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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stack into the latest in tech and how it affects
you and your world. This is Tech Talk Tuesday on
Wood Radios West Michigan Live. Yes, our good friend Track Kennedy,
Affordableized Star Like Michigan Drive and stand down grand Over
Tech joining us right now talk tech and many other things.
Welcome back, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. From the break,
my friend, good to see you born and justin Yeah,
(00:24):
I've got a couple of stories I want to cover
with you, but also the biggest story I believe that
you're already staying at covered at the Midwestern or the
Midwesterner dot news when it comes to politics and tech
and all within the state of Michigan. I think what
we're going to be watching and probably throughout some of
the other Midwestern states, but it's going to be the
(00:47):
story about data centers. In fact, if you go to
the Midwestern right now, you're going to see there are
multiple stories on this subject floating around the state and
at covered at length. This is a story very similar
to what the Goshen Big Rapids Green Charter Township, Macosta County,
(01:13):
Evy Battery plant ghosh in, the Chinese Communist Party linked
company that was trying to put in that battery plant
there without really the consent of the people and the
way they were going around things. I think the data
centers are going to have a very similar fight impact
and effect on the state, and I think it's just
(01:33):
heating up. One of the biggest issues I think is
going to be the environmental obviously all of those questions
that surrounded the battery plants, but also whether or not
these people really going to say of what gets to
happen in their own backyard. That's my biggest tech prediction
for twenty twenty six in this very interesting year ahead. Trent,
(01:57):
your thoughts comments if any on what I just talked about.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, justin quick comment about predictions. So one thing that
I'm going to be predicting that tech's going to hold
itself and check and balance a little bit here. But
you know these meetings that have gone down without people
knowing or without people knowing right away or quick enough
to do anything about it, these meetings at townships, you know, municipality, states, whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
For these data centers, there's.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Going to be somebody who comes up with an app,
a website, whatever that takes and scans automatically with AI
these public These things are public justin they might A
lot of it might be happening behind closed doors. But
number one Freedom of Information Act and number two meeting
what do they call those meeting notes, agendas, whatever, are published.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
They're required to be publicized after these meetings.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Even if the public in general isn't aware of that
those are supposed to be published. There's going to be
an app or web site that tracks those things and
helps notify people of that. I believe by the end
of this year, so that this whole you know, under
the table kind of way of these deals to getting negotiated.
I don't think it's going to be as big of
a surprise and happen as much as it did in
(03:14):
years past.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Maybe that's a good idea for somebody with the tech
background trend. I don't know who that might be, but
I just said, ever know, maybe that's a good idea
for somebody to put that put that into development. Twenty
twenty six is going to be a big year. It's
already started off to a bang in factor out there
with the Consumer Electronic Show right now. It is CEES
happening in Los AGAs here a lot about AI. Some
(03:37):
of the other big things that are happening right now.
That's a lot of it sounds science fiction, but it's
it's happening right now. Any highlights, anything you're watching, anything
you see that that stands out from you when it
comes to the Consumer Electronics Show and what folks are
mainly looking at and maybe being impressed by by this year.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
So justin this yearly conference, you know, whatever you want
to call it is pretty cool because it gives us
a little bit of a futuristic view of what's coming
and not everything there is going to be available and
work well in this current year, but in the next
five years a good percentage of those things become just
public norms. So, for example, there is a knife, a
(04:23):
handheld knife. You could cut bread, you could cut meat,
you can cut vegetables with it.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And you might be like, it's a knife. We've had
knives since the Stone Age.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
But this is a rechargeable knife, and it's not your
grandmother's you know, oscillating tread knife. This is an actual
rechargeable knife with a lithium battery inside and it literally
vibrates like an ultrasonic wave that's sent through the blade
and that allows you to cut things easy and stuff
(04:54):
like that is like who needs this?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
But you're going to wake up in a few years.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Where somebody's be like, who's not going to use this
electric knife?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Because it just works really good.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So the random things that we didn't know we needed,
we didn't know we wanted, you'll wake up in a
few years and everybody will have one to be like, seriously,
we use non electric knives.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I don't know if I like that or not, because
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I think there's nothing wrong with cutting with their traditional
knife that doesn't plug in.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But how long before those knives are banned? How long
before the knives are banned? That's a next question.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Well, they do have a lithium batteries. I don't know
if you could bring them on an airplane. They're also
like a foot long, So.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, okay, well listen, it seems like I'm still waiting
on my still waiting on my flying car, you know
what I mean, Trent, I've I just haven't seen that
jets and style thing. Now I've seen some there are
some companies out there and are pushing this that have
them that are ready. I just I don't know, man,
(05:54):
I'm I I'm ready for mine. I think i'd just
as long as I'm like the only one that can
that can fly in one I mean traffic, it's gonna
get weird.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
We're we're a.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Little ways out, justin from the flying car in the
practical hands of everybody else are still working on the
electric knives and stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, you're probably right about that. Uh oh, your favorite
grocery store is watching you, tracking and using biometric data.
