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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tack into the latest in tech and how it affects
you and your world. This is tech Talk Tuesday on
Wood Radios West Michigan Live. We've got tech news today
and I've got a good feeling that somebody actually might
get a job out of this. That's right. I think
somebody listening today might get a job out of this
(00:21):
Tech Talk segment with our good friendship Canney from Affordable
Lifestore on Lake Michigan Drive and Grand River Tech. And
standby because at the end of the segment we're gonna
tell you about that Trent is hiring, so to speak.
And I want to make sure that you understand because
this I think would be a fantastic position for someone.
Welcome in Trent. How are you come on?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Justin doing great?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
This is another day, another moment here that we see
AI in the headlines again and in the spotlight again
fact the administration, amongst all the other interesting things that
are happening. Yesterday we got this press release. The Genesis
Mission is that Trump Administration's attempt to build an AI
(01:05):
powered national research engine. It's being pitched as the Manhattan Project.
On the Manhattan Project level sort of project for AI.
The President has ordered a historic war footing mobilization. And
by the way, you know, I kind of agree with
(01:26):
him that whoever gets this down. And by the way,
it's whether it's a good or bad your intentions, just
like any other tool. I think that's whether you're talking
about you know, nuclear power or even firearms, whatever it is,
right like, whatever your intentions might be, and the person
wielding that tool or weapon is really going to decide
(01:49):
how it all plays out. And that's what he's saying.
You don't want China to end up winning this race.
It's the same as it was with nuclear weapons. And
so they put this task force, this Manhattan Project style
thing together, which looks like is going to be run
by the Department of Energy some portions of it. That's
(02:11):
kind of telling in itself. Trent, welcome in.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, good morning, justin this is crazy. I encourage anybody
who has any interest in reading this. If this is
the future, if this is the new arms race, space race,
every race combined into one project, then this is the mandate.
And this lays out what the goals and purposes are
and you can read it. It's fairly long, but it's
actually written pretty simply that the average joke can understand it.
(02:37):
But yeah, it basically combines space race, arms race, AI,
computer technology, medical science, everything you can think of. Trump
is basically saying, hey, we need to put all of
our heads together. All of our resources is for especially
all of our existing there's a keynote through this document,
existing resources, existing databases, existing information that they have, existing
(03:00):
talent that they have, combining them all in the government.
That is something that I think everything.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Hey, we got a video by the way, hang on,
I didn't realize it was going to have words to it.
This is what the Department of Energy posted on their website.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
In every age, humanity invents new ways to see further.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
The telescope let us glimpse the stars. The microscope revealed
the worlds within us. For centuries, thinkers like Livin It's
Shannon and Turning dreamed of making all knowledge computable.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But today knowledge grows faster than our ability to understand it.
Trillions of data points a universe of information still unconnected. Now,
a new instrument emerges when capable not only of observing
the universe, but of unders standing it. Gennessis mission will
(04:02):
transform how science is done in America. Uniting our brightest
mind's most powerful computers and vast scientific data into one
living system for discovery, built on artificial.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Intelligence and quantum computing. It will radically.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Redefine the scale, speed, and purpose of scientific progress in America.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It is pretty ambitious and it is incredible. It's a
twenty Challenges directive, so within sixty days, the government must
identify twenty critical problems from curing diseases to securing energy dominance.
That is, the new AI platform will be exclusively targeted
to solve and a rapid deployment timeline isn't a long
(04:44):
term plan. The order mandates that the platform must reach
initial operating capability and start delivering results on national challenges
within just nine months. It is very ambitious. It's almost
like going back to that Manhattan Project, or going back
to when Kennedy said We're gonna walk on the moon.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
This is the work that will define our generation's legacy.
A new revolution begins, one guided not by competition alone,
but by curiosity, imagination, and the belief that discovery is
the truest.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Form of progress.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It's very well done. That's a very well done video.
