AI Listening & Funny At Work

If you think your devices are listening to you, you are probably right. Dangerous Dave talks about how AI and your devices are going to continue and even do it more. Plus, being funny at work can be beneficial or get your fired.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the din with dangerous date. Well, well,
remember a while back when everyone first started seeing targeted
ads online. There was all the paranoia that your phone
and smart devices were listening to everything you said. Well,
they probably were, but even if not, they will in
the near future. Meta announcing that they will collect data
for users with interactions with AI and chat pots to

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sell targeted ads. For example, you might ask AI chatpot
how to fix a dishwasher, and they might push new
ads for new dishwashers, ads for sexy dishwasher repair people
on your area. Anyway, there's not a lot you can
do about it. They'll be notifying users in coming days,
or it will be updates and privacy policies to make
it official. And that's not all and other tech news.

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Google has announced that they're updating their Virtual Gemini Assistant
for your home too. You'll be able to have full
conversations rather than just speaking specific commands. Is rolling out
in the coming months. For example, you could tell it
your dishwashers in't training. It could ask you how to troubleshoot.
It could tell you to check stuff like the filter.
You could then ask for the next step and in
other words, it would continue the same conversation and go

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back and forth. Basically, smart devices will be able to
converse similar to chat GPT. But if you connect the dots,
it's easy to see how the future of devices could
be listening to the things that you're talking about and
putting specific ads in front of you. At this time,
it would all be out there in the open. But
you know what the weirdest part is is when I

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just think about something and the ad pops up. That's scary.
Deeper in the two I saw this headline. I thought
they were talking directly to me. But the new website
The Conversation had an article saying why you seriously need
to stop trying to be the funny one of work
They take in backfire and it comes with two big risks. See,
folks who use humor effectively can end up being seen

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as more confident, more competent. Nobody here in this building
seems competent, just so you know, it could be tempting
to try. Anyway. When jokes fall flat, the negative effects
can be more drastic. Two big risks. You end up
looking like less credible and you lose people's respect. They claim.
The two big main things makes a good workplace joke.
It should be unexpected, seem like to break the rules

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in some way, but it also has to come across
as harmless. If what you say is an edgy at all,
you seem boring. But if you're too edgy, you might
offend people, so that's even worse unfair. But they say
women tend to be even judged more harshly when their
jokes don't land. Even jokes that do work sometimes backfire.
One study found bosses who joke around too much, even

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if they're funny, end up pushing employees to pretend that
they're constantly amused. It can cause burnout. And if you
feel like you're the funny one at work, people really
seem to dig your material. Feel free to keep doing
what you're doing, just don't force it. In general, they
say the risk of being funny at work tends to
outweigh the benefits. Sure, a good joke might get a laugh,

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but a bad one might get you fired. That happens
around here A lot. A lot of jokes fall flat.
Comes down to the type of sense of humor. My
friends here in the back where they DJ's live and dwell,
we all seem to have a oh, the sense of
humor of about a seventh grader. We leave again for
another episode of Deeper in the Den with Dangerous daved

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