Speaker 1: It's time for tech Talk. The machines are getting smarter.
Speaker 1: This is tech Talk, brought to you by Skynett.
Speaker 2: Mark Saltzman is our tech guru who translates a lot
Speaker 2: of this stuff into understandable the understandable words for us okay,
Speaker 2: or as.
Speaker 3: I like to say, breakdown geek speak into street speak.
Speaker 1: Oh that's do you have that on a T shirt somewhere?
Speaker 3: That is my cheesy cat catchphrase, my tagline on my podcast.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we talked.
Speaker 2: We talked last week about deep seek and what it
Speaker 2: means and how it works. And I had said, you know,
Speaker 2: I was unaware of how many people use AI on
Speaker 2: a regular basis for job stuff, responding to emails, helping
Speaker 2: schedule their days, all that sort of stuff. I asked
Speaker 2: AI in this case chat ept to come up with
Speaker 2: a radio play that we were going to do for.
Speaker 1: Our Christmas presentation last the end of last year. It was.
Speaker 1: It was awful.
Speaker 2: It was really really cheesy and bad, which you know,
Speaker 2: it just goes to show it's not perfect and obviously
Speaker 2: can't replicate humanity. But you have an article about using
Speaker 2: some specific prompts to help figure out exactly what you're
Speaker 2: looking for.
Speaker 1: And how to get what you're looking for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just a point of clarification, it's my colleague Kim
Speaker 3: Commando at USA Today who wrote this piece. But it's funny.
Speaker 3: After we chatted last week on tech Talk Thursdays, I
Speaker 3: did get email and messages rather on social media from
Speaker 3: KFI listeners asking for examples of using deep seek and chatchept,
Speaker 3: so it actually fed nicely. So yeah, I thought i'd
Speaker 3: share a couple of things that you can try, whether
Speaker 3: you like chat, GPT, deep seek, or Google, Gemini or copilot,
Speaker 3: those are sort of the more popular ones. The first
Speaker 3: thing is to ask the it's called a prompt what
Speaker 3: you type in. You would type in how do I
Speaker 3: make this better? And then you add in anything you've
Speaker 3: already written, like a speech, a radio play, a school essay,
Speaker 3: an email, and then it will actually it'll look at
Speaker 3: what you did and give you a better version of it.
Speaker 3: And you can say, by the way, Gary, I want
Speaker 3: this radio play. It was too cheesy. I don't want
Speaker 3: it as cheesy. You can actually tweak what it delivers
Speaker 3: for you and it'll customize it even further, so that's
Speaker 3: a good one. Another one is to say to type
Speaker 3: this in explain this like I'm ten, and then write
Speaker 3: what you want explain to you. I don't know, climate change,
Speaker 3: nuclear fusion, how the stock market works. I don't know,
Speaker 3: and then it will like you could say, or tell
Speaker 3: me like I'm fifteen, or it'll actually write it in
Speaker 3: a language based on the age that you ask it
Speaker 3: to give it to you. And so if you really
Speaker 3: need a primer in plain English, that's a great way
Speaker 3: to do it, and it really works. You could also,
Speaker 3: by the way, say explain this to me in one
Speaker 3: hundred words. In five hundred words, you can specify all
Speaker 3: of that. On a related note, you can say, explain
Speaker 3: both sides of the argument, and then you type in
Speaker 3: what the argument is about, you know, whatever, politics, whatever,
Speaker 3: any personal dilemmas. Tell me the pros and concert tell
Speaker 3: me both sides of this argument, and you'd be surprised
Speaker 3: how good it is. And then the last one would
Speaker 3: be to tell the AI the gener of AI platform
Speaker 3: to remember blank, remember that I'm a tea drinker, not
Speaker 3: a coffee drinker, or remember that I, you know, I
Speaker 3: work in sales or something like that, and you'd be
Speaker 3: surprised going forward. It's really good. It's very accurate. It'll
Speaker 3: remember things that you've once told it, so long as
Speaker 3: you're still signed in, of course. And then speaking of which,
Speaker 3: a friend of mine, he's got a good sense of humor.
Speaker 3: He didn't have the best year last year. He's in
Speaker 3: the promotional products industry, and he wrote to enchat gipt
Speaker 3: roast me, and so it said, so, let me get
Speaker 3: this straight, Mike, you're in the promotional products business or
Speaker 3: promoted nothing but losses. And it says your business took
Speaker 3: such a nose dive. Even Gravity was impressed. NASA called
Speaker 3: they want to study your trajectory like it gave them.
Speaker 3: It was like, really funny. You know, your stress levels
Speaker 3: have been so high. Your fitbit filed for workers comp
Speaker 3: and then it turned it into something more positive and
Speaker 3: you know, motivating for twenty twenty five. But like, it's
Speaker 3: really funny. So you can even ask chat ept to
Speaker 3: roast you. It may ask for a bit more if
Speaker 3: you didn't ask it to remember anything about you. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I could say I'm a tech reviewer roast me, you know.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so that's a couple of things to keep
Speaker 3: in mind. Soft. I do get that question. I've been
Speaker 3: hearing about AI, but what do I really do with it?
