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  Speaker 3: Here it is a Tuesday morning, June ninth, and it
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  Speaker 3: is time for a tech segment today with Mike Dubuski,
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  Speaker 3: ABC Tech Reporter. Mike, thanks as always for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm okay, I'm okay. Actually I'm terrible, but I
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  Speaker 3: don't share it too many people, but I'll share it
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  Speaker 3: with you. All right, a couple of things that are
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  Speaker 3: going on I want to share. First of all, let's
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  Speaker 3: move right into what you did in checking out a
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  Speaker 3: new electric vehicle right there in New York where you live.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not a car. Yeah, that's what is an EV?
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  Speaker 2: What is an EV? It's not a car.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we think of EV's and we think of cars, right,
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  Speaker 4: but it's a vehicle. So I last week went out
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  Speaker 4: to Sagharbor, New York, which is out on Long Island,
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  Speaker 4: kind of a beach town, and I got a chance
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  Speaker 4: to look at an ARC sport. This is an electric
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  Speaker 4: boat and it comes from this company called ARC, which
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  Speaker 4: was founded in twenty twenty one. One of the co
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  Speaker 4: founders was an engineer over at SpaceX and they've been
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  Speaker 4: making boats for a few years now. This is kind
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  Speaker 4: of their latest creation. It is a wake boat that
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  Speaker 4: is all electric. So a wakeboat, for those who don't know,
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  Speaker 4: is a boat that creates a little wave behind it
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  Speaker 4: that you can surf on, or water ski or inner tube.
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  Speaker 4: My job is really tough, but you know, somebody's got
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  Speaker 4: to do it. And of course it's an all electric
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  Speaker 4: boat as well. It's got a big battery in the
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  Speaker 4: rear the stern of the boat. The motor comes from
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  Speaker 4: an electric semi truck and it's good for about five
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  Speaker 4: hundred horsepower. We talk about how electric cars are very
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  Speaker 4: quick off the line. They accelerate very fast because the
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  Speaker 4: motors produce a lot of torque instantly. It's the same
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  Speaker 4: deal out on the water with the ARC sport and
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  Speaker 4: the demo that I did. The ARC representative hit the
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  Speaker 4: gas at one point and I almost dropped my phone
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  Speaker 4: in the water it was so quick. It's software limited
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  Speaker 4: to forty miles an hour, and in terms of range
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  Speaker 4: it's a little bit different because it's not exactly mileage
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  Speaker 4: out on the water. But they say it's good for
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  Speaker 4: about four to six hours of mixed use, so surfing,
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  Speaker 4: speeding around, just hanging out on the water good, you know,
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  Speaker 4: afternoon out of the lake or in the bay or
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  Speaker 4: whatever it happens to be. That's kind of what they're
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  Speaker 4: targeting this thing towards. And it charges just like an
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  Speaker 4: electric car charges. It has a CCS plug, which is
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  Speaker 4: popular among a variety of electric cars, so you can
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  Speaker 4: charge it at a public charging station, if you have
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  Speaker 4: it on a trailer, you can charge it at home.
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  Speaker 4: And it is a luxury good. At the end of
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  Speaker 4: the day, it's two hundred and sixty eight thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 4: The one run goes all the way up to three
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  Speaker 4: hundred thousand dollars. Definitely on the high end of the
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  Speaker 4: wake boats sort of market. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: this company has sort of bigger designs. Right this is
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  Speaker 4: where they're landing right now, but they are this summer
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  Speaker 4: going to roll out some electric tug boats at the
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  Speaker 4: Port of Los Angeles later this summer. They say, that's
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  Speaker 4: kind of their bigger idea. They're kind of running the
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  Speaker 4: Rivann or Tesla playbook, where Okay, they make luxury cars,
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  Speaker 4: but they also have like electric semi trucks and electric
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  Speaker 4: delivery vans, more sort of industrial apple locations where they
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  Speaker 4: can really start to you know, foist some partnerships or
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  Speaker 4: contracts or things like that. So that's kind of ARC's idea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds like a fairly big company already.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it has some pretty significant investment too. Marc Andreesen
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  Speaker 4: is one of the big investors behind this. Like they
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  Speaker 4: have a lot of sort of like Silicon Valley VC
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  Speaker 4: guys behind this, and seemingly they're doing pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Is you know, a quarter of a million dollars
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  Speaker 3: seems like a lot of money, but when you think
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  Speaker 3: about a boat that has six state rooms on and
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  Speaker 3: in it, you know, it's not so bad.
