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Speaker 1: Let's move over into a fun or funner topic. We've

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Speaker 1: been pretty serious all morning long. Mike Dubuski is ABC

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Speaker 1: Tech reporteries with us and love talking to Mike.

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Speaker 2: Mike. Good morning to you, morning Bill. How are you? I

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Speaker 2: am good and you're out of New York right? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So while I was going to pour down here,

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Speaker 1: what's going to happen up there?

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Speaker 2: Are you looking for some horrible weather too? Well?

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Speaker 3: It was snowing this morning, actually, which was pretty significant

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Speaker 3: because like the city itself has not seen major snowfall

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Speaker 3: but it like was given us.

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Speaker 2: A little inkling.

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Speaker 3: It was like, okay, maybe maybe it's going to be,

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Speaker 3: you know, if not a white Christmas, a whiter Christmas

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Speaker 3: than it has been in years past.

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Speaker 1: Fair enough, okay, all right, the best and worst gadgets

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Let's just get through.

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Speaker 1: I always defer to the worst, of course, because I'd

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Speaker 1: ruther start with the worst. Oh absolutely the worst gadgets as.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, in the holiday spirit, let's start with

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Speaker 3: the worst gadgets of twenty twenty five. So I've got

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Speaker 3: two on the list for you two kind of big

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Speaker 3: news stories of the year. Let's start with Elon Musk's

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Speaker 3: GROC chat bot. This is basically Elon Musk's version of

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Speaker 3: chant GPT. It comes from his artificial intelligence company, and

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Speaker 3: in the last year they've begun integrating Groc, this chatbot

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Speaker 3: into what used to be called Twitter, which is now

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Speaker 3: called X So you're seeing this chatbot show up on

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Speaker 3: this social media platform in a pretty big way. Well,

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Speaker 3: in the mid summer, we saw Elon Musk give this

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Speaker 3: directive for Grock to not shy away from politically incorrect statements. Right,

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Speaker 3: this whole cell of GROC is that it's the fun one.

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Speaker 3: It's the one that's going to tell you stuff that

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Speaker 3: you know chat GPT would be too you know, kind

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Speaker 3: sort of unexpected impact when Grock began posting all forms

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Speaker 3: of hateful and anti Semitic content on x even at

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Speaker 3: one point calling itself mecha Hitler. And if something calls

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Speaker 3: itself mecha hitler, I'm gonna put it on the loser's

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Speaker 3: side of the list. I think that's fair to say.

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Speaker 2: So that's one, but you're gonna use but you're gonna

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Speaker 2: use it.

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Speaker 3: Well, not necessarily, I'm not using you gotta pay to

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Speaker 3: use rocks.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: Let's go another one, another horrible one.

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Speaker 3: Another horrible one would be the Friend AI pendant. This

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Speaker 3: is another AI device, but it's a it's an actual gadget.

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Speaker 3: This is one hundred and twenty nine dollars necklace that

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Speaker 3: you can buy, and it has a little pendant on

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Speaker 3: it that's like the size and shape of a Mento

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Speaker 3: kind of, and it has a little microphone in it

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Speaker 3: that is designed to listen to your conversations and whatever

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Speaker 3: it is you might encounter in your day to day life.

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Speaker 3: The idea here, according to the company Friend, is that

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Speaker 3: this behaves like a friend. It's gonna send you like

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Speaker 3: Quippi one liners to comment on what it hears throughout

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Speaker 3: the day, and just basically be a small companion. Well

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Speaker 3: maybe no surprise there. Reviewers were very quick to bash

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Speaker 3: this device. They said that the AI misheard or misinterpreted things,

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Speaker 3: that it was just kind of annoying or sycophantic times,

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Speaker 3: people's privacy because you might be talking to someone who

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Speaker 3: doesn't know that you're wearing an AI pendant that is

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Speaker 3: listening to their every word and might comment on it later.

