Speaker 1: Thank you, John Shannon. I like that. He's right, a
Speaker 1: fresh batch of Kentucky in this Morning News, our final
Speaker 1: hour with you this week before we get out of
Speaker 1: here for the weekend. It's gonna be hot. As I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, there's a few few things that came
Speaker 1: to mind for me there to say, but I won't
Speaker 1: because you know I'm gonna be professional. I could get
Speaker 1: away with that maybe when I was with the knuckleheads
Speaker 1: on the sports side of things. But yes, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be It is gonna be very, very hot, and just
Speaker 1: be prepared. The first weekend of summer is going to
Speaker 1: be very fitting. Right. Summer's here, right on schedule because
Speaker 1: the heat wave it really starts today, but tomorrow's when
Speaker 1: you're gonna feel it the most. So we'll give you
Speaker 1: the latest when it comes to the forecast coming up
Speaker 1: here in about five minutes or so. But it's eight
Speaker 1: oh five here Kentucky, INA's Morning News with myself, Nick
Speaker 1: Coffee on news Radio eight forty whas take us with
Speaker 1: you wherever you go. Listen live at WHS dot com,
Speaker 1: also on the iHeartRadio app so JCPS. Parents may feel
Speaker 1: some anxiety if they're not already aware of what I'm
Speaker 1: about to share, and that is that there's going to
Speaker 1: be a change in what JCPS relies on when it
Speaker 1: comes to their bussing system. And we all know the
Speaker 1: last time they made a big investment, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: maybe they've done something since then. But if you're a
Speaker 1: parent that had a kid in the school system during
Speaker 1: the I guess, yeah, August of twenty twenty three, whenever
Speaker 1: they became a national story, just how big of a
Speaker 1: disaster it was, we got to believe and I say
Speaker 1: we I don't have a kid that's in the school
Speaker 1: system there, but regardless if you do or not, hard
Speaker 1: to imagine they would have a situation that played out
Speaker 1: the way that did back a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: But JCPS has invested in a million dollar bus routing
Speaker 1: software that is expected to optimize school bus routes, and
Speaker 1: this is of course to improve efficiency, reduce transportation costs,
Speaker 1: and of course address ongoing bussing challenges that they have.
Speaker 1: This is expected to be fully implemented in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six twenty seven, so it won't be this upcoming school year,
Speaker 1: So just keep that in mind. This software is going
Speaker 1: to map out new routes to streamline operations, potentially impacting
Speaker 1: students' parents and staff. According to this latest report, so
Speaker 1: using software and AI. And I'm not saying this doesn't
Speaker 1: say anything about AI, but it was an AI product
Speaker 1: last time around that ended up being a big disaster
Speaker 1: for everybody involved. And I'm sure that wasn't the only issue,
Speaker 1: but certainly it was a factor. So I guess relying
Speaker 1: on software that, of course I would imagine as being
Speaker 1: utilized within school systems across the country, that would make sense,
Speaker 1: probably regardless of your shortage of bus drivers. But where
Speaker 1: I would get worried is are we more so having
Speaker 1: to rely because you'd be foolish not to rely and
Speaker 1: utilize technology that can help you be more efficient. But
Speaker 1: if you're really desperate for it because you don't have
Speaker 1: the resources the manpower needed, that's where I would start
Speaker 1: to worry a little bit. And as far as you
Speaker 1: know what things look like for the twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven school year, that remains to be seen.
Speaker 1: We've got some time, but I feel like the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three situation, I mean, it'll be something I remember
Speaker 1: for a long time because I think regardless if you
Speaker 1: had kids in the school system, if you're a teacher,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. When you are getting national coverage
Speaker 1: for something that's taking place in your hometown, it is
Speaker 1: going to perk your interest, maybe more so than something
Speaker 1: similar happening elsewhere. And regardless if you have kids or not,
Speaker 1: you probably know people. I mean, again, this area, this
Speaker 1: community hard to find somebody that doesn't have some body
Speaker 1: in their life or an acquaintance that is a teacher,
Speaker 1: maybe they have children that are in the school system.
