Digital Detox, AI & Who Really Owns Your Pet? 🤖🐕💥

Bruce Anthony: Digital Detox, the world of ai, and who really owns the pet? We gonna get into it? Let's get it.

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Sibling Happy Hour: Sips, Laughs & Sibling Shenanigans 🍹😂

Bruce Anthony: it's a sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis Jay, Andrea. We're gonna be dilly dding a little bit. Then we're gonna be talking about ai and then we're gonna be talking about a Reddit post about a family [00:01:00] fighting over a dog.

But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.

Bruce Anthony: What else, sis?

Jay Aundrea: What up, brother?

Bruce Anthony: I can't call it. I can't call it. I just wanna let everybody know

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: that this is the episode that'll be airing on the 12th. We will be airing episodes on the. Fifth, the 16th and the 19th.

And then we're gonna take the rest of the year off for the holidays. We're gonna enjoy ourselves and then come back January 6th for an episode. So we just wanna let everybody know that we're gonna be taking a little break. Don't worry. You're gonna get this episode, the normal episode for Tuesday, and then another sibling happy hour.

Then we're gonna take a little break. It's a break for us, [00:02:00] but we are feverously recording content. So if you go on our YouTube page, even though we'll be on vacation, there'll still be original content on the YouTube page. So if you miss us a little bit, you could check us out there. But, uh, that's what's going on.

'cause we need a break and, and we gonna get into why Jay needs a break in the second segment.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: But Jay, there's something that we need to talk about.

Jay Aundrea: Oh Lord.

Bruce Anthony: That we talked about last episode

Jay Aundrea: Okay.

Bruce Anthony: and there was this squatter situation and there's more to the

Jay Aundrea: the more you send me on this, the angrier I get about this situation, if anybody remembers last episode, I have a personal grievance with squatters. Not that I've ever had a squatter situation myself. It's just the violation. [00:03:00] It's such a violation of people's personal space. Like, uh, get, get into, get into how this lady is truly the worst.

Investigative Journalism Exposes Serial Squatter 📰🔍⚖️

Bruce Anthony: so at first I had just read the story, but DC News. Did some investigative journalism. Alright, this is what journalism is when you investigate and you tell both sides of the story. So they actually got an interview with the squatter

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: and I had seen a clip of the interview and the squatter had been saying, Hey look, I'd have made some payments through Zelle, something to Apple Pay somewhere late.

But she kept sending me an invoice, I'm a tenant. And I was like, oh, okay. Now I may have jumped too quickly on the landlord's side and jumped down the squatters uh, throat when clearly the squatter is saying, [00:04:00] Hey, I've been paying, they've been giving me an invoice, and I'm the one who filed paperwork with the courts, not them. Till investigative journalism did some more investigative journalism and found out that this is not the first time that she has done this. This is the third or fourth time that she has done something like this. She owes one company $50,000 in back rent. Not only that, she bought a car, paid the down payment, and didn't pay, didn't make any more payments.

This person is a literal leech.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. A serial criminal, a,

Bruce Anthony: Yes. A literal

Jay Aundrea: career criminal, her everything. I am positive that everything this person has, has been obtained through some sort of scam or deceit.

Bruce Anthony: Hmm.

Jay Aundrea: Like, please, if you see an application [00:05:00] from this woman, immediately throw it in the garbage.

Bruce Anthony: Well, she went by a different name back in the day. And, and, and plus she booked it on Airbnb. Why did she book it on Airbnb? Because she got so many evictions on her record that she can't, she not only has evictions on her record, she couldn't possibly have good credit, like couldn't possibly have good credit, so she can't get an apartment.

Even if she wanted to, she had to go to Airbnb route to get in and, and just to repeat it, she's repeatedly, repeatedly done this and takes no responsibility. I saw in the interview no responsibility and I was like, oh, she's Trumpian.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: That's.

Jay Aundrea: Just the lack of accountability and, and when confronted with these things by the reporter, oh no, that's not accurate. That's not ac. No, no, no. What you don't understand [00:06:00] is these are public record. These court records, they're public record. Anyone can get these records. Anyone can simply search your name and find these documents and find these records.

And they're not incorrect. They're not inaccurate. They're court file. There are liens and judgements against you, not to. So yeah, it's not just the evictions. There are also several liens against her. Like this is a person who is just a career scammer and knows exactly what she's doing, knows the law, and is purposefully preying on people.

So Airbnb needs to completely drop her, like ban her from the site. Any site, I don't care what it is, needs to ban her from the site.

Bruce Anthony: Banner for everything. Banner.

Jay Aundrea: ban her from everything.

Bruce Anthony: block her old Blockbuster membership. Just ban her from

Jay Aundrea: I don't [00:07:00] care. Pinterest, Etsy, I don't care what it is.

Bruce Anthony: Take away her Boston market. Frequent flyer, frequent user cards. Take away everything.

Ban Her From Everything—Even Blockbuster 🚫🎬😤

Jay Aundrea: Everything gotta go. Everything. She needs to lose everything. There needs to be no place that this person can hide.

Bruce Anthony: You know what the kicker for me was during this, uh, video? I don't know how much of it you watched,

Jay Aundrea: Mm.

Bruce Anthony: for me was, is that the, uh, news group saw in the crack of the door, 'cause she wouldn't answer any more questions after the reporter was calling her out on her lies ran, saw that she was running an oil and, uh, candle business,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. Essential oils.

