WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.439 The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. 2 00:00:03.560 --> 00:00:06.599 He lay the cable guy, and you're listening to tech 3 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:12.039 cock Radio. Welcome to another episode of tech talk Radio. 4 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:14.000 I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Seanda Weird. 5 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:14.560 Welcome back. 6 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:17.640 Yeah, thanks for being here. A couple of great things 7 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:19.320 to start off with. We got a whole bunch of 8 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:21.879 info tech stuff for you on this show that I 9 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:22.719 think you'll enjoy. 10 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:26.160 I need the mental unload, man. This week? Is I'm 11 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:28.839 so busy this week? Are you really? This is the 12 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:31.879 only night that I have to do something not sport related? Right? 13 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:34.560 And that's all week? It's games, right, and not. 14 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:40.200 A women's boxing men's basketball, Right, I've got NCAA women's 15 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:44.119 soccer tournament. I've got women's basketball versus USC on ESPN. 16 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:47.200 I've got football versus Eyracuse. Sports are coming out of 17 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:47.880 my ears this week. 18 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:50.159 So do you do you ever get in those situations 19 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:53.399 because you know, you play, say women's basketball, men's football 20 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:56.079 or whatever, and you have in the afternoon, you've got 21 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:58.200 a game in the evening, you've got a game where 22 00:00:58.240 --> 00:00:59.679 you're just stuck there all day. Right? 23 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:00.560 Sometimes? 24 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.520 All right, let's get into some tech here. First off, well, 25 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:06.280 let's se it's kind of tech. We have noted. We 26 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:09.280 have talked about it for the last two weeks since 27 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:14.040 it came out the Coca Cola AI holiday ad. And 28 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:16.640 I'm sorry if you're like going, oh, not this again, guys, 29 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:20.519 but seriously, we have talked about this, and we've talked 30 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:22.599 about the fact that the people move a little funny. 31 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:25.200 The window where the puppies are looking out the window, 32 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:28.159 there's some kind of blob of red blob that goes by. 33 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:30.799 It doesn't really say Coca Cola. We're like, why didn't 34 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:31.599 they brand that? 35 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:34.439 It's a reflect Well, no, you so if you watch 36 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:37.760 it again, yeah, it's a reflection of the truck driving by. 37 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:40.560 At first you can see Coca Cola in it, but 38 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:42.560 then it blurs with the puppies face. 39 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:43.920 Yeah, and as you get this. 40 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:46.319 Weird amalgamation that comes out the other side that has 41 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:47.519 nothing and it's just a mess. 42 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:51.359 And then the people walking if I've watched the video 43 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:55.200 over and over and over, like the people walking funny, 44 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:55.640 and then. 45 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:00.599 They look like the robot from Interstellar Tars remember that 46 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:04.439 walk the big block server from Tars. 47 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:06.000 Not like Robbie the robot who flings his arms around, 48 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:09.120 but no, but they they move funny. And then at 49 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:11.039 the the end, of course you you were the one 50 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:14.919 who brought it up, the truck runs over people you 51 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:17.680 it's kind of out of frame, but there's no way, 52 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:21.199 there's no way these people would have survived. However, here's 53 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:23.759 a new update. I've watched it over and over and 54 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:26.639 over and did not notice this till somebody else in 55 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:29.240 social media mentioned this, and then I went back a 56 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:31.080 look and looked, and it's like, you know one of 57 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:33.719 those games where it's what do you see that's different here, 58 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:35.680 and you have to both poke it out or you 59 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:37.599 have to find the ducks in the picture. I don't 60 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:40.240 know if you've noticed this, Sean, but the big trucks 61 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:44.439 as they're going down the road, the axles keep disappearing. 62 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:48.360 So there is there is there's a shot of one 63 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:50.960 of the big, you know, eighteen wheelers hauling all that 64 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:54.719 delicious Coca Cola. Their new holiday flavor is really amazing. 