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  Speaker 4: Big is a lot smaller. So their first boat was
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  Speaker 4: called the ARC one, and that was more like what
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  Speaker 4: you're talking about, a little bit more of like a
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  Speaker 4: luxury cruiser sort of thing. This is much smaller. It's
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  Speaker 4: twenty three feet long, so it's more of like a
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  Speaker 4: little speedboat sort of thing. Has a ton of storage
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  Speaker 4: for what it's worth, you know, it has you know,
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  Speaker 4: all the sort of normal amenities that a boat would have.
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  Speaker 4: Even has an infotainment screen that kind of looks like
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  Speaker 4: Rivian's infotainment screen with like built in navigation and you know,
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  Speaker 4: music and Bluetooth that can be pumped throughout the boat
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  Speaker 4: and whatnot. There's no like below deck or anything like that,
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  Speaker 4: but it's spacious once you're on board. It's just not
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  Speaker 4: like a yacht by any stretch of the imagination.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and I was joking obviously, but the forty
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  Speaker 3: miles per hour that it's monitored by or reduced by software, well,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, forty miles per hour is really fast
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  Speaker 3: on the water begins Oh yeah, I mean you're flying
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  Speaker 3: at forty miles per hour, and if it has been
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  Speaker 3: reduced to forty miles per hour, did you get any
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  Speaker 3: information of how fast this thing can actually comfortably go.
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  Speaker 4: Like unlimited meaning unclear at this point, like that that's
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  Speaker 4: where they're sort of electronically limiting it to.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, like forty miles an hours, like so fast
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  Speaker 4: in a tiny little boat like that, but yeah, unclear.
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  Speaker 4: I mean the thing with electric motors is that, like
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  Speaker 4: they're very powerful and they have that sort of like
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  Speaker 4: instant acceleration, so like they they are able to kind
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  Speaker 4: of you know, basically modulate however much power that you
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  Speaker 4: want to put in there, and you know, in boating
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  Speaker 4: culture and marine culture, like there's a lot of modification
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  Speaker 4: that goes into it, so you can probably you know,
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  Speaker 4: in the back end, you know, maybe swap out the
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  Speaker 4: motor for a more powerful one if you so choose.
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  Speaker 4: But like, I don't know, I was, as a person
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  Speaker 4: who's not like on boats super frequently, like this was
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  Speaker 4: more than fast.
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  Speaker 2: Enough for me as we were just tooling around.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody who has an EV, anybody who was an EV anything,
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  Speaker 3: I happen to have an EV car, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I step I step on the gas pedal actually in
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  Speaker 3: this case, the electric vehicle pedal. It's yeah, it's you're
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  Speaker 3: basically starting. It's zero to what what half a mile
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  Speaker 3: per second?
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  Speaker 2: How do they work that?
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  Speaker 3: But yes, zero whatever it is, y Yeah, zero to
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  Speaker 3: sixty and under a second or whatever the hell it is.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously that's you know, risiculally fast, but it's man,
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  Speaker 3: it flies and you get shoved back in your seat.
