Unlock the secrets behind the transformative power of artificial intelligence, the buzz around DeepSeek, and the impact of AI-generated books on human creativity. As we relay insights from the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, discover how global leaders and tech experts are shaping the future of AI. We also touch on the intriguing and somewhat humorous endeavor of AI trying its hand at writing, and the serious implications it holds for the creative industry. Meanwhile, pressing cybersecurity concerns underscore a pivotal moment for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, with staffers urged to hold off on resignations amid federal downsizing.
Get ready to have your curiosity piqued as we explore the fascinating world of smart glasses. Gwen Way returns with two must-see gadgets that add another layer of excitement for our tech-savvy audience. We also delve into personal experiences with Chinese online marketplaces like Temu, reflecting on the challenges of product fulfillment and what it means for global commerce.
Is the Amazon Alexa subscription service worth the buzz or just another case of subscription fatigue? As we look forward to Amazon's upcoming event, we explore the potential of Alexa's new capabilities and the reaction to a possible $10 monthly fee.
From our entertaining whiskey-tasting session to the nostalgic origins of the term "podcast," we promise a memorable journey through technology's latest trends and debates. Tune in for a blend of insightful analysis, engaging segments like Mike's Mesmerizing Moment and Nathan's Nugget, and of course, our top-of-the-month whiskey tasting, all designed to keep you connected and informed.
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Speaker 1 (01:32):
Now on today's show.
Nathan Mumm (01:36):
All right.
Well, welcome to Studio 401.
That's right, Studio 401.
We're excited to be here.
We're in a new studio.
Last week's episode, if you gotit, was Nathan unplugged, so
now we are here ready to go.
Mr Gorday, how do you like thenew studio?
Mike Gorday (01:54):
I already answered that question.
I'm going to take the fifth,all right.
Nathan Mumm (01:57):
Okay, well, we're in our new studio.
We're excited to be here.
Odie's got a bunch of new toysthat she's playing with, that
she got to get for the audioboard.
We got Mr Gorday here ready togo, and we got Mark that is
doing our top of the monthwhiskey tasting.
We're excited.
And now let's talk about whatwe actually have on the lineup
for today's show.
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Today, we have hot topics you'renot going to want to miss,
including.
The world leaders just wrappedup an artificial intelligence
action summit in Paris, wherethey tackled the future of AI
and its potential to reshape ourworld.
We'll give you some insidescoop of what was discussed and
why it matters.
Ever wonder what happens whenAI tries to hand write a book?
We're going to dive into thefantastic story of this, with
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the creative community buzzingand maybe a little bit terrified
.
Plus, there's some unsettlingnews from the cybersecurity
front.
The CISA staffers have beenordered to deferred resignation,
raising some serious questionsabout our digital defense.
And that's not all.
Gwenway is back with not one,but two exciting gadgets and
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gear items that I know she andmyself have been eyeing.
Trust you don't want to missher pick.
And of course, we have itaction-packed show with our
standard features, includingmike's mesmerizing moment, our
technology fail, the week ofpossible, nathan nugget and, of
course, our pick of the daywhiskey tasting that we've
selected.
Now.
Today is the top of the month,so we have four whiskeys.
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Look at that four whiskeys,mike in front of us.
So that's going to be, by thetime we get to the end of the
show, it's going to befantastically a little drunk or
a little tipsy, okay, yeah, allright, you know what?
Let's get ready to go into theheadline in the world of
technology.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Here are our top technology stories of the week.
Nathan Mumm (03:47):
All right.
Yesterday, the world leadersattended the first Artificial
Intelligent Action Summit inParis.
This is the third meeting thatthey've had regarding AI, and
let's go to Crenn Westland, formore on this story.
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Representatives from 80 countries, including world
leaders, tech bosses, academicsand other experts, gather for a
two-day global summit to discussprogress and future goals for
artificial intelligence, therapidly evolving, hugely
disruptive technology.
That might be on the officialagenda of the Artificial
Intelligence Action Summit, butsomething else is breathing fire
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into this particular discussion.
China is dramatically blowingthe AI competition in a new
direction with DeepSeek, thesuper-efficient and super-viral
AI assistant.
Suddenly, there's a feeling atthe summit that the pole
position once occupied by the USmight not be out of reach after
all.
Back to you guys in the newstudio.
Nathan Mumm (04:47):
All right, look at that.
Corinne even knows too.
All right, so let's talk aboutthis Now.
You know, nothing's better thansending the US Vice President,
jd Vance, and OpenAI Chief SamAltman to represent the United
States.
Now there is no Elon Musk there.
He's notably absent from theofficial guest list.
He's busy doing other things.
He's doing other things.
Yeah, that's right.
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All right Now.
There's been two previoussummits.
The first one was held in theUK and the second one in South
Korea.
A lot's happened since the AIworld gathered for the first
time.
Deep Seek, though, is the topiceverybody's talking about.
It's shaking up the ai sectorin a way that not even ai itself
might have predicted, and it'swiped a lot of money off the
value of these bigger players inthe united states with,
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supposedly, their processes.
Now, I'm certain there's goingto be a huge topic that will
continue even after theconference, but what I still
don't get and I talked aboutthis in my unplugged episode
last week is deep DeepSeek hasbeen down.
It has been down more timesthan actually up for this AI
intelligence.
So if I come out with a productand the product isn't working
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and it's never up, does thatreally kind of shape the market
that everybody needs to beconcerned about it, mike.
I mean, if you can't have anapp work, why there so much
concern about deep seek?
Do you think?
Mike Gorday (06:10):
well, clearly that's not a factor, because
deep seek has sent everybodyinto a tizzy about what's going
on in the ai world anyway.
So, uh, it's not a matter ofwhether or not it works, it's a
matter.
It's a matter of what.
It's not a matter of whether ornot it works, it's a matter of
what it's going to do toeverybody else's stuff.
So you know, everybody'sflipping out about it.
Nathan Mumm (06:33):
I still don't get deep seek.
So OpenAI has been out forreally kind of in the market now
for almost two years.
It's kind of funny that it'salmost been two years since AI
has really kind of come to themarket the last what is that?
I'd probably say eight months.
Openai, chatgpt all these nameshave come to be kind of
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synonymous with AI thateverybody uses each and every
day.
If you go to Microsoft Bing andyou do a search, that has a
co-pilot that comes up and itlets you search for different
stuff in AI that is built on theNVIDIA platform and we've
talked about this many timesthat is built on hardware that
is running out of computingspace.
And again, deepseek just copieda lot of the large language
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models that have already beendeveloped by OpenAI.
Say that it's running on lessersystems.
Say that they've done thissuccessfully.
There hasn't been tons of proof.
No one has actually had theability to see what their
initial investment was.
It was just an announcementthat's out there and yet this is
driving a global summit withinformation where people are
(07:40):
concerned about China gettinginto the AI movement because
they said they've done it forcheap and for less.
I I'm just so, so interested inhow this gets pressed.
Mike Gorday (07:51):
This is like this, this, this gets pressed because
it generates emotions okaythat's how that's how all this
stuff works.
If you can generate an emotion,you can get attention.
That's how that's how thesethings fly around into the top
uh tiers of media news feeds andeverything okay so, you know
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and china's known for this kindof thing, right, we?
we saw a lot of this during thepandemic where they were.
They would make some sort ofstatement about something and
everybody would, just, you know,absolutely lose their minds
over it yeah, and you have timuand you have these other places
that are selling stuff that'scheap.
Nathan Mumm (08:29):
Now I I've done a couple purchases on timu
recently uh, that's supposed toget them from china, and guess
what?
Two of those purchases thatI've done, I purchased a product
online.
They actually then came on backthis dirt cheap product that I
got some tablecloths like 300tablecloths for a big event that
I do and what happened is Iactually put the order in and
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they came back to me and thensaid that they couldn't fulfill
my order, so they had this pricelist there.
Then I went to another itemthat was available a little bit
higher in price, and they saidthat they couldn't fulfill that
one either.
But then the high price of likenine bucks, which is the same
price I could get in the unitedstates.
When I did that order, theysaid that they had that
available probably because theywere getting it from the united
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states.
Mike Gorday (09:11):
Is it okay?
That's what it is, all right,okay well, you know the thing?
The thing the thing is is thatthey people, they talk yeah, and
as soon as they open theirofficial mouths and start saying
things, everybody just sort ofwigs out about it.
Okay, all right, all right.
Nathan Mumm (09:26):
Well, you know what ?
Let's move on to story numbertwo.
You got that one, Mike.
What do we got?
Mike Gorday (09:30):
going on.
I don't know why you keepgiving me all these AI stuff.
Nathan Mumm (09:33):
Well, listen, come on, this is right up your alley
right.
Mike Gorday (09:38):
This is, this is this, yeah, it's okay well how
an ai written book shows whytech terrifies creatives.
Okay, what if, for christmas,you received an interesting gift
from a friend labeled my veryown best-selling book tech
explaining for dummies, that's?
That's a pretty cool title youlike that title.
It bears the name and photo onhis covers and it has glowing
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reviews.
Yet ai wrote it entirely with afew simple prompts applied by a
friend.
This happened happened to ZoeKleinman, and she goes on to
explain more of the book in theprocess.
She says it's an interestingread and very funny in parts,
but it's also meanders quite abit and somewhere between a
self-help book and a stream ofanecdotes.
It mimics her chatty style ofwriting, but it also a bit of a
(10:23):
repetitive and very verbose,which means wordy.
Nathan Mumm (10:26):
Okay for you wow it may, potato, potato buddy
potato, potato.
Mike Gorday (10:31):
All right, it may have gone beyond janet's prompts
and collating data about theperson.
Several sentences begin as aleading technology journalist,
which is cringe worthy.
Uh, could have been scrapedfrom an online bio.
There's also a mysteriousrepeated hallucination in the
form of a cat, which the personhas no pets, and there's a
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metaphor on almost every page,some more random than others.
There are dozens of companiesonline offering AI book writing
services and this book was frombook by anyone.
240 page paperback copy cost 26pounds.
Of course this this is a ukcoming from uk.
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Yep, the firm generates themusing its own ai tools based on
open source large languagemodels.
Legally, the copyright belongsto the firm, uh, but the
president stresses that theproduct is intended as a
personalized gag gift and thebooks do not get sold further.
He hopes to broaden his range,generating different genres such
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as sci-fi and perhaps offeringan autobiography service.
It's designed to be a light,lighthearted form of consumer AI
, selling AI generated goods tohuman consumers.
It's also a bit terrifying ifyou write for a living.
Marc Grégoire (11:55):
I don't.
Nathan Mumm (11:55):
I don't write for a living but you write for
passion, I write.
Mike Gorday (11:59):
I've, I've, I've been published, so I just don't
do it for a living.
The problem is is that I'veit's, I've been published, so I
just don't do it for a living.
The problem is that I've takenalmost at least a third of my
lifespan crafting the art ofwriting, okay, and the problem
that creatives have is that AIcan whip this out in probably
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less than a minute.
Marc Grégoire (12:22):
Yeah, that's pretty quick.
Huh, whip this out in probablyless than a minute, yeah that's
pretty quick, huh?
Mike Gorday (12:25):
Well, yeah, given the fact that if you've ever
written a book, it doesn't takea minute.
It takes months and months,months and months.
Yep, ed Newton Rex who I haveno idea who this is describes
this as insanity.
He points out that AI can makeadvances in areas like defense,
health care and logisticswithout trawling the work of
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authors, journalists and artists.
All these things work withoutgoing and changing copyright law
and ruining the livelihood ofthe country's creatives.
Creative industries are wealthcreators 2.4 million jobs are
listed.
The government is underminingone of its best performing
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industries on the vague promiseof growth.
Okay, so this is why thisbothers me.
It simply devalues humaningenuity and work and craft and
all the things that we do in alife, and as it progresses and
(13:34):
gets better at it, the lessvalue humans have in the way
that they can produce and workand do things.
Marc Grégoire (13:43):
Okay.
Nathan Mumm (13:44):
All right, so yeah now I did buy the very first ai
published book on amazon.
Mike Gorday (13:50):
Yeah, I think you also wrote your own, didn't you?
Nathan Mumm (13:54):
uh, I had one that was actually I didn't do I did.
Mike Gorday (13:57):
You did like a children's book.
Choose your own adventure.
Nathan Mumm (14:00):
Yes, that's right, choose your own adventure type
of deal and it was kind ofinteresting at the time.
I have not done it on the newuh uh chat gpt model.
I'm sure it gets better andbetter and better.
It's going to be interestingbecause I don't want to read a
sci-fi book that is AI generatedfor casual reading.
I do want to read somethingthat someone creates, instead of
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just some AI making up stuffRight now, that's still.
You're not going to get a goodAI book right now.
Mike Gorday (14:29):
It's always going to have some weird flaw or some
because it doesn't matter.