65 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:59.199 Their vanilla zero sugar is great. Yeah, it's super good. 66 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:03.319 But the back, the back axle that keeps disappearing. It 67 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:06.039 goes from two to three to two to three. It's 68 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:09.759 so weird. So again, something else to look for now 69 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:11.719 by watching the ad. 70 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:14.400 I mean at this point, I think they're just doing 71 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:17.120 it and letting all these mistakes go through so that 72 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:18.840 people just point them out and people just watch it 73 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:22.240 over and over again. I really think that it's it's 74 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:24.199 just a joke for them at this point. They know 75 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:26.199 it's gonna be bad, they know it's gonna be controversial. 76 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:28.680 They just don't care. Yeah, because people are gonna watch it, 77 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:30.919 people are gonna talk about it, ais all the hype, 78 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:33.879 So why wouldn't you do it? It's a great marketing strategy. 79 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:37.560 I think for them, it's just it's gonna get to 80 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:41.280 the point where it's like, if you do something not AI, 81 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:43.000 it's gonna be the cool thing to do. 82 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:45.159 Yeah, yeah, exactly. 83 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:46.400 Instead of AI is the cool thing to do. 84 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:49.919 Okay, So here's here's here's a big story though that 85 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:52.759 people are talking about Call a Duty Black Ops seven 86 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:55.479 and have you had a chance to try this yet? 87 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:58.479 I mean, I want to get back into the franchise 88 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:03.240 and play, but people are telling me just don't. Maybe 89 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:06.000 you don't want to, I don't know. There's a representative 90 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:10.560 out of California ro Kana that is concerned now that 91 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:15.840 gaming companies are replacing human workers with AI. It is 92 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:20.439 saying that AI generated icons, posters and achievements and the 93 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:23.600 new Call of Duty Black Ops seven are a prime example. 94 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:25.680 The fact that they're just saying, well, let's just throw 95 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:27.800 this in there, let's throw this in there, let's put 96 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:32.279 that in there. And you know, her district is Silicon Valley. 97 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:35.079 So they're really concerned that some of these companies that 98 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:37.759 are you know, gaming developers, are going to say, are 99 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:40.360 you taking the short route whereas you used to create 100 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:43.480 games with you know, so many people working on this end, 101 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:47.519 so many people working on that end, and now they're saying, no, 102 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:52.160 this game is full of AI generated icons, posters, achievements, 103 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:55.439 and some have even gone so far and I've always 104 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:59.480 loved the franchise is saying it's AI slop. And that's 105 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.079 a term that people are using now that some of 106 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:05.439 has said that thing would with Coca Cola and their ad. 107 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:06.319 It's slop. 108 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:09.439 Yeah, that's because that's what it looks like. It looks sloppy. 109 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:13.240 There are a handful of gaming studios that are protesting 110 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:17.199 against AI because it is taking jobs, and it's taking 111 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:20.879 graphic graphic design jobs away. It's taking coding jobs away, 112 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:25.720 it's taking design and environment jobs away. It's it's in 113 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:30.160 my opinion as a gamer, I appreciate and this is 114 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:33.120 something big, right. It's like a lot of places use 115 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:38.839 AI for art, right. And in the video gaming world 116 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:42.800 you're seeing it a lot more. In the tabletop and 117 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:46.399 board game industry, you're seeing it a lot with small 118 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:48.639 time developers that don't maybe have the staff or the 119 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:50.759 budget to do a lot of or pay a lot of. 120 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:52.319 Artists to get their game out. 121 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:55.560 But the large companies that are coming out Wizards of 122 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:56.879 the you know that are coming out of the content, 123 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:00.279 Wizards of the Coast, Critical Role. Half of these they're 124 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:02.839 getting caught up in these things where they hire out 125 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:06.360 a third party vendor to make something for them, and 126 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:10.199 those third parties don't have the same restrictions on AI, 127 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:12.920 so then things start to slip through, and all of 128 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:15.360 a sudden there's AI being used and stuff when they've 129 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.639 been so adamant about not using AI, and then they're 130 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:21.040 not policing their own work that they get brought in 131 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:24.759 for a third party and fans are getting upset because 132 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:28.399 they're paying good money for art. And then also AI 133 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:31.920 slips in yeah, but they've all come out and said 134 