But look as slick as that is, Trent, I mean
there's a lot of upside, tremendous amount possibility there, but
there's a lot of downside. People I can't blame them
for being a little apprehensive of this, And I guess
the only thing I would say is do we want
to develop it? Or do we want China to develop it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Justin I think that's the key here. I mean, obviously,
what can go wrong? What couldn't go wrong? In this
digital age that we live in, where things are hacked
willy nilly, we have scams, we have all these things
that are like small tech problems in the bigger picture
that we can't solve. And then you want to take
this big, huge model and overtake the world with science
and engineering and data sharing and whatever. The issue is justin,
(06:11):
like you said, is whatever our opinion is wherever we
are in this messy process of technology. If China or
another country owns this and as and as four times
or ten times ahead of us, which could happen quickly
as this technology snowballs, it's inevitable that we're going to
fall into the dust. You know what if Germany had
that nuclear weapon? Right, everybody regrets nuclear weapons in the
(06:35):
sense of the danger in the nuclear war. But would
we all be Germany today, justin if if we didn't
have that nuclear weapon and if World War two didn't happen.
I just well, yeah, that's a that's a hard thing
to think about it.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I just can't. We're on this is this is my
biggest concern. We're on the precipice. We might even be
about we playing to be jumping off the cliff right
now and building our wings, you know, or the parachute,
you know, so to speak. We're like on the precipice
of this thing. And I just don't think there's been
(07:11):
enough thought about this by certain people, yes, but not
by the average person. Like how is this going to
affect that people are talking about losing jobs and what
that might look like, and also the control aspects of this.
You know, you get something like this built and think
about what it can do to control society in ways
that no man has ever probably ever been able to accomplish.
(07:35):
You know, if Hitler or any of those man or
any of those people have the opportunity to do what
they're they're going to be able to do to everyone
at some point, that's a really terrifying perspective. And I
think it definitely deserves to be a little further examined.
Now we've heard about taking jobs, but how about jobs
(07:58):
that you're going to need people for, and how one
of these jobs Trent is hiring. In fact, he needs
somebody to come work with him at Grand River Tech. Trent,
this is your essentially IT solutions company. This is the
company where you guys do all kinds of great security work, cybersecurity,
but you also do you know, video camera security, things
(08:19):
like that, security systems, things of that nature. You do
a whole slew of things that folks may not even realize.
But this is a solutions for organizations, churches, schools, your factory,
whatever it might be. This is how Trent works with
people throughout West Michigan to help them get whatever it
is done that they need to get done. And you're
(08:39):
looking for help yourself right now, it sounds like you're hiring.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Right justin Yes, we're looking for somebody who is a
hard worker, somebody that loves technology, loves helping people walk
through the difficulties of technology. A lot of things we
talk about we work on behind the scenes here and
it's a rewarding job to make sure that small businesses, churches,
and schools that their technology works so that they don't
have to have all the stress to deal with the
kind of things that sometimes we are afraid over, complain about,
(09:07):
or frustrated with. Behind the scenes, we make sure they
can just get their job done in the real world.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Now, my question for you would be this, what's the
best way for somebody to get in touch with you
and maybe reach out and see if they can work
with you.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, so you can just email me directly Trent at
Grandrivertech dot com if you're interested or know somebody that's interested.