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  Speaker 3: When you talked about this company and you were saying
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  Speaker 3: how extensive it's line was between trucks and they're coming
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  Speaker 3: out with a tugboat, et cetera. I have not heard
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  Speaker 3: of this company before, and you would think that I
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  Speaker 3: have heard about it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I mean to be clear though, they're just
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  Speaker 4: in boats. They they I was giving the example of
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  Speaker 4: like Tesla makes like a semi truck, you know, in
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  Speaker 4: the same way arc is making these like kind of
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  Speaker 4: luxury boats. But they're also trying to get into like
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  Speaker 4: more industrial applications like tugboats. They also say they have
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  Speaker 4: like a party boat coming later. That's kind of their
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  Speaker 4: next you know, iteration of this platform is like something
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  Speaker 4: that's not as fast, it's not really meant for like
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  Speaker 4: water sports or anything like that. Basically just kind of
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  Speaker 4: like hanging out on a lake. So they have these
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  Speaker 4: kind of big designs and again, as we said, some
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  Speaker 4: some pretty big investment behind them as well.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Apple, well no, let's start with AI, the AI
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  Speaker 3: improvements that we're seeing, which we are by the day.
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  Speaker 2: So what's the latest.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So this week is Apple's WWDC conference. This is
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  Speaker 4: their annual developer conference. It's where they invite all the
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  Speaker 4: people who make apps for various Apple platforms to their
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  Speaker 4: headquarters at Apple Park and they show off what the
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  Speaker 4: next generation of all their software is going to look like,
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  Speaker 4: So the next generation Apple software, meaning for the iPhone,
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  Speaker 4: the iPad, the Mac, all that stuff is you know,
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  Speaker 4: on full display this week and kind of the big
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  Speaker 4: news at least the big change that Apple led with
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  Speaker 4: yesterday was Siri. So Siri is their voice assistant. It's
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  Speaker 4: the thing that's baked into your phone. It's designed to
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  Speaker 4: kind of be this like virtual assistant thing often is
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  Speaker 4: thought of as kind of lackluster, right, kind of falls
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  Speaker 4: behind in terms of capability to like a Google Assistant
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  Speaker 4: or an Amazon Alexa or something like that, just you know,
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  Speaker 4: has the reputation of just not having that level of capability. Well,
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  Speaker 4: two years ago, Apple made some big promises with regards
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  Speaker 4: to Siri. They say they were going to basically redo
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  Speaker 4: it from the ground up. They were going to infuse
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  Speaker 4: it with a lot of artificial intelligence that was going
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  Speaker 4: to give it a whole lot more capability, And they
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  Speaker 4: had this big, flashy marketing campaign with Bella Ramsey from
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  Speaker 4: Game of Thrones. And in the two years since then,
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  Speaker 4: almost none of that has made it into the real world.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of those features didn't ship, there were delays,
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  Speaker 4: there was a lot of internal strife at Apple, including
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  Speaker 4: some corporate reorganizing, and recently the company agreed to pay
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  Speaker 4: a two hundred and fifty million dollar class action settlement
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  Speaker 4: in a lawsuit that had accused the company of misleading
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  Speaker 4: consumers over its Ai products. So that brings us to
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  Speaker 4: this week, where the pressure was pretty high for Apple
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  Speaker 4: to do something about Siri. They are once again refreshing Siri.