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:34.319 we're not using AI, we're not using it because it's 135 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:36.439 not for our values, things like that. But then all 136 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:38.800 of a sudden, here's the c AI thing, and then 137 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:42.040 they're getting held accountable and then they're finding out it's 138 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:45.000 third party stuff. So it's like trying to keep tabs on. 139 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:47.000 All that stuff is way more in the video gaming 140 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:50.759 world than you are in the tabletop and board game industry, 141 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:52.800 but it's very prevalent in both. 142 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:57.680 I've seen ads on LinkedIn where they're looking for somebody 143 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:03.480 as a copywriter or layout designer or graphics and one 144 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:05.720 of the things that they're saying is no AI. They 145 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.439 don't want they don't want to hire somebody that is 146 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:11.000 reliant on AI. They want somebody who has, you know, 147 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:14.920 had experience with Cork or you know, Adobe or Correl 148 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:17.920 or any of the graphics programs that are out there, 149 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:22.000 rather than relying on saying, here, create me a basketball, 150 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:24.879 you know, with the sunshine behind it, you know, when 151 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:27.040 they want somebody who can actually take an image and 152 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:30.160 do this. So some companies are saying, no, no, we 153 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:31.959 got to put our foot down. We want to hire 154 00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:34.319 people who know what they're doing now, whether they hire 155 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:36.040 that person say we just want to make sure you 156 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:38.240 could do it now use AI to make it faster. 157 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:40.160 I mean, I don't know if that's what's going to happen, 158 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:42.000 but a lot of companies are saying that. 159 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:43.839 I have to look at it from my job perspective. 160 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:46.920 With AI, it's like, what are things that we could 161 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:50.360 do with AI. I can't automate my side of the job. 162 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:54.000 I can't automate plugging in cameras and setting up tripods 163 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.920 and like maybe one day at Roboto billing one day maybe, 164 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:59.639 but there's a lot of the physical side of my 165 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:02.319 job he can't do with AI. The things that are 166 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:05.120 going to be caught up in AI for sports is 167 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:11.279 going to be stat generation, graphics generation, so taking like 168 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:14.240 I give me these stats for this player and generate 169 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:15.800 them and it'll just pull. 170 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:20.079 If somebody could somebody could write code that could automatically 171 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:22.680 put that on the screen and have that running tote 172 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:26.959 on the screen and identify the players by number. And 173 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:30.319 I mean, let's face it, the technology is there that 174 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:31.839 it could do that, and. 175 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.639 That's how it's that's how it's working now. Yeah, I 176 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:39.440 mean it's but it's how fast can a human look 177 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:41.559 at all the content that's been recorded throughout the game? 178 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:45.399 Say there's fifteen camera angles, right, and all the stats 179 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:48.679 are tied into the metadata of each angle. That's how 180 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:51.360 it is. Now AI could scan that and you say, 181 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:54.360 show me all the angles of player three when he's 182 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:56.879 got the ball, and now you have a playlist of 183 00:08:56.919 --> 00:08:59.679 clips of player three with the ball. Yeah, show me 184 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:02.519 all three three pointers. That's where AI is going to 185 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:04.480 come into play, the big one. And this is something 186 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:07.000 I've talked about talked about at work, is a handful 187 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:13.399 of the replay vendors are offering faux hyper frame. 188 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:14.919 Rate And what does that meaning? 189 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.720 I can take a thirty frame rate camera and it 190 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:20.879 will look at it and I'll scale it to one 191 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:24.919 hundred and eighty frames. They give me a smooth so 192 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:27.759 when I slow it down, everything smooth, right, looks smooth 193 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:30.320 looks looks hyperp. 194 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:30.840 And they charge for that. Right. 195 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:34.600 Sure, But the issue now comes, and this is an 196 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:40.519 ethical dilemma because officials replay relies so heavily on broadcast 197 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:46.600 camera angles and replay can you use AI generated camera 198 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:52.240 angles because if it's taking so say thirty frames or 199 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:55.679 sixty frames and making it one forty three whatever, however 200 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:58.000 you how many times you want to slow mow it there. 