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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b.

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Speaker 2: AI is coming to the Olympics. Not a great surprise,

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Speaker 2: I suppose, given the hype around the technology. But it's

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Speaker 2: amazing to consider the ways in which one streaming service

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Speaker 2: is going to be applying artificial intelligence to its products.

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Speaker 2: Our tech expert Paul Stenhouse is here with the details.

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Speaker 3: What's it going to mean, Paul, Yeah, I think you

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Speaker 3: need to be watching Jack very closely because your job

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Speaker 3: could be in jeopardy here based on some of these advancements.

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you so, there's an Olympic broadcaster who's

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Speaker 3: worked over here for both the ABC and NBC, considered

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Speaker 3: one of the great voices of the Olympics, and they

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Speaker 3: have managed to computer generate his voice and he will

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Speaker 3: be narrating, right personalized for you a show called Your

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Speaker 3: Daily Olympic Recap, which will be on the big streaming

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Speaker 3: service in the US called Peacock, which has the rights

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Speaker 3: to the Olympics during the course of the games. And

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Speaker 3: I'm bringing you all all of the big highlights. Well

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Speaker 3: he's not, I say you the folks in America bringing

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Speaker 3: all of the big highlights and it will be personalized.

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Speaker 3: So if you say that you really like rowing where

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Speaker 3: I really like I don't know, archery, you'll be getting

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Speaker 3: more of that in your personalized feed. And they don't

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Speaker 3: even need to have a human behind the microphone because

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Speaker 3: they can do all of it with this computer generated

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Speaker 3: voice of a bit of a legend. That's amazing scary

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Speaker 3: huh yeah, yeah, can I can I go one step

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Speaker 3: further of vis factor? They didn't even have to put

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Speaker 3: them back behind the microphone to create this voice. So

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Speaker 3: what they did is they grabbed all of his broadcasts

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Speaker 3: from back in the day, train the AI on that

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Speaker 3: and then have effectively unleashed it. Now good news, he

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Speaker 3: is being compensated, so maybe there's some hope for your

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Speaker 3: future check tame.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I mean I feel sort of

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Speaker 2: mixed on this, like I can really see some upsides

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Speaker 2: to it, and of course you know, some downsides as well,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know. It sounds like a sounds

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Speaker 2: like kind of a novel use of AI, and from

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Speaker 2: a consumer perspective, it sounds odd. Dare want to say,

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Speaker 2: kind of good.

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Speaker 3: It's an interesting use case for it, right, Yeah, you're

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Speaker 3: going to get to see the things that matter to you,

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Speaker 3: but you're also going to get it in a way

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Speaker 3: that is going to feel familiar. Long what if you

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Speaker 3: were just watching it on TV? Yeah, so terribly interesting.

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Speaker 3: I'm interested to see what other voices maybe come back

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Speaker 3: from the past.

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Speaker 2: Right, So remember they did it with Anthony Bourdain. That

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Speaker 2: was a bit creepy and that was very controversial when

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Speaker 2: they did it. But yeah, you're right, you can bring

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Speaker 2: back all sorts of voices with AI. Now, given the

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Speaker 2: state of the technology, Hey, i am Microsoft is facing

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Speaker 2: a multi billion dollar fine in the EU. What's happening?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so the European Commission has sided with Slack basically

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Speaker 3: to say that when Microsoft put teams in with their

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Speaker 3: Office bundle that that was anti competitive. Slack went to

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Speaker 3: them and said, hey, we've got a collaboration platform at

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Speaker 3: the time that was really about instant messaging, and they said,

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Speaker 3: how do we compete with this? You know people are

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Speaker 3: getting this for free, We're trying to basically charge people

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Speaker 3: for bucks a month per user. And they have sided

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Speaker 3: with them and said that Microsoft was forcing office customers

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Speaker 3: to acquire teams. Right, it also does not help And

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Speaker 3: the Commission said this too, that teams isn't really operable

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Speaker 3: with any other competitors. So it may have looked at

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Speaker 3: it a little more favorably if say it integrated with

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Speaker 3: Slack or you could easily have Slacked teams type conversations

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Speaker 3: and maybe it was a little more of an open

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Speaker 3: standard or open platform. But they said no, and so

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Speaker 3: they could be fined up to ten percent of their

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Speaker 3: global revenue, which puts the fine if they go through

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Speaker 3: with it, up to twenty one billion US dollars, which

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Speaker 3: is no small sneeze. And it's not the only time

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Speaker 3: actually this week, Jack, that the EU regulators have cracked down.

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Speaker 3: They've accused Apple two of breaking some of its digital

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Speaker 3: competition rules under the recently past Digital Markets Act, which

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Speaker 3: basically is trying to allow startups and small companies to

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Speaker 3: actually have a shot at competing against some of these

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Speaker 3: big giants. And this is all to do with how

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Speaker 3: you basically pay for apps on the app store. So

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Speaker 3: Apple has also been slapped on the rest. It's going

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Speaker 3: to be fascinating to see how much they actually try

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Speaker 3: to crack down on this, because they really have been

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Speaker 3: leading in many ways some of this tech regulation globally.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fascinating. Thanks Paul, appreciate it. As always, that

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Speaker 2: is our texpert, Paul Stenhouse.

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