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<v Speaker 1>It's time for tech Talk. The machines are getting smarter.

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<v Speaker 1>This is tech Talk, brought to you by Skynett.

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<v Speaker 2>Mark Saltzman is our tech guru who translates a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of this stuff into understandable the understandable words for us okay,

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<v Speaker 2>or as.

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<v Speaker 3>I like to say, breakdown geek speak into street speak.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh that's do you have that on a T shirt somewhere?

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<v Speaker 3>That is my cheesy cat catchphrase, my tagline on my podcast.

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<v Speaker 3>But yeah, we talked.

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<v Speaker 2>We talked last week about deep seek and what it

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<v Speaker 2>means and how it works. And I had said, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I was unaware of how many people use AI on

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<v Speaker 2>a regular basis for job stuff, responding to emails, helping

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<v Speaker 2>schedule their days, all that sort of stuff. I asked

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<v Speaker 2>AI in this case chat ept to come up with

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<v Speaker 2>a radio play that we were going to do for.

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<v Speaker 1>Our Christmas presentation last the end of last year. It was.

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<v Speaker 1>It was awful.

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<v Speaker 2>It was really really cheesy and bad, which you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it just goes to show it's not perfect and obviously

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<v Speaker 2>can't replicate humanity. But you have an article about using

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<v Speaker 2>some specific prompts to help figure out exactly what you're

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<v Speaker 2>looking for.

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<v Speaker 1>And how to get what you're looking for.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, just a point of clarification, it's my colleague Kim

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<v Speaker 3>Commando at USA Today who wrote this piece. But it's funny.

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<v Speaker 3>After we chatted last week on tech Talk Thursdays, I

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<v Speaker 3>did get email and messages rather on social media from

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<v Speaker 3>KFI listeners asking for examples of using deep seek and chatchept,

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<v Speaker 3>so it actually fed nicely. So yeah, I thought i'd

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<v Speaker 3>share a couple of things that you can try, whether

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<v Speaker 3>you like chat, GPT, deep seek, or Google, Gemini or copilot,

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<v Speaker 3>those are sort of the more popular ones. The first

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<v Speaker 3>thing is to ask the it's called a prompt what

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<v Speaker 3>you type in. You would type in how do I

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<v Speaker 3>make this better? And then you add in anything you've

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<v Speaker 3>already written, like a speech, a radio play, a school essay,

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<v Speaker 3>an email, and then it will actually it'll look at

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<v Speaker 3>what you did and give you a better version of it.

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<v Speaker 3>And you can say, by the way, Gary, I want

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<v Speaker 3>this radio play. It was too cheesy. I don't want

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<v Speaker 3>it as cheesy. You can actually tweak what it delivers

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<v Speaker 3>for you and it'll customize it even further, so that's

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<v Speaker 3>a good one. Another one is to say to type

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<v Speaker 3>this in explain this like I'm ten, and then write

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<v Speaker 3>what you want explain to you. I don't know, climate change,

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<v Speaker 3>nuclear fusion, how the stock market works. I don't know,

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<v Speaker 3>and then it will like you could say, or tell

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<v Speaker 3>me like I'm fifteen, or it'll actually write it in

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<v Speaker 3>a language based on the age that you ask it

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<v Speaker 3>to give it to you. And so if you really

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<v Speaker 3>need a primer in plain English, that's a great way

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<v Speaker 3>to do it, and it really works. You could also,

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<v Speaker 3>by the way, say explain this to me in one

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<v Speaker 3>hundred words. In five hundred words, you can specify all

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<v Speaker 3>of that. On a related note, you can say, explain

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<v Speaker 3>both sides of the argument, and then you type in

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<v Speaker 3>what the argument is about, you know, whatever, politics, whatever,

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<v Speaker 3>any personal dilemmas. Tell me the pros and concert tell

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<v Speaker 3>me both sides of this argument, and you'd be surprised

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<v Speaker 3>how good it is. And then the last one would

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<v Speaker 3>be to tell the AI the gener of AI platform

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<v Speaker 3>to remember blank, remember that I'm a tea drinker, not

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<v Speaker 3>a coffee drinker, or remember that I, you know, I

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<v Speaker 3>work in sales or something like that, and you'd be

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<v Speaker 3>surprised going forward. It's really good. It's very accurate. It'll

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<v Speaker 3>remember things that you've once told it, so long as

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<v Speaker 3>you're still signed in, of course. And then speaking of which,

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<v Speaker 3>a friend of mine, he's got a good sense of humor.

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<v Speaker 3>He didn't have the best year last year. He's in

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<v Speaker 3>the promotional products industry, and he wrote to enchat gipt

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<v Speaker 3>roast me, and so it said, so, let me get

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<v Speaker 3>this straight, Mike, you're in the promotional products business or

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<v Speaker 3>promoted nothing but losses. And it says your business took

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<v Speaker 3>such a nose dive. Even Gravity was impressed. NASA called

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<v Speaker 3>they want to study your trajectory like it gave them.

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<v Speaker 3>It was like, really funny. You know, your stress levels

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<v Speaker 3>have been so high. Your fitbit filed for workers comp

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<v Speaker 3>and then it turned it into something more positive and

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<v Speaker 3>you know, motivating for twenty twenty five. But like, it's

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<v Speaker 3>really funny. So you can even ask chat ept to

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<v Speaker 3>roast you. It may ask for a bit more if

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<v Speaker 3>you didn't ask it to remember anything about you. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>I could say I'm a tech reviewer roast me, you know.

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<v Speaker 3>So yeah, so that's a couple of things to keep

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<v Speaker 3>in mind. Soft. I do get that question. I've been

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<v Speaker 3>hearing about AI, but what do I really do with it?