Speaker 1: And I just remember being very active, not active as
Speaker 1: far as engagement, but just checking social media very much
Speaker 1: that evening because every time I did, I would see
Speaker 1: a parent sharing an awful story about not knowing where
Speaker 1: their kid was or that they had to go pick
Speaker 1: them up in a different side of town. It was
Speaker 1: a complete disaster. And I'm not here to tell you
Speaker 1: what should have been done to prevent it, because I'm
Speaker 1: not somebody that you know that would know. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they relied on an AI system that was called Alpha
Speaker 1: Route and it was based out of Massachusetts. It cost
Speaker 1: about a quarter of a million dollars and it aimed
Speaker 1: to streamline these routes. And this was and by the way,
Speaker 1: this was something that was put in place and utilized
Speaker 1: specifically for those like JCPS that had a severe shortage
Speaker 1: of bus drivers, and it clearly didn't work very well.
Speaker 1: And I think one of the bigger complaints among many
Speaker 1: that that everybody had about the situation was that I
Speaker 1: guess previously there's other cities that tried to utilize this
Speaker 1: same Alpha Route AI software and they had issues too,
Speaker 1: and yet they still decided to go with it. So
Speaker 1: we shall see. But that was a memorable day, I'm
Speaker 1: sure for a lot of parents that had kids in
Speaker 1: the school system that rely on JCPS to get their
Speaker 1: kids to school, and they ended up hitting pause. And
Speaker 1: I think kids got a little bit of an extended
Speaker 1: summer because I think they ended up waiting maybe a
Speaker 1: week or so, didn't restart because they knew that they
Speaker 1: clearly at the time they were supposed to start school
Speaker 1: didn't have things in place to where they could do it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd say one of the first steps in
Speaker 1: you know, conducting a school day in the school system
Speaker 1: is to get the kids to school, and they couldn't
Speaker 1: do that, so they had to restart. So a bad
Speaker 1: situation all the way around, But look at it this way.
Speaker 1: Be really hard to imagine that this new system that'll
Speaker 1: be in place, not this upcoming to school year, but
Speaker 1: next year. Hard to imagine that it could be anywhere
Speaker 1: close to as bad as what we had in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. All right, we've got an update of traffic
Speaker 1: and weather coming your way. Stick around right here on
Speaker 1: Who's Radio eight forty whas Rory O'Neil of NBC News
Speaker 1: is going to join us. Coming up at eight thirty.
Speaker 1: We'll get the latest in the situation with Iran Israel
Speaker 1: and what will President Trump decided to do as far
Speaker 1: as an attack. We'll also get an update on which
Speaker 1: vehicles that you can purchase in twenty twenty five are
Speaker 1: the most American made. So again, Roy O'Neil will join
Speaker 1: us here at eight thirty. But we've talked a lot
Speaker 1: about I would say artificial intelligence AI, if you will.
Speaker 1: It's probably not going anywhere. I mean, it's been. I
Speaker 1: think it's it's probably become not only more utilized by society,
Speaker 1: but even those that don't rely on it, or don't
Speaker 1: want to ever rely on it, maybe don't even know
Speaker 1: a whole lot about how it works. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's impossible to completely remove yourself from it, because again,
Speaker 1: it's a big it's a big deal. It's kind of
Speaker 1: scary right as far as the crazy things that can
Speaker 1: be put together with artificial intelligence, and yet we're still
Speaker 1: in the very early, I mean the infant stages of
Speaker 1: it in the grand scheme of things. So again I
Speaker 1: understand both sides of it. It's useful and you'd be
Speaker 1: foolish not to use it at times to really help you.
Speaker 1: So are we all going to be? Is this just
Speaker 1: going to be a world of robots one day? That's
Speaker 1: the scar scary part of it. But it doesn't shock
Speaker 1: me at all that an MIT study has determined that
Speaker 1: using AI platforms like chat GPT has a dumbing down effect.
