Ai Review Room Weekly Show
Welcome to the AI review room tonight. We're really excited and energetic about we'll be talking about money tonight as a subject that everybody enjoys. We'll be talking about AI and music, and then we've also we'll talk about AI and dating. I cannot wait to ask Juwon about that. And also, we'll be talking about some other business topics.
Speaker 1:So, Juwon, how are you doing tonight?
Speaker 2:I'm doing awesome. Looking forward to another great show, seeing who tunes in, interacting with our base, and see what they have to say about the show tonight.
Speaker 1:Well, as always, please subscribe, and thanks you for everybody that, does watch our show. We appreciate it. Always make comments because we've been getting a wide variety of comments on our, videos, and we love it. We love that interaction. And what we're trying to do is really solving today's problems with AI.
Speaker 1:And when people make comments, we want people to think about, could AI potentially solve this particular problem itself?
Speaker 2:The one thing I wanna say, you we got this money background. He's looking at me. I feel like his eyes are directed at me, but not just at me. He's directed at this bump on my head. It feel like honing in on.
Speaker 2:He's making me feel a little uncomfortable. I know it's there. Stop looking at me.
Speaker 1:Everybody loves their Benjamins for sure.
Speaker 2:Mister Benjamin.
Speaker 1:That's right. Okay. Let's jump into the show here. The first thing we're gonna be talking about tonight, Juwon. This is a call showrunner.
Speaker 1:And what this is all about is about AITV. And you say, what is that about? What it's doing, it's a platform that actually gives you a couple different things here. It's a sort of a soup to nuts type of solution it's doing because it gives you the ability. We've asked for early rights into it.
Speaker 1:Hopefully, we'll get it in the next couple weeks. And once we do, we'll definitely show you the inner workings of this because it's still not officially launched yet, but gives you to do text to video, gives you the ability to do casting. And what that means is that you can pick different types of cast and characters. And because my objective with this particular show is to get Juwon a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And I will get him I will get that to you one day, Juwon.
Speaker 1:I promise you.
Speaker 2:I I I appreciate that, and I'm hope I would love to have my star up there, and that's my lead behind. To be a part of my legacy. So aim for
Speaker 1:that, man.
Speaker 2:That's something good to aim for. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1:And, also, you're able to edit you these videos, and most of them are are really animated type of videos like your South Park or things like that. Also, it gives you the ability to do post production to make sure it all makes sense. And the good thing about this is that if they wanna be the Netflix of AI TV, so there are going to be the distribution of this content. And they want creators to create their shows on this platform, and then they're gonna help with the distribution of that. Like what YouTube does now, but they wanna have it specifically just for their particular content.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to just play this video real quick, and it gives you the capability of actually putting on your own type of individuals to be part of this particular, show itself. And let me do just play a little of it so you can see what they're trying to come up with here. This is what they're trying to do is where you can have your own cast of characters and have it where you are like at a bonfire and you can create your own world by using their particular platform. It's for me, it probably wouldn't be something I would use because I'm not really into animated type of cartoons, but I could see there is probably a market out there for this type of content.
Speaker 2:Huge market. Anime is a big market. There's a lot of people, something with my friend's circle that utilize or go to the anime shows, and they travel with it as well. They'll dress up with anime characters for Halloween or just have anime parties. So there's definitely a mark for this.
Speaker 1:And that's what I think was very unique about this, and that's why I brought it up because it's doing the distribution also. Because that's the biggest thing. You say, you can produce all the stuff you want, but if nobody sees it, then there's no way to monetize it, make money because we want you to have those Benjamins. But also too is then you can build your brand around that. And maybe as we grow our channel, we will probably look at probably doing a separate channel or do something where we are actually coming in and producing these types of shows themselves.
Speaker 1:And you could see how the animation is going through this different types of scenarios. And what this does is actually bringing storytelling and transforming it so you can then create stories in a video format. And what it does, it's really using AI and you can create the scenes for each of these right here. Let me go through. It's really a concept to creation, and you can see how they're trying to do this.
Speaker 1:With frame control, each scene has a specific camera angle, so you can change it up where it's not just like for us. You're just seeing us straight on. This has the capability of hitting different angles, Juwon, that is quite unique.
Speaker 2:So they're panning around them pretty much. Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 1:And you can create a story based on different types of content. So if you were wanting to do something about space exploration to the moon, you can then create a prompt, spaceship astronauts preparing to land on Mars.
Speaker 2:I'll say that.
Speaker 1:A simple idea and producing a story behind it.
Speaker 2:That's So right there, that image with the astronaut looking at us, that was an image if I'm not mistaken. Not with the female, but the Right. Male looking at us. That looked like a sora from their promotion they were promoting.
Speaker 1:And you can put characters in there, identify what types of characters you want, and, like, the prompt is showing a woman in her twenties, simple purple hair, and dramatic realistic style. So they can see where they with the purple hair and put her in different types of situations, like in a bar in the looks like her room. It gives you a different angles how you can produce this. It's phenomenal, Juwan. I will get you the may even get you Academy Award one day.
Speaker 1:What do you think?
Speaker 2:I'm gonna refer to one of my friends who's into videography and all of that and see if he could leverage this technology for what he's doing.
Speaker 3:Surviving a nuclear apocalypse was just the beginning. Here, where the air burns and the earth whispers secrets of the old world, we wear our masks not just to breathe, but to declare who we are. Amidst the rubble and the ruins, we battle not just for resources, but for our stories, our power, and our freedom. We don't just live. We thrive.
Speaker 1:You in mass in mass queens, would you?
Speaker 2:Nah. I I would love to be the one guy who survived.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:Every note holds a secret.