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<v Speaker 3>Or or type in your packing list for an upcoming

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<v Speaker 3>vacation and ask your AI what am I missing and

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<v Speaker 3>it'll look at what you wrote and give you some suggestions. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>so Kim Commando wrote a good piece in USA today

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<v Speaker 3>on that.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll give her. You know, I gave you the credit,

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<v Speaker 1>but I'll get credit for that.

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<v Speaker 2>Might have a question about chat ept I know has

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<v Speaker 2>a paid tier as opposed to the free tier which

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<v Speaker 2>most people are familiar with. Do other ones also have

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<v Speaker 2>that paid tier? And if so, what do I get

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<v Speaker 2>for the money?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's a great question. So they most of them do.

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<v Speaker 3>Google Gemini. It's called Google Gemini for Advanced, and that

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<v Speaker 3>is a subscription model. So it gives you more results,

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<v Speaker 3>more up to date results. Same a chachipet like, it'll

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<v Speaker 3>give you more current information. It like, it'll give you

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<v Speaker 3>more coding capabilities for those in business who want something

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<v Speaker 3>coded for their website, so it unlocks more features, more

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<v Speaker 3>up to date features. It may give you the opportunity,

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<v Speaker 3>depending on the platform, to verbally ask your prompt instead

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<v Speaker 3>of typing it in like more conversational. So yeah, there's

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<v Speaker 3>a few different things you would get depending on which

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<v Speaker 3>one you use, and some include image creation that may

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<v Speaker 3>not be free, like you know, when you want it

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<v Speaker 3>to generate a photo for your website. Let's say, okay,

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<v Speaker 3>I want a black couple between thirty and forty sipping

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<v Speaker 3>a pinicalot on a beach, you know, for it to

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<v Speaker 3>create that image for you that you can use royalty free.

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<v Speaker 3>You may have to use one of those paid versions. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>but instead of having to hire, you know, actors on

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<v Speaker 3>a beach and a photographer and get the sunset just right,

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<v Speaker 3>it's all AI, you know, for better or for worse.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't want to take anybody's job away, but if

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<v Speaker 3>budgets are tight and you need a royalty free image,

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<v Speaker 3>it's It's a pretty wild tool.

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<v Speaker 2>There is something that Kim Comando says at the end

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<v Speaker 2>of the article, which is that you should think of

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<v Speaker 2>AI as your first step and not your last. And

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<v Speaker 2>I think a lot of people have done that where

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<v Speaker 2>they say I don't even know where to begin writing.

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<v Speaker 2>A earlier this week, we talked about using AI to

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<v Speaker 2>start writing things like a best man speech or maybe

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<v Speaker 2>a eulogy that you're giving it a funeral or something

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<v Speaker 2>like that, and not that you would just take whatever

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<v Speaker 2>the computer spits out and read that, but that you

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<v Speaker 2>would use that as something that you could then embellish.

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<v Speaker 2>You could you know, add specific more specifics to and

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<v Speaker 2>things like that.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a great tip. Yeah, I mean we all get

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<v Speaker 3>lazy where you know, the the least resistance. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>you don't want to read a yulachi for Kevin's sakes

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<v Speaker 3>about you know, something that AI wrote and you didn't

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<v Speaker 3>even vet it, Like that's not good. So no, of course, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>you've got to even if it's not something like that

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<v Speaker 3>you're going to do in public, you have to vet

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<v Speaker 3>the data because it could be wrong. You know. As

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<v Speaker 3>a journalist, I'm tempted, but I'm still holding off from

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<v Speaker 3>using AI in my research when I'm writing an article

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<v Speaker 3>because one time I dabbled and I'm like, hey, how

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<v Speaker 3>many users does Whatsap have worldwide? And the answer was

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<v Speaker 3>three billion, and it was very sure, and it gave

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<v Speaker 3>me all these you know, citations, and then then I

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<v Speaker 3>found out if it was actually two billion users worldwide,

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<v Speaker 3>and I'm glad I didn't go with the three because

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<v Speaker 3>that's a very big difference in number. So you have

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<v Speaker 3>to do you have to cross reference for sure.

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<v Speaker 2>There was an article I read this morning, and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going to talk about Super Bowl commercials coming up in

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<v Speaker 2>the next segment, and there was an article about a

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<v Speaker 2>Google specific commercial that they used AI to develop. One

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<v Speaker 2>guy was using AI to deve up an advertisement for

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<v Speaker 2>his cheese company, and AI got the statistics wrong about

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<v Speaker 2>what kind of cheese is most popular, and that caused

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of Google now has to go back and

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<v Speaker 2>change their ad because they just assumed that their own

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<v Speaker 2>AI was going to get it right and it got

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<v Speaker 2>it wrong.

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<v Speaker 3>Yep, Well you know what happens when you assume.

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<v Speaker 1>Cheese.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, exactly, there's holes in your logic. A sorry, cheesy joke.

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<v Speaker 1>That's awful.

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<v Speaker 2>You did also write an article regarding the best way

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<v Speaker 2>to sell your unwonted stuff online. And what we'll do

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<v Speaker 2>is we'll throw a link up so people can check

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<v Speaker 2>that out as.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, turn your old your stash into cash and tay

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<v Speaker 3>off those post holiday credit card.

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<v Speaker 1>Bills full of T shirt slogans.

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<v Speaker 3>I know, right, and I didn't ask CHATCHPT to write

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<v Speaker 3>those for me.

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<v Speaker 2>Dear chat GPT, how can Mark turn his great slogans

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<v Speaker 2>into money back?

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks?

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<v Speaker 3>Garrett?

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<v Speaker 1>All right? Have a great weekend,