Speaker 3: Or or type in your packing list for an upcoming
Speaker 3: vacation and ask your AI what am I missing and
Speaker 3: it'll look at what you wrote and give you some suggestions. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so Kim Commando wrote a good piece in USA today
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 1: I'll give her. You know, I gave you the credit,
Speaker 1: but I'll get credit for that.
Speaker 2: Might have a question about chat ept I know has
Speaker 2: a paid tier as opposed to the free tier which
Speaker 2: most people are familiar with. Do other ones also have
Speaker 2: that paid tier? And if so, what do I get
Speaker 2: for the money?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great question. So they most of them do.
Speaker 3: Google Gemini. It's called Google Gemini for Advanced, and that
Speaker 3: is a subscription model. So it gives you more results,
Speaker 3: more up to date results. Same a chachipet like, it'll
Speaker 3: give you more current information. It like, it'll give you
Speaker 3: more coding capabilities for those in business who want something
Speaker 3: coded for their website, so it unlocks more features, more
Speaker 3: up to date features. It may give you the opportunity,
Speaker 3: depending on the platform, to verbally ask your prompt instead
Speaker 3: of typing it in like more conversational. So yeah, there's
Speaker 3: a few different things you would get depending on which
Speaker 3: one you use, and some include image creation that may
Speaker 3: not be free, like you know, when you want it
Speaker 3: to generate a photo for your website. Let's say, okay,
Speaker 3: I want a black couple between thirty and forty sipping
Speaker 3: a pinicalot on a beach, you know, for it to
Speaker 3: create that image for you that you can use royalty free.
Speaker 3: You may have to use one of those paid versions. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but instead of having to hire, you know, actors on
Speaker 3: a beach and a photographer and get the sunset just right,
Speaker 3: it's all AI, you know, for better or for worse.
Speaker 3: I don't want to take anybody's job away, but if
Speaker 3: budgets are tight and you need a royalty free image,
Speaker 3: it's It's a pretty wild tool.
Speaker 2: There is something that Kim Comando says at the end
Speaker 2: of the article, which is that you should think of
Speaker 2: AI as your first step and not your last. And
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people have done that where
Speaker 2: they say I don't even know where to begin writing.
Speaker 2: A earlier this week, we talked about using AI to
Speaker 2: start writing things like a best man speech or maybe
Speaker 2: a eulogy that you're giving it a funeral or something
Speaker 2: like that, and not that you would just take whatever
Speaker 2: the computer spits out and read that, but that you
Speaker 2: would use that as something that you could then embellish.
Speaker 2: You could you know, add specific more specifics to and
Speaker 2: things like that.
Speaker 3: It's a great tip. Yeah, I mean we all get
Speaker 3: lazy where you know, the the least resistance. But yeah,
Speaker 3: you don't want to read a yulachi for Kevin's sakes
Speaker 3: about you know, something that AI wrote and you didn't
Speaker 3: even vet it, Like that's not good. So no, of course, yeah,
Speaker 3: you've got to even if it's not something like that
Speaker 3: you're going to do in public, you have to vet
Speaker 3: the data because it could be wrong. You know. As
Speaker 3: a journalist, I'm tempted, but I'm still holding off from
Speaker 3: using AI in my research when I'm writing an article
Speaker 3: because one time I dabbled and I'm like, hey, how
Speaker 3: many users does Whatsap have worldwide? And the answer was
Speaker 3: three billion, and it was very sure, and it gave
Speaker 3: me all these you know, citations, and then then I
Speaker 3: found out if it was actually two billion users worldwide,
Speaker 3: and I'm glad I didn't go with the three because
Speaker 3: that's a very big difference in number. So you have
Speaker 3: to do you have to cross reference for sure.
Speaker 2: There was an article I read this morning, and I'm
Speaker 2: going to talk about Super Bowl commercials coming up in
Speaker 2: the next segment, and there was an article about a
Speaker 2: Google specific commercial that they used AI to develop. One
Speaker 2: guy was using AI to deve up an advertisement for
Speaker 2: his cheese company, and AI got the statistics wrong about
Speaker 2: what kind of cheese is most popular, and that caused
Speaker 2: a lot of Google now has to go back and
Speaker 2: change their ad because they just assumed that their own
Speaker 2: AI was going to get it right and it got
Speaker 2: it wrong.
Speaker 3: Yep, Well you know what happens when you assume.
Speaker 1: Cheese.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, there's holes in your logic. A sorry, cheesy joke.
Speaker 1: That's awful.
Speaker 2: You did also write an article regarding the best way
Speaker 2: to sell your unwonted stuff online. And what we'll do
Speaker 2: is we'll throw a link up so people can check
Speaker 2: that out as.
Speaker 3: Yeah, turn your old your stash into cash and tay
Speaker 3: off those post holiday credit card.
Speaker 1: Bills full of T shirt slogans.
Speaker 3: I know, right, and I didn't ask CHATCHPT to write
Speaker 3: those for me.
Speaker 2: Dear chat GPT, how can Mark turn his great slogans
Speaker 2: into money back?
Speaker 1: Thanks?
Speaker 3: Garrett?
Speaker 1: All right? Have a great weekend,