Techstream with Shelly Palmer and Seth Everett

Madison Square Garden is The Worlds Most Famous Arena - and also a building utilizing facial recognition technology that is turning some would-be fans away, rather than allowing entrance.

We are in a new world. Technology has augmented our ability to recognize people around us. The key point: recognizing a face does not mean the technology knows the context.

In this episode, we talk about the controversy surrounding the technology in use at MSG, facial recognition technology in use in other venues, and how easy it is to find your personal information online. Hockey loyalty threatens to tear our podcast asunder.

We love new tech - so does everyone - and it seems like some of the hottest new tech available on the market is monitor and television display tech. If you have gone to buy a new monitor or a new TV recently, though, you surely have run into what Shelly calls the alphabet soup of video monitors.

There is a reason some 65-inch televisions are $400, and a reason other 65-inch televisions are $4,000. We are here to offer some advice on your next display, whether you are looking for a new TV, a new work display, or a new badass gaming monitor.

We explain when 2K (sometimes called full HD) is okay when you will want to spring for 4K, and if you will ever need 8K. We talk about HDR (high dynamic range), WCG (wide color gamut), and the use cases for which you will want to pay special attention to these attributes.

In this conversation, it was discussed that ChatGPT is a large language model that has been trained by OpenAI. One concern brought up was the possibility of plagiarism when using the model for writing tasks, as it has been trained on a vast amount of text from the internet. It was acknowledged that proper citations should be used when using the models generated text and that the model should not be used to pass off as ones own original work. It was also mentioned that the model can be useful for tasks such as summarization and language translation.

If that summary does not properly recap this episode, we are not to blame. You can blame ChatGPT, which wrote the title of this episode and the above paragraph. (Or, you can blame us for not crafting a specific enough prompt.)

Shelly just got back from CES 2023 in Las Vegas, where he saw a ton of incredible innovations that will soon be changing our world. He shares his experience of returning to the (in-person) show and being in the same room as living, breathing human beings.

Shelly and Seth talk about the best tech and the overarching themes found in Las Vegas this year: from health and wellness to automotive to production capabilities and beyond.

Plus, Seth proudly shares some love for fellow Syracuse alums for how they handled the Damar Hamlin on-field situation last week.

While we were on our Christmas break, the NFL made a deal with YouTube - not Apple - to move its Sunday Ticket Package to a streaming service for the first time. (Google has announced that you will not have to be a YouTube TV subscriber for access.)

There is a potential new caveat: reports say you will be able to subscribe to a specific team for a much more affordable price. With these new options, who will pony up for the full Sunday Ticket package? We talk about what the future of watching NFL games will look like.

Plus: ChatGPT is changing the way everyone works, and it already writes better than Shelly does. People are scared of it, but if you are listening to this podcast and you have not played with it yet, you should give it a shot. (Try out Midjourney, too, while youre at it.) Shelly offers his predictions for what 2023 will hold when it comes to AI models.

This is our last episode of 2022! Thank you for listening to the show this year. If you plan to go to Las Vegas for CES 2023, make sure to visit shellypalmer.com/poap to request your POAP to make sure you get invited to all the cool stuff Techstream and The Palmer Group are doing.

Twitter has started suspending journalists who were covering Elon Musk's private plane. While some of those accounts have been restored, things have not calmed down at Twitter HQ. Elon just posted a poll, asking if he should step down as the head of Twitter. The people spoke, and they said they wanted Elon to go away. Will he? Who can say? We talk about what may come next for Twitter, as well as why Seth would be disappointed if the site just disappeared.

Plus, Shelly finished Andor, and he has a confession. We share what else we are watching.

The latest advancements in artificial intelligence have created a wildly exciting (or wildly scary) time to be alive. Technologies like Lensa, ChatGPT, and DeepMind are changing the way we do just about everything… and theyre just getting started.

In this episode, we talk about the most exciting recent developments in the world of AI, the blowback this tech has received from different artist communities, and historical cases in which tech has changed the way art has been made.

We also differentiate between “low stakes” and “high stakes” AI, talk about the (recent) day that changed Shellys life forever, and wonder when AI will be able to host this podcast.

Plus, we (sort of) argue about Andor and make our obligatory mention of Elon Musk.

Were still on Twitter… but not talking about it today, as todays episode is all about new TV! Well… we get to that after Seth shares some good recent Twitter experiences (and bad recent electric vehicle experiences) hes had, and Shelly talks about “The Twitter Files” and Elon as Twitters new ringleader and cheerleader.

Then, with the holiday season in full swing, Shelly and Seth share some picks for the best shows (new and old) and streaming services theyve discovered (or re-discovered) recently. There are so many good shows out there and its so easy to fall behind. Weve got some shows to help keep you glued to your TV this month… as well as things you should definitely avoid.

Were getting into the holiday season, and Seth has become Scrooge (at least when it comes to modern TV commercials aired during the holiday season). We open the show by venting about the ad behaviors that have been naughty and the ones that have been nice.

Then, we get into backup software and how to protect your data the right way. Seth didnt trust the results he found when searching online, so he turned to Shelly for guidance.

Shelly talks about the pros and cons of various online storage solutions - and how he uses the ones he finds most valuable - as well as proper data separation and storage and the tools that have helped him upskill and improve both his productivity and data storage.

We discuss clarity on cloud pricing, the downsides to digital storage, and services that are worth deeper exploration. Remember: dont put all your eggs in one basket. Redundancy is key!

Welcome to Techstream, the official podcast of Twitter. (A joke, but only sort of.)

Before we dive into the latest news surrounding Elon Musk's newest company, Shelly saw Wakanda Forever since our last episode, and he and Seth engage in some more (spoiler-free, once again) discussion about the new movie.

As far as the “normal Twitter user's” experience goes, Twitter still seems to largely exist and operate the same way it did before Elon took over. That may not stay true forever, though, so today we imagine a future without Twitter.

We run through the size of every social media network and look at competitors (like Mastodon) and whether or not they're Twitter replacements - or if they'll even make sense (or hold value) to the “normal” Twitter user.