Speaker 1: It is time for as we do every Tuesday at
Speaker 1: this time, we do the Tech segment with Rich Demurow
Speaker 1: Rich seen on KTLA every day, Rich on Tech every
Speaker 1: Saturday here on KFI at eleven am to two pm,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Rich, Good morning to you.
Speaker 1: Bill. Okay, last week we talked about the event that
Speaker 1: you went to, the Google event.
Speaker 2: If I'm not.
Speaker 1: Mistaken, yes, and so happened. Okay, So what came out
Speaker 1: of that? Because I know you anticipate and then what
Speaker 1: actually happens and then you report on what came out
Speaker 1: and you go, ooh, let me tell you, Let me
Speaker 1: tell you, folks, this happens.
Speaker 3: So do we have any great news there?
Speaker 4: Well, I think for the takeaways obviously that Google was
Speaker 4: forced into AI by chatubt, even though they had been.
Speaker 2: Working on it for a long time.
Speaker 4: They forced their hand into kind of releasing all these
Speaker 4: new products and services and whatever that to take advantage
Speaker 4: of AI. And now Google is saying, look, okay, the
Speaker 4: last couple of years we've been dipping our toes. Now
Speaker 4: we are really showing off the fact that we know
Speaker 4: what we're doing with AI. We already have all the
Speaker 4: base knowledge of the Internet because we've been doing that
Speaker 4: really well for twenty five years, and now we're going
Speaker 4: to supercharge everything that we've done and make it AI
Speaker 4: to the limit, and so things to go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, Yeah, please go ahead.
Speaker 4: No, no, yeah, I'm I mean, look, Gemini is their
Speaker 4: version of AI. They're putting that into every single product.
Speaker 4: And then I think for consumers the main thing to
Speaker 4: know is twofold number one. This new AI mode is
Speaker 4: in Google. We've talked about it before on the show
Speaker 4: because a couple of months ago I said how cool
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 2: It was an experiment.
Speaker 4: I guess it's been so good that now they're like
Speaker 4: almost replacing their search with it. So when you're searching,
Speaker 4: if you see that little tab or button that says
Speaker 4: AI mode, tap it. It is incredible. You can ask
Speaker 4: really complex questions that nobody's ever asked the Internet before
Speaker 4: and still get answers. So it goes way beyond keywords.
Speaker 4: And then on the iPhone there's a really cool feature
Speaker 4: now called Gemini Live. You can share the video from
Speaker 4: your phone's camera, so you can basically have AI take
Speaker 4: a look at something. And so, for instance, I was
Speaker 4: trying to figure out my sprinkler system. I just pointed
Speaker 4: my camera at the sprinkler system in my yard and
Speaker 4: like ask questions about it. Hey, what does this button do?
Speaker 4: How do I adjust this? What do I need to
Speaker 4: know here? And it's like having the smartest person answer
Speaker 4: your questions.
Speaker 3: Who knows your sprinkler system?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and everything else in the world. I mean I
Speaker 4: read into the radio show and he said, Rich, nobody
Speaker 4: could tell me what these two little connectors were for
Speaker 4: on my new car. I pointed AI at it and asked,
Speaker 4: and instantly it explained what those were. Four he said,
Speaker 4: this is this is amazing.
Speaker 3: So you have.
Speaker 1: Different companies doing different versions of AI, and give me
Speaker 1: an idea.
Speaker 3: You chat GPT is one of the first people out.
Speaker 1: I mean, they basically invented or created the concept. What
Speaker 1: do these other companies do that it doesn't do? And
Speaker 1: can they be proprietary about what they've developed?
Speaker 4: Well, it's interesting because someone like, Okay, so there's a
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously there's a bunch of companies all doing this.
Speaker 2: You've got the main ones like.