201 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:00.600 We're looking at things specifically to show so whether or 202 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:03.720 not the ball or the foot was on the line 203 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:07.639 or over the line. But if it's generating an AI 204 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:11.720 interpolating frames and now it shows the foot and it 205 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:13.320 blends it so it's on this side of the. 206 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.000 Line for this football, if that side. 207 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:17.879 Of the line for the next frame, how do you 208 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:20.799 know which frame was real. Trying to flesh out whether 209 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:23.440 or not this type of content will be able to 210 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:26.960 be used in sports broadcasting is going to be a 211 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:31.440 very hot topic coming soon because of this AI generation. 212 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:34.679 At what point is it ethical to use it for 213 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:38.279 a broadcast, whether or not it's being used for official 214 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:40.960 replay as a separate question, but can you use it 215 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:43.320 for the broadcast? Can you use it for an in 216 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:45.799 venue show? Could you put it up on the videoboard 217 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:48.519 and show it there so maybe get the maybe hype 218 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:51.200 up the crowd. But if they're looking at something that 219 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:55.200 isn't real, and you're weighing the options on whether or 220 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:56.919 not it's real or not, but the officials are looking 221 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:00.600 at what was captured and it's showing something different. Yeah, 222 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:03.559 you're in this weird limbo of do you show it, 223 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:05.000 don't you show it? Do you use it? Don't you 224 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:05.360 use it? 225 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:06.320 Right? Right? 226 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:08.559 It looks it looks cool, but is it ethical? 227 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:11.960 I think for the upcoming Super Bowl for next year, 228 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:14.960 I think we're probably gonna be seeing a lot of 229 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:18.960 AI driven commercials, maybe even making fun of AI, which 230 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:22.480 I can kind of imagine that might be something. Somebody 231 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:25.759 asked me though, guy named Roger called the station and 232 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:27.679 he had listened to our show and he wanted to 233 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:30.679 talk to me about these this AI commercial from Coca Cola, 234 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:32.919 and he said, do you have a commercial that you 235 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:35.200 liked during the holidays. I said, I've always liked the 236 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:38.240 Coca Cola commercials. I said, I've always liked, you know, 237 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:42.720 the family commercials. But honestly, one of my favorite commercials 238 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:46.679 and it's on now and it is I don't think 239 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:49.720 there's any AI in it at all. I'm hoping I'm 240 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:53.600 not wrong. Is the three ladies that are on the 241 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:57.759 sitting watching the snow and people going down the slopes. 242 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:02.399 It's for Amazon, and one of the ladies buys these, 243 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:05.080 you know, seats that they could actually go down the 244 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:09.279 slopes on. It has warmth, it has feeling, it has heart. 245 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:13.399 That's I still even though I like that Coca Cola ad, 246 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:17.240 albeit you know, aside from the AI it was kind 247 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:20.399 of lacking in that this one had human interaction. It 248 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:22.720 just had a lot of heart. If you get a 249 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:24.759 chance to see that one from Amazon, you haven't seen 250 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:26.240 that one yet, that one is really good. 251 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:28.960 All the AI stuff just it makes me think about 252 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:32.600 we're losing human creativity. Sure, you have a marketing team 253 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:35.879 and they storyboarded this what they wanted, but then they 254 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:39.600 just said generate. They didn't have somebody sitting at the 255 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:42.360 computer designing it, putting their human touch into it, their 256 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:46.759 design feelings, their their look, their feel into it. They 257 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:48.639 just said generate and the computer did. 258 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:50.000 It, and let's see what it did. And if that 259 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:51.480 doesn't like, the. 260 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:55.799 Emotion in content is becoming so sterile, it's frightening. 