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Mark Saltzman is our friend to help translate technology into standard English for all of us. And there was a lot that was made about deep Seek, this new AI product out of China. I mean, we haven't had a chance to talk about it. What's your take on what deep seek is and what it means to other AI development around the world.
Yeah, so it's very similar to chat Epte or Google Gemini in that it is a conversational AI bot. It's a generative AI or jen AI, so you can talk with it mostly by typing, not verbally. But the idea is the same that you can ask it to create content for you, help with math and coding, you can language conversion, you can ask for travel summaries, recipes. I mean, it's it's a smarter smart lie like a digital assistant.
It's similar, though very similar to what we're many of the I'm sure your listeners are used to personally or professionally. But yeah, this when this debuted, or at least the news broke on Monday about deep Sea Gotta China. Yeah, I mean it took a real toll on US tech stocks, especially some of the AI ones, and Nvidia lost almost what six hundred billion billion with a breed rather crazy, So it's a lot. I've played around with this large language model. It's a free app for iPhone and Android.
It to me is very similar I hear where it differs is in the pricing structure for enterprise because as a regular consumer it's totally free to use, just as Chat, gibt or Google, Gemini is or co Pilot all these other ones. But yeah, I mean as a business, if you're looking at a fraction of the cost to use it, it may be tempting. But know that any Chinese company, and we've talked about this on tech Talk Thursdays many times they have to hand over data to the government,
to the Chinese government upon request not to mention. Just this week maybe not so coincidentally, there was a couple of breaches that were unveiled, tied to deep seek, where the things that you would type in like I recently wrote, you know, I've got three days in Barcelona on a limited budget. What should I do? Your stuff could be out there like there was a breach where there was
a couple of million conversations exposed. You know, so there's a couple of security slash privacy concerns tied to deep Seek, but from a performance standpoint, it's very similar. I don't see any advantage over chant Gypt. It hasn't stumped me. Apparently you won't answer sensitive political questions like TMN square and things that you know, the Chinese government does not want you to know. So look, you know, like anything, use it very cautiously, especially when it's not a homegrown product.
But even if it was, you never know what's going to happen to your data, So don't reveal your company's secrets. Y you know that happened to somebody. I think it was Samsung last year, Gary, all kidding aside, I think when chat gipt was pretty fresh, somebody was asking questions about a service that was still under NDA or whatever, and it shared it inadvertently with other users of Yeah,
I think it was chatgpt. So yeah, so just be careful that you don't want to, you know, unknowingly share personal or corporate sensitive corporate information with the masses.
Forty years ago, my parents started a push to transfer all of our home movies old eight millimeter movies to videotape to VHS. Now those tapes are probably falling apart, aren't they. I mean I need to get them digital at some point.
Right, Anything analog, whether it's Betamax tapes, VHS, cassettes, yeah, eight milimeter, sixteen millimeter, you name it, it's all at risk unless it's even if it's digital. I mean, as we saw recently with the LA Fire wildfires, even if it's digital and it's at home, then it's at risk to natural disasters especially. So the idea is not only should you digitize it, but you should also upload it
to the cloud where it's stored somewhere else geographically. And you know, for example, one Drive, which is a Microsoft cloud service, you get one terabyte for free every year. If you use Office three sixty five, which is like you know, Word Outlook, Excel PowerPoint, which is I think as low as fifty or sixty bucks a year, you get a thousand gigabytes of storage for free. So that's probably more than enough for most people's home movie collection. But the trick is digitizing it. So I wrote a
piece for AARP. It was just published today, in fact the thirtieth and it looks at the two main options you have doing it yourself and what you need to know. You know, you can have a fun weekend of it by digitizing if you've got the gear and the time to do it, or you hire a service to do it for you, and really involves putting your memories in
a shoe box or or something bigger. Trusting the courier service. Yeah, you know, you never know, right, I mean, even if it's insured, if it's irreplaceable home movies, there is still a risk, but generally you're okay. Or if you want a local service where you can hand deliver it and you get back the originals along with a digital copy, but make sure you upload it to the cloud. There is a company in SoCal that I like called scan my photos dot com. So they do photos as well
as movies, and they're very affordable, very reliable. And uh, I think he's a KFI fan. I'm a mistaken Yeah, Mitch, Mitch Goldstone is the founder and CEO. So scan my photos dot Com is a good place. Just to give them a plug. But there are other services, even big box stores. They'll often have a service desk and you can bring your stuff there. You know, but yeah that this is where they'll digitize everything for you and they'll keep it in the cloud or they'll give you versions
to uploads. So yeah, if that, if anything's been a reminder, it's what been going on in southern California your last month or so. So yeah, back up those important files.
Not awesome. We're gonna throw a link up to the article ways to convert your home movies to digital Great stuff, Mark, thank you, appreciate it, You Toobe, Thanks Gary, Mark Saltzman. There of course follow Mark on x M a r C. Underscore Saltsman, Mark Saltzman and the Tech and Out podcast also available on the iHeart app.