Speaker 4: Chat GBT, Open AI. You've got Microsoft, which is using
Speaker 4: chat GBT technology underlying. You've got Google, which has Gemini,
Speaker 4: You've got Grock, which is part of you know, Elon
Speaker 4: Musk's Empire of Things, and that's doing it as well.
Speaker 2: You've got deep Seek out of.
Speaker 4: China, You've got Mistral out of France, and then you've
Speaker 4: got Meta, you know which owns Facebook. They're doing it
Speaker 4: as well, and they've built it into all of their products.
Speaker 4: So the proprietary nature is interesting because some companies are
Speaker 4: taking more of an open source aspect to this. A
Speaker 4: lot of these companies are sort of secretive about the
Speaker 4: you know what powers the AI, but someone like Meta
Speaker 4: is opening up their AI whereas anyone can use it
Speaker 4: to program what they want to do. So they're all
Speaker 4: taking a slightly different approach. But at the end of
Speaker 4: the day, Bill, I think the big trend is, you know,
Speaker 4: companies want to use this to power things and to
Speaker 4: power systems that they're building, and so of course they
Speaker 4: can do that and pay these companies on the back end.
Speaker 4: But I think for consumers, the real sticky factor at
Speaker 4: this point is that these AI bots are getting to
Speaker 4: know the people that are using them. And so, for instance,
Speaker 4: I was reading an article and basically the thesis is
Speaker 4: that the more these AI bots get to know the customer,
Speaker 4: the more customized they become, and the less you're going
Speaker 4: to want to switch to a different AI chatbop.
Speaker 2: And that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: What I've been hearing.
Speaker 1: And my daughter is the one I go to on
Speaker 1: this one because she's my tech nerd and is getting
Speaker 1: her master's degree in cybersecurity or whatever the hell she's studying.
Speaker 1: And that is AI is wiping out entire sectors of industry.
Speaker 1: I mean just across the board, any research done, any
Speaker 1: analysis going to be done. In the legal field, for example,
Speaker 1: a first year associate comes in and they are put
Speaker 1: on research done. There is no time. And I was
Speaker 1: reading some articles saying that there really are no entry
Speaker 1: level jobs anymore because they're all going to be done,
Speaker 1: which means as the medium level management and the upper
Speaker 1: level management retire, there'll be no one there that has
Speaker 1: the experience that can run companies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was we talked about on KTLA today is
Speaker 4: this article and op ed in the New York Times
Speaker 4: which you may have seen by one of the executives
Speaker 4: at linked In saying, look, AI is definitely disrupting the
Speaker 4: entry level job sector. Like you said, paralegals anyone that's
Speaker 4: getting their first job. And obviously we've got a lot
Speaker 4: of college grads getting into the job market right now,
Speaker 4: and they're not all too excited about it because the
Speaker 4: jobs that they used to use to either learn the
Speaker 4: ropes or you know, just get their foot in the
Speaker 4: door are no longer available or they've changed because you
Speaker 4: just don't need someone to do those. Like you said,
Speaker 4: AI is really good at simple tasks like analyzing large
Speaker 4: amounts of data and very simple things that used to
Speaker 4: take a person time and energy to do, and AI
Speaker 4: can now do it in seconds. So I guess the
Speaker 4: thesis of the LinkedIn article was basically that jobs still
Speaker 4: have to hire these people, but help them work with AI,
Speaker 4: because otherwise, if we don't get these young people sort
Speaker 4: of into the folds, there's going to be a deficit
Speaker 4: in the future of people that can have these higher
Speaker 4: level jobs that understand the whole company.
Speaker 3: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: My daughter with her bachelor's degree can't get an entry
Speaker 1: level job in the field, which is.
Speaker 3: Why she's doing your master's degree.
Speaker 1: And I'm very proud of the fact that she's going
Speaker 1: to have a master's degree and will not be able.
Speaker 3: To get a job.
Speaker 4: You know, I think she's taken the approach of like,
Speaker 4: let's see what happens, because right now everything has been
Speaker 4: thrown up in the air.