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  Speaker 4: They say, this comes with the help of Google, who
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  Speaker 4: they're kind of borrowing some artificial intelligence technology from. Siri
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  Speaker 4: now gets its own dedicated app. It has a new design.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to look a little bit more like a
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  Speaker 4: notification that pops up at the top of your screen,
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  Speaker 4: and at its core it's a large language model now,
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  Speaker 4: so you're going to have these sort of long form
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  Speaker 4: conversations with it in the same way that you chat
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  Speaker 4: back and forth with chat GPT. Now it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be applied in sort of like the serie application. In
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  Speaker 4: terms of what you can do with that, well, a
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  Speaker 4: whole variety of things, says Apple. You can take a
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  Speaker 4: picture of a poster for a concert and have the
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  Speaker 4: dates for that concert be automatically added to your to
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  Speaker 4: your calendar. It will even set a reminder for when
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  Speaker 4: those tickets go on sale. You can be scrolling Instagram
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  Speaker 4: and ask Siri what you're looking at, like where a
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  Speaker 4: photo was taken. For example, there's a lot of applications
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  Speaker 4: in the photos app where you can reframe things and
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  Speaker 4: make it look like a photo was taken from a
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  Speaker 4: different angle than it actually was in reality, all using
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  Speaker 4: artificial intelligence and this Siri application. You can even take
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  Speaker 4: a picture of the bill at a restaurant and then
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  Speaker 4: Siri will split that bill between However, many people are paying,
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  Speaker 4: so they're making some big promises. It's just in the
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  Speaker 4: hands of developers right now, but they say this is
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  Speaker 4: going to roll out more broadly and it's kind of
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  Speaker 4: final form in the fall, alongside the new iPhones.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, and do you believe that everything they say is
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  Speaker 3: going to come to fruition.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a lot closer to reality than it
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  Speaker 4: was two years ago. So we got to talk about
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  Speaker 4: kind of apples artificial intelligence efforts in that respect, because
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  Speaker 4: they have, similar to Siri, been criticized for kind of
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  Speaker 4: falling behind in the AI race. Right they pull the
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  Speaker 4: wraps off this artificial intelli and stuff two years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Even then it was kind of late. That was two
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  Speaker 4: years after the launch of chat GPT, after you know,
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  Speaker 4: Google and Amazon and Samsung and others all had announced
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  Speaker 4: similar sort of AI efforts. Apple largely weighted on the sidelines,
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  Speaker 4: so you know, they have this kind of impetus to
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  Speaker 4: bring AI to the market in some capacity. But at
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  Speaker 4: the same time, AI is still a pretty imperfect technology, right.
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  Speaker 4: It makes mistakes, It hallucinates all the time. You can
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  Speaker 4: imagine internally at Apple that there's some concern that that
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  Speaker 4: would do damage to their multi trillion dollar brand if
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  Speaker 4: suddenly your iPhone was telling you incorrect information, So they
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  Speaker 4: kind of slow rolled this. Now they have this partnership
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  Speaker 4: with Google. Right, so Google has been in the AI
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  Speaker 4: game for longer than anybody else. They have predated you know,
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  Speaker 4: Open AI and chat GPT and all this stuff. They've
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  Speaker 4: been working on this technology for a long long time.
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  Speaker 4: They with this integration now from Apple's perspective, can kind
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  Speaker 4: of have it both ways because they can say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we have all this AI technology available to you. You
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  Speaker 4: can use it if you like, but if it goes wrong,
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  Speaker 4: they can also just blame Google. Right, they can say that, like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: that was lackluster on Google's part, and that kind of
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  Speaker 4: is an interesting, you know, position for them to find
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  Speaker 4: themselves in. Will all this make it to market? I
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  Speaker 4: think so. I don't think that any of the stuff
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  Speaker 4: that they announced yesterday was particularly mind blowing, in large
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  Speaker 4: part because we've already seen it on Google phones before
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  Speaker 4: and on Samsung phones, which of course we're on Google technology.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, I think this is real. I think
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  Speaker 4: whether it is actually a game changer, whether this will
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  Speaker 4: actually get people to like, actually go out and buy
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  Speaker 4: new iPhones just because of the new AI stuff, I
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  Speaker 4: think that's a much bigger question. Mark.
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  Speaker 3: I noticed that, and I use Siri a lot, almost exclusively,
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  Speaker 3: and I notice now that Siri comes back when I'll
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  Speaker 3: ask a question, do you want to use chat GPT? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it asks that question of me, which never happened before.
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  Speaker 3: Now I don't get that much more from chat GPT
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  Speaker 3: than I get from Siri.
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  Speaker 2: And so is this the start of.
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  Speaker 1: All of that?