Bruce Anthony: Essential oils. Yeah, yeah,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: yeah. Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: please get an actual job.

Bruce Anthony: I mean, she's an entrepreneur.

Jay Aundrea: No. An entrepreneur. No. No, you're not. You are a scammer and you're a [00:08:00] criminal and you need to be called out Shade Romero. You're a scammer and you're a criminal.

Bruce Anthony: First of all, I knew that she wasn't right. 'cause I ain't never heard Shaza at all. Oh. The thing that I hate though, 'cause we got family members.

Jay Aundrea: hmm.

Bruce Anthony: a buoy state graduate though. Mm mm mm And running a nonprofit.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: Trying to save the world and scamming at the same damn

Jay Aundrea: you, you sent me that, the website for that nonprofit. I wanted to spam the contact us so badly. Like you don't have it. I, I hope this, the, the namesake for this nonprofit who was one of the founders, I hope that they can see now what kind of person they've gotten into business with. And that this is, I mean, it is just, it's, and it was her, it was her like narcissism and like,

Bruce Anthony: [00:09:00] Lack of accountability.

Jay Aundrea: lack of accountability.

But it was more of like this entitlement, no, I'm a tenant. No you're not. And you know what you're doing. 'cause you've done it several times before.

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

COVID Excuses Don't Cover 2018 Evictions 🦠📅❌

Jay Aundrea: You know, you don't pay your bills.

Bruce Anthony: Don't pay the bills.

Jay Aundrea: know, you have no intention of paying your bills,

Bruce Anthony: was like, well, one time the, the eviction, it was during COVID

Jay Aundrea: right?

Bruce Anthony: wasn't coming in and, you know, I'm an entrepreneur and everybody was doing that. And also, I know for a fact in this area, because I live here, that a lot of buildings, rental buildings, were working with people

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: that were outta work or not getting money through COVID.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: I know specifically

Jay Aundrea: Doing it back in 2018,

Bruce Anthony: can, you can't,

you can't, 'cause you knew what you was doing. Oh, but ladies and gentlemen, the reason why I kept sending my [00:10:00] sister this is 'cause I knew she was gonna get agitated. It was literally me was not literally, I need to stop saying literally figuratively. It was me going back to when we were kids putting my finger in her face saying, I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you.

'cause I knew she was gonna get agitated, but I specifically did it to get her mind off of different stuff that she had going on. 'cause she needed a break. That was, I was being a jerk for a reason.

The Digital Detox Movement Is Here 📱🧘‍♀️✨

Jay Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: Jay, you are in the process of doing this right now,

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: but there's this thing called a new Wave digital detox and it's gaining traction

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: now.

This is a little bit different than people going cold Turkey. We not going to do social media anymore. This is, this is a digital detox or intentional disconnection. So I got this from the Wall Street Journal and the article. Basically the core argument of the article is that there's a growing share of [00:11:00] people saying that they overuse their phones and are experimenting with limits, but there are abandoning, but they're not abandoning the, their devices.

They're trying to use them more deliberately. So they De Washington Street Journal described this new ways of digital detox behavior of people muting their notifications, setting app limits, and taking short social media breaks or even going on, no. Phone vacations. This was driven all by anxiety and distraction and burnout from constant connectivity.

Now I know for me personally, I have disconnected the notifications to the Instagram because I don't know what's going on, but it's a good thing. But we are getting more views and likes on our reels and I'm getting the notifications for those. And I don't like my phone buzzing all day long. So some people have been a little pissed off 'cause I haven't been answering dms like I have been in the past.

But I had to disconnect, uh, the notifications for not only that for [00:12:00] other things. I know that you just told me before we hopped up on here, you ain't been on social media in 30 days.

Jay Aundrea: yeah. Yeah. And it, and it, it was intentional, you know I just finished my degree, but I was in the thick of like finals and it was a lot of, you know, a lot of things going on, and it was too much of a distraction. So the app is still there. I'm still getting the notifications. I see it, I see the deal. I'm intentionally not logging in and checking because it was too much of a distraction.

And, and I just needed to, to disconnect in order to focus on things that are more important right now.

Bruce Anthony: See you do it differently because I can't see the notifications. I have to answer 'em. I don't, it's something, I don't know. I don't know if that's OCD or whatever, but that's something I see a note. I, I can't have notifications on my phone, so I just turned them off.

Jay Aundrea: [00:13:00] Gotcha. Yeah, no, I still see it. I, I see that I have dms. I just, I just am not checking them. So like, yeah, I see that I have text messages, I see 'em. Uh,

but yeah, I, I can't, I, I'm not getting to the, I'm getting to them, but just I, not as quickly, right? Like I'm not, I'm not immediately, I'm not immediately available in a way that I have been in the past because I have different priorities right now.

Recalibration Over Revolution: Tech With Purpose 🔄💡🎯

Jay Aundrea: And so I just need to focus on that.

Bruce Anthony: Well, it feels like. That this article, the Wall Street Journal article, is really touching on a lot of both your and my actions recently because it emphasizes that this is less an anti-tech revolt and more of a recalibration. Users want technology to feel more purposeful and less compulsive rather than disappear from their lives.