Spread the word. It's a great, satisfying, rewarding career helping
people out.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Trent. Can there be affordable eyestore like Michigan Drive and
stand out Grand River Tech as well. Grand rivertech dot
com is the website if you want to reach out
and ask more. All right, one last story, and I'm
not going to spend a lot of time on this,
but i do want to mention it so that you
know what is happening behind the scenes. We've talked about
it and touched on it before, but over the weekend,
(09:55):
elon Must introduced a new feature on acts that let
people see where their accounts or accounts they followed were
located where they were coming from. And one of the
things that they discovered is lots of these accounts, some
high profile accounts ended up looking like maybe they're bought
or foreign influenced type accounts. Now some accounts that were
(10:18):
actual people look like they may have gotten caught up
in this using a VPN themselves. So there's another aspect
to this that maybe Trent can explain what that is
and why that is. But I just want you to
know when you're interacting with people on social media, whatever
that website would be, there's a chance, probably a good
(10:38):
chance that person you're arguing with isn't real.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, Justin, this is long long overdue. They should have
been this many years ago. It's just a little basic
accountability helps people see where people are coming from. But
I will, like you mentioned Justin, take this a little
bit with a grain of salt. So Apple has a
free built in VPNs that can spoof your location by
default supposed to do that to stop advertising. There's any
other third part VPNs do that Secured web browsers have
(11:04):
VPNs built in, it's going to not have accurate locations
for many people, and it could be for legitimate reasons.
But I do think it's a good thing that people
can realize where these are coming from, so you can
ask the question. And those who aren't using a VPN
and have a local location that can be spoofed too
to make it look like it's your neighbor when they
(11:24):
are on the other side of the world. So good tool,
great to look at, it great to think about, but
don't just take that as truth for both ways. If
somebody shows up as your neighbor or vice versa on
the other side of the world, there might be a
reason for that.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, and again, please, you got to realize there's a
lot of foreign what we've found, a lot of foreign interest.
That is number one. What their goal is is to
foment people arguments division in this country, even between the
right itself certainly the left and right. But that's what
(12:00):
they want, is they want us fighting each other. And
so a lot of times when you see people online
just making those sense it's not just the day of
the extreme case of Trump's arrangement syndromes. That's the possibilities. Well,
but sometimes it might be that that they're not even
real that they're a bot in fact, Trent, always a pleasure,
my friend. Thank you for taking the time and walking
(12:21):
us through some of the biggest stories in tech of
the week. Always a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Thanks Justin, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
You got it. Affordableized Store Lake, Michigan, Drive in Standell
and Grand River Tech, Grandivertech dot com as well. Always
a pleasure.
Tack into the latest in tech and how it affects
you and your world. This is tech Talk Tuesday on
Wood Radios West Michigan Live. We've got tech news today
and I've got a good feeling that somebody actually might
get a job out of this. That's right. I think
somebody listening today might get a job out of this
(00:21):
Tech Talk segment with our good friendship Canney from Affordable
Lifestore on Lake Michigan Drive and Grand River Tech. And
standby because at the end of the segment we're gonna
tell you about that Trent is hiring, so to speak.
And I want to make sure that you understand because
this I think would be a fantastic position for someone.
Welcome in Trent. How are you come on?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Justin doing great?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
This is another day, another moment here that we see
AI in the headlines again and in the spotlight again
fact the administration, amongst all the other interesting things that
are happening. Yesterday we got this press release. The Genesis
Mission is that Trump Administration's attempt to build an AI
(01:05):
powered national research engine. It's being pitched as the Manhattan Project.
On the Manhattan Project level sort of project for AI.
The President has ordered a historic war footing mobilization. And
by the way, you know, I kind of agree with
(01:26):
him that whoever gets this down. And by the way,
it's whether it's a good or bad your intentions, just
like any other tool. I think that's whether you're talking
about you know, nuclear power or even firearms, whatever it is,
right like, whatever your intentions might be, and the person
wielding that tool or weapon is really going to decide
(01:49):
how it all plays out. And that's what he's saying.
You don't want China to end up winning this race.
It's the same as it was with nuclear weapons. And
so they put this task force, this Manhattan Project style
thing together, which looks like is going to be run
by the Department of Energy some portions of it. That's
(02:11):
kind of telling in itself. Trent, welcome in.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, good morning, justin this is crazy. I encourage anybody
who has any interest in reading this. If this is
the future, if this is the new arms race, space race,
every race combined into one project, then this is the mandate.
And this lays out what the goals and purposes are
and you can read it. It's fairly long, but it's
actually written pretty simply that the average joke can understand it.
