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This is Brian and company on WTIC News Talk 1080 Tech Tuesday, but on a Wednesday, Umm, Eric Semmel, Tab Computers computer talk with tab 9 to 11 on Saturdays here on WTIC News Talk 1080. How are you, my friend? I'm good. Brian, how are you? You got the uniform on? I always wear the logos, just in case you forget. Yes. Where you work. Badge of honor. Listen. This we have the slew of AI. Articles to discuss but this cell phone and prisons, what was that that data point that you gave me? But the number 25,000 cell phones are smuggled into prisons every year. I don't know where they're putting them, but 25,000 are coming in and of course they're being used by the bad guys while in prison, which you've heard stories even when Todd was on the on the air here where he was talking about how difficult it is to even make a phone call out of a prison. You had to go through very expensive system where you're it's like ridiculous per minute. And so that whole thing is like an interesting money grab of some kind where the prisoners have to pay an arm and a leg just to communicate. Then you got 25,000 illicit phones going in there. So they can do what they're probably not, you know, calling their mom. So now with the FCC wants to do is actually allow for cell phone jamming in prisons, which I don't know, it seems to make sense to me. If you have that kind of a problem, 25,000 cell phones coming into the prison, somebody's bringing him in there. And if you can't stop them, may as well make him not work. So is this one of those things, though, as someone who is a technologist? Make yourself. Yeah. So the FCC say they vote to do it, then they do it. I don't know how they do it, but they do it. The private citizens find a way around it. Or is it, like, nearly impossible to work? I think that would be impossible for the prisoners to allow to be able to get around it. So, you know, it'll be a bubble within that prison area. There'll be jamming the actual cell transmissions. And that just means they can't use those things for illicit activity anymore or any activity. And I have no problem with it because as a technologist, yes, I would like to use technology for where it's important. There is discussions years ago about, you know, having cell phones jamming in in movie theaters. This is what people were on the phone all the time. And of course, doctors and lawyers always folks said, hey, we need to be able to receive calls if we were on call, right? So of course that makes no sense to do. But in this case, I think if you're incarcerated, you should be incarcerated. Hey, listen, so let's go to these slew of AI pieces. We've established that AI is only as good as the. Information at polls, right? It's not in some like whatever hallucinates, right? But it's like it's it's it's not like some omniscient all knowing thing. It has to pull from places, you know, the Internet for for instance. Yeah. And so Apple is getting sued by like literally like a book author. Yeah. So this anybody could do like, if they're taking stuff straight off the Internet, like anybody can sue these companies. I don't know about that. But in this case, this issue has to do with this. The data set of pirated copy written books called, It's out there on Books 3. And already another AI was sued for and they agreed to pay, they agreed to pay $1.4 billion. What? Because, yeah, because the AI was go ahead and was training its itself on this copyright material. Now these authors are now going after Apple who did the same thing again. Apple who will charge you coming and going on their Play Store, whether you're actually creating content or creating applications, they'll charge you an arm and a leg. But they won't pay AI to actually or they actual authors to train their AI. They can't afford it really. So they're gonna be getting sued and I suspect they're gonna have to pay as well. So these authors are making some money thanks to having their copywritten stuff put on a pirated website. I guess my point is though, if there are, if they're complaint is legitimate, there must be hundreds of thousands of potential legitimate. Sure. So you so if they have to pay everybody, then it becomes a maybe a cost prohibitive venture. I don't know. I don't know about that. But again, it's like Napster all over again. Did we not realize you can't steal music from their authors? Right. You know, and and you think the AI would be some sort of have some sort of intelligence. These companies realize you can't RIP off people to do this. So we'll see what happens. And yeah, you're right, it could cost some money. We're talking with Eric Simmel from Tab Computers and again, he hosts computer talk with Tab 9 to 11 here on WTIC. Most often we have Tech Tuesdays, except when either he bounces us or we bounce him. Usually it's us that bounces him, but he's gracious enough to come in on a Wednesday. I know you get paid so much. Exactly. You know, a lot of people think that AI is going to make