Speaker 1: Thirty five, Barbara Freeman. I hope you've got good stories
Speaker 1: for us today, Happy stories.
Speaker 2: One of three. It's not all we can get.
Speaker 3: The first one is I think everyone's worst imagination. Can
Speaker 3: you imagine being informed that you'd won quite a huge
Speaker 3: sum of money in a loto, in a lottery that
Speaker 3: you entered. I need to discover a few days later
Speaker 3: that they'd made a mistake. I think that must be.
Speaker 3: I can just imagine how absolutely enraged everyone was. So
Speaker 3: this is what happened in Norway. Thousands of Norwegians were
Speaker 3: mistakenly informed that they had won a large price in
Speaker 3: the euro jackpot, only to be told on the monday.
Speaker 3: This was on the Friday that it had been wrongly
Speaker 3: calculated and in fact they had won a far smaller
Speaker 3: amount there Originally it was calculated so it was multiplied
Speaker 3: the euro sense were multiplied by one hundred rather than
Speaker 3: divided by one hundred and converted into to Norwegian krona.
Speaker 3: This is according to local media and Norsk Tipping, the
Speaker 3: state owned gambling company Norway, has apologized for the mistake
Speaker 3: and notified the forty seven thousand people that were impacted
Speaker 3: by this. I mean that is quite a shocking number
Speaker 3: of people, and obviously a lot of people are very upset.
Speaker 3: They really thought that on Friday they had won a
Speaker 3: life changing sum of money, only to find out that
Speaker 3: this conversion from euros and Norwegian krona had been got wrong.
Speaker 2: One of them who spoke to the Guardian.
Speaker 3: Ule Frederic Sween of fifty three year old, had received
Speaker 3: a notification that he had won one point two million
Speaker 3: krona that's the equivalent of eighty six thousand pounds while
Speaker 3: he was on holiday in Greece. Turned out he had
Speaker 3: only one hundred and twenty five krona, which is nine
Speaker 3: pounds laughing overdrafting, Well, you say, he said, like first
Speaker 3: you're ecstatic, and then of course you're like your elation
Speaker 3: is short lived. And people were saying, you know that
Speaker 3: they were making decisions.
Speaker 2: They were like.
Speaker 3: About to buy cars or it started buying cars and
Speaker 3: houses and holidays, and you discover that it was all.
Speaker 2: Not true.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's a good story, happy story
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: But that's not a happy story.
Speaker 3: That's one of the bad stories, the second story.
Speaker 2: But I think it is quite funny.
Speaker 3: But if you're in Greece and you didn't obviously holidays,
Speaker 3: so he could afford.
Speaker 1: That, sure, but did he have a line in did
Speaker 1: he actually pay for his lot of tickets? I don't know,
Speaker 1: because if he didn't, I think he.
Speaker 3: Thought he was going to extend his holiday to forever. Anyway,
Speaker 3: clearly had to come home. The second story just really
Speaker 3: interests me. So it's a story that is on quite
Speaker 3: a few of the websites at the moment, and it's
Speaker 3: the question being on a BBC article is is Google
Speaker 3: about to destroy the web? So what is this about?
Speaker 3: So I don't know if you've noticed on Google Search
Speaker 3: that for quite a while we've had that Google that
Speaker 3: AI overview.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you see that.
Speaker 3: So sometimes when you type in your usual Google Search,
Speaker 3: before you see all the different websites and answers, you'll
Speaker 3: see like quite a short blurb at the top that
Speaker 3: says AI overview, and it gives you a bit of
Speaker 3: a summary of like what you're asking. They are working
Speaker 3: on something that is more more than that, and it's
Speaker 3: called AI mode, okay, and AI mode is more of
Speaker 3: a full on almost like replacing the search engine completely
Speaker 3: in the way that.
Speaker 2: You know it.