(02:37):
But yeah, it basically combines space race, arms race, AI,
computer technology, medical science, everything you can think of. Trump
is basically saying, hey, we need to put all of
our heads together. All of our resources is for especially
all of our existing there's a keynote through this document,
existing resources, existing databases, existing information that they have, existing
(03:00):
talent that they have, combining them all in the government.
That is something that I think everything.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Hey, we got a video by the way, hang on,
I didn't realize it was going to have words to it.
This is what the Department of Energy posted on their website.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
In every age, humanity invents new ways to see further.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
The telescope let us glimpse the stars. The microscope revealed
the worlds within us. For centuries, thinkers like Livin It's
Shannon and Turning dreamed of making all knowledge computable.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But today knowledge grows faster than our ability to understand it.
Trillions of data points a universe of information still unconnected. Now,
a new instrument emerges when capable not only of observing
the universe, but of unders standing it. Gennessis mission will
(04:02):
transform how science is done in America. Uniting our brightest
mind's most powerful computers and vast scientific data into one
living system for discovery, built on artificial.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Intelligence and quantum computing. It will radically.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Redefine the scale, speed, and purpose of scientific progress in America.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It is pretty ambitious and it is incredible. It's a
twenty Challenges directive, so within sixty days, the government must
identify twenty critical problems from curing diseases to securing energy dominance.
That is, the new AI platform will be exclusively targeted
to solve and a rapid deployment timeline isn't a long
(04:44):
term plan. The order mandates that the platform must reach
initial operating capability and start delivering results on national challenges
within just nine months. It is very ambitious. It's almost
like going back to that Manhattan Project, or going back
to when Kennedy said We're gonna walk on the moon.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
This is the work that will define our generation's legacy.
A new revolution begins, one guided not by competition alone,
but by curiosity, imagination, and the belief that discovery is
the truest.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Form of progress.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It's very well done. That's a very well done video.
But look as slick as that is, Trent, I mean
there's a lot of upside, tremendous amount possibility there, but
there's a lot of downside. People I can't blame them
for being a little apprehensive of this, And I guess
the only thing I would say is do we want
to develop it? Or do we want China to develop it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Justin I think that's the key here. I mean, obviously,
what can go wrong? What couldn't go wrong? In this
digital age that we live in, where things are hacked
willy nilly, we have scams, we have all these things
that are like small tech problems in the bigger picture
that we can't solve. And then you want to take
this big, huge model and overtake the world with science
and engineering and data sharing and whatever. The issue is justin,
(06:11):
like you said, is whatever our opinion is wherever we
are in this messy process of technology. If China or
another country owns this and as and as four times
or ten times ahead of us, which could happen quickly
as this technology snowballs, it's inevitable that we're going to
fall into the dust. You know what if Germany had
that nuclear weapon? Right, everybody regrets nuclear weapons in the
(06:35):
sense of the danger in the nuclear war. But would
we all be Germany today, justin if if we didn't
have that nuclear weapon and if World War two didn't happen.
I just well, yeah, that's a that's a hard thing
to think about it.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I just can't. We're on this is this is my
biggest concern. We're on the precipice. We might even be
about we playing to be jumping off the cliff right
now and building our wings, you know, or the parachute,
you know, so to speak. We're like on the precipice
of this thing. And I just don't think there's been
(07:11):
enough thought about this by certain people, yes, but not
by the average person. Like how is this going to
affect that people are talking about losing jobs and what
that might look like, and also the control aspects of this.
You know, you get something like this built and think
about what it can do to control society in ways
that no man has ever probably ever been able to accomplish.
(07:35):
You know, if Hitler or any of those man or
any of those people have the opportunity to do what
they're they're going to be able to do to everyone
at some point, that's a really terrifying perspective. And I
think it definitely deserves to be a little further examined.