Speaker 1:I love the As
Speaker 4:I step into the sound healing chamber, eyes of hope and curiosity watch me. Their anticipation is palpable as the air I breathe. This isn't just science. It's a journey into the unknown. They seek answers, and so do I.
Speaker 4:But what we'll find as the chamber comes to life resonating with the first of its kind melody could change everything we know about healing, about life itself.
Speaker 2:Amazing. So that's all anime or social?
Speaker 1:Animated. And it's all done by prompts. And what it does is actually break out the scenes and you can then add scenes to it. And it, I think it only does, at this point, like, 10 minutes. It's not super long what they can do as this produce really, it comes down to compute power.
Speaker 1:They just don't have enough compute power and the expense to do this. I think they're just trying to get this out to be mass audience type of adoption. But just imagine that just everybody out there is gonna have to realize that this is going to be in your feeds everywhere. Facebook are
Speaker 2:doing I I get you. And for me, a use case, I I will actually do a short with that. If I can create a little short story, book it out, and have this technology actually execute and demonstrate it, I think. So that's I may get my academy award winning trophy after.
Speaker 1:That's right, man. I we're gonna get you that for sure. Alrighty. Let's jump. We have moved into AI impact on music, and it is really on top of everybody's mind.
Speaker 1:What's your first initial thoughts of AI music? What do you see how this industry is going to adapt to this? And your
Speaker 2:But we we talked about this on last week's show, and there's a lot of conversation around within the space of how it can be leveraged to rejuvenate people's careers. Example, DOC or Binnie Segal who still have their creative capabilities, but they lost their voices. And so now you can use AI to help in that regard, but then you also have to take into considerations people's voices could be used for monetary gain for others against their will. So how do you go about putting restrictions and constraints around that so that they're actually compensated for for anything that's utilizing like sounds of their voices. So it is a threat in that regard.
Speaker 1:We'll get his opinion on it.
Speaker 5:This is a problem.
Speaker 6:Man, I okay. I I look at the way I look at fire. Right? Now with fire you can warm a home, you can create a a beautiful home cooked meal, but you can also burn a house down with fire. So it's not necessarily that it's a bad thing.
Speaker 6:It's it's a bad thing depending on how it's being used. And my challenge to the AI, the the people creating AI is show me the positive aspect of it. Show me what positivity is gonna come from being able to not only take my voice, but take my writing style, take my whole likeness, my everything, and do with it whatever the hell y'all want. Show me the positive aspect
Speaker 2:of that. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 7:They would say we're able to have creativity, but you would obviously think that it's stifling or trying to make obsolete the true human How
Speaker 6:is it creative to mimic me? What makes that what where's the creativity in that?
Speaker 7:I hear you when, you know, there are concerns. I don't like being duped. Right? When I think I'm trying to hear a particular artist, I wanna support the artist, I don't wanna have a cheap imitation. I wonder from the songwriting perspective, especially when someone's trying to piece together, oh, here's a style like Neo or a style like this artist.
Speaker 7:As opposed to going right to you. It's also a financial cost.
Speaker 6:It can definitely be a financial cost. So I I'm one of the few artists in this game that doesn't necessarily do it for the money in it. I have a family and my family likes to eat. However, I do music because I love music and my music means something to me. So it it runs a little deeper to me when you play me a song with my voice on it that I know I didn't sing all right.
Speaker 6:That's that you're basic you're taking my livelihood from me. Like it's it's more than just the financial element of it.
Speaker 1:What's your thoughts on that?
Speaker 2:I agree with him. That's he's in a situation where this isn't his livelihood. This is how he's feeding his family, and so you're taking food off his table by being able to replicate his voice and likings and his style and things of that nature. But that's where that human element still comes into play with the creativity. He Neo still has his creativity, and he's gonna honestly, it can push him as an artist to evolve and create greater sounds, to continuously evolve.
Speaker 2:But nonetheless, that's a threat. That's something that should be top of concern for not just him, but all artists out there.
Speaker 1:And I see his perspective because if everybody's gonna do imitation of Neo, is that gonna drive more traffic to his particular content, or is it gonna be so close to it that nobody would even know the difference if it is
Speaker 2:Yeah. I I get it. But I I wanted to share this with you. I just decided to use chatgpt to write me around about AI. Okay.
Speaker 2:So here it goes. I'm only gonna do the first couple well, about good 8 bars. But it comes out and it says, yo, listen up. I'm here to lay it down, about a force that's rising all around. It ain't flesh and bones.
Speaker 2:It's circuits and code. Ain't not the future. Watch it unfold. It started small, just bits and bytes. Now it's taking new flights, reaching higher heights.
Speaker 2:From algorithms to neural nets. AI is a game changer with no regrets.
Speaker 1:Well, I do what You're
Speaker 2:just as simple as me plugging in the prop, writing me around about AI. And it was just that easy.
Speaker 1:Your Academy Award and Grammy side by side.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm getting that's my star right there.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love it. That's amazing. I can't top that. If I try to rhyme, y'all would just cut off the TV for sure.
Speaker 2:All you have to do is put your swagger behind it. You use the the put your swag and put that Mark Swagger behind
Speaker 1:it.
Speaker 2:We call you money Mark.
Speaker 1:Benjamin's because you're on the Benjamin side. I'm more on the George Washington side. Oh, that
Speaker 2:that'll be our stage names. Money mark and the Don Juan Jawan. No.
Speaker 1:I'm Washington. Are you and you're Benjie oh my gosh. Alrighty. Okay. The next one is a actually a trailer for is a it's done by LeBron James at Eminem about how music got free.
Speaker 1:I think we're in this time where we grew up where everybody started using Napster and downloaded the music for free and then just went online with all this music. And I think we're at that inflection point with AI music that we are going to be like, oh my gosh. 5, 10 years from now. I don't think it'll be 10 years. 5 years from now, the music industry is gonna be totally different.