Speaker 1: So a new study claims that when you use AI often,
Speaker 1: meaning it's part of your daily routine, it essentially it
Speaker 1: dumbs you down. For lack of a better way to
Speaker 1: put it, so CHATGPT may be doing more harm than
Speaker 1: good according to this study. So it's from the M
Speaker 1: I T Media Lab. They gave subjects either chat, GPT,
Speaker 1: Google Search Engine, or nothing at all three different types
Speaker 1: and the results show that when people use the AI
Speaker 1: tool to help write SAT style essays, they consistently underperformed
Speaker 1: at neutral and behavioral levels. In fact, CHATGPT users had
Speaker 1: the lowest brain engagement and got lazier with each say,
Speaker 1: many times resorting to just copy and paste methods, whereas
Speaker 1: those that relied on Google and certainly those that relied
Speaker 1: on just their brain and nothing else, it was clearly
Speaker 1: more stimulating. As far as a mental exercise, that's a
Speaker 1: no brainer. I don't think we needed a study to
Speaker 1: necessarily determine that. But the long term effects here. If
Speaker 1: this just if your routine is just utilizing AI to
Speaker 1: do everything for you, yeah, it's probably useful and it
Speaker 1: may do a better job than you. But when you
Speaker 1: no longer in any way are stimulating your mind, dumbing
Speaker 1: down is certainly going to happen to you. So if
Speaker 1: in fact, things are getting done and you didn't have
Speaker 1: to really utilize your you didn't really have to challenge yourself.
Speaker 1: It was easy because somebody, meaning AI did it for you.
Speaker 1: I mean I think most people are like, heck, yeah,
Speaker 1: like this is great. Why would I not do that?
Speaker 1: It makes everything easier? And I kind of get it.
Speaker 1: It's like, whenever John, you're younger than I am. When
Speaker 1: you were in school, did you ever have the teacher
Speaker 1: that would tell you, well, you need to put the
Speaker 1: calculator away because you're not always going to have a calculator.
Speaker 1: A few times they were liars. Now they didn't know
Speaker 1: they were lying at the time, so maybe it's a
Speaker 1: stretch to say. Good point. So I'm sure I benefited
Speaker 1: from learning how to do things, but now I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily. I mean, you need to be able
Speaker 1: to read, write, that kind of stuff, basic math. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's certainly still a very valuable thing that people have.
Speaker 1: But the reality is this, as far as your everyday life,
Speaker 1: you don't really need to know how to do certain
Speaker 1: things that you used to have to know how to
Speaker 1: do to be productive in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 1: So I'm not at all surprised that that using AI
Speaker 1: no longer stimulates stimulates your mind, and it causes a
Speaker 1: dumbing down effect that to me was expected. I guess
Speaker 1: it comes down to, like a lot of things, just
Speaker 1: balancing it right, like you, because it would be a
Speaker 1: real it would be awful to be ten years down
Speaker 1: the line here and you've relied on AI way more
Speaker 1: than most for just simple tasks and whatnot to where
Speaker 1: you did try to, you know, do it on your own,
Speaker 1: and you realized, oh, my brain has essentially become mush
Speaker 1: because I haven't had to do any of this in
Speaker 1: a long time. So again, the AI conversations aren't going anywhere,
Speaker 1: And again I see both sides of it. Certainly useful
Speaker 1: and impressive, but also kind of scary as well. All right,
Speaker 1: we've got another sports update coming your way, also a
Speaker 1: check of traffic and weather and Roory O'Neil coming up
Speaker 1: at eight thirty right here on news Radio eight forty whs.
Speaker 2: Is that is that Van Halen's Center swing?
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, good stuff, good stuff. Are you guys ready
Speaker 1: for the heat wave that is upon us?
Speaker 3: I like it when it's hot, somative so much, so,
Speaker 3: so much time.
Speaker 1: We've been waiting to play that all morning for you.
Speaker 1: How'd we do? How'd the kids do? Play a little
Speaker 1: trick on? Dad? Let me hear it again? You got
Speaker 1: it again?
Speaker 3: Someone tells, so so so much time.
Speaker 1: I just walk around during the day and say, gibble
Speaker 1: giblet zach.
Speaker 4: I gotta make a song with that, can you, hey,
Speaker 4: John Aben, can you send me that SoundBite.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we could do that. There's no way a
Speaker 1: I couldn't put something together created just from that clip.
Speaker 2: Okay. We talked about this on my show, but we
Speaker 2: didn't talk about our show.