Speaker 2: You know, companies are still trying to figure this out.
Speaker 4: And look, Bill, if you're a company, what are you
Speaker 4: trying to do? You're trying to save money. And so
Speaker 4: if someone from your department in it is saying, hey, look,
Speaker 4: AI can do this and it can replace these people
Speaker 4: and it's more efficient and it's this price, of course
Speaker 4: you're going to do that.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: We don't know what the long term sort of effect
Speaker 4: of all of this is, whether companies come back and say, Okay,
Speaker 4: this works, this doesn't work, we need people for this still.
Speaker 4: So I think it's all still up in the air.
Speaker 4: But yes, it is definitely changing for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy. Oh do I take an opportunity now
Speaker 3: to hustle a job for my daughter?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Neil, I don't think I've ever done that.
Speaker 2: How I.
Speaker 3: Is that even allowed? Is that even allowed?
Speaker 1: If anybody, if anybody needs an entry level person, just
Speaker 1: write me and you probably won't hire my daughter either
Speaker 1: like everybody else won't. Or any new trainee or intern
Speaker 1: who has good computer skills she's going out of her mind.
Speaker 1: And you know, based on that LinkedIn article which I read,
Speaker 1: or that executive, she is not alone.
Speaker 3: She is not alone. It's really tough.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about the Samsung Galaxy S twenty five Edge.
Speaker 3: I'm assuming that's a new phone.
Speaker 1: And you know, when you talk about the newer, better
Speaker 1: sort of the blastow five thousand of the iPhones which
Speaker 1: I have, I'm getting the idea that Samsung is moving
Speaker 1: ahead of the curve, that they're more advanced and are
Speaker 1: working more in terms of newer technology.
Speaker 3: Do I have that right?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I would say that they probably try more things
Speaker 4: for sure.
Speaker 1: Okay, good answer. Okay with that, Oh we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a good time with this.
Speaker 3: Uh what's your go to? Do you do? Android or
Speaker 3: iPhone or both?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: I mean, I look, I carry three phones because I've
Speaker 4: got to answer questions on the radio show about all
Speaker 4: of them. And uh, you know, you've got You've got
Speaker 4: iPhone is obviously very popular, You've got Samsung probably the
Speaker 4: second most popular, and then Google's Pixel is a very
Speaker 4: popular phone as well. So uh, and that's and that
Speaker 4: one i'd say is probably gaining the most new fans
Speaker 4: because it's really clean, it works really well. The camera,
Speaker 4: obviously everyone knows, is really good. But you know, when
Speaker 4: it comes to the it's interesting when you ask that
Speaker 4: question about Apple versus Samsung. So Samsung definitely tries more
Speaker 4: things like This new phone is coming out on Friday.
Speaker 4: It's the Galaxy S twenty five Edge. It's super slim.
Speaker 4: I've been using it for a couple of weeks now.
Speaker 4: It is undeniably fun and different because it's a really
Speaker 4: thin and lightweight phone, but it's very high powered, like
Speaker 4: it has all the features you need. The two downsides
Speaker 4: that I have noticed are the zoom because they can't
Speaker 4: have as good of a zoom lens as maybe if
Speaker 4: you've got the iPhone Pro or all the other ones
Speaker 4: that have a dedicated zoom lens. This does not have that,
Speaker 4: so the zoom is a little bit iffy. And also
Speaker 4: the battery life. It definitely runs down a little bit
Speaker 4: faster than some of the other phones out there. But
Speaker 4: at the same time, it's super thin and lightweight, and
Speaker 4: so people are going to see that as kind of refreshing,
Speaker 4: and we know that Apple is expected to do something
Speaker 4: very similar with a thin and light iPhone later this year,
Speaker 4: maybe nickname the Air or something like that, the Ultra,
Speaker 4: who knows. But my point is with Apple, they have
Speaker 4: a much different approach because they control everything from what's
Speaker 4: inside the phone to the software, and that leads them
Speaker 4: to be able to do very different things when it
Speaker 4: comes to power efficiency, when it comes.