So people still, you know, people still want to get on [00:14:00] social media and still do these things, but just not at the rate of which that they were doing them and the fact that it was controlling their lives. I know for a fact I was sitting there watching the Diddy documentary and when it got to parts where like, okay, this is a rehash.

I know what's gonna go on here. I know this whole story. I was on my phone, it was in the background, and when it something new came on, I would change my attention. But I was on my phone and I was like, yo, let me be present and be in the moment. And so I've been intentionally like when I'm hanging out with friends and things of that nature.

Putting my phone away, it goes in my pocket and does not come out again.

Jay Aundrea: yeah, yeah. It just shouldn't. Take It shouldn't be so compulsory, right? Like I have to check my phone, I have to check these messages, I have to check these dms. No, they can wait. It can wait. You don't have to be immediately available. Even if you are available, just 'cause I'm [00:15:00] just, 'cause I'm not doing anything doesn't mean I'm available.

It doesn't mean I have the bandwidth to be available. So it is just being more purposeful about when you engage online or digitally. Yeah.

Digital-Free Vacations Are Trending Now 🏖️📵🌴

Bruce Anthony: but this is a new thing, what I'm about to talk about now. So the, there are digital free vacations

and detox retreats and what these are, 'cause they've been spiking recently are travel brands are now actively marketing trips, promising help with unplugging from work, email, and social media, and corporate trend reports cited alongside this coverage, find that a measurable minority of travelers now intentionally avoid news limit device time.

Or log off social platforms while on holidays compared for previous years. So I know this is something that I at and you have talked about on this podcast a lot, how people don't take vacations even when they go [00:16:00] away. They're still working and this is a concentrated effort to, I'm going to unplug

and I love it.

Jay Aundrea: yeah, absolutely. I mean, that's, it is part of a capitalist society or corporate culture, right? It is like we always ha we have this feeling of that we always have to be connected and we have to always be available. But what that does is just lead to more anxiety, more stress, more burnout. It affects your physical health, your mental health, your emotional health.

You have to take time to just be by yourself or with your family or with your friends, and just be yourself, like outside of who you are, digitally, who you are professionally. Just be yourself

and present in the moment and just experience, I don't know, joy.

Bruce Anthony: Well, yeah. Well, so [00:17:00] what the article is basically to summarize the article and what it's basically saying is that this is not a total abstinence, like I said, but it's more of an experiment with boundaries, right? No phone dinners at free weekends or social media Sabbath days. All of this is to reduce stress and regain focus, and for tech companies, tech and media companies, the Wall Street Journal article suggested that this is a strategic opening.

Right, that products and platforms that help people control attention, avoid endless scrolling or build in, uh, you know, things that eliminate mindless use may gain favor, especially to these detox mindset spreads. And I know that it's spreading because I, I know some people who are, haven't been on social media in more than a month.

I know somebody close to me who [00:18:00] hasn't been on social media since September and they were just like, I'm taking a break. And I was like, you know what? I get it. I understand it. I know a lot of people, I know a lot of people who are just like, oh, I don't watch the news now.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: Ladies and gentlemen, I get it.

The news is horrible,

Jay Aundrea: it's really terrible.

Bruce Anthony: but you gotta pay attention to what's going on. 'cause if you don't, that's how they sneak things in underneath and get you, I'm just letting you know that's how they get you.

Jay Aundrea: That's how they get you.

Bruce Anthony: you got to pay a little attention. But I understand, you know, you, you wanna take a little detox every now

Jay Aundrea: Yes. Yes. That's fair.

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm. That

Jay Aundrea: That's fair. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: specifically have been on a detox

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: for about a year and a half.

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm. Mm.

Bruce Anthony: And the reason why, if anybody has been following this podcast at all is because my sister has been going to grad school.

Jay Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: just finished[00:19:00]

and she's about to graduate next week. 'cause I'm gonna

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: and Jake, tell everybody what it is that you went to school for again.

Jay Aundrea: I have my master's in data science and analytics.

Yes.

Bruce Anthony: We gonna be talking about AI and we gonna be talking, I'm gonna be asking my sister questions. I'm gonna be interviewing my sister and we gonna get into that next.

Interviewing My Sister: The AI Expert 🎓🤖💬

Bruce Anthony: Ladies and gentlemen, I'm so proud to be interviewing my sister, a graduate master's degree. Now I am the least educated outta all the siblings. 'cause both of my siblings now have master's degrees and I'm cool with that. My sister got her master's degree and we, I'm gonna be down there in Atlanta celebrating with her, but [00:20:00] I don't know shit about ai.

I mean, I do, I'm more techie than most,

but I don't, and so I'm gonna be asking my sister because this is part of what she did when she was in school. And because she's given me such great advice on help on using these AI tools to help better the show, be asking her some questions about ai. So the first thing I wanna do is say, you know, Jay, thank you for coming on the show.

Thank you for answering these questions with, for us.

Jay Aundrea: Well, I'm happy to be here. Happy to be here.

Bruce Anthony: Alright. Alright. So let's start with first, alright. And we are gonna try and have base level conversation and my sister not be a, a complete science nerd.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: When people hear ai,

they always think terminator too. They think robots, they think taken over the world in the real world. What is AI actually doing today?

Jay Aundrea: Yeah, so that's exactly right. Like a, a lot of people still [00:21:00] think of AI as robots from science fiction movies. They're these machines that become sentient somehow through our own misadventures, and they take over the world and all of that. Okay. The reality is much, much less dramatic. Y'all like, and, and it's actually a lot more practical.