Speaker 2:But is it truly free, though? If you look at it, I have Apple Music. I'm a part of the Apple Music ecosystem. I'm paying a subscription. I have the family plan for myself and my kids.
Speaker 2:Now I'm I have access to all of the music that they have that they're hosting.
Speaker 1:Well, but compared to album and CD sales, it's, it's pennies to the dollar to what they used to get.
Speaker 2:We come a long way. That's evolution.
Speaker 1:We Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well They get paid from streams.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 8:When Napster first came about, I didn't understand the Internet yet. 99 was the rimming, the biggest year.
Speaker 2:You can sell 6, 700,000,000 CDs a year.
Speaker 9:You had to fly Walmart CD holder on your visor.
Speaker 8:It was like printing money. But we talk about what went wrong for Vu, the artist or the industry. The music industry had always been really concerned about piracy. People just started ripping music and sharing it. All that works.
Speaker 2:Writing it, recording it, tweaking it. Now these songs leaked, and I'm like, we are blaming our friends.
Speaker 6:First, I was like, I'm a take just one.
Speaker 8:They smuggled them out in food trays and metal belt buckles.
Speaker 10:I ain't feel bad.
Speaker 6:I feel bad
Speaker 10:in the world.
Speaker 8:As soon as the artist turned in the record, you could set the stopwatch
Speaker 2:for how
Speaker 8:soon it was going to leak.
Speaker 5:Maybe they don't know that this is completely illegal.
Speaker 9:I don't even know. Is there a statue of indication on this thing that I was downloading and I was a part of Napster?
Speaker 8:The music industry was flailing.
Speaker 1:17 FBI agents surrounded our apartment complex.
Speaker 8:Here's what you don't understand if
Speaker 1:music should be free.
Speaker 2:I have an entire army of people that need their paycheck.
Speaker 8:It's one of your biggest exports America has, and it's going out of business.
Speaker 1:I have a feeling we will have a movie like that in 5 years from now.
Speaker 2:And, god willing, we're here to see that and witness it ourselves, but I'm I'm curious to see what that's going to look like. We're talking about it now. We're in the early stages of it. But policy and and this transition, it's it's just evolving. It's just evolving.
Speaker 2:I remember the days of a Walkman when you bought the cassette tapes, And we put it in our Walkman, and we thought we was cool. You had to press the rewind button, and then all of a sudden CDs came on the scene. Everybody wanted the CD player. You plug the CD. If you had a car, you plug it into your lighter, and now you can just put your CDs in, and you ask your friends in the back, give me the CD.
Speaker 2:I'm a put this CD in. And that was the thing. When Napster came when Napster came on the scene and you begin to have file sharing put in place and I can access music, it actually gave me I actually had the ability to listen to music. Right. And so it expanded my horizon in that regard.
Speaker 2:So who knows? It could be for the greater good.
Speaker 1:I think it's gonna dilute the music industry because we'll have a lot of creators that we never knew were out there. And I think it's gonna be some interesting music, But it's going to be where the shrinking market of streaming is gonna go down. And eventually, they'll probably put some of this music that's AI generated music, which they do on Spotify. Now I know some artists have a AI generated track, I guess, attracts and their own voice, and then they see how that works out.
Speaker 2:I'm a be honest. A lot of the music that we listened to back in the days was dictated by what they played on the radio stations. So you had a lot of great artists out there that went undiscovered, and we never got to that music. And now we have the ability to not only get to that music, but to create playlists based off of just the music that we like. I can't even remember the last time I listened to the radio, to be quite honest.
Speaker 2:I get in my car. I have my panda or or my selected songs in my playlist on my phone when car plate picks up. But that's the direction that we're going. So if I'm if I wanna listen to conscious music, so it's gonna be diluted, but it's also going to produce, a group of artists, of individuals that we may not have had access to in the past.
Speaker 1:And that will be you, Dwan.
Speaker 2:I just gave you 8 bars. You you hear my lyrics?
Speaker 1:And I bet you Dwayne missed your, little rap. He's gonna have to hit the rewind button on it.
Speaker 6:I
Speaker 2:spit hot fire. I'm like Dylon. I'm like Dylon from the Puffy Show. I spit hot fire for making the band fire.
Speaker 1:Oh, man. Great. But I wanted to put that out there. We're in that inflection moment in, air life with his AI. As we talked about, it's going to change the music industry.
Speaker 1:And the next article, I think, is going to change how we look at the news industry. So this is about how they're creating a channel that all the news anchors, everybody reporters are going to be AI generated. We'll listen to this a little bit, and we'll make some commentary after.
Speaker 10:Operating a media group in 2024 requires substantial resources, especially if it's a a 24 hour news channel. Planning out revenues make it even more difficult to maintain hundreds of employees needed to keep it running.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of employees, Wanna weigh.
Speaker 10:Producers, cameramen, editors, anchors, and a lot of costly gear. This man has set upon replacing all this with a few lines of code on a computer. He should be aware. A news program produced entirely by artificial intelligence quickly went viral.
Speaker 11:Hello, and welcome to channel 1. A new way of consuming, reporting, and thinking about the news powered by artificial intelligence. All presented by our team of AI generated reporters.
Speaker 12:We think there's an opportunity to really bring news a few generations forward.
Speaker 10:Adam Mossam is a Canadian engineer and investor who's lived in California for the past 20 years. Given the challenges news channels currently face, declining viewership, coupled with the confidence crisis, he's convinced that the solution lies in news programs tailored to aid fewer.
