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Welcome to Top 5 Tech, my weekly show sharing something to watch, listen to, read, download,

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and something deep every week.

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By the way, you can now watch this in Apple Podcasts Video or Spotify Video or Audio,

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or of course you can listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Number one, something to watch.

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John Oliver actually did a segment on his show last week tonight all about AI chatbots.

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And you may or may not like John Oliver, but some of the stories and reporting that he

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does during the segment, I think is pretty interesting.

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Again, a lot of language and some inappropriate content.

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So maybe don't watch with kids around.

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But there's a lot of clips and stories about real people using AI chatbots,

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even for things like emotional validation, facts and figures, like

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75% of kids have used a chatbot.

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And there's also clips of Sam Altman interviews, a clip of Casey

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Newton from his platformer show.

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It gives a good look of how maybe real people, meaning outside of the tech

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bubble, or those of us that listen to tech podcasts all the time, how they're

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thinking about AI chatbots and some of the guardrails that we need even now.

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And AI is definitely a big theme this week, because the thing you should

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listen to is Neelay Patel.

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he did an episode of the Decoder show as well.

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It's just a solo show, not an interview.

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It's called the people do not yearn for automation.

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He talks about how the industry is having software brain and the companies are trying

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to shove AI and automation down everyone's throats, and a lot of people are actually

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resisting it.

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But I do have some comments on this, I'm going to save for the deep portion of the episode,

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but you can either listen to this or watch it or read his article, I'll put links to

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all of that down below.

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On something to read, Mac Rumors released this article after we recorded this week's

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primary technology, saying Apple has given up on the Vision Pro after the M5 refurbished.

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Now, we all know Apple Vision Pro has not sold some crazy amount and is definitely not pervasive or ubiquitous,

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but it also seems really early to say it's canceled.

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And interestingly, Jon Prosser, the leaker who is currently in the middle of a court case with Apple,

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with Apple suing him for the iOS 26 leaks, he just tweeted, "Vision Pro ain't dead fam."

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That's what he said verbatim.

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So I'm really curious about this story. I would read the MacRumors article,

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maybe take it with a grain of salt. We'll have to see what the long-term plan is for Vision Pro.

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Because MacRumors also shared this article

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saying Apple is reportedly questioning

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whether they should drop MagSafe

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and this seems like a more bizarre story

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especially the 17E just got MagSafe

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where the 16E did not

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and the MagSafe accessory market

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both accessories that Apple makes

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and the third party ecosystem

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doesn't seem like it's going anywhere anytime soon

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so not sure about this but the Vision Pro story

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I'm curious about

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On what to download, I have a shortcut for you this week

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and I think it's pretty fun

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I call this my basic gradient wallpaper

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several of the pages from Basic App

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where he has lots of amazing wallpapers, even for free.

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And this shortcut is actually going to randomize

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what wallpaper you get from about five different collections.

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It has gradients of September and February.

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It has the sound wave.

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And this is going to just get a random one

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and set it as your wallpaper.

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And the best part is, it's automatically going to recognize

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what device you're running this shortcut on

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and get the wallpaper formatted properly for that device.

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And now, every time I run this shortcut,

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it's going to pull a random wallpaper,

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to the device that I'm running the shortcut on.

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And it changes that quickly.

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If you're on an iPhone or iPad,

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you'll have to choose your lock screen,

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home screen combination to make sure

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it's changing the right one.

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But you can even automate this to run every morning

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and wake up to a really nice wallpaper

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from BasicAppleGuy.

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I'm also wearing BasicAppleGuy's

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little finder guide merch right now.

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All right, and finally, for something deep,

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going back to Neelat Patel's Decoder article/episode,

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John Gruber at Daring Fireball also linked to it,

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but commented on the whole AI software brain thing

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that's going on.

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And even as we talk about AI on primary technology,

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it is clear that so much of it is overhyped,

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both what the AI companies and brands are promising

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and saying what is capable using their products,

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and also just what real world people

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are being able to use these things for

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in their work and daily lives.

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So I wanted to make a video,

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and I'll link my video down below.

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I use AI every day.

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There's a bunch of tools that help speed up my process,

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whether I'm making videos.

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So there's a little me inception here,

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picture in picture of me here and down there.

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But I'll link my video on YouTube

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because I wanted to share about 15.

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using AI that's actually useful for my daily work.

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But I'll also fully admit that when you try to push AI beyond its limits,

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a lot of times it could be more trouble than it's worth or just take too much

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finicky messing around and it would just be faster if you did it yourself,

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quote unquote manually. And they also talked about Neely and John Gruber,

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the reaction of younger generations to AI, Gen Z especially,

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just saying they don't like it.

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And while I do think there's that reaction for the frustration of what AI can't

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I do think like even my kids, I have Gen Alpha and Gen Z,

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that there is just a accepting of AI into just daily life,

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using AI to plan a workout, which one of my sons did,

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or using AI to ask general knowledge questions,

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or even to helping with research,

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which you do have to navigate and actually show what is real and making sure

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facts are accurate. But while there's a lot of AI hype,

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both in the industry and from the brands,

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I do think there's still actually useful things you can do with it.

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If you take a few moments and actually learn how it can work in your processes.

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So you can check out my video. I'll link that below and those are all the things to download watch read listen and more

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So thanks for tuning in

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