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  Speaker 4: Well sort of. So that was actually part of the
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  Speaker 4: original twenty twenty four announcement when Apple announced this sort
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  Speaker 4: of integration with chat GPT. If Siri couldn't answer a question,
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  Speaker 4: it would kick some of those questions that it couldn't
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  Speaker 4: answer over to chat GPT to see if it could
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  Speaker 4: get you an answer that way. So yeah, they have
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  Speaker 4: started sort of integrating that. It's kind of unclear where
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  Speaker 4: that partnership is going now, especially since they've you know,
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  Speaker 4: announced this other partnership with open a Eyes competitor Google.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, that's part of that other piece of this.
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  Speaker 4: I think that you get at an interesting point there,
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  Speaker 4: which is what is actually the value added by integrating
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  Speaker 4: all this artificial intelligence stuff. Apple will say it's a
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  Speaker 4: lot easier now you can kind of get to what
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  Speaker 4: you're trying to get to in a more simple and
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  Speaker 4: comprehensive way. For example, one you know situation that they
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  Speaker 4: demonstrated was, oh, you know, you can ask Siri to
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  Speaker 4: go like surface an address that was texted to you
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  Speaker 4: like months ago. Instead of having to go find that
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  Speaker 4: address yourself, you can just say, hey, I know Larry
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  Speaker 4: texted me is addressed. Can you just go like find
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  Speaker 4: that for me? And it will go do that. Like
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  Speaker 4: that's convenient in handy? Is that enough to like go
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  Speaker 4: buy a new phone?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, Like I think that there's still some
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  Speaker 4: skepticism around exactly the utility of all this and whether
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  Speaker 4: it's actually going to bring people out to stores. That's
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  Speaker 4: you know, just the state of the smartphone market right now.
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  Speaker 4: Smartphones are pretty good and people hold on to them
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  Speaker 4: for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure the fact that they're now thirteen hundred
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  Speaker 3: dollars apiece as artament as much to do with it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they've gone absolutely crazy. All right, Mike, thank you as always,
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  Speaker 3: it's always some great information.
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  Speaker 2: And have a good one.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds good, Take care all right.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I want to talk a little bit about another
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  Speaker 3: aspect of AI, because how can you not do a
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  Speaker 3: show these days without talking about AI or even President Trump.
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  Speaker 3: Put those two together and you've got a topic that
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  Speaker 3: we're jumping on very easily. And this has to do
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  Speaker 3: with AI being used in medicine now. Already AI is
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  Speaker 3: being used in medicine for sure. When you talk about
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  Speaker 3: for example, you go to a WebMD, right, which is
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  Speaker 3: now going to become much more sophisticated with AI, and
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  Speaker 3: that you get information about whatever ailment you have. You
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  Speaker 3: have the Internet being used more and more in terms
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  Speaker 3: of telemedicine, and so it's sort of working us easing
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  Speaker 3: its way into medicine in general.
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  Speaker 2: Here is where the line is being drawn.
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  Speaker 3: And this is where there are really two sides of
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  Speaker 3: the coin on this, and both have a legitimate view,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't know which side I'm on on this one.
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  Speaker 3: And that is using AI to prescribe medication, to diagnose
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  Speaker 3: you without a doctor involved at all. The AI program,
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  Speaker 3: the algorithm itself, is doing the diagnosis and then saying,
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  Speaker 3: here's the medication you need or is hear what you
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  Speaker 3: should do now? They have yet to figure out how
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  Speaker 3: AI does surgery. I think you need a real doctor
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  Speaker 3: for that one. But at the same time, it would
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  Speaker 3: take well intern this for example, it would virtually make
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  Speaker 3: interness disappear, make them irrelevant because the interness tries to
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  Speaker 3: figure out what's wrong with you and asks you various
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  Speaker 3: questions and then does an examination. But what kind of
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  Speaker 3: an examination? Blood stethoscope can listen to your heartbeat, to
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  Speaker 3: hear how you breathe? All that can be done now
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  Speaker 3: virtually it could all be done at distance and so
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  Speaker 3: and so. Therefore the AI comes in, The program comes
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  Speaker 3: in and says, here's what's wrong with you, and here's
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  Speaker 3: what you should do about it. Doctors are fighting this
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  Speaker 3: like crazy. Of course they're fighting it. Like crazy. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if you've ever gone to a doctor's office
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  Speaker 3: and had a PA, a physician's assistant help you out.