Now we've heard about taking jobs, but how about jobs
(07:58):
that you're going to need people for, and how one
of these jobs Trent is hiring. In fact, he needs
somebody to come work with him at Grand River Tech. Trent,
this is your essentially IT solutions company. This is the
company where you guys do all kinds of great security work, cybersecurity,
but you also do you know, video camera security, things
(08:19):
like that, security systems, things of that nature. You do
a whole slew of things that folks may not even realize.
But this is a solutions for organizations, churches, schools, your factory,
whatever it might be. This is how Trent works with
people throughout West Michigan to help them get whatever it
is done that they need to get done. And you're
(08:39):
looking for help yourself right now, it sounds like you're hiring.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Right justin Yes, we're looking for somebody who is a
hard worker, somebody that loves technology, loves helping people walk
through the difficulties of technology. A lot of things we
talk about we work on behind the scenes here and
it's a rewarding job to make sure that small businesses, churches,
and schools that their technology works so that they don't
have to have all the stress to deal with the
kind of things that sometimes we are afraid over, complain about,
(09:07):
or frustrated with. Behind the scenes, we make sure they
can just get their job done in the real world.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Now, my question for you would be this, what's the
best way for somebody to get in touch with you
and maybe reach out and see if they can work
with you.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, so you can just email me directly Trent at
Grandrivertech dot com if you're interested or know somebody that's interested.
Spread the word. It's a great, satisfying, rewarding career helping
people out.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Trent. Can there be affordable eyestore like Michigan Drive and
stand out Grand River Tech as well. Grand rivertech dot
com is the website if you want to reach out
and ask more. All right, one last story, and I'm
not going to spend a lot of time on this,
but i do want to mention it so that you
know what is happening behind the scenes. We've talked about
it and touched on it before, but over the weekend,
(09:55):
elon Must introduced a new feature on acts that let
people see where their accounts or accounts they followed were
located where they were coming from. And one of the
things that they discovered is lots of these accounts, some
high profile accounts ended up looking like maybe they're bought
or foreign influenced type accounts. Now some accounts that were
(10:18):
actual people look like they may have gotten caught up
in this using a VPN themselves. So there's another aspect
to this that maybe Trent can explain what that is
and why that is. But I just want you to
know when you're interacting with people on social media, whatever
that website would be, there's a chance, probably a good
(10:38):
chance that person you're arguing with isn't real.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, Justin, this is long long overdue. They should have
been this many years ago. It's just a little basic
accountability helps people see where people are coming from. But
I will, like you mentioned Justin, take this a little
bit with a grain of salt. So Apple has a
free built in VPNs that can spoof your location by
default supposed to do that to stop advertising. There's any
other third part VPNs do that Secured web browsers have
(11:04):
VPNs built in, it's going to not have accurate locations
for many people, and it could be for legitimate reasons.
But I do think it's a good thing that people
can realize where these are coming from, so you can
ask the question. And those who aren't using a VPN
and have a local location that can be spoofed too
to make it look like it's your neighbor when they
(11:24):
are on the other side of the world. So good tool,
great to look at, it great to think about, but
don't just take that as truth for both ways. If
somebody shows up as your neighbor or vice versa on
the other side of the world, there might be a
reason for that.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, and again, please, you got to realize there's a
lot of foreign what we've found, a lot of foreign interest.
That is number one. What their goal is is to
foment people arguments division in this country, even between the
right itself certainly the left and right. But that's what
(12:00):
they want, is they want us fighting each other. And
so a lot of times when you see people online
just making those sense it's not just the day of
the extreme case of Trump's arrangement syndromes. That's the possibilities. Well,
but sometimes it might be that that they're not even
real that they're a bot in fact, Trent, always a pleasure,
my friend. Thank you for taking the time and walking
(12:21):
us through some of the biggest stories in tech of
the week. Always a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Thanks Justin, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
You got it. Affordableized Store Lake, Michigan, Drive in Standell
and Grand River Tech, Grandivertech dot com as well. Always
a pleasure.
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