Nathan Mumm (14:34):
All of a sudden disappears and he dies.
Yeah, it doesn't.
It doesn't have any sense.
Mike Gorday (14:38):
The the, the thing that's that's working in our
favor, is that AI has no senseof morality or a sense of of
logical progression.
Yeah, Into progression, intohuman behavior.
So that's what we got going forus, for those of us who do
write for either a living or asa hobby, or whatever.
Nathan Mumm (14:58):
Okay, the story number three is going to make
you feel more uplifted.
I can tell you that, yeah, sure.
Mike Gorday (15:05):
I'm completely happy.
Love everything about AI allthe time.
All right, well, well, howabout cyber security?
Oh, this is my favorite.
So, if you're at our productionmeeting.
Nathan Mumm (15:16):
I I went off on uh our production meeting last week
.
I I I did for this show, so I Iapologized why, why, why do you
need to apologize?
Because I I really went off onon stuff and I normally like to
stay pretty neutral.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
But let's just talk about that the cisa staffers.
Nathan Mumm (15:34):
So these are our government cyber security
individuals that protect theunited states government.
Okay, that the that we talkedabout this.
Over the last four years.
Our previous president spent alot of time in actually putting
together some councils thatwould come on in make it easier
for people to share data,consolidated all the
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cybersecurity into one company.
Well, the CISA staffers wereoffered the deferred
resignations extending broadercybersecurity fears.
Employees at the Department ofHomeland Security, cybersecurity
and Infrastructure SecurityAgencies, or CISA, have been
(16:19):
given deferred resignationsoffers as part of the Trump
administration's broader effortto shrink the federal government
.
Cisa plays a key role indefending critical US
infrastructure.
However, last week, some CISAstaffers were given the
defending critical USinfrastructure.
However, last week, some CISAstaffers were given the offer
and just hours to decide whetherto accept it, according to
sources that spoke to manydifferent press outlets on
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conditions and amenity.
Mike Gorday (16:43):
This is happening all across the spectrum of
departments and divisions.
Nathan Mumm (16:48):
Yeah, and I'm only talking about the cybersecurity
aspects, right Cause we'retechnology, so there's.
I'm just going to keep it inthere.
D O G E staffers have beenentering federal agencies from
the state department to thetreasury department for the past
week, demanding access tosensitive files and systems and
prompting widespread protest andlegal challenges.
Now what's really interestingis they're going on in with hard
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drives.
They're going in with harddrives not encrypted hard drives
plugging them into thesesystems and copying down data
and information regardingtransactions.
What's going on?
And then leaving the premisethe secured premise to an
undislocated location thatnobody knows about, and then
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they're going to go through andreview all of this information.
So your information is beingtransferred.
Now the ranks of thecybersecurity experts within the
federal government might getthinner, and outside entities
without cleared credentials haveaccess to data without safety
guards.
Is this any worse than acybersecurity hacker getting
into our data, which then goesback to the whole idea I don't
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really care that China has mydata, and I'll say that again
and again.
Mike Gorday (17:59):
Well, yeah, that's probably where they got all
their deep-seek stuff.
Nathan Mumm (18:02):
Well, you know what or you know what?
Now I can just get it on anysite that will have my
information published.
I just that's killing me.
I hope that none of theexisting staff hopefully signed
any of the nine month orwhatever offers were to retire
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and hopefully we can keep oursecurity as our nation a top
priority for cybersecuritythreats.
We did a good job in the lastthree and a half years of not
having any real major breaksthat have come into our
government with our data.
Yeah, well you know thingschange, okay, well, that ends
our top technology stories ofthe week.
Moving on, we have our gadgetsand gear gal Gwen Wei on the
(18:44):
show, and she has not one, buttwo gadgets to review.
I'm interested in keeping myeye on this segment.
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Nathan Mumm (19:49):
Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm.
Our weekly show covers the toptechnology subjects without a
political agenda.
We verify the facts and we doit with a sense of humor, in
less than 60 minutes and, ofcourse, with a little whiskey on
the side.
Today, mark Gregoire, ourwhiskey connoisseur, is back and
as a start of the monthtradition we're going to have
our four tastings here.
Mark, tell us what we are doingin our second round of tastings
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for the calendar.
Marc Grégoire (20:15):
All right, I'm going to remind our viewers that
we are using the 2024 FlavorWhiskey Advent Calendar 24
remarkable whiskeys to use forour year-long blind whiskey
competition to see which oneNathan and Mike like best.
Now come along for the rideonce every month while they
uncover new tastes and traintheir senses to try and become
(20:36):
true connoisseurs.
Today is round two oh, reallyRound two where they're going to
choose the winner to move on tothe semifinals.
If they disagree, I will be thedeciding vote.
Oh Now, today, all four of thesamples are bourbon.
Bourbon is named after the Houseof Bourbon, a powerful French
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dynasty.
Now, in response to 1791'sWhiskey Rebellion, george
Washington decided toincentivize the disgruntled tax
evading settlers to movesouthwards to Kentucky, then
still part of Virginia.
The governor, thomas Jefferson,doled out 60 acres of land to
each Pennsylvanian transplantwho agreed to produce native
corn American whiskey on theirland Corn squeezings.
(21:19):
Jefferson Christianed the newsettlement Bourbon County after
the French Bourbon Dynasty,which held court over Spain and
most of Italy in the 18thcentury.
Once the whiskey startedflowing, distillers began
shipping their wares down theMissouri and Ohio rivers,
stamping Bourbon County on eachbarrel to mark its origin and
(21:41):
ultimately giving the drink itspermanent name.
Nathan Mumm (21:46):
Fair enough, all right.
Marc Grégoire (21:48):
So these are their four contenders.
Look at the yellow bottle,yellow ball is drink them go
through each four and then makesure the next time go back the
other direction.
I've done that okay, so that.
Nathan Mumm (21:57):
So this is yellow.
It's got a darker color but.
I can just take a look at it,that I'm tasting here and this
has a pretty bitter little tastehere, but I I do like the blue
is a little bit smoother.
So I get the bite with theyellow and then I got the
smoothness from the blue.
It kind of just goes all theway down from bite, a little bit
(22:19):
of bite, okay bite, intonothing.
There you going to play, you'replaying with your little sound
effects there.
All right, there we go.
Okay.
Well, mark, do you have one ofthese that is your favorite?
Oh, yes, I do.
You do.
I do.
I have them all ranked.
You have them all ranked.
Mike Gorday (22:37):
I kind of like the first one but I don't know if
you set up the, that was the oneyou really had this weird
reaction to.
Nathan Mumm (22:43):
It looks like it's the by looking at it, it looks
like this is bad.
All right, now, with ourwhiskey tasting completed, let's
move on to our feature segment.
Today we have Gwen Wei joiningthe show.
She's an expert incybersecurity, near in the game
and a game board geek in theevenings, as well as a producer
of Tech Time Radio and ourGadgets and Gear Gal.
Let's get ready to start ourComcast video stream to start
our next segment.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
What's new in our Gadgets and Gear?
All right, what's new?
Nathan Mumm (23:09):
in our gadgets and gear.
All right, welcome back to theshow gwen.
For all those that are newlisteners, tell them a little
bit about yourself sure thing.
Gwen Way (23:18):
Uh, as you say, I work in cyber security.
I've been doing technology workfor about 25 years now and I
love it.
There's just always somethingnew to find all right, perfect,
perfect, perfect, all right.
Nathan Mumm (23:39):
So this is going to be really interesting today,
because I actually told you thatI was actually looking at one
of these projects to invest inbefore you even brought it up.
But you have two differentitems, so explain why you're
kind of going a little rogue.
We like that, but you're kindof going a little rogue.
What are we going to be talkingabout today?
Gwen Way (23:54):
So we are talking about AI glasses or smart
glasses.
We've kind of touched on themin the past, but we haven't
really found any that I thoughtlived up to the gadgets and
gears level.
We've got the old standbystandby.
I think it was google that cameup with some glasses that were
just extremely heavy and veryobvious and nobody really very
(24:18):
controversial very controversial, exactly, exactly, and it's
just interesting to watch kindof the technology evolve and
change as we get more, morethings available to make them
more wearable, more comfortableand capable of doing even more
things.
Nathan Mumm (24:37):
All right.
So one of these I really like,one of these I almost invested
with before even having you onthe show, but I haven't backed
any of these yet.
So I'll just tell you none ofthese have been backed yet, but
I'm going to take your expertiseto help us decide what I'm
going to back.
One of these is going to get mybacking by the end of today, so
you're going to need to tell uswhat are we going to start out
(24:58):
with our first classes?
What is that?
Gwen Way (25:01):
Okay, the first one is by a company called Halliday,
named after James Halliday fromReady Player One.
Okay, this is actually probablythe most technologically
advanced version that we'regoing to be talking about today.
Uh, and it includes one thingthat the other doesn't, and that
is an actual display.
(25:21):
So with this, you would be ableto actually call up things and
see visually on the screen infront of you.
Uh, kind of cool thing aboutthat.
Uh, in the past it's been veryeasy for other people to tell
that you're watching things andoftentimes see what you're
watching, but this actually hassome security built into the
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lenses so that you other peopleare not able to see the display.
Nathan Mumm (25:45):
Okay, okay.
So if I'm looking at the, Ithink it, I I think it's a green
screen type of overlay.
Is that right?
Gwen Way (25:53):
That is correct, okay.
Mike Gorday (25:54):
So I can sit in my meetings and watch YouTube.
It doesn't quite have thatinterface yet right.
Nathan Mumm (26:00):
It's not quite there, but they are working on
it.
Yeah, okay.
Mike Gorday (26:04):
All right.
What good is it then if I can'tsit around in my meetings and
do other things?
Nathan Mumm (26:09):
Yeah, you're supposed to go to meetings and
actually pay attention to whatyou're doing.
Okay, all, right, okay, allright, so you work for the
government.
All right, so now.
So that's the first glasses.
What's the second pair?
Let's talk about the secondpair.
Gwen Way (26:21):
The second pair is actually more about kind of a
traditional smart glass.
You're able to use ai and askquestions, listen to answers and
take pictures and video okaythere are two things, though.
This is actually from a companycalled lumos okay which is
(26:42):
somewhat familiar.
This is a division of charge,and we actually have uh talked
about their gadgets before.
This is the uh starship sear,which is a battery pack.
We also shouted out the shark 2, which I think both of us
actually ended up yeah, we didyep, so so you got one company.
Nathan Mumm (27:02):
So this is kind of cool because, yeah, one company
that's actually delivered on acouple kickstarters and is known
as a technology company, comingout with what I would consider
not a lower end, but it doesn'thave all the same feature
functionality as the top branddoes.
The top brand was the one thatI was looking at to possibly
back, and I think there wasalready 2 million.
We'll get into these numbers.
(27:23):
So I think there's like 2million in finances that have
been committed to thisKickstarter.
So I mean, that's not like aKickstarter, that's like
creating a brand new businessfor this type of deal.
So let's now, since I kind oftalked about it, let's go into
each of these.
Let's talk about the high endversion and this is the holiday
(27:44):
and talk about how many backers,how many days are left, kind of
what you get, and then we'll dothe Loomis, which is the
company that we have alreadygotten stuff from.
Gwen Way (27:55):
Not a problem.
So the holiday already has5,500 backers and is, as you
said, over $2 million pledgedfor this.
Okay, it is open until March8th 2025.
So you still have a fair amountof time if you want to do your
research and make your decisionof which one you want.
There are a couple of thingsabout this.
(28:17):
It is using a proprietary AIwhich is similar to ChatGPT, but
not actually one of the AItechnologies that we are
familiar with.
It does have a longer lastingbattery, which is nice, but
doesn't really have a way toeasily recharge on the go.
Nathan Mumm (28:38):
Okay, so tell me about that.
How do you charge that unit?
Gwen Way (28:41):
You would actually have to plug it into a special
charging unit.
Okay, it's got a 12-hourbattery life, so you're probably
going to be okay for one day,yeah, but definitely you would
need to have it back on thecharger that night in order to
be ready for the next day, andthat's kind of interesting
because you know with glasses ifyou're going to use an AI
(29:01):
glasses or standard glasses.
Nathan Mumm (29:04):
12 hours may seem like a lot of time.
That's not necessarily a lot oftime, right, because you keep
your glasses on until you go tobed at night and then you get up
in the morning you put yourglasses on.
So a 12 hour stent would be Iprobably 14, 15 hours that I
have my glasses on, if I hadglasses that were available
there.
Gwen Way (29:22):
So Exactly, so that's something to keep in mind.
Okay, One thing that is niceabout both of these models I
want to touch on both of themfor a second is that they both
can have prescription lenses putin.
Nathan Mumm (29:36):
Okay.
Gwen Way (29:37):
Which means that you're going to be able to use
them as your everyday glasses.