261 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:58.399 It's almost going to be like the emotion that's received 262 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:01.679 as the emotion of the creator of that that scene, 263 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:05.000 Oh that's great, but is he is he feeling the 264 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:07.159 emotion that those those viewers will get? 265 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:11.240 Right? So it's like people are gonna want to follow 266 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:14.559 like a lot of times, people like to follow directors 267 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:16.960 based on their style, they like the way they feel. 268 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:20.519 This is trying to emulate that, but it's it's just 269 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:24.480 an empty, soulless feeling because there's not a human element 270 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:27.200 to it. That's been my take for a long time 271 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:29.759 since pretty much to say I was started. Go back 272 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:31.200 and listen to all our shows. I've been saying this 273 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:33.759 for a long time. You take the human element on 274 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:37.639 of stuff, doesn't matter how good it looks, it's still 275 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:41.000 gonna feel soulss. It's still gonna feel empty. And I 276 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:44.799 know it. I know it's hard to uh display emotion 277 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:50.720 and what's the word inflection across with with images and 278 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:54.399 texts and moving pictures and stuff, but it's there's still 279 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:58.360 an element there that it's going You're just you're gonna 280 00:13:58.360 --> 00:13:58.960 feel empty. 281 00:13:59.320 --> 00:13:59.600 Yeah. 282 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:01.200 No, it was created by AI. 283 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:03.720 I'm just going to say this, and I wish I 284 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:05.200 knew more of the story. And I don't know if 285 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:09.600 you heard about this this week. There apparently is an 286 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:14.159 app that will allow you to have it. And this 287 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:18.799 reminds me of The Black Mirror, which was the series 288 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:21.919 on Netflix Still Great. There was an episode on there 289 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:27.320 where this company was delving into artificial intelligence, and you 290 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:30.679 were able to communicate with a loved one that was 291 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:34.879 no longer with us. And over time that got so 292 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:37.879 good as we've seen with AI, you know, over the 293 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:41.320 years and very quickly that it then created a robotic 294 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:47.200 character and then it created a fleshy type of organism 295 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:49.960 that was just like that human being. It's a great story, 296 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:52.360 Charlie Booker with the Black Mirror, you could watch it. 297 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:54.720 I think it's in season one. But there is a 298 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:57.360 company that apparently has created an app where you could 299 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:04.600 put the information in of your beloved one who passed Grandma, mom, dad, 300 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:08.039 you know, grandpa, and you could have a conversation with 301 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:13.279 them using AI. And it's like, you know, I just 302 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:17.759 is this really really needed? No, it's not. 303 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:26.919 It's you can't. It's from an emotional level, from a 304 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:30.120 mental level, that sounds like an absolutely terrible idea. 305 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:34.600 Because we have their voice, their likeness, and that's just 306 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.159 a yeah, it's not a good idea. 307 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:37.919 Or here's not a good idea. 308 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:40.879 Here's here's something. This tells you how far we came. 309 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:43.480 What was the number one movie this week back in 310 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:46.360 nineteen eighty four see if you know this one? This week? 311 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:51.559 And fall. Yeah, it was kind of tough fun Nope, 312 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:53.320 and it's kind of a little bit about what we're 313 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:54.559 talking about, you know. 314 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:58.000 Hold on, hold on all right, thinking about. 315 00:15:57.320 --> 00:16:03.159 Technology and it's getting away nineteen. No, no hackers, No, 316 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:08.039 you're throwing some good ones out there though. How about sneakers. 317 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:11.639 I love that movie James Cameron's Terminator. 318 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:14.080 Oh hey, that's a great one too. 319 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:18.919 You got everybody talks about sign it with the robots 320 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:21.759 and they took over. But believe it, it was only 321 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:24.399 number one for two weeks, which was kind of surprising. 322 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:27.759 It was a great movie. But this it had me 323 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:31.840 thinking about some really good computer deep fake, which if 324 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:35.240 you remember the term deep fake technology that was big 325 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:39.080 between twenty eighteen and about twenty twenty one. And there 326 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:42.720 was an artist out there and named control Shift Face right. 