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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from NEWSTALKSB.

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Speaker 2: Twenty four to two eleven, non Newstalks EDB. Microsoft has

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Speaker 2: effectively put the launch of one of its big new

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Speaker 2: AI features on hold because security concerns. This isn't the

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Speaker 2: first time it's happened with the launch of new AI.

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Speaker 2: All these big companies are rushing out. There are various

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Speaker 2: AI products, but not everything's been perfect. In our text,

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Speaker 2: Bert Paul Stenhouse has the details of Microsoft's issues. Hey Paul,

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Speaker 2: good morning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's such a hot topic at the moment, and

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Speaker 3: every company wants to be seen as the leader, largely

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Speaker 3: to the eyes of Wall Street, if I'm being honest Jet,

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Speaker 3: because they see that AIS the next big thing and

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Speaker 3: they know that a open AI is at the moment

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Speaker 3: the leader. So they're kind of thinking, which are these

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Speaker 3: big tech companies, the Microsoft's, the Googles, the Metas are

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Speaker 3: going to be the one to kind of take this

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Speaker 3: to the masses. And yeah, Microsoft had really big on

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Speaker 3: AI with their new co Pilot Plus PCs. I mentioned

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Speaker 3: some when they launched or when they first announced them.

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Speaker 3: First of all, they need a branding update because co

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Speaker 3: Pilot Plus is a mouthful, but these computers were basically

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Speaker 3: designed with AI in mind. That was the whole thing.

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Speaker 3: And one of the big features that they wanted to

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Speaker 3: launch was called Recall. Now, it basically takes screenshots of

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Speaker 3: everything you're doing on your computer, right so anything you're

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Speaker 3: you've typed, or anything you've seen or so think of

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Speaker 3: it as like a web browsing history, but kind of

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Speaker 3: on steroids and across every application you have on your computer.

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Speaker 3: They've had to put that on hold. I've had to

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Speaker 3: basically say we're not going to launch this because it's

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Speaker 3: just kind of riddled with issues. And Microsoft last week

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Speaker 3: had said that it was not going to be turned

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Speaker 3: on by default. So they basically had already admitted that, Okay,

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Speaker 3: we see that, you know, maybe not everybody wants this

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Speaker 3: new feature turned on. You're going to have to opt in. Well,

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Speaker 3: this week they've gone the step further and said, actually,

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Speaker 3: we're only going to put it out to those who

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Speaker 3: are in their insider program, which is the people who

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Speaker 3: get the early access to the features. Because they say

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Speaker 3: it's so they can provide a quote, trusted, secure, and

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Speaker 3: robust experience for all customers. I think what they're really

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Speaker 3: saying behind the scenes is that there are just so

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Speaker 3: many security concerns with this type of feature. I mean,

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Speaker 3: the first one is, Okay, if it's a work computer,

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Speaker 3: can your employer see every single thing that you're looking at,

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Speaker 3: including things that might not be for work. What about

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Speaker 3: if you accidentally put your password into the wrong box

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Speaker 3: and it doesn't have the dashes, are they going to

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Speaker 3: see that? What about API keys, confidential material? You know, like,

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Speaker 3: there's a bevy of issues that are there. But worse

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Speaker 3: is that apparently some hackers had found a way to

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Speaker 3: get access to those you know, hundreds thousands, hundreds of thousands,

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Speaker 3: millions of images that would have been stored and all

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Speaker 3: of the metadata because it was unencrypted. So all you

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Speaker 3: had to be was like you have to be a

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Speaker 3: bad actor and install some ransomware on a computer and

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Speaker 3: suddenly had you had access to every single thing that

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Speaker 3: had effectively been on the person's screen. Sounds like a nightmare.

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Speaker 2: I mean Microsoft's Microsoft.

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Speaker 3: Realized that it's a nightmare and are now basically delaying

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Speaker 3: it because it's not quite ready.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, in the world of AI, there is now another

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Speaker 2: word to add to the various tech lingo, and this

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Speaker 2: one's not too complicated. I love it slop.

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Speaker 3: Slop, and it's and it's actually needed, Like it's a word.

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Speaker 3: The word has come into use because it's needed. AI produces,

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Speaker 3: you know, the one. The way that it was described

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Speaker 3: originally was hallucinations, where it just kind of made some

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Speaker 3: things up and kind of you know, maybe connected some

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Speaker 3: dots that shouldn't have connected. But this is when the

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Speaker 3: AI is generating lots of those things together. So like

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Speaker 3: you like we think of email having spam, the AI

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Speaker 3: can have slop. So what that basically is is when

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Speaker 3: it when it's like producers just low quality kind of

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Speaker 3: junk content. Maybe maybe you know, like it's an article

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Speaker 3: that seems like it's overly created by AI, it feels

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Speaker 3: a little kind of off. Maybe it's like, uh, you know,

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Speaker 3: maybe it's Google suggesting that you add non toxic glue

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Speaker 3: to a pizza, or you know, or maybe some bad

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Speaker 3: AI generated We can just start referring to that as slop.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that slop. It works well. Hey, thanks Paul,

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