Speaker 9:Military operations against Hamas by Israeli Defense Forces continue in Gaza with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Speaker 12:We believe personalization is the key to unlocking the next level of user experience in this. And with new advances in technology, that opportunity, we believe, does exist. So we're trying to figure out if we can go and take advantage of that.
Speaker 9:Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky urged his nation's people to stay focused and strong in the face of the protracted war with Russia.
Speaker 12:Have reporters that don't exist. We've created these people from scratch, and that technology has never existed before today.
Speaker 10:To achieve this, the team behind 10
Speaker 1:first thoughts.
Speaker 2:It's it's impressive. It it's what we've been seeing thus far with some of the other technologies that we've been using. Was it Claude 3? What was was that when they had the image? Correct me.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I think the Claude has that image to text or Yeah. Chat GPT can see things and then articulate it back.
Speaker 2:And even with the nurse and agent. So then Right. It's like becoming a a new norm. It's just different sectors that is touching. Jobs are gonna be lost.
Speaker 2:Jobs are gonna be impacted. Nursing with the, agents. What was it? The $9 an hour agents that we talked about in the past. You can select which avatar you wanted to use, which specialty, which field, and the same principles apply here.
Speaker 2:You can select who you want to deliver your news to you. You can create your own news station with your own avatars of who's going to present that information to you. But it's interesting. I wasn't aware that the news was that the ratings were down. I I wasn't aware of that.
Speaker 2:But now that I think about it, it makes sense. It's pretty much the same garbage day in and day out.
Speaker 1:Well and, of course, former president Trump is back, and that'll drive the ratings up some. But I wonder if they would do we we see it already where you've got certain cable news outlets lean toward this direction and then others lean to a different direction. What happens if you wanted to get an AI to give you information that's specifically geared towards you, not anybody else? How are you gonna gather that information? It's still gonna need people on the street to go find the information.
Speaker 1:You might be able to definitely for your people who speak it, you can definitely use AI generation in that regard.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I hear you. I think that would be pretty limited for me to just have news that pertains solely to myself. I'm not going to have the local news channel. I I want what's going on in my area.
Speaker 2:Locally, I don't care if it's somebody stole a cup off or someone's step. I wanna know what's going on locally, but then I also have other outlets for the world news if I wanna see here what's going on globally. But, nonetheless, a lot of the information that's being fed to us is controlled with information. I would like to get the information from the streets. I wanna know from the boots on the ground in these other countries.
Speaker 2:Give us the real information, and that's what the Internet is providing because people are capturing actual factual data, publishing it to the Internet. It's gonna allow enough to see exactly what's going on, not the fabricated version of it or the watered down version. So I'm big on the authenticity of what we're receiving.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And you might have, like, your citizen reporters gathering the information. So if you have your phone pointing at something, listening to somebody speak, it can automatically collect that information, send it back to the studio, and then the AI avatar would then compile it. The AI would compile the content, and then boom, it's done.
Speaker 2:Yeah. That that'll be interesting. That's scary at the same time to me to have it just capturing all that data. Who knows what's going to be spewed out there into the world?
Speaker 1:Yep. We definitely got comments on that on a couple of very short videos about AI. I think the one we dropped yesterday, AI on the transcripts of the Trump trial, boy, that really generates some heat on both sides.
Speaker 2:The Trump is gonna Trump is gonna generate a following anyhow. It it tends to follow Trump. But there was a lot of good comments made around, you know, why if the technology is gonna give us that level of visibility, then why not just broadcast or have cameras in there so we can hear it in real time? Why leverage just the transfer? Let's see it in real time.
Speaker 2:I personally wanna add a tonality. I wanna see expressions, body language. I wanna see it all. I can draw my own conclusion. AI just was pretty bland.
Speaker 2:Just read what was on the transcript. No emphasis on certain words or anything.
Speaker 1:Juwon, Salesforce.
Speaker 2:Oh, man. Man, I'm gonna say this. This is probably my favorite section of the show. I love talking about the news because it gives me an in order to get the topics or the articles that I'm gonna review, I have to actually dig through and establish the Internet and find what I think would be interesting to share with our audience. And so I'm reading more or, articles trying to find those ones that I think would resonate more and that everyone should wanna hear about.
Speaker 2:And when I came across this one, I thought of you and I, Mark. AI or Salesforce is something that we use to do our day our job day in and day out. It's our customer relation management platform. And so to see that Salesforce plummeted from weak forecast based to AI competition, That was pretty alarming, and I wanted to know certain things as to why Salesforce hasn't incorporated AI into their technology so far so that they can start leveraging it. But that caused me to do additional research, but I'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 2:From this article perspective, yes, Salesforce shares plummeted by 16% before the market opened on Thursday of last week following the company's disclosure of its weakest quarterly review on revenue growth forecast to date. And this has raised concerns among investors about the impact of the rising interest rates and competitive AI offerings from his rivals. So that's something that Salesforce is highly concerned about. And not only Salesforce, but the investors. Now analysts from Morgan Stanley and Barclays noted that weak bookings in q one and deteriorating selling environment contributed to investor unease.
Speaker 2:Despite And so that's And so that's pretty concerning, and people are taking notice. But once again, AI is playing a part of that. Now I I I did wanna touch on the company's guidance for the current quarter projected adjusted earnings per share between $2.34 $2.36 with revenue expectations of 9 point 2,000,000,000 and 9,250,000,000 both below the analyst expectations. Now despite reaffirming its fiscal 2025 revenue, revenue projections, the outlook suggested a deceleration in software demand. So particularly noted in April.