And this even ties into some of the concerns that
we've heard recently about. Unfortunately, dynamic pricing is what they cause,
the shifting of prices essentially time day, maybe even to
(06:36):
fit you. They know your habits and when you're shopping.
These are now things that are starting to become some
big issues. Well, this is a report about Wegmans, which
is a store in New York City, but they have
lots of this data, lots of this technology is everywhere
right now, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So justin Obviously in the online world, these kind of
track have been you know, working, wreaking havoc or benefiting
whoever they're paying out to or whatever that data is
getting sold to for years. And we've always felt that
if we go into our local store. We're not going
to have you know, thirty people following around us in
the store looking at what we buy and all those things.
(07:19):
But this is real and justin you have to look
back at why are people doing this? Why is Wegmans
doing this? It's not because they really I don't believe
the owners really want to put their business into this creepy,
spy AI world. I think it's literally sadly survival retail
stores are difficult. There's competition everywhere, and so if they're
not using data AI data to say what do we stock,
(07:42):
what quantities do we stock? What kind of things people
are buying? Me literally like the fruit and vegetable section,
justin they're looking at people picking up stuff like you know,
I don't want this one to set it back and
they just lost to sale. So if they can look
at the AI data and say, hey, what kind of
fruit do we need to present so people will actually
take at home. I don't like this whole AI surveillance
(08:03):
state in the grocery store at all. But my point
is is because of competition, retail has to find ways
to keep up with the rest of the digital world
to try to boost their business up and sadly, whether
we like it or not, that's where this is going
and I wish it wasn't that way.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Altered and misleading images, this is another big one, especially
after what happened over the weekend with Venezuela and Maduro.
Altered and misleading energy images, lots of them AI in
fact circulating online in social media. There's lots of these
that are funding out after we've seen this weekend. That
one wasn't real, this one isn't real. And you see
(08:39):
a lot of this happen when stories are reported people
on social media trying to paint a picture or something.
There were a couple of things. There was like a
video of people tearing down a banner of Maduro that
wasn't well, it was real. It was just from a
few years back. Crowd scenes from a few years back.
Some of this stuff AI generated, and some of it
(09:00):
obviously AI generated for some you know, kicks, laughs, memes
and things like that. But it's harder and harder every
day to tell like what's real and what isn't real.
And it's going to get even worse as time goes on,
isn't it?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yes? And justin I don't know, I have no clue
on the law of this.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Justin so, if somebody on social media wants to use
a fake video to do something, I mean social media,
everybody's like, hey, whatever, it's misleading whatever. Maybe, but I
don't think there's laws against it. But if you have
a news agency that's taking a picture, a still shot
provided by a government, you know, photo release, feeding that
into an AI generator to make a video of that scene,
(09:45):
is that illegal?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I think it's un ethical obviously, But is that illegal?
