Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hi, Kim Commando here. Well, first up, we have your digital life hack. And after that, I'm going to play a call from my weekend national radio show. Jeff Bezos is worth over $200 billion. He's surrounded by security teams. And Pegasus spyware still hacked his phone. What chance do you have? I'm Kim Commando for Webroot.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of the Pegasus spyware incident involving Jeff Bezos?
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Chapter 3: How does Pegasus spyware infiltrate devices?
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Chapter 4: What signs indicate that Pegasus spyware might be on your phone?
Go to WebRoot.com slash Kim. Live a better digital life with WebRoot. Mark in Cincinnati, you're a journalist. How do you feel about your job in artificial intelligence?
That's why I'm calling, Kim. I've read your I read your current every day and I love your jokes and puns in it.
Well, thank you.
I'm just trying to figure out I'm a longtime journalist and I'm just I don't know any much about AI. I've read a lot about it. Don't know much about it. I just know I need to get involved in it. I just want to know how and where should I go and what should I do?
Have you dabbled in it? I mean, do you want to become proficient at behind the scenes? Do you want to know how it works? What exactly are you looking to learn?
Well, I'd like to know how it works and how I can adapt it to what I'm doing in my journalism.
As far as becoming a better writer or not becoming displaced?
Not becoming displaced would be nice. Yeah.
That's the hard part, especially when we start talking about writers. I was talking to a gentleman yesterday. Magazine company decided we're getting rid of all the writers. We're just going to use AI. But the problem is when you go and ask AI to write something, it doesn't have that soul yet.
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Chapter 5: What antivirus protection is recommended for digital safety?
And so you can see how AI works and the impact on life and in business. IBM has a free course, Introduction to AI. And have you ever attended Harvard, Mark? No. Okay, so here's what you could do. The next family reunion, are you single? No. Okay. We'll just say the next family reunion, you can look at everybody and they'll say, hey, Mark, what's new? And you're like, I took a class at Harvard.
And they'll say, wow, Mark, that's awesome. It's awesome. Because at edX, that's E-D-X, that's where you can take free classes from the Ivy League schools, of course. And Harvard has introduction to AI. Their course is for free through edX. And then it gives you those bragging rights.
But one of the coolest things about AI, I was talking to my sister about this yesterday, because my sister is an educational psychologist. And you may have heard me talk about her before. She isn't a saint. She has a school in Southern California where she takes kids who are on the spectrum, have severe learning disabilities. And I was telling her about deep research.
Have you heard about deep research, Andrew? Yeah, you've talked about it on the podcast. Have you heard about it, Mark? Have you tried it? No, I haven't. Okay, deep research, amazing. Amazing tool. And when you're using OpenAI, there's now a button right at the bottom of the prompt that says deep research. And I want you to think of it as...
oh, I don't know, 10 to 12 people in a room that will look up anything that you want them to look up and then give you back 100 to 200 page report in less than four minutes. So in her case, I was explaining to her that if she was trying, she has a particular student, I don't want to get into details, that has a real bad learning disability that's based on genetics.
So I was explaining to her that she could do deep research, put in this genetic issue, explain what his situation is, and then it would come back and do a whole report, a whole curriculum based upon this child's needs. And one of the best ways to use AI is to just dive into it. Go into ChatGPT. Start looking at the prompts. But remember, you have to tell it what you want it to be.
I want you to be a legal expert. I want you to be compassionate. I want you to be a marketing pro. I want you to be a data analyst and look at all my competitors and tell me what I'm doing wrong. But again, the easiest way to get into it. So which one do you use? Use chat. Chat GPT. That's the one I use too. Chat GPT. I've tried perplexity. It used to be good.
It doesn't seem as good as it was when it first came out. Claude is okay.
Gemini is bad. Gemini is just bad. I was against using ChatGPT in the beginning because I didn't want it to steal my creativity or have it mold my own creativity as a radio show host. But now I use it as a brainstorming session where it'll say something and I'll just riff on it or I'll improve on it. It's really amazing.
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Chapter 6: How can AI impact the future of journalism?
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