had just come out, and so now
42:05
you guys have had some time with it. We're gonna see if I should
42:07
really, you know, drop a few bucks and give it a shot.
42:10
We'll be back to the more of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
42:13
I'm Seanda Weird. I'm slicking. I believe Tupac loves ice cream cool.
42:20
I'm justin and you can find us on x and at tech Talk Radio.
42:24
Sure, now back to TikTok Radio. So I did a little Google food
42:30
during the break and looked up the ATSC standard, kind of a list of
42:35
stations that are on the air. It's about one hundred and twelve active stations
42:38
using the standard. Wanted to clarify that you don't have. It's not you
42:44
don't have to do four K right. It's four K cabable because the bandmits
42:47
is there. But most are still doing ten ADP seven twenty four. There
42:52
are probably stations that are all still doing four ADI right. Just it's just
42:55
digital. So Slick, you've been looking a little into this. Is this
43:00
something that you think we're going to see here in southern Arizona eventually. I
43:05
mean I was talking to one television station, step, the local television station
43:09
here, and he said, they've been talking about it and when they're going
43:13
to implement it and stuff, because I'm looking at those extra available channels that
43:16
they need some content for. There you go, that could create ground for
43:22
content, couldn't. I mean, we have an antenna at the TV here
43:24
at the station, and sometimes I'll just turn off. We got we got
43:28
a dish, we got direct I'll just turn off and watch the ANTENNI stuff
43:31
and I'll go, oh, look a crime channel or yeah, there's like
43:35
there's like like sixty some channels over the air for free, even even some
43:38
of the shopping channels. I mean, I've been saying it for I mean,
43:42
I worked in news for over a decade, right, and I've been
43:45
saying the math is gonna get better. They're gonna be able to cram more
43:47
content in the same amount of space. So yeah, yeah, and not
43:51
only in the more channels. ATS three. ATSC three is not just for
43:55
four K and you know, uh surround sound and built into the show.
44:00
It's also things that's going to help you do. It's going to help them
44:02
do like advertising where they'll be able to you know, if they're talking about
44:07
a product on the TV program, they could have a lower third come across
44:10
the screen. I know it's gonna be annoying, but I'm just giving an
44:14
example. They could have a lower third with like a QR codes, then
44:15
here scan this to find this product. Or you could have your phone that's
44:20
tied to your smart TV. So if you're watching a program and they're like,
44:22
hey, vote now on you know, American Idol or whatever, your
44:27
phone is already hooked into it and it's already pulled up the page saying hey,
44:30
we know you're watching American Idol, here's your voting page for you.
44:34
You know. So like they're gonna put all kinds of extra content within embedded
44:38
within ATSC three. It's not just simply for the broadcast quality. I remember
44:43
a few years ago, justin you were at an airport and you were playing
44:45
trivia games at the airport lounge on the television screens. I'm thinking, Wow,
44:51
you could actually have an interactive channel, couldn't you, where you could
44:54
play trivia against people all over, you know, whether in your community or
45:00
all over the world, which you know, would that would be kind of
45:02
a neat implementation of it learning, it'd be great for education. So if
45:07
you wanted to do something like that the kids wanted to learn, that's uh,
45:12
that's pretty neat too real quickly, we do want to touch upon this.
45:15
It's been announced September twelfth will be Apple's next big event. If you
45:20
go to the Apple event page, just go to Apple dot com, you'll
45:22
see the link. Uh, we're pretty sure that it's gonna be the iPhone
45:25
fifteen gonna be announced. The big changes, of course, a more universal
45:30
power jack the uh C USBC w Yeah, people are saying, you know,
45:36
it's about time, which now, sean, if I'm not correct,
45:40
not mistaken, that means you can actually have a faster charger or more powerful
45:45
charger to charge a device. Yeah. This the USBC standard just allows for
45:50
higher bandwidth data transfer even more. You know, it's it's it's just a
45:53
good comparison would be like USB two, USB two point zero, USB three,
45:57
right, the data transfer speeds are there, carry more data, it
46:01
can carry more more power. It's rated for higher higher volta, higher voltages
46:08
and wattages. So it's just you can charge faster it's just generally going to
46:14
be easier and more convenient. So wait, I'm sorry, please explain.
46:17
I'm truly actually wondering about this. I thought Thunderbolt was faster than USBC.
46:23
I mean, I know it used a type of it was like the exact
46:28
opposite of USBC in terms of the connector, but it still was USBC standard.
46:31
I thought Thunderbolt four and USBC are merging. I'm pretty sure they're merging
46:37
into the same standard. Oh okay, yeah, so USBC Thunderbolt, you
46:42
know, it went to Thunderbolt three than Thunderbolt four went to the USBC style
46:45
connector, and then I have to look it up. But I'm fairly starting
46:51
those two. Those two technologies are just getting smashed in. You know what
46:53
I like. I like about it. It's USBC thunder the fingerprint I D
46:59
drive by that, you know, basically story your fingerprint. You could authenticate
47:04
your phone that way, so you can actually have a little better authentication,
47:07
different different methods for authentication with that kind of a key system, which you
47:14
know, I've got a key and I've been playing around with it. I
47:15
just haven't really fully implemented it yet, but it's a it's another way to
47:20
add a layer of security to that. So I just wanted to mention that
47:23
September twelfth again and go to Apple dot com to check that out. Now,
47:27
you guys have been playing Balder's Gate and I'm actually three three Maybe this
47:32
is time I invested in played a game because it's worth it. First,
47:38
the first off, I just gonna say, Andy, how many times have
47:40
you said that in the past, like, oh, hey, I'm gonna
47:43
get this game, and you never did. Well. I wanted to get
47:44
you know, I wanted to do the Microsoft Game Pass and get flights him.