Now, the Halidays, you willhave to get the lenses from them
, because it does include someof the technology for the
heads-up display.
Nathan Mumm (29:50):
All right, okay, okay.
Gwen Way (29:51):
Technology for the heads-up display All right, okay
, okay, going to the Lumos theyalso are at just over 5,500
backers.
They are sitting just under 1.5million brought in and you'll
find that the difference on thatis that they are less expensive
, probably because they do notinclude the display.
Okay, Okay is that they areless expensive, probably because
(30:14):
they do not include the display.
Okay, they are actually usingchat GPT-4.0.
Nathan Mumm (30:17):
Okay.
Gwen Way (30:18):
So we know that that is a pretty standard platform.
Exactly and has been testedextensively.
It's got a fairly good learningmodel at this point and most
but not all hallucinations aretaken care of.
Nathan Mumm (30:35):
Okay, that makes sense, all right, so quick recap
.
The expensive pair is how muchto do Kickstarter.
Gwen Way (30:42):
Right now you can get the expensive pair for $3.99 as
an early bird special.
Nathan Mumm (30:49):
And the inexpensive pair.
Gwen Way (30:50):
The inexpensive pair you can get for $199, or you can
also get one with a power bankthat you wear around your neck
for $249 to extend the length ofusability.
Nathan Mumm (31:02):
All right Now the most important aspect here are
you going to buy one of these?
Gwen Way (31:07):
I am eyeing those Lumos We've had such good
results with charge uh in thepast.
I, I love my seer, I love mycharge bank uh, yeah, I, I
really like them and I don'tthink that, at least right now,
that heads-up display isactually going to be as
functional as it could be, thatmakes sense.
Nathan Mumm (31:27):
That makes sense, and you know, and you get chat g
, which is a known product foryour AI.
I am going to probably leanthat way now too.
All right, okay, gwen, I youknow what.
It's always great having you onthe show.
So let me ask what do you havecoming up for next month?
So and this is Valentine'smonth, right?
So this is February, so you canget your, your, your loved one,
some glasses with ai.
(31:48):
What a perfect gift.
What are you looking at to getfurther better, yeah, that's
right, so you can see each otherbetter.
What are you looking at for, uh, uh, next month?
You already have something onthe horizon, or are you still
looking?
Gwen Way (31:59):
I'm still looking right now.
So if any of the listeners outthere want to shoot us some
messages and maybe give ussuggestions, I'm more than happy
to take those, but I'm surewe'll have something fun All
right, that sounds great.
Nathan Mumm (32:12):
All right, gwen, we thank you so much for being a
part of the show.
We always look forward toseeing you.
Can't wait to see you nextmonth and thank you so much for
all that you do, as a producerAlso, of our show, each and
every week thank y'all and uhhave good days all right all
right, bye.
That ends our gadgets and gearup.
Next we have mike's mesmerizingmoment.
(32:34):
Welcome to mike's mesmerizingmoment.
What does mike have to saytoday?
All right, mike, so you knowwhat I I do have.
I have a nice book here.
Let me tell you the threads ofchaos available on amazon, you
know.
Do you know what?
I do have a nice book here.
Let me tell you the Threads ofChaos available on Amazon.
Do you know anything about thisbook?
I know nothing.
You know nothing about thisbook.
(32:56):
Look at that A big picture ofMr Gorday on the back.
So my question for you is howdo creative writers leverage AI
in this changing landscape sothat they don't lose their
creativity but can still usesome of the tools that are
available for them to besuccessful?
Mike Gorday (33:12):
I think I think, from a writing aspect, I think I
would use it to check mygrammar.
Okay, you know I'm I thatthat's one of the hardest pieces
of of writing is grammarchecking and spelling checking.
And unless it can edit things,I mean, I'm not gonna lie.
(33:34):
If you go on on amazon and justdownload some books, yeah,
you're gonna find a whole lot ofpeople that don't know how to
write.
Okay, because that's what.
That's what today's technologyhas done.
Everybody writes a book.
They can put it on Amazon andthen it's not edited.
(33:57):
It has horrible spelling errors, they're not well put together.
Okay, so you can use it forspelling.
Mine was edited.
Stop looking.
All right, okay, it was yoursedited.
I was just going to go throughthere and start reading.
It was edited.
Marc Grégoire (34:07):
Okay, all right, okay, so you can use it for
spelling.
Mine was edited.
Mike Gorday (34:08):
Stop looking.
All right, okay, it was yoursedited.
Nathan Mumm (34:10):
I was just going to go through there and start
reading.
Mike Gorday (34:11):
It was edited.
Nathan Mumm (34:12):
Okay, all right, okay, well, there you go.
Well, thank you, mike, for yourmesmerizing moment.
Up next we have this week intechnology, so now would be a
good time to enjoy a littlewhiskey on the side that we
Nathan Mumm.
See you in a few minutes.
Hey, mike.
Mike Gorday (34:26):
Yeah, what's up?
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Hey, so you know what.
Mike Gorday (34:28):
We need people to start liking our social media
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Is it Patreon?
I think it's Patreon.
Okay, patreon, if you reallylike us, you can like us on.
Patreoncom.
I butcher the English language,you know you butcher the
English language all the time.
It's patreoncom.
Nathan Mumm (34:50):
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Mike Gorday (34:52):
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You know, the one that Zuckerberg owns, the one
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Yeah, we're on Facebook too.
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That's it.
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Speaker 1 (35:33):
And now let's look back at this week in technology.
Nathan Mumm (35:39):
All right, we're going to the Wayback Machine
here.
We're going to February 11th2004.
This was the first use of theword podcast.
In an article called AudibleRevolution, published by the
Guardian on this date, benHammersley described the trend
of amateur radio on the internet.
With no established names forthe new phenomenon, hammersley
(36:03):
suggested the terms audioblogging, guerrilla media and
podcasting.
Given the popularity of theApple iPod and how many people
were using the iPod to listen tothese pre-recorded audio shows,
the term podcast stuck, and therest is history.
Well, speaking of history,guess what?
You can take a look at over230-plus weekly broadcasts
(36:26):
spanning our four plus years ofvideos, podcast and blog
information at techtimeradiocomto watch our older shows.
We're going to take anothercommercial break and when we
return we have Mark's mumblewhiskey review.
See you after this.
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Speaker 1 (37:18):
The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's
Whiskey Mumble.
(37:27):
All right.
Marc Grégoire (37:28):
All right, all right.
Today, what is February 11th toyou?
What are you celebrating?
February 11th, payday, payday.
Nathan Mumm (37:38):
February 11th.
So that would be.
Isn't Valentine's Day the 12th?
Mike Gorday (37:42):
No.
Nathan Mumm (37:43):
What's Valentine's?
Day the 14th the 14th, okay,all right, valentine's.
Marc Grégoire (37:46):
Day.
Sorry, tracy, yeah.
Nathan Mumm (37:50):
Well, don't get me going on that Hallmark holiday.
Mike Gorday (37:55):
We don't need to listen to him rant about
Valentine's Day.
Nathan Mumm (37:59):
That's right, all right.
So I don't know, it's got to besome type of we got whiskey, we
got Mark.
I'm going to say it's some typeof Roman type of holiday.
I'm going to go back and it'slike some Roman holiday.
Marc Grégoire (38:16):
Do you have a big no?
Mike Gorday (38:19):
Are we going to get an audio clue today?
Ody (38:22):
No, he is right on the money though.
Nathan Mumm (38:23):
Am I on the money?
Oh, 100%, that's because helooked it up.
Marc Grégoire (38:27):
I have not.
I have not looked it up.
It is Don't Cry Over SpilledMilk Day.
Oh, that's not quite the same.
Nathan Mumm (38:33):
I don't know, I was excited, I know.
Marc Grégoire (38:36):
Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day.
So if you think a day on thecalendar dedicated to not crying
over spilled milk sounds silly,I have a sign.
Nathan Mumm (38:43):
So do we?
I have a sign that says Don'tcry over spilled milk.
It could be worse, it could bewhiskey.
Have you seen that sign?
Yes, I have.
Mike Gorday (38:49):
Yeah, that's alcohol abuse.
Nathan Mumm (38:50):
Yeah, okay, okay, well, sorry, Keep on going.
Marc Grégoire (38:52):
Yeah, here it is right on our calendar every
February 11th Don't cry overspilled milk day.
Are you wondering who evercries over spilled milk, except
for little tykes?
Could Nathan or Mike be cryingover spilled milk?
(39:12):
Did I would, yeah, yeah, well,I do not cry over spilled milk.
However, as nathan says, if wewere to spill our whiskey here,
yeah, there'd be a chance Iwould cry.
That would be too okay, nowhere are four whiskeys unspilled
that we are tasting today okay,I'm still between my blue and
yellow.
Nathan Mumm (39:22):
I think I think green is now going out.
But okay, tell us about what wegot.
Marc Grégoire (39:26):
So let's, let's talk about your blue and your
yellow then.
So blue is Bullhead Bourbon.
This is from Spirits LabDistillery in Newburgh, new York
.
It's straight bourbon, fiveyears, 90 proof.
It is 70% corn, 20% wheat, fivemalted barley, which is a
strange mash bill because thatonly adds up to 95%.
There's another secret, 5% outthere and it is 45 dollars, okay
(39:50):
, okay.
And then the yellow one isbarrel foundation from barrel
craft spirits.
It's a blend of kentucky,indiana, tennessee and maryland.
Uh, straight bourbons, all fromthose different states okay,
how much is that?
five to nine years blend.
It's a hundred proof.
73% rye, so it's kind of a highrye bourbon.
(40:10):
4% malted barley, that is $60.
Okay, okay, now we go to thegreen.
Yeah, that is BreckenridgeDistillers High Proof.
Oh, so, from BreckenridgeDistillery, which is from
Colorado.
It is a bourbon.
It's roughly two years old, itis 105 proof, the match bill is
(40:31):
unknown and 60.
Okay, and then your red.
I eliminated that.
First for me is templetonfortitude bourbon.
Oh, I actually know that nametoo.
Okay, yeah, so this is from thetempleton distillery in
templeton, iowa it is straightbourbon.
It is unaged stated but it's atleast four years old.
It is 92 proof 55% corn, 40%rye, so really a high rye,
(40:54):
that's the high rye, okay, andmalted barley 5%, $45.
Mike Gorday (41:01):
Mark, you have destroyed my bourbon thing.
Nathan Mumm (41:06):
Which one are you voting for?
The high rye, did you like thered one so?
Mike Gorday (41:10):
far, Mike.
Yeah, I can't decide whether Ilike the red one or the yellow
one.
Marc Grégoire (41:13):
Okay, okay, all right, okay, well, there you go
All right, so you guys may havea different number one.
I may have to be the tie driver.
I have them ranked.
Okay, okay, so whichever oneranks higher of your two moves
on.
Oh no, or we could cheat andmove them both on.
Nathan Mumm (41:28):
No, no, no.
I don't mind that either.
We don't have any ties here.
They don't have any ties, we'llgo for it All right.
Well, you know what Whiskey andtechnology are a great pairing,
just like hot chocolate in asnowy winter day.
Oh, that's nice, all right.
Ody (41:43):
Okay, real quick.
I really enjoyed your pairinglast week.
Nathan Mumm (41:48):
Okay.
Ody (41:48):
Of the Muppets.
Nathan Mumm (41:49):
Yeah.
Ody (41:49):
Yeah, I wanted to give you a shout out for that, oh thank
you.
Nathan Mumm (41:52):
Yeah, okay, what was it it had?
Ody (41:55):
something to do with like oh.
Nathan Mumm (41:56):
Puppets and Muppets .
Ody (41:58):
Oh.
Nathan Mumm (41:59):
It was a puppet, I thought it was a Jim Henson and
the Muppets no it was like.
Marc Grégoire (42:07):
And then the Muppets Odie, yours is better
pairing.
Ody (42:12):
Yeah, thanks for ruining that moment for me.
Nathan Mumm (42:13):
Did you know that Disneyland is getting rid of the
Disney World.
Or Disney World.
Thank you, odie, it's gettingrid of the Muppet.
Ody (42:20):
Muppet Vision.
Nathan Mumm (42:21):
Muppet Vision.
Ody (42:22):
In Hollywood Studios.
Nathan Mumm (42:23):
Yeah, and they're going to put them into the
roller coaster.
Ody (42:25):
Yeah, how dare they?
Mike Gorday (42:31):
But roller coaster, yeah how dare they?
Ody (42:32):
but yeah, yeah, disney doesn't seem to be able to make
good choices anyway, other thanthat being a technology fail.
What's the what's?
Oh, let's go on to ourtechnology fail.
Nathan Mumm (42:39):
We are out of time.
Congratulations, you're afailure oh, I failed.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
Did I yes, did I yes, I failed, did I yes, did I yes,
did I?
Nathan Mumm (42:51):
Yes, all right.