Speaker 1: I mean, but I thought it was your show.
Speaker 2: Well it is, but he likes.
Speaker 4: Me being, you know, inclusive to our show on the
Speaker 4: show when the Little People talk. Go ahead, Dwight Whitten
Speaker 4: and company did this yesterday. Somebody made a AI of
Speaker 4: us making out.
Speaker 2: Of us making out and it looked pretty real.
Speaker 1: Gonna send that to me?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, no, no, no no, don't send it
Speaker 3: to the video.
Speaker 1: I know. But we talked about of my own personal use.
Speaker 3: We talked about an AI version of us, and it
Speaker 3: maybe the in the AI version of us is like,
Speaker 3: why don't I have to be Tony van EDDI?
Speaker 1: Can I be like Tom Brady's.
Speaker 5: No, no, you're do you think the A By the way,
Speaker 5: the AI video, it's the it's the most legitimately real
Speaker 5: looking AI created thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's disturbing.
Speaker 1: It's very disturbing. You can send it to me, do
Speaker 1: the hands on I do not send.
Speaker 2: Let me show you another one. Let me show you
Speaker 2: another one. That he did with me and my sister
Speaker 2: in law. Oh yeah, this looks even more real watch this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, uh so, yes, the AI is very accurate.
Speaker 3: Ye know, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: That's insane.
Speaker 1: You'd never know.
Speaker 2: No, that's it. That's insane. Look at that.
Speaker 3: If you get busted doing something like a politician, can't
Speaker 3: they say, oh, that's AI, that's not me.
Speaker 1: It's true.
Speaker 2: Move on.
Speaker 1: You know they have AI. I don't know how they
Speaker 1: would do it on a file like that. But as
Speaker 1: far as text, they have AI detectors, and there's a
Speaker 1: new there's a new one every week that pops up
Speaker 1: for you to get around that. Because obviously there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of college kids that are sending out emails about
Speaker 1: internships and and more than half of them don't realize.
Speaker 1: There's certain things that they include, and there's some of
Speaker 1: them are just stupid. They include the pasted Hey can
Speaker 1: you send an email to this to this person and
Speaker 1: ask about an internship? They copy and paste the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I you know, I would love to bring somebody in
Speaker 1: and just like show them that they did that, just to.
Speaker 4: I haven't used yet, and my wife has a couple
Speaker 4: of times I said, well, I'm not going to use
Speaker 4: it because my brain is mushy enough right now.
Speaker 2: Mit, just did a study, yes, just disgusted. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: it's luring and luring and luring a deal.
Speaker 3: They said the same thing about directions, like your phone
Speaker 3: in the directions. But yesterday I went to Doc sad
Speaker 3: Low and had a sick whatever six months or a
Speaker 3: year whatever it is, check up for the heart attack deal.
Speaker 3: And he just said, hey, this is new and he
Speaker 3: turns it on and then he does the meeting. He
Speaker 3: clicks and it summarizes everything in the meeting. He'd normally
Speaker 3: doctors had to I got to do the file report
Speaker 3: and they have to fill everything in after the meeting.
Speaker 1: It's all done. It was all done.
Speaker 3: It was crazy. So now it saves him hours. He goes,
Speaker 3: if I had this at the beginning of my career,
Speaker 3: I'd be home with my family.
Speaker 2: We got a hack into his file and order a
Speaker 2: sex change.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I heard worse ideas.
Speaker 2: Yea, let's do it. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1: So I think when it comes to just your brain
Speaker 1: being stimulated on a daily basis, you don't even realize
Speaker 1: it at times. But now you don't have to really
Speaker 1: put much into anything when it comes to like desk work,
Speaker 1: like writing, and and that that eventually will turn your
Speaker 1: brain to mush. I mean that's just.
Speaker 4: Trying to exercise my brain every day, like playing guitar
Speaker 4: or something that makes me cordinate, playing solitaire or something.
Speaker 3: Absolutely he does like two plus two four.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 4: To get back to the sex change thing, you can
Speaker 4: still keep the name Tony w just be t O and.
Speaker 1: I I have an antony.