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  Speaker 2: I did that.
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  Speaker 3: I fell down a little while ago, and I got
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  Speaker 3: a nice cut, and I went to urgent carer and
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see a doctor. It was a physician's assistant,
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  Speaker 3: and I was personically fine with it. Do you know
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  Speaker 3: when the concept the pas came out? When they became
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  Speaker 3: legalized here in California, the medical profession, the doctors fought
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  Speaker 3: it like crazy, You're not going to get good You're
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  Speaker 3: not going to get a good, good treatment. You need
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  Speaker 3: real doctors, you need the professional help. Well, guess what
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  Speaker 3: you know. Pas do a lot. Nurse practitioners can do
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  Speaker 3: a lot. You don't need a doctor to do a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things. And this is the argument that's being
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  Speaker 3: used with the proponents of AI medicine, way beyond just
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  Speaker 3: researching AI medicine, and the Trump administration is going balls
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  Speaker 3: to the wall on this. This is simply part of
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  Speaker 3: their position on technology and they think this is the
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  Speaker 3: way of the future, and it's doing something about it too,
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  Speaker 3: I mean putting money into research. Grants are being given
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  Speaker 3: in terms of AI and its approaches to medicine, and
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  Speaker 3: the line is going to be drawn because where does
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  Speaker 3: AI stop? And you need a doctor to get involved.
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  Speaker 3: Surgery is easy, but how about diagnosing. There's a story
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  Speaker 3: out of the Washington Post about this woman, Amy Gleeson,
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  Speaker 3: who is now the leader of the US DOJE service.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: She took it over from Elon Musk, and she is
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: tasked to bringing AI into the healthcare system by the
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration. Her daughter spent about a decade battling in
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: autoimmune disorder, and after ten years, she uploaded sixteen years
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  Speaker 3: of medical records.
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  Speaker 2: Into chat GPT.
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  Speaker 3: The machine reported that she was suffering from a different
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  Speaker 3: AI ailment and it was differently diagnosed, and she got
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  Speaker 3: into a clinical trial, which is happening right now. AI
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  Speaker 3: did all of it and the doctors blew it. Now
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  Speaker 3: do we trust AI? You know, in many cases I
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: would trust a well written algorithm over what a doctor.
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  Speaker 3: I'm willing to bet by the time it's all said
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  Speaker 3: and done, doctors are going to make more mistakes than
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: the AI programs. You know, people bitch and moan about
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: self driving cars. Oh my god, they're so dangerous, they're
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: so terrible. Well after hundreds of millions of miles that
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: have been driven and tested, and all of these various
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: cars weigh mo et cetera. Turns out that sitting in
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: one of those cars is infinitely safer than sitting in
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  Speaker 3: a car that you drive. Those cars don't get drunk,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: those cars don't get sleepy. Those cars pay attention every
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  Speaker 3: moment of every second of driving. Pilots, you ask a
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  Speaker 3: pilot where, for example, let's say fog comes in. And
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I've talked to pilots about this before, and I said, well,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes you don't know where you're at the fog comes in,
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  Speaker 3: and do you just figure out you goes? Always trust
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  Speaker 3: the instruments. Always trust the instruments. It doesn't matter what
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  Speaker 3: you think you're looking at, it doesn't matter what's outside
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  Speaker 3: the window. If you are confused, look down, Trust the instruments.
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  Speaker 3: Trust the technology far more than what a human being
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  Speaker 3: can do. And I think that's where it's going in
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  Speaker 3: the world of AI medicine. How far it goes, I
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: don't know. Prescribing medication, will putting in symptoms, maybe having
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  Speaker 3: a blood test, maybe having an examination on your iPad.
