Speaker 1: It's time for tech talk. The machines are getting smarter.
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Speaker 1: Mark Saltzman is our friend to help translate technology into
Speaker 1: standard English for all of us. And there was a
Speaker 1: lot that was made about deep Seek, this new AI
Speaker 1: product out of China. I mean, we haven't had a
Speaker 1: chance to talk about it. What's your take on what
Speaker 1: deep seek is and what it means to other AI
Speaker 1: development around the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's very similar to chat Epte or Google
Speaker 2: Gemini in that it is a conversational AI bot. It's
Speaker 2: a generative AI or jen AI, so you can talk
Speaker 2: with it mostly by typing, not verbally. But the idea
Speaker 2: is the same that you can ask it to create
Speaker 2: content for you, help with math and coding, you can
Speaker 2: language conversion, you can ask for travel summaries, recipes. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's a smarter smart lie like a digital assistant.
Speaker 2: It's similar, though very similar to what we're many of
Speaker 2: the I'm sure your listeners are used to personally or professionally.
Speaker 2: But yeah, this when this debuted, or at least the
Speaker 2: news broke on Monday about deep Sea Gotta China. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it took a real toll on US tech stocks,
Speaker 2: especially some of the AI ones, and Nvidia lost almost
Speaker 2: what six hundred billion billion with a breed rather crazy,
Speaker 2: So it's a lot. I've played around with this large
Speaker 2: language model. It's a free app for iPhone and Android.
Speaker 2: It to me is very similar I hear where it
Speaker 2: differs is in the pricing structure for enterprise because as
Speaker 2: a regular consumer it's totally free to use, just as Chat,
Speaker 2: gibt or Google, Gemini is or co Pilot all these
Speaker 2: other ones. But yeah, I mean as a business, if
Speaker 2: you're looking at a fraction of the cost to use it,
Speaker 2: it may be tempting. But know that any Chinese company,
Speaker 2: and we've talked about this on tech Talk Thursdays many
Speaker 2: times they have to hand over data to the government,
Speaker 2: to the Chinese government upon request not to mention. Just
Speaker 2: this week maybe not so coincidentally, there was a couple
Speaker 2: of breaches that were unveiled, tied to deep seek, where
Speaker 2: the things that you would type in like I recently wrote,
Speaker 2: you know, I've got three days in Barcelona on a
Speaker 2: limited budget. What should I do? Your stuff could be
Speaker 2: out there like there was a breach where there was
Speaker 2: a couple of million conversations exposed. You know, so there's
Speaker 2: a couple of security slash privacy concerns tied to deep Seek,
Speaker 2: but from a performance standpoint, it's very similar. I don't
Speaker 2: see any advantage over chant Gypt. It hasn't stumped me.
Speaker 2: Apparently you won't answer sensitive political questions like TMN square
Speaker 2: and things that you know, the Chinese government does not
Speaker 2: want you to know. So look, you know, like anything,
Speaker 2: use it very cautiously, especially when it's not a homegrown product.
Speaker 2: But even if it was, you never know what's going
Speaker 2: to happen to your data, So don't reveal your company's secrets.
Speaker 2: Y you know that happened to somebody. I think it
Speaker 2: was Samsung last year, Gary, all kidding aside, I think
Speaker 2: when chat gipt was pretty fresh, somebody was asking questions
Speaker 2: about a service that was still under NDA or whatever,
Speaker 2: and it shared it inadvertently with other users of Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it was chatgpt. So yeah, so just be
Speaker 2: careful that you don't want to, you know, unknowingly share
Speaker 2: personal or corporate sensitive corporate information with the masses.
Speaker 1: Forty years ago, my parents started a push to transfer
Speaker 1: all of our home movies old eight millimeter movies to
Speaker 1: videotape to VHS. Now those tapes are probably falling apart,
Speaker 1: aren't they. I mean I need to get them digital
Speaker 1: at some point.
Speaker 2: Right, Anything analog, whether it's Betamax tapes, VHS, cassettes, yeah,
Speaker 2: eight milimeter, sixteen millimeter, you name it, it's all at
Speaker 2: risk unless it's even if it's digital. I mean, as
Speaker 2: we saw recently with the LA Fire wildfires, even if
Speaker 2: it's digital and it's at home, then it's at risk
Speaker 2: to natural disasters especially. So the idea is not only
Speaker 2: should you digitize it, but you should also upload it
Speaker 2: to the cloud where it's stored somewhere else geographically. And
Speaker 2: you know, for example, one Drive, which is a Microsoft
Speaker 2: cloud service, you get one terabyte for free every year.
Speaker 2: If you use Office three sixty five, which is like
Speaker 2: you know, Word Outlook, Excel PowerPoint, which is I think
Speaker 2: as low as fifty or sixty bucks a year, you
Speaker 2: get a thousand gigabytes of storage for free. So that's
Speaker 2: probably more than enough for most people's home movie collection.
Speaker 2: But the trick is digitizing it. So I wrote a
Speaker 2: piece for AARP. It was just published today, in fact
Speaker 2: the thirtieth and it looks at the two main options
Speaker 2: you have doing it yourself and what you need to know.
Speaker 2: You know, you can have a fun weekend of it
Speaker 2: by digitizing if you've got the gear and the time
Speaker 2: to do it, or you hire a service to do
Speaker 2: it for you, and really involves putting your memories in
Speaker 2: a shoe box or or something bigger. Trusting the courier service. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, you never know, right, I mean, even if
Speaker 2: it's insured, if it's irreplaceable home movies, there is still
Speaker 2: a risk, but generally you're okay. Or if you want
Speaker 2: a local service where you can hand deliver it and
Speaker 2: you get back the originals along with a digital copy,
Speaker 2: but make sure you upload it to the cloud. There
Speaker 2: is a company in SoCal that I like called scan
Speaker 2: my photos dot com. So they do photos as well
Speaker 2: as movies, and they're very affordable, very reliable. And uh,
Speaker 2: I think he's a KFI fan. I'm a mistaken Yeah, Mitch,
Speaker 2: Mitch Goldstone is the founder and CEO. So scan my
Speaker 2: photos dot Com is a good place. Just to give
Speaker 2: them a plug. But there are other services, even big
Speaker 2: box stores. They'll often have a service desk and you
Speaker 2: can bring your stuff there. You know, but yeah that
Speaker 2: this is where they'll digitize everything for you and they'll
Speaker 2: keep it in the cloud or they'll give you versions
Speaker 2: to uploads. So yeah, if that, if anything's been a reminder,
Speaker 2: it's what been going on in southern California your last
Speaker 2: month or so. So yeah, back up those important files.
Speaker 1: Not awesome. We're gonna throw a link up to the
Speaker 1: article ways to convert your home movies to digital Great stuff, Mark,
Speaker 1: thank you, appreciate it, You Toobe, Thanks Gary, Mark Saltzman.
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