Do we need laws against it? Are there laws against
it already? I don't know to me that there needs
to be some clear laws that say you can't take
a still shot, fabricate a video.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Stick it on the news, and this is quote unquote
real news. It's a complete, falsely generated video.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
At that point, I say something. I saw Fox News
over the holiday break using AI in one of their shows.
But they every time they used it, they would put
on the banner on TV this is an AI generated image,
and it was like flashing lights and stuff. It was
kind of creative. But I thought to myself, you know,
I think there is a line. I don't know what
(10:28):
line it is like to generate things that aren't obviously
aren't real, but would help sort of tell the story.
But also at the same time, this can really it's
a while wile west, it can really it can take
off and be dangerous as well. Last story today, but
it may be the most important for you right now
in the immediate future. If you're using Chrome, there may
(10:51):
be extensions something on your computer right now that's stealing
your data, sucking it out, passwords, et cetera, and sending
it to people well who you definitely don't want to
have it. What extension is this, what's happening and how
can people stop it?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
So justin over the years, there's been a handful of
extensions that are legitimately quote unquote legitimately advertised for download
on the official app store, whether it's the Apple App Store,
the Google App Store, the Chrome extension database that you
can download those are supposed to be legitimate. This one's
called Phantom Shuttle, and it's basically just a malicious, bad
(11:33):
extension that has some useful tools to the end user
so they don't think it's malicious, but it's actually revealing
passwords and other personal information as a totally bad app.
And it did get removed from their browser extension downloadable.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Registry there, so that is removed.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
But if you still have it installed, you need to
uninstall that.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
That's a bad one.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Can it be affordable? I Store Lake, Michigan and stand
down there and the folks at Grand River Tech standing
by to help you with whatever it is that you
need help with affordableized stores, personal devices, Grand River Tech,
your business, your organization, whatever it might be. Boy, that'd
really love to give you a hand, especially in a
(12:18):
day and age when you and I could probably use
it now more than ever. Trent, always a pleasure, my friend.
Thank you for taking the time to be here.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Thanks Justin, have a great day you too.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
God bless
Stack into the latest in tech and how it affects
you and your world. This is Tech Talk Tuesday on
Wood Radios West Michigan Live. Yes, our good friend Track Kennedy,
Affordableized Star Like Michigan Drive and stand down grand Over
Tech joining us right now talk tech and many other things.
Welcome back, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. From the break,
my friend, good to see you born and justin Yeah,
(00:24):
I've got a couple of stories I want to cover
with you, but also the biggest story I believe that
you're already staying at covered at the Midwestern or the
Midwesterner dot news when it comes to politics and tech
and all within the state of Michigan. I think what
we're going to be watching and probably throughout some of
the other Midwestern states, but it's going to be the
(00:47):
story about data centers. In fact, if you go to
the Midwestern right now, you're going to see there are
multiple stories on this subject floating around the state and
at covered at length. This is a story very similar
to what the Goshen Big Rapids Green Charter Township, Macosta County,
(01:13):
Evy Battery plant ghosh in, the Chinese Communist Party linked
company that was trying to put in that battery plant
there without really the consent of the people and the
way they were going around things. I think the data
centers are going to have a very similar fight impact
and effect on the state, and I think it's just
(01:33):
heating up. One of the biggest issues I think is
going to be the environmental obviously all of those questions
that surrounded the battery plants, but also whether or not
these people really going to say of what gets to
happen in their own backyard. That's my biggest tech prediction
for twenty twenty six in this very interesting year ahead. Trent,
(01:57):
your thoughts comments if any on what I just talked about.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, justin quick comment about predictions. So one thing that
I'm going to be predicting that tech's going to hold
itself and check and balance a little bit here. But
you know these meetings that have gone down without people
knowing or without people knowing right away or quick enough
to do anything about it, these meetings at townships, you know, municipality, states, whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
For these data centers, there's.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Going to be somebody who comes up with an app,
a website, whatever that takes and scans automatically with AI
these public These things are public justin they might A
lot of it might be happening behind closed doors. But
number one Freedom of Information Act and number two meeting
what do they call those meeting notes, agendas, whatever, are published.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
They're required to be publicized after these meetings.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Even if the public in general isn't aware of that
those are supposed to be published. There's going to be
an app or web site that tracks those things and
helps notify people of that. I believe by the end
of this year, so that this whole you know, under
the table kind of way of these deals to getting negotiated.