Nasa and world leadingscientists have spent the last
few weeks tracking to make anannouncement about a new
asteroid that they found out inspace Nice.
Is this an asteroid?
No, guess what it is.
It's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadstercruising through space that was
(43:13):
launched in 2018 from theFalcon Heavy rocket.
It's an actual car.
It's an actual car.
So Elon Musk is a part of hisrocket deal.
He launched a Tesla out therewith a driver.
It's like a dummy driver.
That's in there.
That is just out floating inspace.
Mike Gorday (43:31):
You know, if I were a billionaire, I would probably
do something like that.
Nathan Mumm (43:36):
Okay, well, less than days after astronomers
announced the discovery of a newasteroid, they issued a
correction.
So this is big.
They have put the hours intothis and they say that it's.
Almost $300 million have beenspent in hours of time tracking
this asteroid, which is spacejunk.
(43:56):
So the spacefaring objectwasn't a space uh waste of money
that elon musk caused.
Marc Grégoire (44:02):
That's what I'm saying.
They can you know if you're.
Mike Gorday (44:04):
If you're a billionaire, you're gonna waste
money on things.
I think throwing your car intoouter space, that's a pretty
good waste.
Nathan Mumm (44:11):
This is a car speeding through our galaxy.
It's the red Tesla Roadsterbelonging to Elon Musk.
Musk famously shot his personalvehicle into space on February
6, 2018.
His company, spacex, firsttested the launch of its Falcon
Heavy, considered the world'smost powerful rocket.
It took off with the Roadsteraboard as a payload headed
(44:31):
towards Mars.
Now, seven years later, onJanuary 2nd, the NPC said that
the asteroid was orbiting moreor less within 150,000 miles of
Earth, closer than the moon'sorbit, meaning that it qualified
for a classification as anear-Earth object.
It came with the notice.
The NPC is now erasing theasteroid from its record because
(44:55):
professionally amateurastronomers this is it, the
amateur astronomers high schoolkids.
High school kids knew that elonmusk's sports car was out there
and and they were the part ofthe rally cry to NASA and all
these scientists that thedesignation of 2018 CN41 is
(45:16):
being deleted and admitted.
The MPC says the globalauthority for identifying and
designating and tracking theposition of minor planets has
made a correction.
It's interesting because thecenter of this is located at the
Harvard Smithsonian Center forAstrophysics in Cambridge
Massachusetts.
A correction it's interestingbecause the center of this is
located at theHarvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics in CambridgeMassachusetts.
So you have all thesescientists and NASA and all
(45:38):
these other industries trackingthis asteroid.
And these young kids said youknow what, could it be Elon
Musk's car?
And they were found to be right.
What does that say?
Mike Gorday (45:49):
That sounds like a movie plot, it's not like a
movie plot.
Nathan Mumm (45:53):
Wait a minute, it's like Goonies 2.2.
Mike Gorday (45:57):
No no, that's the movie of that asteroid
destroying movie I've never seenthose sci-fi.
Nathan Mumm (46:03):
It's not Armageddon , it's Deep.
Mike Gorday (46:05):
Impact, deep Impact , wolf Biederman.
Nathan Mumm (46:08):
Yeah, didn't they drill on that one and then they
destroyed it?
So the drill helped it.
Mike Gorday (46:12):
No, that's Armageddon.
Stop mixing up your movies.
Marc Grégoire (46:15):
You're talking about crashes.
So I'm wondering, Nathan, doyou know if they know, since
you've talked about automatedcars all the time crashing,
where is this one going to crash?
Nathan Mumm (46:26):
So this is what's going to end up happening.
Elon Musk is going to send upsome space shuttle into space
and all of a sudden he's goingto run into his own car and
there's going to be this bigexplosion and then it's going to
be lost, it's going to crashinto the International Space
Station or something.
Mike Gorday (46:39):
I just what's that?
Nathan Mumm (46:41):
How's that car recharging?
Mike Gorday (46:43):
You know I mean Solar energy, buddy Solar energy
, all right.
Nathan Mumm (46:48):
Well, we're going to head out to our last
commercial break.
When we return, we have ourNathan Nugget and, of course,
our eluded picks of the day.
So sit back, raise a glass.
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Speaker 1 (47:20):
This is your Nugget of the Week.
Nathan Mumm (47:23):
All right, have you been getting a bunch of emails
for the Amazon event that iscoming on up?
If you put all of your invitesthat have come because there's
been five different withgraphics, you put all those
pictures together.
Guess what it spells?
It spells the word Alexa.
Now Amazon sent out fivedifferent invites for its
upcoming project event.
As we talked about, alexa is thekey word for Amazon's company's
(47:48):
digital voice assistance.
With some insider information,we can tell you this event will
be about Alexa's long-awaited AIfor its talking devices.
Oh, there's my poor Alexa'sgoing off right now.
Yep, alexa, stop, all right.
The Not so Good Investorsuggests that at the event,
which is being held on February26th in New York City, amazon
(48:11):
will launch the new generative,ai-powered version of its voice
assistant.
First announced in September of2023, this new voice has some
numerous delays, along withreported struggles to merge
Alexa's existing capabilitieswith the revamped voice
assistant, but it looks likeit's ready for go time now.
According to people familiarwith the matter, the upgrades
(48:33):
for alexa in this event willshow off new features, including
responding to multiple promptsin sequence and acting as an
agent on behalf of the user bytaking actions for them without
even being directly involved.
Okay, what does that mean?
So that means that you're justgoing to be sitting there
watching TV and then, all of asudden, she's going to just
(48:55):
decide to say, hey, mike how areyou doing?
Hey.
I don't know if she's going tobe saying hey, but I think she
will just come.
Speaker 7 (49:03):
What are you watching ?
What are you wearing?
Nathan Mumm (49:07):
You like Simpsons?
I want to hear more, more.
That's what it's going to endup doing, right?
Ody (49:10):
does this mean that we can have like real conversations
with the alexa now?
Mike Gorday (49:14):
I.
I think that's the whole ideamy conversation for for alexa is
ask a question, listen toanswer, yell at alexa for giving
me stupid information, havingthe thing beep and then me
tossing it across, oh so.
Nathan Mumm (49:29):
I think the idea is that you don't do that, that
the new uh service that iscoming from Amazon's uh device
and service division Now theformer head of this, david limp-
Wait, wait, wait, can't wait.
What's that?
Mike Gorday (49:43):
I I have a feeling.
Ody (49:45):
Yeah.
Mike Gorday (49:46):
They're going to be doing something to make more
money oh, that's right.
Nathan Mumm (49:50):
Guess what this new service?
This new service will cost youabout ten dollars a month for it
what yes to randomly ask youquestions.
Mike Gorday (49:59):
Yes, that, that's probably why alexa sucks so bad
right now because they're makingit.
So I'm gonna get so frustrated.
I'm gonna buy ten dollars amonth to use this device, so
you're gonna get it now you canstill hang on.
Nathan Mumm (50:08):
Hold on.
It says that they're gonnaallow you still, so I'm going to
get so frustrated.
I'm going to buy it $10 a monthto use this device, so you're
going to get it Now.
You can still hang on.
It says that they're going toallow you still to have the old
version as the free version, butthere could be a time when
there is a go no-go decisionwhere you're going to have to
pay for this service to continueto use your device.
Ody (50:24):
So you're telling me I'm going to now have to pay what I
already bought in advance to usethe voice commands.
Mike Gorday (50:30):
How about that?
Amazon is like a drug dealer.
You know what?
Ody (50:34):
I go from there, what I go to Google.
Okay, okay, google Blah, blah,blah, blah blah.
Marc Grégoire (50:39):
There you go, Bye .
Ody (50:40):
Alexa.
She's always wrong anyway.
Nathan Mumm (50:43):
Well, they're saying that this new step is
going to be a new.
Ody (50:46):
Man, I hate subscriptions.
Nathan Mumm (50:48):
Subscription freeze are so Okay, but you say that.
But okay, let me ask you do youhave a Netflix subscription?
Nope, Through T-Mobile yes,Okay, that's the way to do it.
Do you have the free versionthrough T-Mobile?
Do you know there's a freeversion?
Mike Gorday (51:01):
Yes, there's a free version that comes with that.
I don't know.
Nathan Mumm (51:09):
Do you pay for it because we're a multi-family
household?
Okay, and you?
Ody (51:11):
want the multi-family streams.
Nathan Mumm (51:11):
Okay, all right.
Mike Gorday (51:12):
At what point do we get so ticked off about all
this crap that we just push back?
Nathan Mumm (51:18):
Cable is now the cheapest service I can get.
Mike Gorday (51:21):
This is one of those things that I don't
understand why we don't getupset about.
Ody (51:27):
We do get upset, yeah, but we're not doing it.
We get upset about because, wedo get everybody but we just
yeah, but we're not doing.
Mike Gorday (51:30):
We get upset and we end up paying it because,
because it's a conveniencefactor.
So like amazon is acting like adrug dealer.
They're like saying here, tryour product, here it's free.
Yeah, you like it, right, okay,now.
Now we're going to charge you10 bucks a month to get it.
Well, that's what.
That's what we got there.
Nathan Mumm (51:52):
Well, the Nathan Nugget is just wait for the
meeting on February 14th,because that's when the big
Alexa bosses decide what they'regoing to do with this.
Ody (51:58):
That actually triggers me, because I just got a show pad
for Christmas.
I had waited Send an emailbefore February 14th.
Nathan Mumm (52:08):
Just send it to Amazon.
Go on to their customer serviceand say you better not freaking
charge for your device.
Ody (52:14):
Can we tell Alexa to do that?
I would switch to Google soquickly.
Nathan Mumm (52:18):
Google Gemini is getting better.
I'll just tell you.
It may be that that's asolution for you.
Ody (52:23):
Or.
Nathan Mumm (52:23):
Apple.
Yeah, alexa sucks.
Well, apple is going to own themarket because they're waiting
to be the very last person todevelop this technology, so
it'll probably be the best andit'll be the easiest and they'll
probably hook you for free.
Ody (52:34):
Amazon has lost another contender.
Nathan Mumm (52:37):
Yeah, but does Amazon really care?
I'm going to go home and askAlexa why she sucks.
Ody (52:40):
That's why nobody moves to like cable or what have you.
Yeah, think about it.
That's why I have cable yeah,think about it.
Nathan Mumm (52:50):
That's why I have cable.
Yeah, I guess you just get usedto it all right.
Well, you know what?
Speaker 1 (52:52):
now we're moving on mark to our pick of the day and
now our pick of the day for ourwhiskey tastings.
Nathan Mumm (53:01):
Let's see what bubbles to the top all right,
this is kind of like a uh threadof chaos here, so you're gonna
have to tell us what needs to bedone.
Let's look at that plug there.
Mike Gorday (53:10):
You gotta like very nice, there you go.
Very good, all right, get it onamazon, there you go well,
first of all, you gotta do itsoon ask alexa there you go all
right.
Marc Grégoire (53:19):
Well, after this train wreck, don't forget to
like and subscribe oh, there yougo, okay, thank you stop,
please comment.
Let us know what kind ofwhiskey you want to drink your
tag.
Nathan Mumm (53:26):
You do your tagline about heaven can wait.
Marc Grégoire (53:28):
I'm working up to it.
Now that these guys are havingfour whiskeys today, you guys
need to drink responsibly,because heaven can wait.
There you go, there you go Allright.
So we have the four whiskeyshere.
Which one is moving on to thefinals?
Is it Bullhead's Bourbon,Breckenridge Distiller's High
Proof, Templeton FortitudeBourbon or Barrel Foundation?
Nathan Mumm (53:47):
I kind of like yellow.
Yellow is my pick, I think.
Mike Gorday (53:50):
I'll go ahead and choose yellow too.
It's a lot milder than red.
I like the high rye versionMark before you reveal.
Ody (54:00):
does the ranking matter at all or is it just the number one
?
Marc Grégoire (54:04):
spot.
Just the number one spot moveson, the other ones fall out.
Mike Gorday (54:07):
Yeah, I think I'll go with yellow too.
It's mild, all right Wellyellow is Barrel Foundation.
Marc Grégoire (54:15):
Okay, that's the blend of straight bourbons from
Kentucky, indiana, tennessee andMaryland.
All right, five to nine yearsold, 100 proof, $60.
And you are turning intoconnoisseurs.
That was my number one, oh.
Nathan Mumm (54:30):
Good job, look at us, mike.
Way to go.
How about that?
All right, I like that.
Marc Grégoire (54:36):
I had yellow Barrel Foundation, number one.
I had the red, which isTempleton Fortitude Bourbon,
number two.
Mike Gorday (54:42):
I had Bullhead's Bourbon, the blue, number three,
and green BreckenridgeDistillers High Proof number
four, I was almost right on themoney, but the green has this
turpentine taste that's actuallya little tasty yeah.