Speaker 2:So software is losing traction and and decelerating, which is huge. But at the same time, software has taken off with chatbot because people are investing in those technologies. But from a competitive and economic perspective, analysts expressed concerns about the impact of the rise of interest rates and the competitive pressures of AI offerings by its rivals, and those rivals are like ServiceNow and Microsoft. And I think I shared with you a few videos throughout the week where the ServiceNow had Idris Abbo promoting their technology. We already know what Microsoft is doing, but all the players are getting involved with AI to help differentiate itself or nonetheless keep up with their competitors.
Speaker 2:And so that caused me to dig a little deeper into Salesforce. And I wanted to know what is Salesforce strategy? What is your AI strategy? And what I found is that Salesforce has taken a strategic approach to AI implementation within its ecosystem. And some of the key areas include crafting a unified AI strategy aligned with organizational goals and enhancing their user experience through a single pane of glass or interface.
Speaker 2:That's something that I sell. I sell a technology, and that's one of my main bullets is a single pane of glass regardless of whatever technology you have, regardless of the disparate systems that you have in house. So that's gonna be big. But then also they talk about intelligent automation of tasks to augment human capabilities, not replace them. They're not looking to replace them, but they're looking to augment them and improve efficiencies across their teams.
Speaker 2:So they wanna keep the humans in the league, in the loop with their work AI workflow to improve overall effectiveness. And so they are taking the necessary steps to solidify themselves as one of the major players and keep their market share. But they're a little behind the curve right now. And like you and I always said from day 1, you don't have AI already incorporated in what you're doing today. You're already behind it.
Speaker 1:And we also I did a probably about 15 minute video probably a month ago now about Salesforce Salesforce and their latest updates, what they did with their Einstein AI, which is that's what they call their particular AI. And what also they're using with their data lake. And what data lake is basically data from multiple sources, sort of like middleware for multiple data repository. And what Salesforce is doing is trying to take all that information, then pull it up to the actual CRM so they know the all the information about the customer, what the future sales opportunities are for this, the total lifetime value of this particular customer, and it's using AI in different things. What problem with Salesforce is that there's so many people AI initiatives going on that they're saying Salesforce is working up.
Speaker 1:They're getting pushed down the the tech stack or software stack.
Speaker 2:I agree. But and so you mentioned pulling from those disparate systems, aggregating that data. What is AI doing? We write a prompt, and AI can aggregate that same data whether it's using Copilot with your Microsoft Fleet using, Gemini with your Google. But, nonetheless, it's aggregating that data.
Speaker 2:It's able to give it to you in a format that's useful.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. And, also, you wearing that red jacket with that fire going behind you, did you coordinate that?
Speaker 2:It was completely unplanned. I just knew it was gonna be a fire session tonight, and I came in here fiery. So I had on the red just to have in the background compliments what I have on, not the other way around.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. We're gonna talk about relationships, Jawan. And, of course, we always both of us are married, so we're just doing this on the sidelines so we're to see the future of dating. Marla. And it is amazing.
Speaker 1:I will actually let I'm not gonna make too much commentary on this, but let's listen to Bumble and talking about how AI is going to be part of the dating scene moving today and forward. So we'll listen to this.
Speaker 13:Obsessed Path, and we are going to win. We will be the way people meet, and this is not a fad. And so what we are doing is we're leaning into the things people don't like, the things that are stressing them out, and we are saying, how do we be the best place on the Internet for women? How do we be the place that people find real connection and we do not exhaust them or stress them out along the way. So with Lidiani's expertise in AI and her unbelievable technology background Mhmm.
Speaker 13:We're just going to innovate, and that's how we're gonna win.
Speaker 14:And how much is AI gonna help or hurt that? Because you and I talked about last year, AI might be able to help teach you how to flirt, help you write that opening message. On the other hand, you've got, like, people falling in love with bots and peep like, bots posing as real people.
Speaker 8:What's wrong with
Speaker 14:this? It's getting really terrifying.
Speaker 13:Yes. It's a it's a little freaky, but that's a fad. Listen. I'm sure there are people out there that might form friendships with some form of AI, and and that's fine. But our focus with AI is to help create more healthy and equitable relationships.
Speaker 13:And that also starts with yourself. How can we actually teach you how to date? How can we help you show up in a better way? How Give
Speaker 14:me an example.
Speaker 13:Okay. So, for example, you could, in the near future, be talking to your AI dating concierge, And you could share your insecurities. I just came out of a breakup. I have commitment issues. And it could help you train yourself into a better way of thinking about yourself, and then it could give you productive tips for communicating with other people.
Speaker 13:Go on. Really out there. There is a world where
Speaker 1:your
Speaker 13:your dating concierge could go and date for you with other dating concierge. No. Truly. And then you don't have to talk to 6 3rd people. And all of San Francisco for you It's These are the 3 people you really ought to meet.
Speaker 13:And that's the power of AI if harnessed the right way. But for us, it's staying very committed to our northern star, a safer
Speaker 1:Okay. A dating concierge. Alright, Juwon. Tell me your would would be your ideal dating concierge. I I just gotta know.
Speaker 2:Haven't been on a dating scene in forever. So and to be quite honest, I never had those problems.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah. Wow. My god. Y'all took it.
Speaker 2:Honestly, I have no gain. Just my wife understood my story. She doesn't like when I say that, but she she understood my story. I know I'm getting some feedback. She's gonna let me have it on that one.
Speaker 2:But nonetheless, you know, I actually wanna get to know a person, and I I want them to appreciate me for me. I don't wanna bite trying to create me or shape me into something that I'm truly not because then a individual is gonna get a farcey or they're gonna get a representative, and they're not gonna get me. I want I am who I am. So for me, my concierge are some of my friends.
Speaker 13:I call them.
Speaker 2:Call my I call my friends up. Look. I'm interested in such and such. Well, they might say, look, man, back in the day, yo, stop being shy. She's looking at you.