I don't think it's going to be as big of
a surprise and happen as much as it did in
(03:14):
years past.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Maybe that's a good idea for somebody with the tech
background trend. I don't know who that might be, but
I just said, ever know, maybe that's a good idea
for somebody to put that put that into development. Twenty
twenty six is going to be a big year. It's
already started off to a bang in factor out there
with the Consumer Electronic Show right now. It is CEES
happening in Los AGAs here a lot about AI. Some
(03:37):
of the other big things that are happening right now.
That's a lot of it sounds science fiction, but it's
it's happening right now. Any highlights, anything you're watching, anything
you see that that stands out from you when it
comes to the Consumer Electronics Show and what folks are
mainly looking at and maybe being impressed by by this year.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
So justin this yearly conference, you know, whatever you want
to call it is pretty cool because it gives us
a little bit of a futuristic view of what's coming
and not everything there is going to be available and
work well in this current year, but in the next
five years a good percentage of those things become just
public norms. So, for example, there is a knife, a
(04:23):
handheld knife. You could cut bread, you could cut meat,
you can cut vegetables with it.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And you might be like, it's a knife. We've had
knives since the Stone Age.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
But this is a rechargeable knife, and it's not your
grandmother's you know, oscillating tread knife. This is an actual
rechargeable knife with a lithium battery inside and it literally
vibrates like an ultrasonic wave that's sent through the blade
and that allows you to cut things easy and stuff
(04:54):
like that is like who needs this?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
But you're going to wake up in a few years.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Where somebody's be like, who's not going to use this
electric knife?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Because it just works really good.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So the random things that we didn't know we needed,
we didn't know we wanted, you'll wake up in a
few years and everybody will have one to be like, seriously,
we use non electric knives.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I don't know if I like that or not, because
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I think there's nothing wrong with cutting with their traditional
knife that doesn't plug in.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But how long before those knives are banned? How long
before the knives are banned? That's a next question.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Well, they do have a lithium batteries. I don't know
if you could bring them on an airplane. They're also
like a foot long, So.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, okay, well listen, it seems like I'm still waiting
on my still waiting on my flying car, you know
what I mean, Trent, I've I just haven't seen that
jets and style thing. Now I've seen some there are
some companies out there and are pushing this that have
them that are ready. I just I don't know, man,
(05:54):
I'm I I'm ready for mine. I think i'd just
as long as I'm like the only one that can
that can fly in one I mean traffic, it's gonna
get weird.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
We're we're a.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Little ways out, justin from the flying car in the
practical hands of everybody else are still working on the
electric knives and stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, you're probably right about that. Uh oh, your favorite
grocery store is watching you, tracking and using biometric data.
And this even ties into some of the concerns that
we've heard recently about. Unfortunately, dynamic pricing is what they cause,
the shifting of prices essentially time day, maybe even to
(06:36):
fit you. They know your habits and when you're shopping.
These are now things that are starting to become some
big issues. Well, this is a report about Wegmans, which
is a store in New York City, but they have
lots of this data, lots of this technology is everywhere
right now, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So justin Obviously in the online world, these kind of
track have been you know, working, wreaking havoc or benefiting
whoever they're paying out to or whatever that data is
getting sold to for years. And we've always felt that
if we go into our local store. We're not going
to have you know, thirty people following around us in
the store looking at what we buy and all those things.