Nathan Mumm (54:58):
And red was just a little too hot for me.
So there you go.
All right, you know, I'm gladthat we're becoming connoisseurs
.
That makes me feel so good.
Mike Gorday (55:06):
I don't know about that.
I can't see you talking aboutfinishes and flavor profiles.
Ody (55:15):
That just doesn't seem right to me yeah, if he doesn't
say low burn it's not a realmake and taste.
Marc Grégoire (55:22):
He's semi-connoisseur.
He talks about corks and priceand bottle shapes?
Mike Gorday (55:26):
Yeah sure.
Nathan Mumm (55:30):
Alright, well, you know what, mike, we're about.
Out of time, we want to thankour listeners for joining the
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Listeners, we want to hear fromyou.
Visit techtimeradiocom andclick on Be A Caller to ask us a
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Welcome everyone.
Let's start today's show.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Now on today's show.
Nathan Mumm (01:36):
All right.
Well, welcome to Studio 401.
That's right, Studio 401.
We're excited to be here.
We're in a new studio.
Last week's episode, if you gotit, was Nathan unplugged, so
now we are here ready to go.
Mr Gorday, how do you like thenew studio?
Mike Gorday (01:54):
I already answered that question.
I'm going to take the fifth,all right.
Nathan Mumm (01:57):
Okay, well, we're in our new studio.
We're excited to be here.
Odie's got a bunch of new toysthat she's playing with, that
she got to get for the audioboard.
We got Mr Gorday here ready togo, and we got Mark that is
doing our top of the monthwhiskey tasting.
We're excited.
And now let's talk about whatwe actually have on the lineup
for today's show.
(02:19):
Today, we have hot topics you'renot going to want to miss,
including.
The world leaders just wrappedup an artificial intelligence
action summit in Paris, wherethey tackled the future of AI
and its potential to reshape ourworld.
We'll give you some insidescoop of what was discussed and
why it matters.
Ever wonder what happens whenAI tries to hand write a book?
We're going to dive into thefantastic story of this, with
(02:42):
the creative community buzzingand maybe a little bit terrified
.
Plus, there's some unsettlingnews from the cybersecurity
front.
The CISA staffers have beenordered to deferred resignation,
raising some serious questionsabout our digital defense.
And that's not all.
Gwenway is back with not one,but two exciting gadgets and
(03:02):
gear items that I know she andmyself have been eyeing.
Trust you don't want to missher pick.
And of course, we have itaction-packed show with our
standard features, includingmike's mesmerizing moment, our
technology fail, the week ofpossible, nathan nugget and, of
course, our pick of the daywhiskey tasting that we've
selected.
Now.
Today is the top of the month,so we have four whiskeys.
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Look at that four whiskeys,mike in front of us.
So that's going to be, by thetime we get to the end of the
show, it's going to befantastically a little drunk or
a little tipsy, okay, yeah, allright, you know what?
Let's get ready to go into theheadline in the world of
technology.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Here are our top technology stories of the week.
Nathan Mumm (03:47):
All right.
Yesterday, the world leadersattended the first Artificial
Intelligent Action Summit inParis.
This is the third meeting thatthey've had regarding AI, and
let's go to Crenn Westland, formore on this story.
(04:02):
Representatives from 80 countries, including world
leaders, tech bosses, academicsand other experts, gather for a
two-day global summit to discussprogress and future goals for
artificial intelligence, therapidly evolving, hugely
disruptive technology.
That might be on the officialagenda of the Artificial
Intelligence Action Summit, butsomething else is breathing fire
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into this particular discussion.
China is dramatically blowingthe AI competition in a new
direction with DeepSeek, thesuper-efficient and super-viral
AI assistant.
Suddenly, there's a feeling atthe summit that the pole
position once occupied by the USmight not be out of reach after
all.
Back to you guys in the newstudio.
Nathan Mumm (04:47):
All right, look at that.
Corinne even knows too.
All right, so let's talk aboutthis Now.
You know, nothing's better thansending the US Vice President,
jd Vance, and OpenAI Chief SamAltman to represent the United
States.
Now there is no Elon Musk there.
He's notably absent from theofficial guest list.
He's busy doing other things.
He's doing other things.
Yeah, that's right.
(05:08):
All right Now.
There's been two previoussummits.
The first one was held in theUK and the second one in South
Korea.
A lot's happened since the AIworld gathered for the first
time.
Deep Seek, though, is the topiceverybody's talking about.
It's shaking up the ai sectorin a way that not even ai itself
might have predicted, and it'swiped a lot of money off the
value of these bigger players inthe united states with,
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supposedly, their processes.
Now, I'm certain there's goingto be a huge topic that will
continue even after theconference, but what I still
don't get and I talked aboutthis in my unplugged episode
last week is deep DeepSeek hasbeen down.
It has been down more timesthan actually up for this AI
intelligence.
So if I come out with a productand the product isn't working
(05:55):
and it's never up, does thatreally kind of shape the market
that everybody needs to beconcerned about it, mike.
I mean, if you can't have anapp work, why there so much
concern about deep seek?
Do you think?
Mike Gorday (06:10):
well, clearly that's not a factor, because
deep seek has sent everybodyinto a tizzy about what's going
on in the ai world anyway.
So, uh, it's not a matter ofwhether or not it works, it's a
matter.
It's a matter of what.
It's not a matter of whether ornot it works, it's a matter of
what it's going to do toeverybody else's stuff.
So you know, everybody'sflipping out about it.
Nathan Mumm (06:33):
I still don't get deep seek.
So OpenAI has been out forreally kind of in the market now
for almost two years.
It's kind of funny that it'salmost been two years since AI
has really kind of come to themarket the last what is that?
I'd probably say eight months.
Openai, chatgpt all these nameshave come to be kind of
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synonymous with AI thateverybody uses each and every
day.
If you go to Microsoft Bing andyou do a search, that has a
co-pilot that comes up and itlets you search for different
stuff in AI that is built on theNVIDIA platform and we've
talked about this many timesthat is built on hardware that
is running out of computingspace.
And again, deepseek just copieda lot of the large language
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models that have already beendeveloped by OpenAI.
Say that it's running on lessersystems.
Say that they've done thissuccessfully.
There hasn't been tons of proof.
No one has actually had theability to see what their
initial investment was.
It was just an announcementthat's out there and yet this is
driving a global summit withinformation where people are
(07:40):
concerned about China gettinginto the AI movement because
they said they've done it forcheap and for less.
I I'm just so, so interested inhow this gets pressed.
Mike Gorday (07:51):
This is like this, this, this gets pressed because
it generates emotions okaythat's how that's how all this
stuff works.
If you can generate an emotion,you can get attention.
That's how that's how thesethings fly around into the top
uh tiers of media news feeds andeverything okay so, you know
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and china's known for this kindof thing, right, we?
we saw a lot of this during thepandemic where they were.
They would make some sort ofstatement about something and
everybody would, just, you know,absolutely lose their minds
over it yeah, and you have timuand you have these other places
that are selling stuff that'scheap.
Nathan Mumm (08:29):
Now I I've done a couple purchases on timu
recently uh, that's supposed toget them from china, and guess
what?
Two of those purchases thatI've done, I purchased a product
online.
They actually then came on backthis dirt cheap product that I
got some tablecloths like 300tablecloths for a big event that
I do and what happened is Iactually put the order in and
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they came back to me and thensaid that they couldn't fulfill
my order, so they had this pricelist there.
Then I went to another itemthat was available a little bit
higher in price, and they saidthat they couldn't fulfill that
one either.
But then the high price of likenine bucks, which is the same
price I could get in the unitedstates.
When I did that order, theysaid that they had that
available probably because theywere getting it from the united
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states.
Mike Gorday (09:11):
Is it okay?
That's what it is, all right,okay well, you know the thing?
The thing the thing is is thatthey people, they talk yeah, and
as soon as they open theirofficial mouths and start saying
things, everybody just sort ofwigs out about it.
Okay, all right, all right.
Nathan Mumm (09:26):
Well, you know what ?
Let's move on to story numbertwo.
You got that one, Mike.
What do we got?
Mike Gorday (09:30):
going on.
I don't know why you keepgiving me all these AI stuff.
Nathan Mumm (09:33):
Well, listen, come on, this is right up your alley
right.
Mike Gorday (09:38):
This is, this is this, yeah, it's okay well how
an ai written book shows whytech terrifies creatives.
Okay, what if, for christmas,you received an interesting gift
from a friend labeled my veryown best-selling book tech
explaining for dummies, that's?
That's a pretty cool title youlike that title.
It bears the name and photo onhis covers and it has glowing
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reviews.
Yet ai wrote it entirely with afew simple prompts applied by a
friend.
This happened happened to ZoeKleinman, and she goes on to
explain more of the book in theprocess.
She says it's an interestingread and very funny in parts,
but it's also meanders quite abit and somewhere between a
self-help book and a stream ofanecdotes.
It mimics her chatty style ofwriting, but it also a bit of a
(10:23):
repetitive and very verbose,which means wordy.
Nathan Mumm (10:26):
Okay for you wow it may, potato, potato buddy
potato, potato.
Mike Gorday (10:31):
All right, it may have gone beyond janet's prompts
and collating data about theperson.
Several sentences begin as aleading technology journalist,
which is cringe worthy.
Uh, could have been scrapedfrom an online bio.
There's also a mysteriousrepeated hallucination in the
form of a cat, which the personhas no pets, and there's a
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metaphor on almost every page,some more random than others.
There are dozens of companiesonline offering AI book writing
services and this book was frombook by anyone.
240 page paperback copy cost 26pounds.
Of course this this is a ukcoming from uk.
(11:15):
Yep, the firm generates themusing its own ai tools based on
open source large languagemodels.
Legally, the copyright belongsto the firm, uh, but the
president stresses that theproduct is intended as a
personalized gag gift and thebooks do not get sold further.
He hopes to broaden his range,generating different genres such
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as sci-fi and perhaps offeringan autobiography service.
It's designed to be a light,lighthearted form of consumer AI
, selling AI generated goods tohuman consumers.
It's also a bit terrifying ifyou write for a living.
Marc Grégoire (11:55):
I don't.
Nathan Mumm (11:55):
I don't write for a living but you write for
passion, I write.
Mike Gorday (11:59):
I've, I've, I've been published, so I just don't
do it for a living.
The problem is is that I'veit's, I've been published, so I
just don't do it for a living.
The problem is that I've takenalmost at least a third of my
lifespan crafting the art ofwriting, okay, and the problem
that creatives have is that AIcan whip this out in probably
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less than a minute.
Marc Grégoire (12:22):
Yeah, that's pretty quick.
Huh, whip this out in probablyless than a minute, yeah that's
pretty quick, huh?
Mike Gorday (12:25):
Well, yeah, given the fact that if you've ever
written a book, it doesn't takea minute.
It takes months and months,months and months.
Yep, ed Newton Rex who I haveno idea who this is describes
this as insanity.
He points out that AI can makeadvances in areas like defense,
health care and logisticswithout trawling the work of
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authors, journalists and artists.
All these things work withoutgoing and changing copyright law
and ruining the livelihood ofthe country's creatives.
Creative industries are wealthcreators 2.4 million jobs are
listed.
The government is underminingone of its best performing
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industries on the vague promiseof growth.
Okay, so this is why thisbothers me.
It simply devalues humaningenuity and work and craft and
all the things that we do in alife, and as it progresses and
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gets better at it, the lessvalue humans have in the way
that they can produce and workand do things.
Marc Grégoire (13:43):
Okay.
Nathan Mumm (13:44):
All right, so yeah now I did buy the very first ai
published book on amazon.
Mike Gorday (13:50):
Yeah, I think you also wrote your own, didn't you?
Nathan Mumm (13:54):
uh, I had one that was actually I didn't do I did.
Mike Gorday (13:57):
You did like a children's book.
Choose your own adventure.
Nathan Mumm (14:00):
Yes, that's right, choose your own adventure type
of deal and it was kind ofinteresting at the time.
I have not done it on the newuh uh chat gpt model.
I'm sure it gets better andbetter and better.
It's going to be interestingbecause I don't want to read a
sci-fi book that is AI generatedfor casual reading.
I do want to read somethingthat someone creates, instead of
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just some AI making up stuffRight now, that's still.
You're not going to get a goodAI book right now.
Mike Gorday (14:29):
It's always going to have some weird flaw or some
because it doesn't matter.
Nathan Mumm (14:34):
All of a sudden disappears and he dies.
Yeah, it doesn't.
It doesn't have any sense.
Mike Gorday (14:38):
The the, the thing that's that's working in our
favor, is that AI has no senseof morality or a sense of of
logical progression.
Yeah, Into progression, intohuman behavior.
So that's what we got going forus, for those of us who do
write for either a living or asa hobby, or whatever.
Nathan Mumm (14:58):
Okay, the story number three is going to make
you feel more uplifted.