Speaker 2:Go talk to her. Things of that nature. Like, for my son, I tell my son, quick, man. Get on out of bed. I give him a little nudge.
Speaker 2:Get on out of bed and talk to him. My daughters, this is what you should be looking for. So I'm their I'm their chatbot. And so so I don't I'm not really willing this technology, and you know how it is, Mark. This is, like, the 3rd or 4th dating type, you know, with angry girlfriend and everything that we regretting.
Speaker 2:And my position hasn't it hasn't changed. And so I'm like the other lady sitting there laughing more now, but we'll see. Maybe there's a maybe there's a place for this. Just not in my book.
Speaker 1:It brings back your favorite TV show, Black Mirror. But just think about, if they are going to do is and what she's saying is that your AI concierge, which is a reflection of yourself as going out there to see other significant partners out there to see if there's an interaction where you only have to have a conversation with somebody. The AI is going to be talking to another AI and having those conversations, don't you think that'd be more efficient and rank your individuals that you wanna then eventually see in person?
Speaker 2:So that's I I don't I I really don't know, Mark. Just newer technology nowadays, where they where they may go on dating apps trying to create the perfect profile of who they think they are. Because, of course, somebody's gonna tell you what they think they are, but go talk to their exes. Let their exes tell you what they were in the relationship. Don't give me the highlights of your good quality.
Speaker 2:Give me you. And and so with these chatbots, they're gonna talk about, oh, I do this. I do that. I I have this education. I work here.
Speaker 2:But is that really who they are?
Speaker 1:The black mayor has the rating system?
Speaker 2:That none that was interesting. That was interesting in itself because when we talk about that, the one lady who had who was who was completely fixated on having a high score to fit into a certain category, she was miserable. Right. Whereas her brother had the lower score and he was happy. I'm living amongst my people.
Speaker 2:I'm freer. I'm I'm a talk back to others. Whereas she, I can't do anything wrong. She's walking on eggshells to try to get a good rating. That's what these chatbots are.
Speaker 2:In in this situation, you wanna get 5 stars. I don't need I don't need 5 stars from everyone. I need 5 stars from the one individual.
Speaker 1:I cannot wait for the day for your kids to come to you and says, I have a AI concierge, and I want you to give me a call and tell me what you said.
Speaker 2:I'm I'm probably can tell you what I'm gonna say right now, but but I'm gonna be able
Speaker 1:to call that day. Oh my god. Behind chat gbt.
Speaker 2:I I took a different approach with this one because we often always talk about the good and how it's gonna help us with efficiencies. We talk about the bad and how it's how it's going to eliminate jobs. But now let's talk about the ugly. So you have the good, the bad, and the ugly. And the ugly truth behind chat g p t is AI is guzzling resources at plant eating rates.
Speaker 2:So basically, this article talks about it discusses the significant impact, the environmental impact AI technology is having on the environment, particularly chat gpt. And so when it was when I was reading, thought it it was broken down into several different categories, the resource consumption, the environmental impact, sustainability concerns, call for actions, as well as broader, implications. But from a resource consumption perspective, AI technologies including chat g chat g p t, they consume a vast amount of resources, particularly energy and water. And so the article highlighted that, and it talked about, the the data centers and how these data centers, and AI models have substantial carbon footprint and and water usage and continue and contribute to environmental degradation. So over time, degradation, if you don't know what that means, it's gonna continue get worse.
Speaker 2:Check look at your phone. The battery life at a 100% when you first buy the device isn't the same as a battery as a 100% 2 years later. It's going to experience degradation, and our environment is gonna experience degradation as a result of the resource consumption. As far as the environmental impact, they said the environmental cost of running AI models, it's compared to that of commercial flights, Emphasizing the high and misses associated with data center. The article argues that energy and water used in AI operations are significant and often overlooked in discussions about technological advances.
Speaker 2:And so that's something that we have to take into consideration and and that they are that they're very concerned about with and within the article because of the sustainability concerns. And so it raises concerns about sustainability of AI development, question whether the benefits of AI justify the environmental cost. So the good, I'll win the bad. It suggests that the current trajectory of AI development is unsustainable and calls for a reevaluation of how these technologies are deployed and managed. And so there's a lot of people out there, environmentalists, who have their concerns about the technology.
Speaker 2:We often talk don't talk about that enough, and we don't talk about enough on our show, but that's not something that comes top of mind of how it's impacting the environment. So there's some call for actions by that they're putting forth, and they're advocating for more responsible and sustainable practices. And the tech industry, they're calling for greater transparency in the environmental impact of AI and urges policymakers to implement regulations to mitigate these negative effects. And so, basically, the article just talking about the significant environmental impact of AI technology like chat gpt and how are we gonna put regulatory measures in place to address these challenges. And that's the ugly about the technology, that we're promoting right now, Mark.
Speaker 2:We should fall.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And what I see is that I think Elon Musk and other people have talked about it is that we just don't have enough power to definitely provide the power computing power to do this. It's not this computing power, it's the resources to cool it. And the resources that cool it, a lot of times it's water. And, of course, water is a limited supply out there, especially these data centers that are interior to, any country out there.
Speaker 1:And then, of course, data centers that are using ocean Water is you got some issues with that potentially could be a disaster. And we don't have that much nuclear reactors out there. There's very few being built around the world. And I know you did an article about that as with some new generation type of nuclear type of technology. But it is something that with batteries, we're moving to a digital age that's going to suck up a lot of resources.
Speaker 2:And when you when you said the keyword digital, and with that being said, it's not just AI that has impact in the environment with their carbon footprint. It's not just EV, but you also look at digital currency. And that's where that's where Elon Musk came out and stated he wasn't buying Bitcoin because of the impact on the environment from the mining, the Bitcoin mining. Nonetheless, he's back to bond once again because they said they made some changes and it improved the mining process. But these are all things that are in our future that's gonna have an impact on our environment.
