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Rich DeMuro, Host of 'Rich on Tech' on WOR Sundays Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Another race to dominate AI continues. American companies and now
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  Speaker 1: the Red Chinese and Mark Zuckerberg had an editorial in
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  Speaker 1: Today's New York Times, and I need Rich de Murrol
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  Speaker 1: rich on Tech, which has heard Sunday nights from eight
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  Speaker 1: to eleven right here on woor. He's our tech expert
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  Speaker 1: to break it down for me, because I got to
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  Speaker 1: tell you, Rich, some of the language in the I
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  Speaker 1: don't quite necessarily get a hang on. What's the zuck
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  Speaker 1: talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think look, anytime you talk about AI right now,
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  Speaker 2: there is a lot of opinions on how much we
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  Speaker 2: should restrain it, how much we should move forward, whether
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  Speaker 2: we should be open or close sourced with the models
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  Speaker 2: that we allow people to have, and of course, like
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned China being a big aspect of this as well.
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  Speaker 3: But I think what.
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  Speaker 2: He was doing is basically saying he is very optimistic
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  Speaker 2: about AI. He thinks that it's going to create jobs,
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  Speaker 2: create opportunities, not take away all these jobs and take
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  Speaker 2: away opportunities. He also thinks that people should be empowered
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  Speaker 2: to use this, and he does believe that a more
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  Speaker 2: open foundation of AI is a good thing. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's two schools of thought there. Number one is you
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  Speaker 2: make all these models and the big companies control them,
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  Speaker 2: and then of course the governments control what those big
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  Speaker 2: companies can do. And the second is that you just
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  Speaker 2: kind of put these out there as an open source
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  Speaker 2: model and let people be the judge, let them figure
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  Speaker 2: out what they can do with them. And that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of what China's been doing. They've been putting out these
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  Speaker 2: models that are very high powered that anyone can use
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  Speaker 2: and download and make things for free out of versus
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  Speaker 2: our two big companies, Anthropic and Open AI, very closed
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  Speaker 2: about their models. They don't necessarily let people just download
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  Speaker 2: what they're doing. You got to pay for the access.
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  Speaker 3: So, as you know, it's been pretty well established in
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  Speaker 3: our conversations. I'm an Apple guy. I'm an Apple guy
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  Speaker 3: all the way. And when I talk to people about
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  Speaker 3: why they don't go with Apple because I think it's
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  Speaker 3: so much better. May not be, but I think that
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  Speaker 3: it's because of the cost. And now this lease program
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  Speaker 3: seems fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: Explain yeah, I mean, basically, if you if you understand
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  Speaker 2: the concept of leasing a car, that is what Apple
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  Speaker 2: is doing with their new program called Apple Upgrade. So
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  Speaker 2: you can now lease your iPhone, you can lease an
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  Speaker 2: Apple Watch, you can lease a Mac computer, a tablet.
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  Speaker 2: Keep in mind, it's not the cheapest or I shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: say cheap, because Apple is never cheap, but the entry
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  Speaker 2: level products are typically not included, but all the rest are.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're talking an iPhone for eighteen bucks a month,
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  Speaker 2: We're talking an Apple Watch for twelve dollars a month.
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  Speaker 2: It is either twelve or twenty four months that you
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  Speaker 2: can have this. But at the end you either have
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  Speaker 2: to give it back, you have to continue with the
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  Speaker 2: new product, or you got to pay the difference. And
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  Speaker 2: the other side of this is that if there you know,
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  Speaker 2: your device is damaged or broken, at the end, just
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  Speaker 2: like a car lease, you're gonna have to pay. And
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  Speaker 2: one other thing about this, so you know, you think
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  Speaker 2: about all these Apple products that they have. I think
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  Speaker 2: that the problem is people are not upgrading enough. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's what Apple is trying to get around
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  Speaker 2: here by saying, hey, look, let's dangle this shiny new
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  Speaker 2: thing in front of you. It's only twelve dollars a month.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of people sticking with their phones for three to
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  Speaker 2: four years, which is what they're currently.
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  Speaker 1: Doing now rich Ariana Grande, as big as he gets
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  Speaker 1: in the music world, is suing anonymous hackers. First off,
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  Speaker 1: how do you sue anonymous hackers? That's the reason they're anonymous.