Speaker 3: And they've done some testing in the US, and they're
Speaker 3: now rolling it out in India, so it's not here yet,
Speaker 3: and that and from the July the first from today
Speaker 3: they've on the places that it's rolling out. They've added
Speaker 3: it to the Google Search toolbar where it's got like
Speaker 3: a little question that says do you want to have
Speaker 3: a different accountry with the words like a better way
Speaker 3: of searching, so you can kind of test it. But
Speaker 3: the issue that people are having with this is that
Speaker 3: it is going to fundamentally They saying it will rejuvenate
Speaker 3: the Internet, but people are saying it's going to fundamentally
Speaker 3: change it because you know, to me, Google Search is
Speaker 3: not a it's a little bit more neutral.
Speaker 2: It's not a good thing or a bad thing.
Speaker 3: It's like going to the library, going to the stacks,
Speaker 3: going to the Deuydecimal System catalog and looking for the
Speaker 3: books you want, going and reading them, or to an extent,
Speaker 3: you can go to the source material and you can
Speaker 3: actually find it on the Internet. I'm not saying that's
Speaker 3: always like not a bit of work, and obviously there's shortcuts,
Speaker 3: but aside from that, all the media houses and the
Speaker 3: publishers that have websites that get direct search you know,
Speaker 3: get direct traffic off for publishers coming from the search
Speaker 3: browser that is going to actually be circumvented by this
Speaker 3: AI mode and the advertising Well that's exactly and that's
Speaker 3: all linked. So why would advertisers then want to actually
Speaker 3: advertise on your website if the publishers are not getting
Speaker 3: the kind of traffic that they had been getting historically.
Speaker 3: So there's a huge concern amongst publishers. And do you know,
Speaker 3: I was just looking at some of the stats. Google
Speaker 3: gets something like, I think it handles over eight point
Speaker 3: five billion searches every day. That's about ninety nine thousand
Speaker 3: searches per second. Probably they're saying translates into three point
Speaker 3: one trillion searches per year. And this new if this
Speaker 3: what it looks like it is, this AI mode rolls out,
Speaker 3: it will absolutely hurt publishers. It will see traffic dropping
Speaker 3: or from organic search. Organic search is like your Google search.
Speaker 3: And earlier this month, Wall Street Journal reported that all
Speaker 3: Google's AI features are hurting publishers, even AI overviews, which
Speaker 3: have become quite popular and that summarized your query results,
Speaker 3: and in fact Google saying that in April they saw
Speaker 3: more than one point five billion people using AI overviews
Speaker 3: across the world. So do you know, I find that
Speaker 3: a very interesting story. I mean, I'm in that space.
Speaker 3: My job as the digital content enter for Prime Media,
Speaker 3: plus a lot of my job is about growing our
Speaker 3: organic and our direct traffic, and this is a concern
Speaker 3: I've migrated.
Speaker 1: Say, in the past, i would do the Google search,
Speaker 1: I would look at the source, decide what source I'm
Speaker 1: going to use. Now I'm getting the summary, which is
Speaker 1: a lot easier multiple summary, and Google is even crediting
Speaker 1: some of the sources.
Speaker 3: Absolutely it is, but it's still taking you. It's still
Speaker 3: enough to go there. You can for a deeper day,
Speaker 3: Yes you can, and some people will. But if you
Speaker 3: think of statistically, how many people won't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's going to be a fraction and a
Speaker 1: lot of people are dependent on that revenue though, So.
Speaker 3: That's nice good news either in my view, but it
Speaker 3: is news, and let's be honest, this is the world too.
Speaker 3: We have to relook at the way forward, sure, and
Speaker 3: what the answers are.
Speaker 1: The kind of change. I was pondering on that a
Speaker 1: little earlier. I don't think we even realized the changes are.
Speaker 2: No, it's massive, but I'm excited.
Speaker 3: It is exciting, but it is very It is scary
Speaker 3: for publishers who are only recently understanding how to monetize
Speaker 3: online anyway, because that's been a huge issue.
Speaker 2: Now we're slowly starting to learn to monetize is another.
Speaker 1: Game. Absolutely.
Speaker 3: And then finally it's sort of a happy sad story.
Speaker 3: I mean sad in that an elephant had found itself injured.
Speaker 3: But what is just you know, I often talk about
Speaker 3: the Solderic wild Life Trust.