327 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:45.480 You can look them up on YouTube. He was from 328 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.720 the Czech Republic. Did some great work, but he slowed 329 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:53.000 down over the years. Why because AI is doing all this. 330 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:56.440 There's one that he has if you get a chance 331 00:16:56.519 --> 00:17:01.799 to see it, it's a terminator deep fake call roombo 332 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:05.319 Roo m bo. It has Brad Pitt, Jim Carrey and 333 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:08.599 even Stallone as the terminator. And you can find it 334 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:11.839 on YouTube. But again I was thinking about it, like, 335 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:17.400 how is different is deep fake technology to where we 336 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:22.039 are today with AI and how that's being used. So 337 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:24.799 I started doing a little deep dive on this, and no, 338 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:27.880 I did not use Network Notebook LM to do it. 339 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:31.839 But the deep fake technologies we had were just the 340 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:36.039 face and it was computer graphics that did it, and 341 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:39.160 you had to train your models and work the models, 342 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:42.720 and it could move the face and it really came 343 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:45.559 out really good. Whereas the AI that we have today 344 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:48.640 is the entire body. It can move all the movements 345 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:50.440 of the whole bit. But you honestly had to be 346 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:54.640 a pretty skilled visual effects artist to work the tools 347 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:59.240 for deep for the face swap deep fake technology. And 348 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:02.680 I mean now with AI video technology, it's kind of 349 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:05.000 taking that over. But some of that stuff that this 350 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:07.440 guy control shift face and some of the others that 351 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:09.480 were creating on there. There's one guy who does a 352 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:13.519 lot with Schwarzenegger and he's still doing that stuff. It's 353 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:16.559 pretty darn good, it really is. How far we've come. 354 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:19.559 Now, How how fun Speaking of that, how far we've come, 355 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:20.559 let's talk about socks. 356 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:26.039 If you could find a way to segue into socks. 357 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:29.400 That was the perfect segue. You will not believe what 358 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:32.160 Sean is about to share with us. 359 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:33.799 I didn't think it was real at first. I thought 360 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:36.279 it was a joke, like in April Fool's joke. It's 361 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:39.559 just fitting that Justin's not here, because this is the 362 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:43.079 type of thing where Andy and I both like out. 363 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:45.119 I know, and he's on Android now, but. 364 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:46.440 I have an Apple. I have an iPhone. 365 00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:49.720 Yeah right, we both have loved the Apple ecosystem for 366 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:52.559 what it is. Yeah, this is something that made me 367 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:56.799 even go, what the heck? Why is this the thing? Right? Okay, 368 00:18:56.960 --> 00:18:59.039 I know they've made some dumb thing, dumb mistakes with 369 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:01.880 making like a nice nine hundred hour computer mount and 370 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:04.440 some other stuff, but for hardware and stuff, but this, 371 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:08.759 this just tops it. Yeah, that's just Apple partnered with 372 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:10.640 I don't even. 373 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:14.400 Know how to say. You say Miaki se Miaki. He's 374 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:15.759 an artist out of Japan. 375 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:20.440 An artist. iPhone pocket features a singular three D knitting 376 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:24.480 construction designed to fit any iPhone. It's knittedly knitted. 377 00:19:24.599 --> 00:19:25.960 It's like something your grandma would make. 378 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:29.039 It's like an over the shoulder sling bag that is 379 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:36.200 a iPhone sock. It was available November fourteenth, so is 380 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:36.960 about a week ago. 381 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:42.480 Yeah, it was available in iPhone pocket is what it's 382 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:44.119 called the iPhone pot. 383 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:47.759 To go to go to google it Apple iPhone sock. 384 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:50.279 It's the most ridiculously. 385 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:52.279 It's very colorful. I mean you gotta give it's got 386 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:54.920 some great colors. Yeah, but it's knitted and. 387 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:59.519 It's just for holding your phone and it goes over 388 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:04.920 your it's it looks ridiculous for one and it's two 389 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.039 hundred and forty dollars. 390 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:10.240 For a sock. This is gonna create some excellent. 391 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:14.319 Short strap the short strap one hundred and the long 392 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:15.759 strap two nine. 393 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:19.799 Apple stores were carrying it. But here's what's even more amazing. 394 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:27.799 It's so loud because it's just like, I don't get it. 395 00:20:28.359 --> 00:20:31.400 Here's what I'm thinking, John, this is going to cause 396 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:35.799 so many knockoffs that are gonna pop because seriously, the 397 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:39.839 Green Valley Recreation Knitting Club, I'm sure there's one could 398 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:43.079 be making this right like right now and start selling 399 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:43.880 them at events. 400 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:46.480 Somebody's Grandma's gonna be sew them on Etsy in two days. 401 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:50.160