So most of the AI that we interact with today, it is, it is, it lives inside software, right? It's not a robot. It doesn't have a body. It lives inside software and it, all it does is help us search faster. Write faster, decide faster, and automate small tasks that would normally take us a lot of time. So for example, think about the last time you searched for something on Google, right, and got the exact answer you needed, like immediately [00:22:00] or, or, or the last time.

Like say for example, your phone autocorrected a word. Now sometimes, listen, apple, I meant hell not hail or, or heck, okay? There'll be autocorrected, my cuss words. But just like the last time your phone autocorrected a word or like it, it'll suggest or reply to a text or how spam gets filtered out of your email.

This is all things that are powered by ai. So it's not thinking in a human way, so you don't have to worry about. AI taking over the world. All it's doing is recognizing patterns and making predictions based on what it's seen before. So when you have tools like Chat, GPT, or Copilot, or Gemini, these are tools.

They're not [00:23:00] artificial intelligence, not really what they are, are large language models. That just means that they are trained on an enormous amount of written text so that they can recognize how language works and how, and so that they can learn about a bunch of different topics. So it doesn't understand ideas or meanings the way people do.

It just predicts the next word, the way your phone predicts your next text. It's just at a much more advanced level. That's all. Yeah. It's not thinking, it's predicting

Bruce Anthony: so not the robots. All right. Because I, because I thought it was T 100 and T 1000 and it was, it was on the, I thought Skynet was right around the corner.

Jay Aundrea: It is really, no, it's really not it.

Bruce Anthony: Okay.

Jay Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: In your specific program, what did you learn that surprised you about ai? [00:24:00] How AI really works behind the scenes.

AI Learns From Billions of Pages of Text 📚🧠⚡

Jay Aundrea: I, I think, I think the thing that surprised me the most is just how much learning is based on just exposure to massive amounts of information. Like it's so, I mean, terabytes and petabytes of information,

Bruce Anthony: don't even know what petabytes is. I.

Jay Aundrea: millions and millions of gigabytes, like huge amounts of information. You could think of it like. Like 500 billion pages of written texts, like huge amounts of information.

So these systems don't know facts the way people do. Like I said, they learn, they're learning patterns from reading huge amounts of material, books articles, websites, all of that, right? And so, and, and I mean huge, like when I say huge, it [00:25:00] is like on a scale that is really hard for the human brain to even picture how much information is being used to train these models to, to help you with daily tasks.

So like a simple way to think about it is people learn through repetition, right? So if you hear. If you only ever hear one song once, you probably won't remember it, but if you hear it a dozen times, you start to recognize every beat. AI learns the same way. So instead of hearing something a dozen times, it's learning patterns from millions or billions of, uh, of amounts of data.

Bruce Anthony: Hmm.

Jay Aundrea: So like, it just surprised me that it's not, the AI is not just sitting on a giant list of stored answers. It's not pulling facts off a shelf like, like a librarian. It's [00:26:00] generating responses in the moment based on patterns it learned during training. And that's why, that's why it can explain things in so many different styles and in so many different ways, and also why it can sometimes be wrong. In a way that sounds super confident.

Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: loud, wrong.

Jay Aundrea: Yes.

Bruce Anthony: Alright, so you've kind of given a few examples, like helping us write better,

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: uh, helping us do things better, but can you give more of like an everyday example of, of AI that most people use without even realizing it?

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. Like the crazy thing is that AI is so deeply embedded in our everyday life that you are using it without even realizing it. So for example, if you have face ID on your phone, that's an AI [00:27:00] recognizing your face.

If your email has a spam filter, like I said earlier, that's AI spotting patterns that look like junk mail when Spotify or Netflix recommends a, a song or a show or a movie.

That ends up being exactly what you wanted. That's because AI is learning your habits. Like even even things like Google Maps, Waze, Uber, like these things like rerouting you around traffic. That's AI analyzing real time data from thousands of other drivers. When you order, uh, when you order from Uber and the price and the pricing updates and the arrival time prediction, you know, tells you when your cars are.

That's all ai. When you go onto a website and there's a chat bot to answer questions about whatever the product or the service is, that's ai, it's, it's [00:28:00] already become part of just how things work now. Like that it is not futuristic, like it's already deeply embedded in the infrastructure of our, of our daily life.

Bruce Anthony: Hmm. You touched on this a little bit already by saying that, you know, AI is learning basically by all of this massive amount of information.

When people hear terms like machine learning or data analytics, how do those actually connect? What role does data play in making AI smarter or

Jay Aundrea: Right, right. So this is an analogy that I use. Data is the fuel machine learning is the engine. Data analytics is the dashboard. So if you put bad fuel into a car, it doesn't matter how powerful the engine is, [00:29:00] you're not gonna go very far in the same way. AI is only as good as the data it learns from.

Bruce Anthony: Hmm.

Jay Aundrea: So the data is the foundation.

Right. Machine learning is what allows AI to detect those patterns in the data. It's the actual algorithm that it's using to detect those patterns in the data. So, so like for example, it might learn that people who buy diapers also often buy baby wipes. It doesn't understand why a baby needs wipes. It just sees that those two things keep showing up together in the data.