Speaker 2: That situated in Kenya.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm an absolute fan, and I always say when
Speaker 3: I talk about it on this segment, please go to
Speaker 3: the Soldieric Wildlife Trust on the interwebs, go to their
Speaker 3: Facebook page, to go to their Instagram page. Honestly, it
Speaker 3: is like, if you want to just be uplifted the
Speaker 3: work they do with elephant orphans who they find, you know,
Speaker 3: in these terrible circumstances where their mom has been killed
Speaker 3: or you know, various situations that take these elephants into
Speaker 3: the sanctuary.
Speaker 2: They actually spend about fifteen.
Speaker 3: Years bringing up these babies, because that's how long it
Speaker 3: takes for elephants to get to that maturity.
Speaker 2: And then they sort of eventually these.
Speaker 3: Little herds get rewilded into the big, Big Broader Wild
Speaker 3: Area Sanctuary and in this case, another incredible story because
Speaker 3: this has happened many times before, of an elephant that
Speaker 3: came to the sanctuary to get help. And I just
Speaker 3: elephants are so smart and now so amazing. And I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm also assuming here I speak obviously out of my
Speaker 3: own head, that there's so many of these young elephants
Speaker 3: that have grown up and are living out there that
Speaker 3: maybe they even communicated to the hurt elephant and that's
Speaker 3: where you go for a bit of medical help.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just my story.
Speaker 3: But this was an injured mother, and they recently sh
Speaker 3: a story about a similar story about an injured bull
Speaker 3: who had come there for help quite recently. But on
Speaker 3: Thursday morning, as their aerial unit prepared for the day,
Speaker 3: the team was surprised to find a wild elephant in
Speaker 3: her mid twenties lingering by the airstrip. Rather than retreating
Speaker 3: at the sight of humans, They right, she deliberately stationed
Speaker 3: herself in the busiest part of their Caluca Field HQ,
Speaker 3: she said. They say it was immediately clear that her
Speaker 3: right leg was swollen, hindering her mobility and causing visible discomfort.
Speaker 3: They've seen this behavior before in whild elephants. Is a
Speaker 3: cry for help. They quickly mobilized their mobile vet unit.
Speaker 3: The elephant was darted meters from the airstrip. They found
Speaker 3: the object. It was a shod of wood lodged near
Speaker 3: lodged near her knee joint and had become badly infected.
Speaker 2: It was causing significant pain.
Speaker 3: The fragment was removed with their by their vets, doctor
Speaker 3: Elma and doctor LAWI and their confidence will make a
Speaker 3: full and speedy recovery. And I just I just think, yeah,
Speaker 3: they said, some of the baby elephant orphan heard were
Speaker 3: also around watching the treatment, and yeah, she's actually a
Speaker 3: mom who's they could see was lactating and hopefully will
Speaker 3: be reunited with her baby. And it's just just an
Speaker 3: amazing story. And just the day before they had also
Speaker 3: posted how one of their wild herds, their baby orphans,
Speaker 3: who had been rewilded, headed by one of their very
Speaker 3: well known orphans that was now fifteen years old, had
Speaker 3: walked back in a row, like in a long row
Speaker 3: of about thirty orphans had walked back to come and
Speaker 3: say hi. The other day, led by a fifteen year
Speaker 3: old Matara and orphan that was rescued in two thousand
Speaker 3: and nine who'd lost her mother. Approaching she had her baby.
Speaker 3: She had a little baby with her mamba. They think
Speaker 3: she's even pregnant again this city. Thirty five elephants came
Speaker 3: tramping along the path to say hi to their caretakers
Speaker 3: at Shelter Wilde Trust, to just say hey, how's it,
Speaker 3: thank you, we still.
Speaker 2: Remember you and we love you.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'll just checked with Google AI if elephants
Speaker 1: can communicate telepathically, well, there's no scientific evidence to suggest
Speaker 1: that elephants communicate telepathically. Elephants a highly social, intelligent, and
Speaker 1: complex communications a system that involves a variety of methics methods.
Speaker 1: I think word is going to get a wrong.
Speaker 2: Word's getting wrongd go there for help.
Speaker 1: Therefore, Yeah, they'll sort out your your your headache, you're
Speaker 1: sore knee. What a fascinating