Speaker 3: I think he'll be more people that will get off
Speaker 3: the grid than you know. My buddy got off the grid.
Speaker 3: He's got some solar panels in the wind and he's
Speaker 3: not on the internet net and he lives out out
Speaker 3: off Dixie Highway on some farmland.
Speaker 1: And just say some wilderness.
Speaker 3: He was on Dixie Highway way out with Dixieway towards forty.
Speaker 1: And the largest metropolitan city in our states, just south
Speaker 1: of Wich Valley.
Speaker 2: Right, thank you.
Speaker 1: But by the way, it's paradise out there.
Speaker 2: I mean, garantee it work.
Speaker 4: But he's off the grid. Well, I'll tell you what
Speaker 4: else is making people's mind mush. Is uh social media?
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, because half the time you scroll.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm guilty of being somebody that is so attached
Speaker 1: to it, and you know, I think we all know
Speaker 1: that it is. It is a big resource for what
Speaker 1: we do. However, I know it can't be productive for me,
Speaker 1: like in any way outside of that and and certain ones,
Speaker 1: I mean, like hate people in Twitter. You know you
Speaker 1: called it years ago. I mean, Twitter is just a
Speaker 1: toxic wasteland and it's not real. Yeah, it's not real.
Speaker 2: You're not real.
Speaker 3: I got I got caught on it the other night.
Speaker 3: Jackie's out of town. So I was just scrolling, thinking
Speaker 3: I was just gonna crash out here in a minute.
Speaker 3: It was one am, scrolling because I wanted to hate people.
Speaker 2: Seriously, time out. Your wife goes out of town and
Speaker 2: that's the website you go to. I was gonna say, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm done with it.
Speaker 1: Jackie caught you. She was out of town and it
Speaker 1: was it was her car, right, It was just it
Speaker 1: was just him scrolling Twitter, which I'm guilty of doing
Speaker 1: that a lot. There's more on Twitter now though.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, yeah, there actually is. But you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. I looked up at it was one am.
Speaker 1: Doneam I drop in John, And I know right, no,
Speaker 1: my algorithm includes that. I was talking to. So this
Speaker 1: is this is my cycle I'm trying to break. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't often nap because I don't want to. I'm
Speaker 1: not good at it. But when I do, I sleep
Speaker 1: longer than I probably should, so then I end up
Speaker 1: not being as tired when I need to go to
Speaker 1: bed to get up early. So I doom scroll and
Speaker 1: I think fifteen minutes go by, and then it's two hours. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty it's pretty scary.
Speaker 3: If you have to wait at the tire store for
Speaker 3: three hours before you get your car, that's what that's
Speaker 3: good for you. Doom doom scroll until you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's already ready great And here's what.
Speaker 1: Here's something that I actually had planned on getting into today
Speaker 1: but I didn't have enough time. It's certainly worth resetting
Speaker 1: next week. But when it comes to the word addiction addicted,
Speaker 1: I think people just assume the extreme of alcohol, gambling,
Speaker 1: obviously drugs, but I mean people are I'm addicted to
Speaker 1: social media, meaning like not not not necessarily posting, but
Speaker 1: just if I am just sitting around in my brain
Speaker 1: is just you know, in a pause, I just my
Speaker 1: instincts to grab out my phone in refresh Twitter. And
Speaker 1: in that I mean when I can't do it, like
Speaker 1: no service or whatever, or it's down because Elon Musk
Speaker 1: didn't pay a bill or something. I have a moment
Speaker 1: of like I'm way more dependent upon this than I realized,
Speaker 1: and like that's that's scary. Like again, John is twenty two.
Speaker 3: He's the last generation that had most of his life
Speaker 3: without that. So now every generation after John again, do
Speaker 3: the math on the numbers.
Speaker 1: Well you said it yesterday off the air, but it's true.
Speaker 1: I think even the younger generation, as far as how
Speaker 1: much they are really emotionally invested into sports and consuming it,
Speaker 1: they just don't have the attention span. It ain't the
Speaker 1: same sad stuff. But it's Friday and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: hot fdayble so much time. There we go. It's here
Speaker 1: this weekend. Have a good show, fellas,