Speaker 2: To features, the camera, Siri.
Speaker 4: The way things work on the iPhone is just much
Speaker 4: more integrated than the way they work on Android phones
Speaker 4: because Android has a mix of all different parts and
Speaker 4: all different software and all different manufacturers, and so it's
Speaker 4: just a different approach to a very similar problem.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, we're probably gonna have that conversation. You know, obviously.
Speaker 1: You know I'm an iPhone guy, and I won't even
Speaker 1: try anybody any other phone.
Speaker 3: Because I just don't want to learn it. I just
Speaker 3: don't have the ability.
Speaker 1: I just learn how to turn my phone on, which
Speaker 1: I'm assuming a lot of people have a problem with
Speaker 1: the technology.
Speaker 3: All right, Gadget alert real quickly. Only have a couple
Speaker 3: of minutes. And I always love gadgets.
Speaker 4: Oh this is great. This is a super simple, fun
Speaker 4: new gadget. It's not I guess you can't even call
Speaker 4: a gadget, but it is a power cable from a
Speaker 4: company called twelve South, and what they have done is
Speaker 4: they have made a cable that on one side is
Speaker 4: a plug and on the other side is USBC plug.
Speaker 4: So basically it's a power chord, that's what they call it.
Speaker 4: And it the best part about this thing is that
Speaker 4: you're not looking. You know, when you get a power
Speaker 4: cable at your house, you need to get the plug
Speaker 4: that goes into the wall, and then you have to
Speaker 4: get the power cord itself right the USB cable and
Speaker 4: you plug those in and it's always too short.
Speaker 2: Number two.
Speaker 4: So if you have kids like I do that always
Speaker 4: want their iPad plugged in they're moving around the house
Speaker 4: or sitting on the couch or sitting on the bed,
Speaker 4: they're sitting on the floor, this thing comes in a
Speaker 4: ten foot length, so you can sit there on the
Speaker 4: couch and actually have your phone plugged in and use
Speaker 4: it without pulling this thing out.
Speaker 2: Of the wall. So it's just a super simple.
Speaker 4: Gadget that you know, it's not new to have a
Speaker 4: power cable like this, but it is kind of refreshing
Speaker 4: that it works with all your different.
Speaker 2: Devices and it just is simple.
Speaker 4: So forty dollars or fifty dollars if you want that
Speaker 4: ten foot length. But I love this thing. I've been
Speaker 4: playing with it for a week. Just came out, and
Speaker 4: it does make life a lot easier, especially for travel.
Speaker 4: You just plug, you know, one thing to bring that's it.
Speaker 3: Can't you buy like a twenty foot cable out there
Speaker 3: some place?
Speaker 4: Yes you can, but you know, most of the time
Speaker 4: it's just a cable, so it might not have the
Speaker 4: plug part of it. And then you wonder. You know
Speaker 4: a lot of people are also using plugs that are
Speaker 4: not powerful enough for their phone, Like they're not taking
Speaker 4: full advantage because they're using an older plug, you know,
Speaker 4: like that power adapter that goes into the wall might
Speaker 4: be from a previous device that doesn't give you as
Speaker 4: much juice. This one has thirty watts, which is plenty
Speaker 4: for almost every gadget nowadays. You know, some laptops will
Speaker 4: take that as a trickle charge. I know it's getting
Speaker 4: a little technical, but you know, it depends on the
Speaker 4: wattage of the device. But all the phones and things
Speaker 4: like that will charge really fast with a thirty walk.
Speaker 1: All right, Rich will catch you this weekend Saturday morning
Speaker 1: tomorrow on KTLA and or Saturday eleven am to two
Speaker 1: pm here on KFI and next Tuesday.
Speaker 3: All right, you have a good one.
Speaker 2: Oh right, thank you,