Speaker 2:So what are we doing to address those now? The nuclear race is already been put forth to who's gonna have the best technology, but who's gonna help preserve the environment well along the way?
Speaker 1:Absolutely. We're going to talk about everybody's probably shopped at Walmart. Shops there quite a bit. I still shop there quite a bit, especially for groceries. Their groceries are dirt cheap compared to other places.
Speaker 1:And what this video is just a real short little sound bite, but how Walmart is putting AI into the associate's hands to help them understand for better customer service and then for operational efficiency. So I'm just gonna play this few seconds of it.
Speaker 14:Is AI taking over Walmart now? Not exactly, but it is helping reduce waste. How? The company is launching an in store artificial intelligence to advise employees on everything from when bananas are likely to rot to when to mark down seasonal. So how does it work?
Speaker 14:The internally developed AI technology allows Walmart employees to scam produce like bananas to see how ripe the product is. Then using generated by AI, a digital dashboard will make a suggestion on what exactly to do with that product at that given time, taking off the decision making from associates. It may advise the employee to do a price change, send the product back to a vendor, or donate it as a best outcome from the analysis, all with the goal of reducing waste in stores. The program will be piloted in Canada soon with the hope of expanding to other countries in the near future.
Speaker 1:And I thought that was a very simple use case, how to solve a problem of especially perishable items in the food mart part of the Walmart is that you can see, okay. Now let's mark it down versus going through a chain of command. Well, maybe I need to ask the the produce manager and slow down the process. Let AI they'll probably scan it. You can see it.
Speaker 1:Alright. Let's make a markdown right now.
Speaker 2:That makes sense. And incorporate incorporate that with a few of the the crypto technology, the blockchain technologies, I I think has a a strong use case.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Yep. Everybody's getting into AI and bringing it right down to the employee. I love these use cases, and we'll try to highlight these in different shows. It's part of the plan.
Speaker 1:But You're kidding. Okay. Is AI the really biggest threat?
Speaker 2:This this this is something for us to think about and scratch our heads. But is AI really the biggest threat when our world is guided by more human stupidity? So in this article, it discusses the nature of artificial intelligence as both a potential bull and a threat while emphasizing that human actions and policies are currently the more significant global challenge. And, they go on to talk about the potential risk of AI and the human element, AI, particularly generative AI, which has the potential to do to drive productivity and economic growth. However, it also poses risks such as amplifying disinformation, creating deepfakes, and enabling election manipulation.
Speaker 2:Now we're in election year. I can see all 3 of those perfect, unfortunately. I can see election manipulation may maybe with the voting part portion of that as well as the deep fakes. I can see Biden and Trump both being on screen saying things that neither one of them are saying. It's just their image with their voice, a voice lightning, and and with the deep fakes, as well as the disinformation being put out.
Speaker 2:And so those are some of the potential risks, but those are all human driven as well. And, and this is what they're talking about. The human stupidity of side of AI technology. And they dig deeper into human caused mega threat. And so they argue that human stupidity rather than AI is the primary driver of current global challenges, including climate change, geopolitical tensions, failed states and pandemics, all of which have substantial economic and social consequences.
Speaker 2:Then you just go on to talk about AI's roles in addressing these challenges, and it says why AI has the potential to revolutionize fields like biotech, medicine, and cybersecurity. Its benefits can only be realized if its negative side effects. The people, how are we managing the people and the human caused mega threats. And then, they call to action need for responsible management of AI. So that's a common theme with everything that we see.
Speaker 2:The calls for responsible management of the AI technology to mitigate, the destructive potential and maximize the benefits. This includes addressing issues like AI bias, ensuring transparency, and implementing robust regulatory frameworks, as well as broader implications. And so the World Economic Forum highlighted the optimism around AI's potential, but also underscored the need to address the broader human inflicted global challenges from AI. So it suggests that the AI will not surpass human stupidity if we fail to manage our own actions and policies effectively. So it was it was a good article.
Speaker 2:I I thought it was good to share with with our audience because once again, we talked about the good and the bad. Today we also talked about ugly. And to me, this is a part of the ugly era, the human stupidity part. And so as long as we have the regulations in place and we, as the humans, don't misuse this technology, we're gonna have bad seeds, but let's keep the bad seeds to a minimum to not inflict any harm or cause any threats to the world globally. So I thought thought it was a good article, and I wanted to share with our our audience.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And you see that in a lot of the comments that we get on our channel of people seeing it as a threat, is ugly, or they just think it's a joke. It's a wide variety of how people are interpreting this. And the this AI machine is moving and moving quick, and I can see every type of human emotion coming to fruition with this Correct. Really change in our society itself.
Speaker 1:Alright. I saw this, and I it's just a couple seconds of AI filling up your gas tank. So I would just go play this real quick.
Speaker 8:Technology could change how we fuel up our cars in the coming years. So there's a
Speaker 1:new pilot program in Abu Dhabi that is looking to save you the hassle at the pump.
Speaker 8:An oil company has created robotic fueling arms to assist at gas stations, and the arms use AI with the help of sensors and cameras to hook up to vehicles. And it even opens up the gas cap, and the makers claim the arms are designed to be fast and environmentally friendly as it manages spills.
Speaker 1:Like in New Jersey, you don't pump your gas. So do you think What
Speaker 2:do you think they want? I wanna say that.
Speaker 1:Is that is that something not seeing that going to be a use case, a problem that we're trying to solve. Because I could see people just messing with that all the
Speaker 2:time. Yeah. Once again, I I can't speak for the adoption of that. There may be some situations whereas from a safety perspective, you're in a neighborhood and and you wanna go to, a gas station where you don't have to get out with your car. You can keep your doors locked.