47:49
But now I think I want to play you know what I have been
47:51
playing lately, Solitaire that comes with Windows I really have. I'll get I'll
47:55
be at work and I'll have like, you know, maybe twenty minutes left
47:59
in the shift. Then I'll just fire up Solitaire while I'm playing my music.
48:02
And I'm thinking, you know, this is kind of relacting, kind
48:05
of fun too. Yeah, So I'm thinking, okay, maybe maybe it's
48:12
time to try Balders a little bit more competent Saltaire. Okay, yeah,
48:16
so just real quick, Balder's Gate. I'll let Sean dive into the details.
48:21
Okay, but Balder's Gate is a series of games that have come out
48:24
since I want to say the early nineties was the original one. This is
48:28
basically Dungeons and Dragons, and we've all pretty much kind of heard about Dungeon
48:32
Dragons. Usually it's a bunch of guys sitting around a table with you know,
48:37
a bunch of geeks with a bunch of mountain dew and fundians, and
48:40
you know, one guy's telling a story and the other guys are like,
48:43
well, I want to go and I want to go over here and use
48:45
magic missile on this guy. Okay, Basically that's Dungeon Dragons, right.
48:50
This is Dungeon Dragons and a video game format. You are doing all the
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stuff you would normally do in Dungeon Dragons, like dice mechanics. You're rolling
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a dice to see if you can intimidate somebody with your with what you want
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to say to them. You have to roll a dice and hit a certain
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number. This is all done within a video game. But what makes Balder's
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Gate special is the cut scenes. There's over two hundred and seventy hours.
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I believe Sean correct me if I'm wrong. Of cut scenes alone, not
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to mention the whole game itself. So, Sean, what's got some more
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details about Gate? So Balder's Gate is just Balder's Gate is a city in
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the Forgotten Realms of fay Run, which is the world of Dungeon's Dragons.
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There are many worlds, but this is the one that it lives in,
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and it's it's like Justin said, they created one of the first games in
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nineteen eighty eight and it's been built on and built on build the premises,
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there's a storyline. I'm not going to go into into it because the spoilers.
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The premises. You you pick a pick a class rogue with there's a
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bunch. It's very fantasy based game, okay, and you essentially run around
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in the world. Is very open world, and you interact with stuff in
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the world. Now to interact with stuff, you click on it and then
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it's like, all right, you're talking to this person, but now you
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need to learn something about the story. You can choose, well, do
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you want to intimidate them to get the answer or do you want to try
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and be charismatic and get the answer. Do you want to flirt with them?
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Do you or do you just want to murder them. Right, you
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have all these options. Now. The greatest part about this game is that
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I listed four options there right right, So if I pick option A,
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my story now branches off into a bunch of different directions. If I pick
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Option B, it branches off into other directions based on those characters have relationships
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with other characters in the game, or if you pick up items early on
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in the game, later on, those items can come back to help you
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or be bad for you. Because say I murdered this person and stole their
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wallet, Well, that wallet just happened to be the you know, the
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son of the king, and I'm wearing his crown. I think that would
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be a prince. Sure, I'm sorry, just had to throw that in
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there, right, But like, there are kind of spunches to your actions,
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and I will tell you that there are choices that I made it earlier.
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I'm about forty hours and play time right now. There are choices that
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I made at the very beginning, and I'm like, oh, that's really
51:24
that's really impacting me here, and I should not have made that decision,
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or I guess I have to live with it. And I'm fighting this guy
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because he's mad I killed his daughter. I have done the best thing ever,
51:35
and is right before I go to make a decision, right before I
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talk to somebody in the game, or right before I get in a fight,
51:39
I save the game. And that way, if I mess up and
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I make the wrong decision, I can just go back and reload it and
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try it again. I cannot count how many times I've had to reload the
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game. Now, one thing I should quickly say, and I didn't realize
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this is there also, like Sean had mentioned, there's relationships in the game,
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right, platonic and all, so another of relationships, yeah, yeah,
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yeah. And there was a cut scene that was playing out and Eric
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was like, hey, what are you watching? What are you playing?
52:13
Game? And this this cut scene was like, hey, I want to
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take you in the back room and do some things to you. And it
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did it and they were fully nude in the game, fully dude. I'm
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like, and I had to slam my laptop shut because I was like,
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oh god, no, you don't need to see that. He's like,
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what was that? And I'm like it was a problem with the game.
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Somebody the doctor. It was the character generation is very abruptive. Let's just
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put it that way, it is very everything. I don't want to play
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every aspect. I'm not going to play that every aspect. Gonna go back
52:45
to my solitaires, g rated all. We're gonna take it. In the
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quick break, we come back with more of Tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy
52:52
Taylor, I'm Sean Weird Click, and I'm justin Go get Bolter's Gate three
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