I can tell you that, yeah, sure.
Mike Gorday (15:05):
I'm completely happy.
Love everything about AI allthe time.
All right, well, well, howabout cyber security?
Oh, this is my favorite.
So, if you're at our productionmeeting.
Nathan Mumm (15:16):
I I went off on uh our production meeting last week
.
I I I did for this show, so I Iapologized why, why, why do you
need to apologize?
Because I I really went off onon stuff and I normally like to
stay pretty neutral.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
But let's just talk about that the cisa staffers.
Nathan Mumm (15:34):
So these are our government cyber security
individuals that protect theunited states government.
Okay, that the that we talkedabout this.
Over the last four years.
Our previous president spent alot of time in actually putting
together some councils thatwould come on in make it easier
for people to share data,consolidated all the
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cybersecurity into one company.
Well, the CISA staffers wereoffered the deferred
resignations extending broadercybersecurity fears.
Employees at the Department ofHomeland Security, cybersecurity
and Infrastructure SecurityAgencies, or CISA, have been
(16:19):
given deferred resignationsoffers as part of the Trump
administration's broader effortto shrink the federal government
.
Cisa plays a key role indefending critical US
infrastructure.
However, last week, some CISAstaffers were given the
defending critical USinfrastructure.
However, last week, some CISAstaffers were given the offer
and just hours to decide whetherto accept it, according to
sources that spoke to manydifferent press outlets on
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conditions and amenity.
Mike Gorday (16:43):
This is happening all across the spectrum of
departments and divisions.
Nathan Mumm (16:48):
Yeah, and I'm only talking about the cybersecurity
aspects, right Cause we'retechnology, so there's.
I'm just going to keep it inthere.
D O G E staffers have beenentering federal agencies from
the state department to thetreasury department for the past
week, demanding access tosensitive files and systems and
prompting widespread protest andlegal challenges.
Now what's really interestingis they're going on in with hard
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drives.
They're going in with harddrives not encrypted hard drives
plugging them into thesesystems and copying down data
and information regardingtransactions.
What's going on?
And then leaving the premisethe secured premise to an
undislocated location thatnobody knows about, and then
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they're going to go through andreview all of this information.
So your information is beingtransferred.
Now the ranks of thecybersecurity experts within the
federal government might getthinner, and outside entities
without cleared credentials haveaccess to data without safety
guards.
Is this any worse than acybersecurity hacker getting
into our data, which then goesback to the whole idea I don't
(17:55):
really care that China has mydata, and I'll say that again
and again.
Mike Gorday (17:59):
Well, yeah, that's probably where they got all
their deep-seek stuff.
Nathan Mumm (18:02):
Well, you know what or you know what?
Now I can just get it on anysite that will have my
information published.
I just that's killing me.
I hope that none of theexisting staff hopefully signed
any of the nine month orwhatever offers were to retire
(18:22):
and hopefully we can keep oursecurity as our nation a top
priority for cybersecuritythreats.
We did a good job in the lastthree and a half years of not
having any real major breaksthat have come into our
government with our data.
Yeah, well you know thingschange, okay, well, that ends
our top technology stories ofthe week.
Moving on, we have our gadgetsand gear gal Gwen Wei on the
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I'm interested in keeping myeye on this segment.
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Nathan Mumm (19:49):
Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm.
Our weekly show covers the toptechnology subjects without a
political agenda.
We verify the facts and we doit with a sense of humor, in
less than 60 minutes and, ofcourse, with a little whiskey on
the side.
Today, mark Gregoire, ourwhiskey connoisseur, is back and
as a start of the monthtradition we're going to have
our four tastings here.
Mark, tell us what we are doingin our second round of tastings
(20:13):
for the calendar.
Marc Grégoire (20:15):
All right, I'm going to remind our viewers that
we are using the 2024 FlavorWhiskey Advent Calendar 24
remarkable whiskeys to use forour year-long blind whiskey
competition to see which oneNathan and Mike like best.
Now come along for the rideonce every month while they
uncover new tastes and traintheir senses to try and become
(20:36):
true connoisseurs.
Today is round two oh, reallyRound two where they're going to
choose the winner to move on tothe semifinals.
If they disagree, I will be thedeciding vote.
Oh Now, today, all four of thesamples are bourbon.
Bourbon is named after the Houseof Bourbon, a powerful French
(20:56):
dynasty.
Now, in response to 1791'sWhiskey Rebellion, george
Washington decided toincentivize the disgruntled tax
evading settlers to movesouthwards to Kentucky, then
still part of Virginia.
The governor, thomas Jefferson,doled out 60 acres of land to
each Pennsylvanian transplantwho agreed to produce native
corn American whiskey on theirland Corn squeezings.
(21:19):
Jefferson Christianed the newsettlement Bourbon County after
the French Bourbon Dynasty,which held court over Spain and
most of Italy in the 18thcentury.
Once the whiskey startedflowing, distillers began
shipping their wares down theMissouri and Ohio rivers,
stamping Bourbon County on eachbarrel to mark its origin and
(21:41):
ultimately giving the drink itspermanent name.
Nathan Mumm (21:46):
Fair enough, all right.
Marc Grégoire (21:48):
So these are their four contenders.
Look at the yellow bottle,yellow ball is drink them go
through each four and then makesure the next time go back the
other direction.
I've done that okay, so that.
Nathan Mumm (21:57):
So this is yellow.
It's got a darker color but.
I can just take a look at it,that I'm tasting here and this
has a pretty bitter little tastehere, but I I do like the blue
is a little bit smoother.
So I get the bite with theyellow and then I got the
smoothness from the blue.
It kind of just goes all theway down from bite, a little bit
(22:19):
of bite, okay bite, intonothing.
There you going to play, you'replaying with your little sound
effects there.
All right, there we go.
Okay.
Well, mark, do you have one ofthese that is your favorite?
Oh, yes, I do.
You do.
I do.
I have them all ranked.
You have them all ranked.
Mike Gorday (22:37):
I kind of like the first one but I don't know if
you set up the, that was the oneyou really had this weird
reaction to.
Nathan Mumm (22:43):
It looks like it's the by looking at it, it looks
like this is bad.
All right, now, with ourwhiskey tasting completed, let's
move on to our feature segment.
Today we have Gwen Wei joiningthe show.
She's an expert incybersecurity, near in the game
and a game board geek in theevenings, as well as a producer
of Tech Time Radio and ourGadgets and Gear Gal.
Let's get ready to start ourComcast video stream to start
our next segment.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
What's new in our Gadgets and Gear?
All right, what's new?
Nathan Mumm (23:09):
in our gadgets and gear.
All right, welcome back to theshow gwen.
For all those that are newlisteners, tell them a little
bit about yourself sure thing.
Gwen Way (23:18):
Uh, as you say, I work in cyber security.
I've been doing technology workfor about 25 years now and I
love it.
There's just always somethingnew to find all right, perfect,
perfect, perfect, all right.
Nathan Mumm (23:39):
So this is going to be really interesting today,
because I actually told you thatI was actually looking at one
of these projects to invest inbefore you even brought it up.
But you have two differentitems, so explain why you're
kind of going a little rogue.
We like that, but you're kindof going a little rogue.
What are we going to be talkingabout today?
Gwen Way (23:54):
So we are talking about AI glasses or smart
glasses.
We've kind of touched on themin the past, but we haven't
really found any that I thoughtlived up to the gadgets and
gears level.
We've got the old standbystandby.
I think it was google that cameup with some glasses that were
just extremely heavy and veryobvious and nobody really very
(24:18):
controversial very controversial, exactly, exactly, and it's
just interesting to watch kindof the technology evolve and
change as we get more, morethings available to make them
more wearable, more comfortableand capable of doing even more
things.
Nathan Mumm (24:37):
All right.
So one of these I really like,one of these I almost invested
with before even having you onthe show, but I haven't backed
any of these yet.
So I'll just tell you none ofthese have been backed yet, but
I'm going to take your expertiseto help us decide what I'm
going to back.
One of these is going to get mybacking by the end of today, so
you're going to need to tell uswhat are we going to start out
(24:58):
with our first classes?
What is that?
Gwen Way (25:01):
Okay, the first one is by a company called Halliday,
named after James Halliday fromReady Player One.
Okay, this is actually probablythe most technologically
advanced version that we'regoing to be talking about today.
Uh, and it includes one thingthat the other doesn't, and that
is an actual display.
(25:21):
So with this, you would be ableto actually call up things and
see visually on the screen infront of you.
Uh, kind of cool thing aboutthat.
Uh, in the past it's been veryeasy for other people to tell
that you're watching things andoftentimes see what you're
watching, but this actually hassome security built into the
(25:42):
lenses so that you other peopleare not able to see the display.
Nathan Mumm (25:45):
Okay, okay.
So if I'm looking at the, Ithink it, I I think it's a green
screen type of overlay.
Is that right?
Gwen Way (25:53):
That is correct, okay.
Mike Gorday (25:54):
So I can sit in my meetings and watch YouTube.
It doesn't quite have thatinterface yet right.
Nathan Mumm (26:00):
It's not quite there, but they are working on
it.
Yeah, okay.
Mike Gorday (26:04):
All right.
What good is it then if I can'tsit around in my meetings and
do other things?
Nathan Mumm (26:09):
Yeah, you're supposed to go to meetings and
actually pay attention to whatyou're doing.
Okay, all, right, okay, allright, so you work for the
government.
All right, so now.
So that's the first glasses.
What's the second pair?
Let's talk about the secondpair.
Gwen Way (26:21):
The second pair is actually more about kind of a
traditional smart glass.
You're able to use ai and askquestions, listen to answers and
take pictures and video okaythere are two things, though.
This is actually from a companycalled lumos okay which is
(26:42):
somewhat familiar.
This is a division of charge,and we actually have uh talked
about their gadgets before.
This is the uh starship sear,which is a battery pack.
We also shouted out the shark 2, which I think both of us
actually ended up yeah, we didyep, so so you got one company.
Nathan Mumm (27:02):
So this is kind of cool because, yeah, one company
that's actually delivered on acouple kickstarters and is known
as a technology company, comingout with what I would consider
not a lower end, but it doesn'thave all the same feature
functionality as the top branddoes.
The top brand was the one thatI was looking at to possibly
back, and I think there wasalready 2 million.
We'll get into these numbers.
(27:23):
So I think there's like 2million in finances that have
been committed to thisKickstarter.
So I mean, that's not like aKickstarter, that's like
creating a brand new businessfor this type of deal.
So let's now, since I kind oftalked about it, let's go into
each of these.
Let's talk about the high endversion and this is the holiday
(27:44):
and talk about how many backers,how many days are left, kind of
what you get, and then we'll dothe Loomis, which is the
company that we have alreadygotten stuff from.
Gwen Way (27:55):
Not a problem.
So the holiday already has5,500 backers and is, as you
said, over $2 million pledgedfor this.
Okay, it is open until March8th 2025.
So you still have a fair amountof time if you want to do your
research and make your decisionof which one you want.
There are a couple of thingsabout this.
(28:17):
It is using a proprietary AIwhich is similar to ChatGPT, but
not actually one of the AItechnologies that we are
familiar with.
It does have a longer lastingbattery, which is nice, but
doesn't really have a way toeasily recharge on the go.
Nathan Mumm (28:38):
Okay, so tell me about that.
How do you charge that unit?
Gwen Way (28:41):
You would actually have to plug it into a special
charging unit.
Okay, it's got a 12-hourbattery life, so you're probably
going to be okay for one day,yeah, but definitely you would
need to have it back on thecharger that night in order to
be ready for the next day, andthat's kind of interesting
because you know with glasses ifyou're going to use an AI
(29:01):
glasses or standard glasses.
Nathan Mumm (29:04):
12 hours may seem like a lot of time.
That's not necessarily a lot oftime, right, because you keep
your glasses on until you go tobed at night and then you get up
in the morning you put yourglasses on.
So a 12 hour stent would be Iprobably 14, 15 hours that I
have my glasses on, if I hadglasses that were available
there.
Gwen Way (29:22):
So Exactly, so that's something to keep in mind.
Okay, One thing that is niceabout both of these models I
want to touch on both of themfor a second is that they both
can have prescription lenses putin.
Nathan Mumm (29:36):
Okay.
Gwen Way (29:37):
Which means that you're going to be able to use
them as your everyday glasses.
Now, the Halidays, you willhave to get the lenses from them
, because it does include someof the technology for the
heads-up display.
Nathan Mumm (29:50):
All right, okay, okay.
Gwen Way (29:51):
Technology for the heads-up display All right, okay
, okay, going to the Lumos theyalso are at just over 5,500
backers.
They are sitting just under 1.5million brought in and you'll
find that the difference on thatis that they are less expensive
, probably because they do notinclude the display.
Okay, Okay is that they areless expensive, probably because
(30:14):
they do not include the display.