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Speaker 3: If the reviews of this were tough, the social backlash

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Speaker 3: to this device was even tougher Friend made a big

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Speaker 3: push into physical advertising with billboards and you know, physical

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Speaker 3: advertisements and cities across the country, including here in New

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Speaker 3: York City. Well, it was hard to find a Friend

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Speaker 3: ad that was not vandalized or in the process of

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Speaker 3: being actively vandalized. In fact, here in New York City

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Speaker 3: there were several events that were pre planned on social

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Speaker 3: media for people to go out and specifically vandalize and

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Speaker 3: make fun of this one product.

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Speaker 2: Right, stuff, All right, I know what. I don't worry.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to interrupt you, but I am because

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Speaker 1: we only have a couple of three minutes left and

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Speaker 1: we really want to get into the best gadgets of

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Speaker 3: Well, the easy part here is that they're all kind

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Speaker 3: of centered around the same theme. I've got three on

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Speaker 3: my list. One is the Nintendo Switch to a very

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Speaker 3: you can play as a handheld or you can plug

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Speaker 3: it into your TV to have a more console like experience.

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Speaker 3: Brand new generation this year, they've already sold more than

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Speaker 3: ten million units, so it's doing something correct. Apple came

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Speaker 3: out with the third generation of the air Pods Pro.

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Speaker 3: These are there in ear earbuds that added some interesting

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Speaker 3: features like a translation feature that you know, if you're

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Speaker 3: live translate in your ears. Brings with it all it's

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Speaker 3: very cool, and it brings with it all the stuff

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Speaker 3: good sound quality and good active noise cancelation. And then

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Speaker 3: the third one I have on the list is the

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Speaker 3: new Nissan Leaf, an electric vehicle from Nissan now has

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Speaker 3: more than three hundred miles of range and is going

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Speaker 3: on sale hitting dealer lots really right around now for

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Speaker 3: about thirty thousand dollars, significant given that there is no

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Speaker 3: longer a federal incentive to buy electric vehicles that expired

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Speaker 3: at the beginning of November, and the average new car

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Speaker 3: cost in the US is hovering around fifty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: The theme between all three of these gadgets is that

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Speaker 3: these are existing products right A Nintendo Switch, Apple AirPod

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Speaker 2: A Nissan Leaf.

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Speaker 3: They've been around for several years that the latest generations

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Speaker 3: don't screw it up right. They add some nice little

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Speaker 3: quality of life features here and there. The Switch gets

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Speaker 3: a bigger screen, the AirPods pro get this live translation feature,

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Speaker 3: if the Nissan Leaf gets more range. But at their

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Speaker 3: core there's still the things that people love. They've ridden

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Speaker 3: that to a lot of success.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let me ask you.

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Speaker 1: The one that fascinates me because I enjoy traveling whenever

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Speaker 1: I can, is this air pod with the translation feature.

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Speaker 1: If I get this right, I am speaking to someone

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Speaker 1: as they are speaking to me in Italian or Finish

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Speaker 1: or whatever.

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Speaker 2: In real time. I'm hearing what they're saying in English

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Speaker 2: or in near real time. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So it takes maybe a second or two delay for

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Speaker 3: saying and then do the act of translating. But it

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Speaker 3: is close enough according to people who review it, to

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Speaker 3: like carry on a relatively normal conversation.

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Speaker 1: Now now, but you have to speak their language correct,

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Speaker 1: I mean, there is no.

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Speaker 3: Well, so supposedly if you have your phone hooked up

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Speaker 3: to do this properly. You can speak back in English

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Speaker 3: and on your iPhone it will display whatever the you know,

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Speaker 3: Italian equivalent of what you're saying is.

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Speaker 2: It's really really cool.

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Speaker 3: Now, there's some stuff to clean up around the edges.

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Speaker 3: It's not going to be a perfect translation one night

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Speaker 3: percent most time, but it's pretty darn close right now.

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Speaker 2: I understand. You know, using the word pianist is very difficult.

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Speaker 2: You gotta be careful with those sorts of things or talking.

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Speaker 1: You're going to the store buying furniture at sofa king. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're done, Mike, thank you, we'll talk again.

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Speaker 2: Great. I appreciate it is always all right,