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  Speaker 3: I have done medical exams on my iPad. We were
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  Speaker 3: having in a situation right now, I have a protologist
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  Speaker 3: that I'm working with and it's a little uncomfortable with
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: the iPad. We don't quite know what to do with
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: the iPad and the examination. So at this point I
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  Speaker 3: still have to go into the office. But the bottom
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: line is all the kidding aside except I wasn't kidding.
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  Speaker 3: Is that AI I think is the way of the future.
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  Speaker 3: And you're going to see some real medical advances where
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  Speaker 3: the diagnosis is going to be done by the algorithm.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: And you bet the doctors are going to fight this
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  Speaker 3: like crazy for political purposes. They're going to say, oh,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: it's a question of safety, it's a question.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: No it's not. No, it's not.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: If it was a question of safety, the doctors will
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: be jumping up and down and saying, Okay, let's test it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Let's do some random testing. Let's see how what the
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: efficacy is. No, No, it's horrible, it's terrible. It's going
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  Speaker 3: to ruin your life. It's going to kill you, and
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: you will never get that iPad where you wanted to go.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: In terms of the examination. We are done. All right,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: You've got fire insurance, assuming you still have a policy
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: where fire insurance is there, and the limits are let's say,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: a deductible of five percent in terms of replacing your home,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: or a certain figure two hundred thousand dollars deductible one
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars deductible for fire. Well, if you go
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: into your policy, here's what's happening more and more, and
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: this is what the insurance companies are doing, is adding
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: a separate deductible for wildfire. Wait a minute, does that
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: mean I have my deductible X dollars for fire?
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Yep?
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Does that mean for wild fires there is another and
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: even bigger deductible. Yeah, but wait a minute, you can't
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: do that. A fire's a fire, right, I mean, it
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: doesn't matter. You know what kind of fire burns my
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: house down, it's going to be covered.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: By my fire insurance.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Well, the insurancer companies are saying, yeah, not if it's
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: a wildfire. If it's a wildfire, we're kicking up the deductible.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: And frankly, it's what it means, of course, is your
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: insurance is getting much more expensive now. The insurance companies
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: just come back say, yeah, we have a wildfire deductible,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: but it just helps keep our policies at a reasonable
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: price where people can opt in or opt out. I
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: think the argument is like insurance for earthquake insurance, but
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: it's a totally different animal. I mean, an earthquake is
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: an earthquake. It can't discern between different kinds of earthquakes.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: It's an earthquake. With fires, they can and they do.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Wildfires are different than the fires that normally burn down houses,
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: our Senate, etc.
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  Speaker 2: Because they're wildfires. And now we've.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Got lawsuits that are flying all over the place arguing, hey,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: a fire's the fire and you're supposed to cover fires.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Now is it a wildfire because it has been determined
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: to be a wildfire.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I don't even know if.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: There's an official designation for wildfire forest fires that used
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: to be called I don't know who makes that decision.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, certainly we're told about it. The news is
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: saying it's a wildfire. So anyway, this lawsuit is going
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: to fly all over the place. So we'll see what happens.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: And yep, I'm going to look at my policy. And
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: the problem is if you look at the minutia of
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: a policy, oh man, you know pages and you need
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: a magnifying glass to read them, and you should have
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: some legal background, because, as you know, I have vast,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: vast knowledge of the law. I am one of the
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: most well regarded lawyers out there with a deep understanding
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: of the law. And even I have trouble reading insurance policies.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Actually I have trouble reading my address on the insurance policy.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: But you know that's between you and me and the
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: insurance company.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: All right, guys, we're done. We are done.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Tomorrow we start all over again. Amy is not here,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: and Heather Brooker is. Will is always here. Of course,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Ann is not here until next week, producer, and so
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Michelle is filling in. And Cono of course is always here,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: no matter what he says or does, or no matter
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: how much he bekes.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Will.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: I did mention you didn't I okay, I did, all right,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: So you did? Yeah, I know, I just like I
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: forget instantly. That goes to show you how important Will
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: is in my life. I mentioned him thirty seconds ago,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: and I completely forgot then, I exactly very well, said
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Gary and Shannon are up next.
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