Theresa Payton | Positive A.I. news | Presidential A.I. challenge

Cyber Security Expert Theresa Payton joins Bo and Beth to talk about some positive news regarding A.I. as First Lady Melania Trump announces the Presidential A.I. challenge for K-12 students. Plus, Theresa shares a few tips that could helped Beth last night during the GMBT fantasy draft. 

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Newstock eleven ten WBT on your Wednesday, August twenty seventh,
Bo Thompson, Beth Troutman in the historic Tyboid Studio, bringing
on what we always do. Who we always bring on
at this time each week. Teresa Payton, founder of Forderless Solutions,
nationally recognized and in demand for her cyber security acumen.

(00:28):
No telling what her schedules looking like this week. It's
always interesting to find out if she's actually in Charlotte,
or she's you know, across the pond, or you know,
in space or somewhere like that. Teresa, good morning to you.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Good morning. I'm a beautiful Charlotte this week. Next week
I've headed to New York City.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Well, you know, we have so many weeks lately. When
we come on, we talk about some really depressing headline
about AI, right, artificial intelligence, how it's going to gobble
us up before it's all done. I want to start
with some See we actually have some good AI. I

(01:07):
mean it's not Friday, because you have this new feature
on Friday, THEREESA. We call us tell us something good,
you know, tell us good news hanging into the weekend.
But we're on, you know, we're hump Day, we had
the weekend in sight. So let's start this week with
some positive AI news. Actually several stories here, but the
first one I want to hit is something that the
First Lady of the United States, Milania Trump, is doing.

(01:28):
And we had Charlotte Mecklenburg schools starting a few days ago.
Most kids across the country are back in class and
this year, to start things off, K through twelve students
will be part of or can be part of the
First Lady's AI Challenge. As I understand it.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yes, so K through twelve students and educators are invited
to participate. It's the Presidential AI Challenge and First Lady
Milania Trump kicked it off yesterday. For those of you
with school age kids, you should be asking your principles,
your teachers if your school is going to participate. It
sounds like an incredible opportunity and everybody can check it

(02:09):
out at AI dot gov at the Initiative Presidential Challenge.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Speaking of education in AI, I don't know if you
saw this headline, Teresa, but I was reading about this
this morning in the Washington Post AI in schools. The
headline is for sixty five thousand dollars a year, a
teacherless AI private school comes to Virginia. Teresa's like, there

(02:38):
are a lot of problems I see here, so like
want wall, what's to go wrong there?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
What I love about the opportunity with AI is you
could create classes where you have a teacher guiding each
of the students, creating a customized AI plan, going over
a lesson for everybody, and then letting everybody spend thirty
minutes working on their own. So for some kids, where

(03:05):
they might be more advanced in their thinking, they can
go as far as they can go with the AI,
hold up their hand, ask the teacher questions. As well
as students who might be struggling with a concept or topic,
they can spend a time a little bit deeper and
have AI coaching them, showing them how to solve the answer,
teaching them how to solve the answer, and encouraging them

(03:27):
and sort of be almost like that teaching assistant in
the classroom. I don't love the idea of students just
interacting with AI all day for their learning. I think
you have to have a human in the loop. I
believe for the best level of learning as well as
collaboration amongst the students, socialization, all the other great things

(03:50):
that come from being in person for school.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
So we started with students here, let's talk about adults
who may have These are some AI tools that may
be positive in your life. Something you may not have
heard of. Google's Gamma three two hundred and seventy m Am,
I pronouncing that right?

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, So what's really cool about this? This is basically today,
if you want to run kind of your own AI
chatbot that gets to know you and has information you're uploading,
you're kind of doing that out in the wild, sort
of in the public models, in public domain. Google is
going to allow you to download it to your phone,

(04:28):
So for those of you that are concerned about sort
of privacy and security, it's going to be a very
efficient open source AI model, but it's all going to
be resident and running on your smartphone. So it's kind
of a cool way to be able to access your information,
to search your own phone, to search other things, and

(04:49):
to sort of have it right there in your pocket.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
I just saw something that you sent me just before
we got on the air, And you must have been
listening to our earlier segment about the best Fantasy Football
this last night.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Where were you last night, Theresa, Well.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
So, according here's another Google tool that maybe at your
fingertips here. Google Gemini offers AI powered fantasy football draft
basically assistance, as I understand it, Teresa, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, so I heard your draft was fun and interesting,
and we've got our draft coming up at our company,
and so we've actually told people you're allowed to have
AI generated team, but you must disclose whether or not
you picked your team, used AI in the building of
your team, or used AI and put it on autopilot.

(05:39):
So I thought, well, you know, since you had your
draft last night, I went to Google Gemini and asked
it to recommend some dedicated AI tools and apps. So
they recommend Fantasy Football Draft, Wizard, Draft Punk, Draft Edge,
and Walters Picks. And this is AI learning to help
those that might be struggling with their draft. They just need,

(06:01):
you know, a little hell but little assistant coach to
help them with their their pick.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
I so needed this last night, Teresa. I bet AI,
you know, because it scrubs the entire world in order
to get information. I bet it's using my draft picks
to help you know, assess you.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Thought it was called Walter's Picks. It's actually best picks.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Hey, when we have our draft, I'm going to go
look for that.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh not best a Sorry, Teresa. That is all the
time we have today. We appreciate you as always. People
can follow you and continue the discussion online if need
be sometimes on x at tracker. Peyton and she of
course the founder of Forderless Solutions, thank you so much
and have happy drafting.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yes, it's always great to be with you, Beth, and
both be safe out there.