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Data Is Fuel, Machine Learning Is the Engine ⛽🚗💾

Jay Aundrea: And then data analytics is what we use as people to look at that same data and ask deeper questions like, why is this happening? What does this mean? What should we do about it? That's where the human judgment comes in, right? So like [00:30:00] you only know you're speeding when you look at that dashboard. And see the speedometer, you only know you need to check your engine.

When you look, that check engine light comes on. It's the, the dashboard that gives us all the insights. Right. So a really good, like example is in healthcare, right? So doctors collect data from patient records. Machine learning can help spot early warning signs for diseases, but the doctors use data analytics and experience to decide the treatment plan.

So all three of these things are working together.

Bruce Anthony: mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: So going back to that original question, people shouldn't fear AI like robots. And Terminator people should fear the people that are programming the AI because if they're not programming the AI correctly.

Jay Aundrea: mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: The AI can [00:31:00] give out bad data,

Jay Aundrea: It could give bad information, right?

So, yeah.

Bruce Anthony: That's what data, that's what data is, is information.

I said it,

Jay Aundrea: yeah, so it, it's just like learning from a bad teacher

leads to bad habits, right? If AI is trained on bias or incomplete data, it's gonna make biased or an accurate decision. So yes, data quality matters just as much as the technology, and there are a lot of, you know, checks and balances in place in terms of like, how do we use AI ethically, how do we use AI safely?

There are people whose whole job is to make sure that they audit these systems to ensure that they're safe and they're being used ethically.

Bruce Anthony: Hmm.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: All right. One thing that's happening [00:32:00] out here in the world with the rise of ai, me, I've been on AI since chat first came out like three years ago.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: But what people are experiencing is fear, and one of the main fears is that a lot of people think AI is gonna replace jobs

from what you've learned.

What jobs is AI actually good at, and where do humans still do better?

Will AI Replace Your Job? The Truth Revealed 💼🤔🔮

Jay Aundrea: yeah. So AI is really good at things that are repetitive, structured and rule-based. So that includes things like scheduling appointments, answering common. Customer service or user questions scanning documents, things like that. It's fast. It doesn't get tired. It can work nonstop. That's, that's where you can put it to work, [00:33:00] automating some repetitive task, and it's perfect for that.

But humans are still needed, okay? Because humans still dominate, right? In areas that require emotional intelligence, creativity, ethical reasoning, leadership, complex judgment and decision-making. Like you wouldn't want an AI delivering difficult medical news to a family.

Bruce Anthony: Hmm.

Jay Aundrea: You wouldn't want AI deciding prison sentences or handling crisis negotiation without human oversight.

Bruce Anthony: Well, I might want, I might want AI handling pressing sentences because some of these judges out here is a little crazy and they hammering, they throwing the hammer down when the hammer don't need to be thrown down then.

Jay Aundrea: But then you run into, okay, AI is being trained on massive amounts of data,

right? If the data is biased because [00:34:00] our actual system is biased, right? Like certain people are criminalized more often than others, then AI starts to learn that these people are criminals.

Bruce Anthony: Uh, okay. All

Jay Aundrea: So you don't want that,

Bruce Anthony: Yep. Yeah, You're right. You're right. You're

Jay Aundrea: right.

I mean, so yeah, people being worried about AI taking over jobs.

You don't, we've seen this before, like historically, right? It's just the technology changing.

Bruce Anthony: I, some of the things you're describing, there are people that do those jobs that are

absolutely going to be replaced by ai. You don't need a scheduler anymore.

Jay Aundrea: Right.

Bruce Anthony: You may not need an administrative assistant anymore because you can have ai, answer phones, answer emails, do the scheduling for you, file file if the files are digital

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: not physical [00:35:00] file, and organize your files for you.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. We also don't have rental store clerks, rental video rental clerks anymore. Right. Because everybody's streaming everything. But, but a, the only thing that technology is doing is reshaping work. It's not eliminating human relevance. As soon as one job is rendered obsolete by technology, new jobs that, that technology forces into existence are being created

Bruce Anthony: I like what you said there isn't eliminating human relevancy. It is eliminating jobs, but not human relevancy. It's just moving the human from one spot.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: got something else for you over here. If you're willing to be trained and and learn something new and come outta your old way of thinking, we got this new job over here for you and you're probably gonna end up making more money.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah. The challenge is just [00:36:00] helping people adapt through education and upskilling, like, but just because this job can now be automated through ai, well, it, it ends up creating three more jobs that one of 'em is oversight over that ai one is, you know, like, it just, it ends up creating other jobs, so you're still very, very necessary people.

Like, it's just reshaping the, the landscape. That's all.

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Bruce Anthony: Human beings are necessary. Ladies and gentlemen.

Besides the robots get their fuel off of humans, we're needed to be in existence. No, I'm

Jay Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: I'm just playing. Alright.

From a, just like the Matrix, from a beginner standpoint, if somebody wanted to start exploring AI tools, you've already kind of explained that we are already using them, but intentionally exploring AI tools, what's some of the simplest and most practical ways for them to get started?

Jay Aundrea: [00:37:00] Yeah. There's so many really, really easy ways to do it. I mean, the first is to like, literally just start, just start using it in everyday life. Ask, uh, chat, GPT or copilot or Gemini to help you write an email or to brainstorm. I don't know. It's, it's, it's Christmas e brainstorm gift ideas, or plan a trip or to help you study for a test.

