Marc Saltzman joins for #TechTalk to break down Time’s Person of the Year — the Architects of AI — and why their innovations are reshaping the future.
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Thursday's right now we talk about tech.
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The machines are getting smarter.
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This is tech Talk, brought to you by Skynet.
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Mark Saltzman joins us and Mark. It is the holiday
season and we'll look at that AI making a name
for itself, the Architects of AI being named the person
of the Year for Time magazine in twenty twenty five
Disney Investing. No I'm not.
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I'm surprised it wasn't three years ago, but it.
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Would be ironic if Time crowned AI as the person
of the year since it's artificial intelligence, but it's the
architects of AI is really what they're shining a light on.
So yeah, so folks like Jensen Huang Ar Wong, however
you like to pronounce it, the head of Nvidia, I think,
eighth richest person on the planet and behind the company
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that is the first the world's first five trillion dollar company,
and VideA as well as on the cover there's a
Lun Musk and Sam Altman from Open Ai and Zuckerberg
of course from Meta.
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So yeah, they're acknowledging that the world.
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Has significantly changed in twenty twenty five, with almost a
billion people using AI.
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Now that's like one eighth of the world's.
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Entire population, leveraging tools like chat, GPT, Google, Gemini, Grock and.
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So on to get work done. Come.
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Yeah, I don't know, all right, right, write their bosses
convincing emails on why they can't show up to work.
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I don't know what they're using it for, aren't we
Still I find myself trying to make sure that I'm
not using AI if I'm looking for a search into
different you know, in any sort of browser. I'm trying
to you're other one, Well, I understand the what's the word,
the convenience, great word. I understand the convenience of it,
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But I don't want to give AI any more speed
than it's already gotten. Yeah, and granted me one out
of like you mentioned, one out of a billion people
who's not using it isn't going to slow it down
very much.
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Yeah.
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So, look, I mean search engines have evolved now, both
being in Google where you don't even have to go
to the website that you planned on visiting, which is
not good for those who run those websites and rely
on traffic and the advertising surrounding it, because you'll get
your results before you go there and there's a lawsuit
going on in the EU, not surprisingly about this. But yeah,
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when you're a user of AI, you are getting what
you want really fast. But yeah, you're trying not to
contribute to this AI takeover. Well it's happening. You are
in the minority. I'm not saying you're wrong.
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I hear you. It's both scary. I mean even the
time editors said the same thing.
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They called AI both and I quote, the most consequ
consequential tool that's both exciting and frightening.
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And it's true.
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So yeah, I know you're trying not to give credence
to it or to rely to heavily on it.
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I'm surprised that.
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Even in radio you and Shannon, aren't you you're not
using AI to write some content that you want to
say on the air.
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It's so easy. You can do it in a commercial break.
It's a thirty second.
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All the AI content that is mistakenly given to us
in a form of news articles is awful and I
would never even use and iota of it.
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You still have to vet the content without question, and
people ask me all the time every day. I get
this now because I'm a journalist do use.
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AI to write your articles?
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No?
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Do I use it for research? Yes? It can it
be relied upon. No, like you have to.
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You have to do your due diligence and cross reference
everything you read because they call it hallucinations when AAI
tells you something that they that it maintains is factual
when it's not because it got the source information wrong,
or how it's it's aggregating and processing the information is wrong.
But it will tell you definitively this is true when
it is not. So you still have to put some
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hi human intelligence behind the AI that many of us
are using.
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But you know, and I know where you guys are
with the.
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Hollywood community understandably very concerned about AI replacing their jobs
and also things like, you know, copyright infringement since people
can create content now with seemingly no respect on the
whoever owns those intellectual properties. But you probably heard today
that Walt Disney and open Ai announced this like landmark
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announcement about a huge partnership which I don't think anybody
saw coming. Apparently, Bob Iger said that this has been
in the works for a while, but they're partnering with
open ai around its Sora tool, which is to create
video content where people can now or next year rather
be able to use familiar.
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Faces i e.
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Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar characters to create content and
even have it streamed on Disney Plus if it's good enough.
That's huge because instead of shunning AI, the creative community
it seems, is embracing it with some safeguards.
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As you can imagine, you can't do anything.
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And appropriate with dat mouse the idea of safeguards though,
that's I mean, we're already talking.
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We talked yesterday.
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Open ai has been writing laws that they or I
should say proposed laws here in California that they would
like to, you know, offer up as safeguards, but you
can't have I think we said this yesterday, the fox
guarding the henhouse in.
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This Yeah, yeah, that's a good, good analogy.
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Yeah.
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Look, and I think I mentioned this on a previous
tech Talk segment with you that I've found my own
articles like clips from me, things that I've written, dished
to me, like regurgitated to me as if it was
open AI's content.
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But it's mine.
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But they took it from an article that I wrote,
maybe for USA Today or for Yahoo or AARP wherever.
But yeah, it copyright infringement is a huge issue. But
I guess if you can't beat them, join them is
maybe the mentality. It's a billion dollar investment as well.
Buy Disney into open AI, not that they need more money,
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but it's also giving anybody who works at the Disney
company free access to the most powerful tools, you know, again,
access to the Sora generated videos that can be streamed
on Disney. Plus they're getting something out of it, no doubt,
but it's probably because they can't fight it unless legislation
takes it down, takes these companies down for violating copyrights.
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But the creative community as equally as concerned understandably about
AI writing screenplays and being used to create videos like
a computer generated content, you know, instead of having a
human do it.
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You know.
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So it's it's a really tricky twenty twenty six is
going to be interesting.
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Let's just say that. Yeah, okay, I'm going to watch
your lawsuit Carey.
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Yeah please, you know it, you know it, right, But yeah,
it's a blessing and a curse. This this AI is
just like when the Internet came out. I said, I
wrote the same thing. So I've been a journalist since
the early nineties. I said, this is depending on what
your occupation is. This is either going to be amazing
or frightening. And this is I think AI is as
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significant as the Internet for sure. Wow all right, Mark,
great stuff, Thank you, thank you, have a great afternoon,
you too.
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