Speaker 1: It's time for tech talk.
Speaker 2: The machines are getting smarter. This is tech Talk, brought
Speaker 2: to you by Skynet.
Speaker 1: Well, you're fresh out of luck.
Speaker 3: If you are, I have not yet purchased something, or
Speaker 3: bought a thing, or written a poem or whatever. However
Speaker 3: people celebrate Valentine's Day, Mark Saltzman, our tech guru, is
Speaker 3: joining us to talk about how the world of technology
Speaker 3: may be able to help our love life.
Speaker 2: I'm your love guru today, not your tech guru.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I want to say that out loud,
Speaker 3: but that's fine, Mark.
Speaker 1: How's it going?
Speaker 4: Not bad things? I guess Shannon is off again today.
Speaker 4: Let me guess the dentist.
Speaker 1: Yes. As a matter of fact, it.
Speaker 2: Is sensing a theme here.
Speaker 3: She got a punch card. I think the next one
Speaker 3: is free, so good good.
Speaker 4: That'll help out at the when she opens up her
Speaker 4: credit card bills.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's Thursday, so we like to talk
Speaker 4: tech and I figured, with tomorrow being Valentine's Day, to
Speaker 4: change hats from tech guru to love guru, or the
Speaker 4: two can be the same. I can wear both hats
Speaker 4: because yes, you can leverage AI to hop out, or
Speaker 4: if you're having a Gallantine's Date date tonight with your girlfriends,
Speaker 4: you know instead of Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2: That's a becoming a bigger trend.
Speaker 4: I've got some ideas. Yeah, there's actually there was a
Speaker 4: great article. I just want to tip my hat both
Speaker 4: of them to cnet dot com. They published an article
Speaker 4: about some great ways that AI can help you plan
Speaker 4: a great Valentine's Day. So the easy sort of the
Speaker 4: low hanging fruit is that you can use these free
Speaker 4: AI image generation tools to print out a custom card.
Speaker 4: So you don't want to give it on flimsy paper.
Speaker 4: You want good stock. But you can create a beautiful
Speaker 4: royalty free image and the words and even ask the
Speaker 4: AI to help you with words. And you know, if
Speaker 4: the cards that you're looking at at your wherever, your CVS,
Speaker 4: your your local store are lame because as all the
Speaker 4: good ones are taken, you can print out your own customized,
Speaker 4: personalized Valentine's Day card. So you can definitely take advantage
Speaker 4: of some of those tools. But if you are looking
Speaker 4: to have a good date night, there are a couple
Speaker 4: of dedicated AI platforms. One is called four lovebirds dot com.
Speaker 4: That's the number four where it's basically an AI date
Speaker 4: idea generator, so it doesn't have to be for Valentine's Day,
Speaker 4: but you type in where you are and it'll give
Speaker 4: you some suggestions. So using La as an example, it
Speaker 4: gave me everything from a sunset picnic at Griffith Observatory
Speaker 4: and it gives you a description of what's going on there,
Speaker 4: a dinner at a rooftop restaurant, so you can have
Speaker 4: a nice panoramic view of the La skyline if the rain.
Speaker 2: Doesn't impede your view as it might tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, strolling along Santa monicap here of course at tend
Speaker 4: to live jazz performance. So you can even specify your
Speaker 4: budget with some of these, like like Chat, GPT or
Speaker 4: Google Gemini. You can say for under one hundred dollars
Speaker 4: or whatever, right, and it'll give you some ideas. Another
Speaker 4: one Gary is called the Dateidea dot Com, same idea,
Speaker 4: but you don't have to say where you are.
Speaker 2: You can if you want.
Speaker 4: There are a couple of things you can click, like
Speaker 4: third date or meal based or indoor date which might
Speaker 4: be ideal.
Speaker 2: For the rain.
Speaker 4: And then it basically gives you a bunch of ideas
Speaker 4: and links as well. So there are these free tools
Speaker 4: that you can leverage and get very specific. You can
Speaker 4: say between this hour and this hour, I'd like to
Speaker 4: take my partner on a date or within this budget
Speaker 4: or in this area, and it'll it'll do a great.
Speaker 2: Job for you.
Speaker 4: So planning your Valentine's Day, printing out a custom personalized card,
Speaker 4: these are all great ways. And of course, as you've
Speaker 4: hinted that off the top, even having it write a
Speaker 4: poem for you, feed it some information like where you met,
Speaker 4: how long you've been together, what you know, maybe your
Speaker 4: Valentine's dates, favorite hobbies are, and it'll print out probably
Speaker 4: probably a very cheesy poem, but it'll do it for you.
Speaker 1: All right, you're a tech guy.
Speaker 3: How would you react if you knew that missus Mark
Speaker 3: Saltzman used AI to write the card expressing her heartfelt
Speaker 3: love for the partner of her life.
Speaker 2: That's a good question.
Speaker 4: I don't think I'd be too offended, because there's still
Speaker 4: effort needed to help you write it. I mean, unless
Speaker 4: you're gifted and you know how to write a go
Speaker 4: a good poem, I don't know. It could and if
Speaker 4: it's really cheesy, it could actually be charming. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm looking at the glass half full here. To our
Speaker 4: listeners who are thinking, am I going to get in
Speaker 4: more trouble by using AI, well you can even say
Speaker 4: to the AI, don't make it sound like AI, like
Speaker 4: don't forget like I think we talked about this the
Speaker 4: other day. If you're asking for your AI to explain
Speaker 4: something to you, you can say, explain it to me
Speaker 4: like a a ten year old, or explain it to
Speaker 4: me that doesn't sound so much like AI, and it'll
Speaker 4: actually do a better job. So if you don't want
Speaker 4: to be honest with your significant other, then yes, you
Speaker 4: can try to pass it off as if it's yours
Speaker 4: or just omit the fact that you leverage day I.
Speaker 4: But hey, your your partner may have been doing the
Speaker 4: same to you and you didn't realize it. I mean,
Speaker 4: if you're getting a custom card that says your name
Speaker 4: and some other personalized information of personalized image, then obviously
Speaker 4: you use DAI.
Speaker 2: Why not? You know, why not just lean into it
Speaker 2: a little bit? Right there?
Speaker 1: You go, right Valentine card, Like I'm a sixth grader.
Speaker 4: But if you use deep Seek from China, then now
Speaker 4: the CCP knows every you.
Speaker 2: And your partner, So just be aware about that.
Speaker 3: Just another information dump that they've got there, go exactly
Speaker 3: they need more.
Speaker 1: Well, enjoy your time with your wife for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much to you, Thank you, you bet.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe Shannon will be back next week.
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