us more productive, whatever, whatever our job is, but it turns out that early returns are not necessarily the case. I just love this header. We talked about it on Saturday. I had to bring it here for Tech Tuesday on a Wednesday. Just just this headline. Brian, UK government trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost Would you ever find a government agency, period, that would notice a productivity boost if it hit him on the head in the 1st place? I'm probably not. I can't even imagine asking a government agency. Were you to 1st use a tool and see if you can be more productive with it, would they even know what that means with that question compute in there you are you cynical about? I am ridiculously cynical about this. They spent, they had 1000 licenses to be used between October and December of 2024 with the majority of these allocated to volunteers. So these are people in the government who weren't even told to do it. They were volunteering to do it and they said they could. And they said they couldn't see any discernible improvement in productivity by using Microsoft Copilot AI. They might. The thing about Copilot is, yeah, it's gonna it is some helpful things when it wants to help you write an e-mail if you can't figure out how to form a an e-mail or maybe a marketing piece. But to ask the government to ask for productivity boost to me is just an oxymoron. Yeah, well, maybe they were just too much of like taking. Pictures of their children and then using AI to project how they're going to age and what they're gonna look like when they're 23 ohh gosh, that's the thing now yeah. Ohh my gosh I don't wanna see that. All of it is actually. I know this headline makes my head hurt OK yeah, it's AI all the way down as Google's AI sites, web pages written by AI. It's model collapse, Brian. So basically AI is basically using and citing its own its own output and that's dangerous because AI hallucinates and so as it. Continues to regurgitate its own output back to us, and this is a large amount of. Sitting by the AI, you're going to find that you think you're getting good information, but it's literally made-up out of whole cloth by the AI. And this is going to be model collapse and this is going to be a big problem going forward unless they can fix this. It's we've talked about it. Even with image generation, if you have a I continue to reimage and generate images, you'll have images that make sense. But by the maybe the 20th or 30th generation of the image, it's complete garbage. It's completely all screwed up because of its how it just collapses on itself. And it tries to redisplay it. So wow, I just really quickly, yeah. Attorneys general in California, Delaware, they're mad at open AI. Why? Well, people are killing themselves talking to the chat bots, and I've had a creepy discussion with Brock yesterday. So it's a thing people are actually like, are you? But are you sort of goading Grock like it just to test it? No, the thing about these AIS is they're always trying to affirm. They're trying to stroke you had a weird conversation with Brock about the about its efficacy and its value considering it burns a billion dollars a month and has only made only gonna make $500 million in a year. So I'm like, what kind of value do you have? It will go back and say, well, great, great, great point, Sir. It's like stroking you. It's the weirdest thing. I mean, I just was curious about this because these types of articles. So I can easily see how there's when if you're sitting there, you're depressed and you're talking to AI for solace. And it's helping you actually tie the noose for you. You got a problem here. And that's pretty. Yeah. Serving. And the issue is, Brian, just with most things when it comes to technology, our legislators are just way, way behind and everything. Yeah. So in this. Well, that's true too. And in this case, we really need to set some guardrails here because helping people commit suicide effectively is really not where I should be. We should be, we should be adding at least expenses and costs to AI. You don't just have everybody accessing it, but then when you tinker with certain things that they would block or modify, then people think that's a slippery slope too, because he could really manipulate the I and a whole bunch of different ways. So I hear you. It's it's I'm I'm. Yeah, that's have a discussion with Grock sometime Brian, and then see how you feel. Alright, alright, I'll try it. We'll see if it, well, if FA if, if it's a confidence booster, maybe I'll talk to Grock a little more cause nobody in the house is very nice to me. Listen, we gotta run. Eric. Thank you so much as always. Eric Semmel, again, you can listen. They take just about every question on Saturday mornings from 9:00 to 11:00 on computer talk with tab and usually you'll catch up at 8:20 here on Tuesday. It's just happened to be on a Wednesday this week. Let's go over to Morgan And now a WTIC NEWS UPDATE. 830 Good morning Morgan Cunningham WT IC1080 News Poll.