You don't need to understand how it's built. In order to benefit from it. Right? Just like you don't need to, the most people don't know how the engine works in their car, but they still drive it, like, and I think it's something with Pistons, I think, I don't

know.

Bruce Anthony: I I know.

they come from Detroit 'cause I know Isaiah was a piston. Joe Dumar,

Jay Aundrea: the they was, they was definitely, I remember them in the jerseys.

Yeah, I definitely remember that. I remember that. But if you do want to like, go a little deeper, YouTube has tons [00:38:00] of like, beginner friendly videos and explain AI and really, and like plain language. You can go on course sites like Coursera or Data Camp, they offer like hands-on courses where you can learn.

In a really, really accessible way. You don't need to come from a technical background, like a lot of it is about connecting people to AI in a, in an accessible way because it is going to continue to be integrated more, not just in our personal lives, but certainly our professional lives. And so you need to learn how to use it and how to make it work for you.

But yeah, there's so many resources out there. But really honestly, the first way is to just try it. Like if you just, if you have an email and you are not a hundred percent sure how to respond to it, drop that email into the chat and then just say, I'm not sure how to respond to it. [00:39:00] I wanna say something like this.

Can you draft a response and see what comes out?

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: And also I give you two other practical examples that can work. I used copilot early today on my phone and didn't realize that there's a button. I can actually talk to it and have a conversation to help walk me through a situation that I had, and the situation was is I had a lineup of tasks that I needed to complete by next Tuesday.

Right. And I was like, this is what my schedule looks like and I need to level out these tasks. What are the best times that I could slot to take care of these tasks? And chat did that for me. Another thing that you could use it for, for my parents out there, these kids bringing home that difficult homework,

throw that bad boy in the chat GPT and say, explain this to me so that I can explain it to my child.

It will give you a [00:40:00] step-by-step process on how to do that. It will actually teach you so that you have that information and help you explain it to your child. So that's, those are ways AI is here to help us.

Jay Aundrea: Yes, we cr it's and and it's not like an alien that just crashed, landed on the planet, like it's here to help us. We created it

Bruce Anthony: Yeah.

Jay Aundrea: to make life easier and more efficient to help you with these routine tasks that you, so you can focus on bigger things so you can focus your creativity and your curiosity on bigger things.

Bruce Anthony: That's right. Well, looking ahead, this is the final question

Jay Aundrea: Mm-hmm.

Bruce Anthony: segment. Ladies, gentlemen, y'all see me interview people all the time. This is the first time my sister been on the other side of it. But looking ahead, what excites you most about the future of ai and what concerns should people realistically keep in mind?

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Jay Aundrea: Yeah. So the thing that excites me [00:41:00] the most is something called genic ai. So that's. Oh, it, it is a really fancy way of saying AI systems that go beyond answering simple questions and actually plan and carry out multi-step tasks autonomously.

Bruce Anthony: See now that's, now we get into the robots.

Jay Aundrea: No,

Bruce Anthony: the robots

Jay Aundrea: it is really, it's really, it is, yeah. It's really, really cool. I mean, honestly, I feel like Jarvis had a little level of sentience. Uh, a little bit, but like, this is, that is, again, we're not there. So

Bruce Anthony: Jarvis, ladies and gentlemen, wears Iron Man's AI in his suits. ' cause some people that's gonna go over their head, but go

Jay Aundrea: yes. So instead of like asking the AI 10 separate questions, you may eventually be able to give it a goal and let it figure out the steps.

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: So instead of [00:42:00] saying like, write me an email or organize my calendar or summarize, you know, my budget, you might be able to say, help me get my small business ready for tax season.

Bruce Anthony: Hmm.

Jay Aundrea: And it could assist you across multiple tools. So not only is it able to plan and carry out tasks autonomously, it can use tools in order to do that.

Like it, like for instance, if you're trying to get ready for tax season, it can pull down the, the new tax code information and use a calculator in order to get, I don't know how taxes work. I use TurboTax, but you know, it could do it for you. Right?

Bruce Anthony: I'm sure TurboTax uses ai.

Jay Aundrea: It absolutely does. So, yeah, so that, that is the coolest thing that is here.

There are a lot of, you know, [00:43:00] AI platforms that are introducing agents and a lot of people that are building agen platforms. I, I had a chance to build an, uh, multi-agent chatbot. And it was really cool. So the biggest concern though, is over trust.

Bruce Anthony: Hmm.

Jay Aundrea: Okay. You gotta use some discernment there.

Literally, if you go on any. Like AI site under down at the bottom, it'll say like on chat GPT, it says Chat. GPT can make mistakes, check important info. AI can sound incredibly confident and the answers be all the way wrong. So like it can reflect, like I said, it can reflect social bias. You know, if it's looking at incarceration rates and it's seeing the high number of black males being incarcerated [00:44:00] for certain things, then it's going to start developing a bias there, right?

It can hallucinate

details that sound very real. And by hallucinate that means it just makes stuff up. I have used it, especially if you are using it on the free tier. It will make stuff up. Okay. It'll make up sources. There were those attorneys that got in trouble 'cause it made up legal briefs that didn't exist.

Okay. Like it can make stuff up. So you have to have some discernment about what's being generated. When I interact with ai, it is an interaction. I will give it a prompt, it'll give me an output and I'll say, I'm not so sure about this. I don't think that's right. Isn't this really the issue? And it'll come back.