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  Speaker 2: Good question. Well, I think what's happening here. I think
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  Speaker 2: there's a lesson for all of us. Now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think anyone's crying for Ariana Grande. She's been
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  Speaker 2: very successful. But the problem is, over the past couple
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  Speaker 2: of years, her unreleased music videos photos have gotten out
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  Speaker 2: there in a big way on the Internet. And how
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  Speaker 2: are they getting out there? The hackers are targeting people
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  Speaker 2: close to her. So even though she may not even
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  Speaker 2: use Dropbox or she may not have these photos on
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  Speaker 2: her computer that she just took, you know, for a
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  Speaker 2: photo shoot, the people around her do. And so these
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  Speaker 2: hackers are appealing to them and tricking them into giving
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  Speaker 2: up access. And so I think the lesson for us
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  Speaker 2: number one, She's suing to try to figure out who
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  Speaker 2: these people are that are actually getting access to her stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and they'll figure it out eventually. But I think for
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  Speaker 2: the rest of us, you have to understand that you
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  Speaker 2: may be secure, but there are other people, your family members,
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  Speaker 2: your friends, who may give up information about you and
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  Speaker 2: be tricked, especially if you're in a corporate aspect, you're
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  Speaker 2: a big high level executive or anyone, they may give
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  Speaker 2: up information about you that can then lead hackers to
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  Speaker 2: get into your account. So I think the lesson here
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  Speaker 2: is that we need to be careful with all requests
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  Speaker 2: that we get, no matter who they come from.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny everything old is new again, I guess, even
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  Speaker 3: with tech. I remember we all had flip phones. Remember
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  Speaker 3: that everybody had a flip phone, and then Apple came
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  Speaker 3: out with their iPhone and it seemed to change everything.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody went with just a device that almost looked like
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  Speaker 3: a small computer. Tell me about this Samsung new foldable
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  Speaker 3: foldable phone, because it seems like it's selling it's like hotcakes.
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  Speaker 3: Is it like an old flip.
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  Speaker 2: They've got three models this year, so yes, they do
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  Speaker 2: have one. It's called the Flip eight, which yes, looks
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  Speaker 2: like kind of if you remember the old Motorola rasor
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  Speaker 2: that everyone had that was a very successful device. That's
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  Speaker 2: one of the phones, and that's the least expensive at
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  Speaker 2: twelve hundred dollars, which by the way, felt very expensive
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  Speaker 2: for a flip phone back in the day we got
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  Speaker 2: them for a penny or remember that, Yeah, and then
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  Speaker 2: of course your your bill was more expensive every month.
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  Speaker 2: But they have three models. They've got two that are
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  Speaker 2: more like a book style foldable, the Galaxy Z fold
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  Speaker 2: eight Ultra, and then the Galaxy Z fold eight. The
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  Speaker 2: fold eight is the one that's getting a lot of
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  Speaker 2: attention because it looks like a mini passport, and so
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  Speaker 2: you open it up like a book. It's small, it's compact,
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  Speaker 2: it fits in your pocket. It's got this nice think
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  Speaker 2: ish screen on the outside, but then a really big
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  Speaker 2: screen on the inside, which is perfect for watching videos,
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  Speaker 2: looking at photos, maybe doing spreadsheets. That starts at nineteen
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars. The Ultra starts at twenty one hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 2: These are very expensive, but they're very popular. People are
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  Speaker 2: kind of taking a liking to them. They are in
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  Speaker 2: stores on August seventh. But again, Larry and Curtis, I
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  Speaker 2: think this goes back to what I was just talking
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  Speaker 2: about with Apple. We know that Apple is coming out
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  Speaker 2: with a foldable or supposedly later this year. We also
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  Speaker 2: know it's going to be very expensive. No one wants
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  Speaker 2: to spend twenty twenty five hundred dollars on a phone.
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  Speaker 2: But if they're leasing you that new foldable that's got
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  Speaker 2: the best technology for fifty bucks a month, seems much
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  Speaker 2: more easy to you know, take in and say okay, fine,
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  Speaker 2: I'll do that payment.
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  Speaker 3: So they're getting out ahead of that. That's brilliant. Thanks
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  Speaker 3: so much, Richard Demiro. Rich On Tech has heard Sunday
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  Speaker 1: Five minutes