Speaker 2:People live out. Some people operate out of fear. But the one thing that stood out to me was they say environmental friendly from from managing gas spillages. As high as gas is, do you think I'm gonna waste any drops?
Speaker 1:Yeah. That's right. Yeah. It is.
Speaker 6:You know how to cook. You have to worry
Speaker 2:about that.
Speaker 1:Waste anything now these days. For sure.
Speaker 2:It's my way to no gas. I'm at the pump shaking to make sure I get the last
Speaker 1:Yeah. Oh, alright. Our last one here. Let me bring this up here. For some reason, they didn't pull it up, but we are going to talk about trouble in the cloud computing space.
Speaker 1:So let's get
Speaker 5:Hit lower. But might it just be the wrong software business model for the coming age of AI? Deirdre Bosa is looking at potential trouble in the cloud for today's tech check. Deirdre? Kelly, enterprise software, it is the pain trade of the year, and Salesforce just added more momentum to that.
Speaker 5:There is one corner, could be poised to recover, and will benefit more from Jet AI than the traditional SaaS model that the likes of Salesforce has. That would be consumption based models. Business models like Snowflake, Datadog, Confluence, MongoDB, which reports tonight will be another piece of this enterprise software picture. Here's the case for it. If generated applications are compute heavy, they require more usage of cloud computing resources or API calls, then consumption based models naturally scale with the customer needs versus a Salesforce and others, which primarily sells on a subscription basis often structured around a per seat model that is charging based on the number of users that have access to the software.
Speaker 5:That is great when workforces are growing, but not so great if generative AI is making workforces more efficient and smaller. So you essentially have less seats even though Gen AI workloads are increasing. I spoke exclusively to Boxio, Aaron Levy.
Speaker 1:What's your thoughts on that? It's something when I saw this because both of us sell enterprise software. And, oh my goodness, I really didn't think about the opposite side of we always tout efficiencies. And the biggest thing that CFOs ever talk to me about is, are you cutting headcount? Because if you're not cutting headcount, you're not really saving me money at all.
Speaker 1:You may make them more efficient, but I'm still paying them their salary and benefits. So what's your thoughts on that?
Speaker 2:Well, I'll start off by saying Salesforce, it's the 2nd time it's come up on this show today. Right. Come up for a reason because they are impacted with their enterprise model. And as a sales rep, we sell enterprise, but today's climate is changing. Yes.
Speaker 2:The borrowers are changing. How we're doing business is changing. And I always said this, and I got this from a good friend of mine, but he said, you always have to be able to, he said, adapt to any environment or any change, make the necessary adapt, but then make the necessary adjustment and overcome. And we're gonna these companies are gonna have to look at more tiered models instead of these enterprise you buy and you get all because organizations, they want what they need. I'm I'm not forward thinking right now and to say I want a a 1,000 subscriptions because we're gonna potentially grow to that, grow into utilizing all of them.
Speaker 2:No. I'm a get what I need today, and what is your tier structure look like? Because it's all about cost savings at this point.
Speaker 1:And I see that as I don't think that's been put into a lot of people's forecasting for some of these software companies that they are not really seeing that potential issue coming up, and I find that very fascinating.
Speaker 2:It it it is very fascinating, and it's not incorporated into a lot of these corp corporations that we're dealing with today. But I'll tell you who it is factored in. Who's taking consideration of it, the buyers. Yes. The buyers are bringing that to your attention every step of the way.
Speaker 2:Prospects, existing customers, they're they're scrutinizing every dollar. And so you have to be able to justify these higher costs, which we can't no more with AI eliminating certain tasks. I can do this now with AI. And so that's something that these companies have to take into consideration to be mindful of.
Speaker 1:I agree with you 100%. We're at the end of the show. I just want to put a couple shout outs before we finish up today is that we dropped a couple videos this week. One was actually with my daughter about how we're using AI with we're gonna be adopting another cat in the near future because my cat of 15 years passed away. So that was fun to do that with my daughter.
Speaker 1:So please watch that. It's the AI cat. Also, I did a video on Google VO and just high level of what Google is doing to help creators and the text to video, also text to music, and also how it's helping songwriters or anybody to create different types of wordings for things, like for Juwon and his Grammy that he'll be getting in their future itself. But yeah. And, also, I will be doing another livestream probably on Thursday about 9 PM talking about AI apps on the iPhone.
Speaker 1:So if you're available, watch it. If not, watch it on replay. We're always gonna be here. Any final thoughts, Juwon?
Speaker 2:Yeah. I'm gonna piggyback off what you said. So definitely check out that content. Great video I mean, great videos that Mark and his daughter put together as well as the study sessions. If you're interested in learning more, join Mark.
Speaker 2:Mark's gonna be doing more study sessions. I'll I'm gonna be doing a more content delivery around the glossary and the common terminologies that you need to know more about as you begin to start your journey into the AI space. We'll be I'll be going live as well just listening to music. If you wanna vibe, rock out with me, you can do that. If you wanna chill and relax with Mark, you can do that as well.
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Speaker 1:Yeah. And definitely share videos. We love everybody to share. And when we do these study sessions, I'm going actually, we will be how we put our content together. And, we brainstorm.
Speaker 1:Let people like to know what how we put our content together, and we're basically we want to go live and choose how we're putting the content for the show. Whether it's this show or shows down the road, we are trying to put documentaries together on, like, open Google. So we will be bringing out additional content. There's so much information out there that we could do a show every day if we had it, but we don't, of course.
Speaker 2:We
Speaker 1:have other life. As always, thank you everybody for watching our show.
Speaker 2:That's a good one. A good one.