(07:19):
But this is real and justin you have to look
back at why are people doing this? Why is Wegmans
doing this? It's not because they really I don't believe
the owners really want to put their business into this creepy,
spy AI world. I think it's literally sadly survival retail
stores are difficult. There's competition everywhere, and so if they're
not using data AI data to say what do we stock,
(07:42):
what quantities do we stock? What kind of things people
are buying? Me literally like the fruit and vegetable section,
justin they're looking at people picking up stuff like you know,
I don't want this one to set it back and
they just lost to sale. So if they can look
at the AI data and say, hey, what kind of
fruit do we need to present so people will actually
take at home. I don't like this whole AI surveillance
(08:03):
state in the grocery store at all. But my point
is is because of competition, retail has to find ways
to keep up with the rest of the digital world
to try to boost their business up and sadly, whether
we like it or not, that's where this is going
and I wish it wasn't that way.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Altered and misleading images, this is another big one, especially
after what happened over the weekend with Venezuela and Maduro.
Altered and misleading energy images, lots of them AI in
fact circulating online in social media. There's lots of these
that are funding out after we've seen this weekend. That
one wasn't real, this one isn't real. And you see
(08:39):
a lot of this happen when stories are reported people
on social media trying to paint a picture or something.
There were a couple of things. There was like a
video of people tearing down a banner of Maduro that
wasn't well, it was real. It was just from a
few years back. Crowd scenes from a few years back.
Some of this stuff AI generated, and some of it
(09:00):
obviously AI generated for some you know, kicks, laughs, memes
and things like that. But it's harder and harder every
day to tell like what's real and what isn't real.
And it's going to get even worse as time goes on,
isn't it?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yes? And justin I don't know, I have no clue
on the law of this.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Justin so, if somebody on social media wants to use
a fake video to do something, I mean social media,
everybody's like, hey, whatever, it's misleading whatever. Maybe, but I
don't think there's laws against it. But if you have
a news agency that's taking a picture, a still shot
provided by a government, you know, photo release, feeding that
into an AI generator to make a video of that scene,
(09:45):
is that illegal?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I think it's un ethical obviously, But is that illegal?
Do we need laws against it? Are there laws against
it already? I don't know to me that there needs
to be some clear laws that say you can't take
a still shot, fabricate a video.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Stick it on the news, and this is quote unquote
real news. It's a complete, falsely generated video.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
At that point, I say something. I saw Fox News
over the holiday break using AI in one of their shows.
But they every time they used it, they would put
on the banner on TV this is an AI generated image,
and it was like flashing lights and stuff. It was
kind of creative. But I thought to myself, you know,
I think there is a line. I don't know what
(10:28):
line it is like to generate things that aren't obviously
aren't real, but would help sort of tell the story.
But also at the same time, this can really it's
a while wile west, it can really it can take
off and be dangerous as well. Last story today, but
it may be the most important for you right now
in the immediate future. If you're using Chrome, there may
(10:51):
be extensions something on your computer right now that's stealing
your data, sucking it out, passwords, et cetera, and sending
it to people well who you definitely don't want to
have it. What extension is this, what's happening and how
can people stop it?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
So justin over the years, there's been a handful of
extensions that are legitimately quote unquote legitimately advertised for download
on the official app store, whether it's the Apple App Store,
the Google App Store, the Chrome extension database that you
can download those are supposed to be legitimate. This one's
called Phantom Shuttle, and it's basically just a malicious, bad
(11:33):
extension that has some useful tools to the end user
so they don't think it's malicious, but it's actually revealing
passwords and other personal information as a totally bad app.
And it did get removed from their browser extension downloadable.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Registry there, so that is removed.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
But if you still have it installed, you need to
uninstall that.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
That's a bad one.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Can it be affordable? I Store Lake, Michigan and stand
down there and the folks at Grand River Tech standing
by to help you with whatever it is that you
need help with affordableized stores, personal devices, Grand River Tech,
your business, your organization, whatever it might be. Boy, that'd
really love to give you a hand, especially in a
(12:18):
day and age when you and I could probably use
it now more than ever. Trent, always a pleasure, my friend.
Thank you for taking the time to be here.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Thanks Justin, have a great day you too.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
God bless
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