You're absolutely right. This is, this is not gonna work because of [00:45:00] this, this, and this. Yeah. I, so it's, you have to interact with it. Don't just take everything that you get from it at face value. The future isn't, you know. Humans versus ai, it's about humans learning to work alongside ai responsibly with judgment and, and, and ethics and critical thinking.

Right, right. Still firmly in the driver's seat just recognizing that we are in the driver's seat. Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: All right. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that is my sister, a recent graduate with a degree in data analytics and the JJ jojo C what was

it again?

Jay Aundrea: Yes. I,

the, the official is it's a master's of science

Bruce Anthony: Uhhuh

Jay Aundrea: analytics.

Bruce Anthony: Master, she, she's a master science analytics

Jay Aundrea: sure. [00:46:00]

Bruce Anthony: Uh, so thank her for coming on the show and explaining AI and, and, and, uh, helping, helping us learn. 'cause so many people, so many smart people are out there being like, here it come. And I get it. Conspiracy theorists always. T two, we

Jay Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: over. No.

Jay Aundrea: I mean, there's a whole film television genre, uh, a book genre sci-fi genre about AI taking over and destroying humanity. So like, I get it when we've been force fed that, and then you start seeing it become so integrated in your life, everything down to even a smart refrigerator that will look in your fridge and tell you what you need and create a shopping list for you.

Like the, it it is already here.

Bruce Anthony: they got everything. But you know what though? AI is not gonna be the downfall of humanity. I gotta end this on [00:47:00] a dark note. The downfall of humanity will always be humanity.

Bruce Anthony: Jay went on my favorite website again. Why did

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Bruce Anthony: I go on the favorite website? Because I wanted something that could get you riled up,

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: that I might get you a little agitated. That also would be kind of funny and was easy. And these Reddit posts are absolutely easy. Ladies, gentlemen, I'm gonna tell y'all right now, the next show, the show before we go on our break is all Reddit posts.

That's all it is. So that's what it's gonna be. But this one is. Am I the asshole for not wanting my parents' name on my dog's identification chip? And just when I read that title, what is your initial response?[00:48:00]

Jay Aundrea: Huh? Why is this an issue?

Bruce Anthony: Okay, well, I'm gonna get into it and it starts with, I'm a 17-year-old female.

Jay Aundrea: okay?

Bruce Anthony: Okay. I'm a 17-year-old female, begged for a dog for eight years. My parents, 51-year-old male, 49-year-old female, always said no. This year my grandmother surprised me and got me a dog specifically for me, not for my parents.

Since I got her, I've paid for everything. Vet's visits, vaccines, food toys, grooming, collar leash training, and all supplies. My parents do not pay for her care at all. They sometimes pet her, but that's it. About half the time I'm around my parents. They are emotionally abusive and control is a big issue in our house.

Now they're demanding that their, that their name on be put on the dog's. Michael Trip instead of my grandmother's, I want my grandmother's name on it because she bought the dog for me. I pay for everything. [00:49:00] My parents don't want a dog in the first place and they aren't financially responsible. They told me that if I don't obey everything that they say without question, they will rehome my dog.

I told them I will follow reasonable rules, but I won't agree to unreasonable control over a dog they didn't pay for. We argued. We argued about legal ownership and I said, from what I was told, the person who pays for the dog is the one on the record, and the one that's on the records is usually the legal owner, which would be me and my grandma.

I also said they legally can't just take my dog and give it away, and that if they did the law would allow me to take them to small claims court. I wasn't threatening them, just explaining the law. My dad said he don't give a damn about the law and that he could do whatever he wants because he's the head of the household.

During the argument, he stormed towards me and I put my hands up and I put my [00:50:00] hands up and he, and backed up against the wall because I was scared. He screamed at me for being defensive. I said, I put my hands up because I don't trust him, and I thought he was going to hit me. That made him even angrier and then he said, I swear to God, I will make your life a living hell if you don't listen to and obey every word I say.

Okay. After that, he said he would rehome my dog if I didn't obey everything. Now, he's also trying to force me to put the name on the microchip. I don't want to, because if their name is on it, they could legally give my dog away and I have no rights, even though my grandma bought the dog for me and I pay for everything.

For context, I have anxiety, panic attacks and depression symptoms, but my parents won't take me to the doctor. My dog helps me feel safe. They have isolated me before by taking away my devices and not letting me leave or talk to anyone. They have threatened to do it again, including cutting off my internet, which I use for school.

I feel like they're trying to take [00:51:00] legal control of my dog to use her to control me. So am I the asshole for refusing to put my parents' name on my dog's identification ship, and one of my grandma's name on it. Instead, I.

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Jay Aundrea: So this is a situation where you have parents that say things like, my kid went no contact, and I have no idea why.

Bruce Anthony: Mm-hmm.

Jay Aundrea: You know? Exactly why. You know exactly why. I feel so much for this, for this young girl. It may,

I, I, and I don't wanna, I, I really don't know the answer for this. Because the fact of the matter is she's underage, she lives in their household. [00:52:00] She, she, there's not, there's not a whole lot that she can do. I honestly, um, gra grandma put her in a, in a, I mean, I, I get the sentiment like you wanted to give her something that she would've been begging for, but you also gotta understand the context in which she's living and like how much of.