Okay, they are actually usingchat GPT-4.0.
Nathan Mumm (30:17):
Okay.
Gwen Way (30:18):
So we know that that is a pretty standard platform.
Exactly and has been testedextensively.
It's got a fairly good learningmodel at this point and most
but not all hallucinations aretaken care of.
Nathan Mumm (30:35):
Okay, that makes sense, all right, so quick recap
.
The expensive pair is how muchto do Kickstarter.
Gwen Way (30:42):
Right now you can get the expensive pair for $3.99 as
an early bird special.
Nathan Mumm (30:49):
And the inexpensive pair.
Gwen Way (30:50):
The inexpensive pair you can get for $199, or you can
also get one with a power bankthat you wear around your neck
for $249 to extend the length ofusability.
Nathan Mumm (31:02):
All right Now the most important aspect here are
you going to buy one of these?
Gwen Way (31:07):
I am eyeing those Lumos We've had such good
results with charge uh in thepast.
I, I love my seer, I love mycharge bank uh, yeah, I, I
really like them and I don'tthink that, at least right now,
that heads-up display isactually going to be as
functional as it could be, thatmakes sense.
Nathan Mumm (31:27):
That makes sense, and you know, and you get chat g
, which is a known product foryour AI.
I am going to probably leanthat way now too.
All right, okay, gwen, I youknow what.
It's always great having you onthe show.
So let me ask what do you havecoming up for next month?
So and this is Valentine'smonth, right?
So this is February, so you canget your, your, your loved one,
some glasses with ai.
(31:48):
What a perfect gift.
What are you looking at to getfurther better, yeah, that's
right, so you can see each otherbetter.
What are you looking at for, uh, uh, next month?
You already have something onthe horizon, or are you still
looking?
Gwen Way (31:59):
I'm still looking right now.
So if any of the listeners outthere want to shoot us some
messages and maybe give ussuggestions, I'm more than happy
to take those, but I'm surewe'll have something fun All
right, that sounds great.
Nathan Mumm (32:12):
All right, gwen, we thank you so much for being a
part of the show.
We always look forward toseeing you.
Can't wait to see you nextmonth and thank you so much for
all that you do, as a producerAlso, of our show, each and
every week thank y'all and uhhave good days all right all
right, bye.
That ends our gadgets and gearup.
Next we have mike's mesmerizingmoment.
(32:34):
Welcome to mike's mesmerizingmoment.
What does mike have to saytoday?
All right, mike, so you knowwhat I I do have.
I have a nice book here.
Let me tell you the threads ofchaos available on amazon, you
know.
Do you know what?
I do have a nice book here.
Let me tell you the Threads ofChaos available on Amazon.
Do you know anything about thisbook?
I know nothing.
You know nothing about thisbook.
(32:56):
Look at that A big picture ofMr Gorday on the back.
So my question for you is howdo creative writers leverage AI
in this changing landscape sothat they don't lose their
creativity but can still usesome of the tools that are
available for them to besuccessful?
Mike Gorday (33:12):
I think I think, from a writing aspect, I think I
would use it to check mygrammar.
Okay, you know I'm I thatthat's one of the hardest pieces
of of writing is grammarchecking and spelling checking.
And unless it can edit things,I mean, I'm not gonna lie.
(33:34):
If you go on on amazon and justdownload some books, yeah,
you're gonna find a whole lot ofpeople that don't know how to
write.
Okay, because that's what.
That's what today's technologyhas done.
Everybody writes a book.
They can put it on Amazon andthen it's not edited.
(33:57):
It has horrible spelling errors, they're not well put together.
Okay, so you can use it forspelling.
Mine was edited.
Stop looking.
All right, okay, it was yoursedited.
I was just going to go throughthere and start reading.
It was edited.
Marc Grégoire (34:07):
Okay, all right, okay, so you can use it for
spelling.
Mine was edited.
Mike Gorday (34:08):
Stop looking.
All right, okay, it was yoursedited.
Nathan Mumm (34:10):
I was just going to go through there and start
reading.
Mike Gorday (34:11):
It was edited.
Nathan Mumm (34:12):
Okay, all right, okay, well, there you go.
Well, thank you, mike, for yourmesmerizing moment.
Up next we have this week intechnology, so now would be a
good time to enjoy a littlewhiskey on the side that we
Nathan Mumm.
See you in a few minutes.
Hey, mike.
Mike Gorday (34:26):
Yeah, what's up?
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Hey, so you know what.
Mike Gorday (34:28):
We need people to start liking our social media
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Is it Patreon?
I think it's Patreon.
Okay, patreon, if you reallylike us, you can like us on.
Patreoncom.
I butcher the English language,you know you butcher the
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It's patreoncom.
Nathan Mumm (34:50):
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Mike Gorday (34:52):
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Yeah, we're on Facebook too.
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And now let's look back at this week in technology.
Nathan Mumm (35:39):
All right, we're going to the Wayback Machine
here.
We're going to February 11th2004.
This was the first use of theword podcast.
In an article called AudibleRevolution, published by the
Guardian on this date, benHammersley described the trend
of amateur radio on the internet.
With no established names forthe new phenomenon, hammersley
(36:03):
suggested the terms audioblogging, guerrilla media and
podcasting.
Given the popularity of theApple iPod and how many people
were using the iPod to listen tothese pre-recorded audio shows,
the term podcast stuck, and therest is history.
Well, speaking of history,guess what?
You can take a look at over230-plus weekly broadcasts
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Speaker 1 (37:18):
The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's
Whiskey Mumble.
(37:27):
All right.
Marc Grégoire (37:28):
All right, all right.
Today, what is February 11th toyou?
What are you celebrating?
February 11th, payday, payday.
Nathan Mumm (37:38):
February 11th.
So that would be.
Isn't Valentine's Day the 12th?
Mike Gorday (37:42):
No.
Nathan Mumm (37:43):
What's Valentine's?
Day the 14th the 14th, okay,all right, valentine's.
Marc Grégoire (37:46):
Day.
Sorry, tracy, yeah.
Nathan Mumm (37:50):
Well, don't get me going on that Hallmark holiday.
Mike Gorday (37:55):
We don't need to listen to him rant about
Valentine's Day.
Nathan Mumm (37:59):
That's right, all right.
So I don't know, it's got to besome type of we got whiskey, we
got Mark.
I'm going to say it's some typeof Roman type of holiday.
I'm going to go back and it'slike some Roman holiday.
Marc Grégoire (38:16):
Do you have a big no?
Mike Gorday (38:19):
Are we going to get an audio clue today?
Ody (38:22):
No, he is right on the money though.
Nathan Mumm (38:23):
Am I on the money?
Oh, 100%, that's because helooked it up.
Marc Grégoire (38:27):
I have not.
I have not looked it up.
It is Don't Cry Over SpilledMilk Day.
Oh, that's not quite the same.
Nathan Mumm (38:33):
I don't know, I was excited, I know.
Marc Grégoire (38:36):
Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day.
So if you think a day on thecalendar dedicated to not crying
over spilled milk sounds silly,I have a sign.
Nathan Mumm (38:43):
So do we?
I have a sign that says Don'tcry over spilled milk.
It could be worse, it could bewhiskey.
Have you seen that sign?
Yes, I have.
Mike Gorday (38:49):
Yeah, that's alcohol abuse.
Nathan Mumm (38:50):
Yeah, okay, okay, well, sorry, Keep on going.
Marc Grégoire (38:52):
Yeah, here it is right on our calendar every
February 11th Don't cry overspilled milk day.
Are you wondering who evercries over spilled milk, except
for little tykes?
Could Nathan or Mike be cryingover spilled milk?
(39:12):
Did I would, yeah, yeah, well,I do not cry over spilled milk.
However, as nathan says, if wewere to spill our whiskey here,
yeah, there'd be a chance Iwould cry.
That would be too okay, nowhere are four whiskeys unspilled
that we are tasting today okay,I'm still between my blue and
yellow.
Nathan Mumm (39:22):
I think I think green is now going out.
But okay, tell us about what wegot.
Marc Grégoire (39:26):
So let's, let's talk about your blue and your
yellow then.
So blue is Bullhead Bourbon.
This is from Spirits LabDistillery in Newburgh, new York
.
It's straight bourbon, fiveyears, 90 proof.
It is 70% corn, 20% wheat, fivemalted barley, which is a
strange mash bill because thatonly adds up to 95%.
There's another secret, 5% outthere and it is 45 dollars, okay
(39:50):
, okay.
And then the yellow one isbarrel foundation from barrel
craft spirits.
It's a blend of kentucky,indiana, tennessee and maryland.
Uh, straight bourbons, all fromthose different states okay,
how much is that?
five to nine years blend.
It's a hundred proof.
73% rye, so it's kind of a highrye bourbon.
(40:10):
4% malted barley, that is $60.
Okay, okay, now we go to thegreen.
Yeah, that is BreckenridgeDistillers High Proof.
Oh, so, from BreckenridgeDistillery, which is from
Colorado.
It is a bourbon.
It's roughly two years old, itis 105 proof, the match bill is
(40:31):
unknown and 60.
Okay, and then your red.
I eliminated that.
First for me is templetonfortitude bourbon.
Oh, I actually know that nametoo.
Okay, yeah, so this is from thetempleton distillery in
templeton, iowa it is straightbourbon.
It is unaged stated but it's atleast four years old.
It is 92 proof 55% corn, 40%rye, so really a high rye,
(40:54):
that's the high rye, okay, andmalted barley 5%, $45.
Mike Gorday (41:01):
Mark, you have destroyed my bourbon thing.
Nathan Mumm (41:06):
Which one are you voting for?
The high rye, did you like thered one so?
Mike Gorday (41:10):
far, Mike.
Yeah, I can't decide whether Ilike the red one or the yellow
one.
Marc Grégoire (41:13):
Okay, okay, all right, okay, well, there you go
All right, so you guys may havea different number one.
I may have to be the tie driver.
I have them ranked.
Okay, okay, so whichever oneranks higher of your two moves
on.
Oh no, or we could cheat andmove them both on.
Nathan Mumm (41:28):
No, no, no.
I don't mind that either.
We don't have any ties here.
They don't have any ties, we'llgo for it All right.
Well, you know what Whiskey andtechnology are a great pairing,
just like hot chocolate in asnowy winter day.
Oh, that's nice, all right.
Ody (41:43):
Okay, real quick.
I really enjoyed your pairinglast week.
Nathan Mumm (41:48):
Okay.
Ody (41:48):
Of the Muppets.
Nathan Mumm (41:49):
Yeah.
Ody (41:49):
Yeah, I wanted to give you a shout out for that, oh thank
you.
Nathan Mumm (41:52):
Yeah, okay, what was it it had?
Ody (41:55):
something to do with like oh.
Nathan Mumm (41:56):
Puppets and Muppets .
Ody (41:58):
Oh.
Nathan Mumm (41:59):
It was a puppet, I thought it was a Jim Henson and
the Muppets no it was like.
Marc Grégoire (42:07):
And then the Muppets Odie, yours is better
pairing.
Ody (42:12):
Yeah, thanks for ruining that moment for me.
Nathan Mumm (42:13):
Did you know that Disneyland is getting rid of the
Disney World.
Or Disney World.
Thank you, odie, it's gettingrid of the Muppet.
Ody (42:20):
Muppet Vision.
Nathan Mumm (42:21):
Muppet Vision.
Ody (42:22):
In Hollywood Studios.
Nathan Mumm (42:23):
Yeah, and they're going to put them into the
roller coaster.
Ody (42:25):
Yeah, how dare they?
Mike Gorday (42:31):
But roller coaster, yeah how dare they?
Ody (42:32):
but yeah, yeah, disney doesn't seem to be able to make
good choices anyway, other thanthat being a technology fail.
What's the what's?
Oh, let's go on to ourtechnology fail.
Nathan Mumm (42:39):
We are out of time.
Congratulations, you're afailure oh, I failed.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
Did I yes, did I yes, I failed, did I yes, did I yes,
did I?
Nathan Mumm (42:51):
Yes, all right.
Nasa and world leadingscientists have spent the last
few weeks tracking to make anannouncement about a new
asteroid that they found out inspace Nice.
Is this an asteroid?
No, guess what it is.
It's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadstercruising through space that was
(43:13):
launched in 2018 from theFalcon Heavy rocket.
It's an actual car.
It's an actual car.
So Elon Musk is a part of hisrocket deal.
He launched a Tesla out therewith a driver.
It's like a dummy driver.
That's in there.
That is just out floating inspace.
Mike Gorday (43:31):
You know, if I were a billionaire, I would probably
do something like that.
Nathan Mumm (43:36):
Okay, well, less than days after astronomers
announced the discovery of a newasteroid, they issued a
correction.
So this is big.
They have put the hours intothis and they say that it's.
Almost $300 million have beenspent in hours of time tracking
this asteroid, which is spacejunk.