Uh

oh, Liz, there's not a cluster f that it would cause for her to have this dog. And it may be a situation where she, instead of giving her parents the satisfaction of having that power over that dog of rehoming the dog until she and temporarily until she can [00:53:00] get out, find her own place, or find another living situation when she becomes an adult and can take her dog back.

It might be a situation like that, like, but there's really no good, you know, there's really no good

answer. Because she is a child and they're legally responsible for her, and they, they have legal, they have the rights in this situation. And they will absolutely use that dog against her.

They, they, Yeah.

Yeah. They're absolutely going to, and, and I think it might just be a situation where you cannot allow them to take that, to have that leverage.

And so if that means grandma has to hold that dog until you're able to get that dog back, you know, then that [00:54:00] might be what it has to be.

Bruce Anthony: So he, you stole my idea. Grandma has to take the dog until I'm legally 18, and then I gotta find some way to get the hell outta the house. And, and, and that's, I, I feel for her because man, we were fortunate, and this is what I mean by that. Our parents always said. You can always come home.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah,

Bruce Anthony: You can always come home.

Now, nobody wants to live with their parents. And my parents were always very hip and young and gave us freedom.

I am the one of the three of us that's really just like, I don't care what freedoms you give me. I can't be in this house.

I, I, I I don't know what's wrong with me, but I was just like, I need to be out there on my own.

Jay Aundrea: yeah,

Bruce Anthony: our parents were always like, you have a home here. And if we had a dog and we were taking care of [00:55:00] it, that it wasn't costing them anything, that they didn't have to take care of the dog. That the dog wasn't messing up the house or anything, that the dog was cared

for, that and the dog was outta the way from them. That made it even easier. Th

Jay Aundrea: I first be like, oh yeah,

Bruce Anthony: yeah, this isn't a situation where this young lady. Has this dog and is enjoying the dog, but the dog is costing the parents money.

Jay Aundrea: right?

Bruce Anthony: She's saying, I'm taking care of everything. And when she said Everything, everything, because lemme tell you something ladies and gentlemen, a dog is not cheap.

The training, the The food. The food, good god. The food dogs

Jay Aundrea: If they, they constantly have to eat.

Bruce Anthony: the grooming, the grooming, the, the vet visits. You look, lemme tell you something, a

Jay Aundrea: I was just fighting for my life yesterday. Bathing Roni.

Bruce Anthony: look, lemme tell you something. [00:56:00] These vet visits always three figures, always three figures sometimes can go four, sometimes can go five, right? All the time dogs are not cheap. And they always doing something to hurt themselves. To make you have to take 'em to the vet and be like, what you gonna cost me? Now

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: a friend that was just like. I was good. I was chilling. Finances was a brief. Then my dog tore at ACL. I was like, well, you gotta get that fixed. Got to get it fixed. How much is that gonna run you? Almost 10,000. Good God.

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Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Good. God says it's

Jay Aundrea: Every time, every time I look, I was like, that's a bill.

Bruce Anthony: That's a bill.

Jay Aundrea: That's a bill. What? You just, oh, you got bit by a snake. That's a bill.

Bruce Anthony: And so I feel bad for this young lady that

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: have the safety and comfort

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: that parents are supposed to provide for their children. The only good thing that I [00:57:00] can say to this young lady is you got less than a year.

Jay Aundrea: yeah.

Bruce Anthony: Life ain't gonna get no easier. You'll be better for it because though you're going to have to start behind the eight ball, it seems like you're a go-getter.

Because just to be able to afford to take care of that dog, odds are you're working right now.

So that means you are a grinder. That means you take care of your business. So, yeah, no, you're not gonna get the benefits that most people have where they get this catapult, this, start them into adult life. No, you're behind the eight ball, but in 10 to 15, 20 years, you'll be better for it because you will have gone through all the trials and tribulations.

That means whatever hits you in your middle age, you're gonna be like, been here,

done that gonna get through it.

Jay Aundrea: Yeah.

Bruce Anthony: But yeah, grandma did put you in a bad situation, but Grandma was just giving you some love. Grandma was also trying to piss off one of her kids, whether it was her son or her daughter. She was trying to piss off one of them kids and put [00:58:00] you in the minute in the middle of it so grandma could hold onto the dog until you turn to 18 and then you get the hell up out that house and you know. Do what you gotta do. And then if you really want to go, no contact, you just, Hey, just 'cause it's your blood don't mean that you gotta have a relationship with 'em

Jay Aundrea: That's facts

Bruce Anthony: anyway. Jay, what do you wanna tell these people out here? I.

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Jay Aundrea: man. AI is here for you. It was created to help you. You shouldn't fear things that are here to help you. The same reason, same way. We don't drive a horse and carriage anymore unless you're Amish. It it, and you can have a V eight V 12, or electric car. You don't even need gas no more. It's just technology moving forward and the people who are afraid of it are the people who don't want to upskill.[00:59:00]

And you will be left behind. Like that's just the reality. If you don't change the way technology, society, culture is changing. This is not just, this is society, it's politics, it's culture. If you don't, if you're not forward thinking, you will be left behind. And that's just the reality.

Bruce Anthony: Mm. Left behind with No behind. I don't know. don't know sometimes. But on that note, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching, and until next time, as always, I'll holler.

Woo. That was a hell of a show.

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