(43:56):
So the spacefaring objectwasn't a space uh waste of money
that elon musk caused.
Marc Grégoire (44:02):
That's what I'm saying.
They can you know if you're.
Mike Gorday (44:04):
If you're a billionaire, you're gonna waste
money on things.
I think throwing your car intoouter space, that's a pretty
good waste.
Nathan Mumm (44:11):
This is a car speeding through our galaxy.
It's the red Tesla Roadsterbelonging to Elon Musk.
Musk famously shot his personalvehicle into space on February
6, 2018.
His company, spacex, firsttested the launch of its Falcon
Heavy, considered the world'smost powerful rocket.
It took off with the Roadsteraboard as a payload headed
(44:31):
towards Mars.
Now, seven years later, onJanuary 2nd, the NPC said that
the asteroid was orbiting moreor less within 150,000 miles of
Earth, closer than the moon'sorbit, meaning that it qualified
for a classification as anear-Earth object.
It came with the notice.
The NPC is now erasing theasteroid from its record because
(44:55):
professionally amateurastronomers this is it, the
amateur astronomers high schoolkids.
High school kids knew that elonmusk's sports car was out there
and and they were the part ofthe rally cry to NASA and all
these scientists that thedesignation of 2018 CN41 is
(45:16):
being deleted and admitted.
The MPC says the globalauthority for identifying and
designating and tracking theposition of minor planets has
made a correction.
It's interesting because thecenter of this is located at the
Harvard Smithsonian Center forAstrophysics in Cambridge
Massachusetts.
A correction it's interestingbecause the center of this is
located at theHarvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics in CambridgeMassachusetts.
So you have all thesescientists and NASA and all
(45:38):
these other industries trackingthis asteroid.
And these young kids said youknow what, could it be Elon
Musk's car?
And they were found to be right.
What does that say?
Mike Gorday (45:49):
That sounds like a movie plot, it's not like a
movie plot.
Nathan Mumm (45:53):
Wait a minute, it's like Goonies 2.2.
Mike Gorday (45:57):
No no, that's the movie of that asteroid
destroying movie I've never seenthose sci-fi.
Nathan Mumm (46:03):
It's not Armageddon , it's Deep.
Mike Gorday (46:05):
Impact, deep Impact , wolf Biederman.
Nathan Mumm (46:08):
Yeah, didn't they drill on that one and then they
destroyed it?
So the drill helped it.
Mike Gorday (46:12):
No, that's Armageddon.
Stop mixing up your movies.
Marc Grégoire (46:15):
You're talking about crashes.
So I'm wondering, Nathan, doyou know if they know, since
you've talked about automatedcars all the time crashing,
where is this one going to crash?
Nathan Mumm (46:26):
So this is what's going to end up happening.
Elon Musk is going to send upsome space shuttle into space
and all of a sudden he's goingto run into his own car and
there's going to be this bigexplosion and then it's going to
be lost, it's going to crashinto the International Space
Station or something.
Mike Gorday (46:39):
I just what's that?
Nathan Mumm (46:41):
How's that car recharging?
Mike Gorday (46:43):
You know I mean Solar energy, buddy Solar energy
, all right.
Nathan Mumm (46:48):
Well, we're going to head out to our last
commercial break.
When we return, we have ourNathan Nugget and, of course,
our eluded picks of the day.
So sit back, raise a glass.
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Speaker 1 (47:20):
This is your Nugget of the Week.
Nathan Mumm (47:23):
All right, have you been getting a bunch of emails
for the Amazon event that iscoming on up?
If you put all of your invitesthat have come because there's
been five different withgraphics, you put all those
pictures together.
Guess what it spells?
It spells the word Alexa.
Now Amazon sent out fivedifferent invites for its
upcoming project event.
As we talked about, alexa is thekey word for Amazon's company's
(47:48):
digital voice assistance.
With some insider information,we can tell you this event will
be about Alexa's long-awaited AIfor its talking devices.
Oh, there's my poor Alexa'sgoing off right now.
Yep, alexa, stop, all right.
The Not so Good Investorsuggests that at the event,
which is being held on February26th in New York City, amazon
(48:11):
will launch the new generative,ai-powered version of its voice
assistant.
First announced in September of2023, this new voice has some
numerous delays, along withreported struggles to merge
Alexa's existing capabilitieswith the revamped voice
assistant, but it looks likeit's ready for go time now.
According to people familiarwith the matter, the upgrades
(48:33):
for alexa in this event willshow off new features, including
responding to multiple promptsin sequence and acting as an
agent on behalf of the user bytaking actions for them without
even being directly involved.
Okay, what does that mean?
So that means that you're justgoing to be sitting there
watching TV and then, all of asudden, she's going to just
(48:55):
decide to say, hey, mike how areyou doing?
Hey.
I don't know if she's going tobe saying hey, but I think she
will just come.
Speaker 7 (49:03):
What are you watching ?
What are you wearing?
Nathan Mumm (49:07):
You like Simpsons?
I want to hear more, more.
That's what it's going to endup doing, right?
Ody (49:10):
does this mean that we can have like real conversations
with the alexa now?
Mike Gorday (49:14):
I.
I think that's the whole ideamy conversation for for alexa is
ask a question, listen toanswer, yell at alexa for giving
me stupid information, havingthe thing beep and then me
tossing it across, oh so.
Nathan Mumm (49:29):
I think the idea is that you don't do that, that
the new uh service that iscoming from Amazon's uh device
and service division Now theformer head of this, david limp-
Wait, wait, wait, can't wait.
What's that?
Mike Gorday (49:43):
I I have a feeling.
Ody (49:45):
Yeah.
Mike Gorday (49:46):
They're going to be doing something to make more
money oh, that's right.
Nathan Mumm (49:50):
Guess what this new service?
This new service will cost youabout ten dollars a month for it
what yes to randomly ask youquestions.
Mike Gorday (49:59):
Yes, that, that's probably why alexa sucks so bad
right now because they're makingit.
So I'm gonna get so frustrated.
I'm gonna buy ten dollars amonth to use this device, so
you're gonna get it now you canstill hang on.
Nathan Mumm (50:08):
Hold on.
It says that they're gonnaallow you still, so I'm going to
get so frustrated.
I'm going to buy it $10 a monthto use this device, so you're
going to get it Now.
You can still hang on.
It says that they're going toallow you still to have the old
version as the free version, butthere could be a time when
there is a go no-go decisionwhere you're going to have to
pay for this service to continueto use your device.
Ody (50:24):
So you're telling me I'm going to now have to pay what I
already bought in advance to usethe voice commands.
Mike Gorday (50:30):
How about that?
Amazon is like a drug dealer.
You know what?
Ody (50:34):
I go from there, what I go to Google.
Okay, okay, google Blah, blah,blah, blah blah.
Marc Grégoire (50:39):
There you go, Bye .
Ody (50:40):
Alexa.
She's always wrong anyway.
Nathan Mumm (50:43):
Well, they're saying that this new step is
going to be a new.
Ody (50:46):
Man, I hate subscriptions.
Nathan Mumm (50:48):
Subscription freeze are so Okay, but you say that.
But okay, let me ask you do youhave a Netflix subscription?
Nope, Through T-Mobile yes,Okay, that's the way to do it.
Do you have the free versionthrough T-Mobile?
Do you know there's a freeversion?
Mike Gorday (51:01):
Yes, there's a free version that comes with that.
I don't know.
Nathan Mumm (51:09):
Do you pay for it because we're a multi-family
household?
Okay, and you?
Ody (51:11):
want the multi-family streams.
Nathan Mumm (51:11):
Okay, all right.
Mike Gorday (51:12):
At what point do we get so ticked off about all
this crap that we just push back?
Nathan Mumm (51:18):
Cable is now the cheapest service I can get.
Mike Gorday (51:21):
This is one of those things that I don't
understand why we don't getupset about.
Ody (51:27):
We do get upset, yeah, but we're not doing it.
We get upset about because, wedo get everybody but we just
yeah, but we're not doing.
Mike Gorday (51:30):
We get upset and we end up paying it because,
because it's a conveniencefactor.
So like amazon is acting like adrug dealer.
They're like saying here, tryour product, here it's free.
Yeah, you like it, right, okay,now.
Now we're going to charge you10 bucks a month to get it.
Well, that's what.
That's what we got there.
Nathan Mumm (51:52):
Well, the Nathan Nugget is just wait for the
meeting on February 14th,because that's when the big
Alexa bosses decide what they'regoing to do with this.
Ody (51:58):
That actually triggers me, because I just got a show pad
for Christmas.
I had waited Send an emailbefore February 14th.
Nathan Mumm (52:08):
Just send it to Amazon.
Go on to their customer serviceand say you better not freaking
charge for your device.
Ody (52:14):
Can we tell Alexa to do that?
I would switch to Google soquickly.
Nathan Mumm (52:18):
Google Gemini is getting better.
I'll just tell you.
It may be that that's asolution for you.
Ody (52:23):
Or.
Nathan Mumm (52:23):
Apple.
Yeah, alexa sucks.
Well, apple is going to own themarket because they're waiting
to be the very last person todevelop this technology, so
it'll probably be the best andit'll be the easiest and they'll
probably hook you for free.
Ody (52:34):
Amazon has lost another contender.
Nathan Mumm (52:37):
Yeah, but does Amazon really care?
I'm going to go home and askAlexa why she sucks.
Ody (52:40):
That's why nobody moves to like cable or what have you.
Yeah, think about it.
That's why I have cable yeah,think about it.
Nathan Mumm (52:50):
That's why I have cable.
Yeah, I guess you just get usedto it all right.
Well, you know what?
Speaker 1 (52:52):
now we're moving on mark to our pick of the day and
now our pick of the day for ourwhiskey tastings.
Nathan Mumm (53:01):
Let's see what bubbles to the top all right,
this is kind of like a uh threadof chaos here, so you're gonna
have to tell us what needs to bedone.
Let's look at that plug there.
Mike Gorday (53:10):
You gotta like very nice, there you go.
Very good, all right, get it onamazon, there you go well,
first of all, you gotta do itsoon ask alexa there you go all
right.
Marc Grégoire (53:19):
Well, after this train wreck, don't forget to
like and subscribe oh, there yougo, okay, thank you stop,
please comment.
Let us know what kind ofwhiskey you want to drink your
tag.
Nathan Mumm (53:26):
You do your tagline about heaven can wait.
Marc Grégoire (53:28):
I'm working up to it.
Now that these guys are havingfour whiskeys today, you guys
need to drink responsibly,because heaven can wait.
There you go, there you go Allright.
So we have the four whiskeyshere.
Which one is moving on to thefinals?
Is it Bullhead's Bourbon,Breckenridge Distiller's High
Proof, Templeton FortitudeBourbon or Barrel Foundation?
Nathan Mumm (53:47):
I kind of like yellow.
Yellow is my pick, I think.
Mike Gorday (53:50):
I'll go ahead and choose yellow too.
It's a lot milder than red.
I like the high rye versionMark before you reveal.
Ody (54:00):
does the ranking matter at all or is it just the number one
?
Marc Grégoire (54:04):
spot.
Just the number one spot moveson, the other ones fall out.
Mike Gorday (54:07):
Yeah, I think I'll go with yellow too.
It's mild, all right Wellyellow is Barrel Foundation.
Marc Grégoire (54:15):
Okay, that's the blend of straight bourbons from
Kentucky, indiana, tennessee andMaryland.
All right, five to nine yearsold, 100 proof, $60.
And you are turning intoconnoisseurs.
That was my number one, oh.
Nathan Mumm (54:30):
Good job, look at us, mike.
Way to go.
How about that?
All right, I like that.
Marc Grégoire (54:36):
I had yellow Barrel Foundation, number one.
I had the red, which isTempleton Fortitude Bourbon,
number two.
Mike Gorday (54:42):
I had Bullhead's Bourbon, the blue, number three,
and green BreckenridgeDistillers High Proof number
four, I was almost right on themoney, but the green has this
turpentine taste that's actuallya little tasty yeah.
Nathan Mumm (54:58):
And red was just a little too hot for me.
So there you go.
All right, you know, I'm gladthat we're becoming connoisseurs
.
That makes me feel so good.
Mike Gorday (55:06):
I don't know about that.
I can't see you talking aboutfinishes and flavor profiles.
Ody (55:15):
That just doesn't seem right to me yeah, if he doesn't
say low burn it's not a realmake and taste.
Marc Grégoire (55:22):
He's semi-connoisseur.
He talks about corks and priceand bottle shapes?
Mike Gorday (55:26):
Yeah sure.
Nathan Mumm (55:30):
Alright, well, you know what, mike, we're about.
Out of time, we want to thankour listeners for joining the
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Listeners, we want to hear fromyou.
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Having everybody back in thestudio Doing a solo episode is
just not as fun.
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