What really happens when you hit 'I'm not a robot'

This episode of the Kim Komando Show dives into the seemingly simple yet complex digital interaction of verifying that a user is not a robot on websites.

1. CAPTCHA as AI Training: CAPTCHA challenges help improve AI algorithms for self-driving cars and other technologies by using human inputs.
2. Security vs. Privacy: Clicking "I'm not a robot" allows websites to access detailed user data to verify humanity, raising privacy concerns.
3. Tech Evolution: The episode discusses advancements in technology that integrate AI into daily devices, making them smarter but also more intrusive.
4. Human Element in Tech: Despite technological advances, there's a persistent need for human oversight to prevent ethical lapses in AI applications.
5. Lighthearted Tech Insights: The hosts mix humor with tech insights, making complex topics accessible and engaging to the audience.

1: Remote Control Anecdotes

Kim and Andrew share humorous personal stories about losing TV remotes, setting the stage for discussions on technological solutions in everyday life. Kim Komando: "When I was a kid, I was the remote." Andrew Babinski: "It was in the fridge!"

2: AI and Privacy Concerns

This chapter explores the intersection of AI advancements with personal privacy, particularly how "I'm not a robot" checks impact user data. Kim Komando: "You are giving them permission to look at everything on your device." Andrew Babinski: "Isn't that crazy?"

3: Technological Conveniences and Risks

Discussions on how modern conveniences like AI-integrated devices enhance efficiency but also pose privacy risks. Kim Komando: "CAPTCHA helps AI but also infringes on our privacy." Andrew Babinski: "It's using your history to prove you're not a robot."

1. Verify Privacy Settings: Regularly check and adjust the privacy settings on your devices to safeguard personal information.
2. Be Cautious with CAPTCHA: Be aware that solving CAPTCHA may contribute to data collection efforts beyond simple verification.
3. Stay Informed: Keep up-to-date with how technologies you use daily are evolving and how they impact your privacy.
4. Use Tech Responsibly: Balance the convenience of smart devices with the potential risks to privacy and security.
5. Educate Others: Share knowledge about the implications of AI and privacy with friends and family to promote broader awareness.

You're not just proving you're human — you're revealing your browser's dirty secrets. We also talk to Jeff Johnson from The Trek Planner about using Google Earth to find ancient ruins. Plus, Gen Z brings parents to job interviews and human skills bots can't replicate.

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Kim Commando
Hey, it's Kim Commando today, your daily podcast to keep you up to date with all things digital and beyond. And I'd love to have. Have you be a part of our podcast. You can make an appointment to speak with me. Just head over to commando.com. and on the top right, there's a button that says email, Kim, fill that out, and that's it. So have you ever lost the remote control to your tv?

Andrew Babinski
Literally, right now, I don't know where any of my remotes are, really? No, three of them.

Kim Commando
Where do they go?

Andrew Babinski
No idea. I have to manually turn on a television like it's 1974.

Kim Commando
No, really.

Andrew Babinski
I have to turn off the volume, and I have to go up. And now the new tvs, they don't have buttons on them, so you have to, like, hit the menu, buddy. Go over to volume, then hold the volume button. I don't know where my remotes are.

Kim Commando
When I was a kid, I was the remote.

Andrew Babinski
Yes, that's true.

Kim Commando
Okay. Your parents would call you and say, gab, change it to channel twelve. And you're like, oh, I can't believe you called me all the way in here to change the tv.

Andrew Babinski
Did you ever have the fixed tv on top of the broken tv in the living room?

Kim Commando
No, we had more classes than that.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, okay. Cause we. You know, the volume would go out on the big tv, so we put a smaller one on top and use the volume from the smaller ones. You had to change both channels?

Kim Commando
Well, we lost the tv remote the other night.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
And.

Andrew Babinski
Wait, hold on, hold on. I'm guessing the Kim Kommando household. The tv remote is not what I'm thinking. It's like an iPad.

Kim Commando
Well, it's a crestron remote.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah. Okay.

Kim Commando
For the home theater, that just sounds expensive. Okay, well, it is. You know, it's. I'm not kidding you. It's about $1,000.

Andrew Babinski
For a remote?

Kim Commando
Yeah, for a remote.

Andrew Babinski
Mine to replace on Amazon's, like, $12.99.

Kim Commando
It should be okay. And so I would go into the home theater, and Barry's like, he's got the couches up, and he's, like, crawling around in there, and he's trying to use his phone as a flashlight. And then I said, oh. I said, it's got to be in here somewhere. And he's like, well, this isn't the first one we've lost.

Andrew Babinski
You just found out that he had replaced the remote before?

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
Where was it?

Kim Commando
He says, it's lost in the couch somewhere. So I'm like, I'm going to find it. So he gets out, and then I grab a flashlight, and I'm like. And like, you still can't see anything.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Yeah. So then I'm like, I put my hand down there and I'm like, I'm finding, like, m and M's bold popcorn. Yeah, exactly.

Andrew Babinski
Kids socks.

Kim Commando
Oh. You know, like, you know, at the. You know, during the Christmas party, there's like, christmas cookies under there. And then in the middle of this, I'm like, I find the remote.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, you found it.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
Just send yourself a g boat.

Kim Commando
I know, but, you know, so the reason why I bring this up is that on Walmart, they have. Walmart has a tv. The on 4K, if you lose the remote, you push a button on the tv and then the remote makes a sound.

Andrew Babinski
That's so brilliant.

Kim Commando
Okay, Roku has it. And now Android tv is going to be coming out with the same thing.

Andrew Babinski
That's so smart.

Kim Commando
Yes. You know, all tvs should have this.

Andrew Babinski
Is the remote now tracking me. Like, is the remote now listening to me if I take it into the kitchen?

Kim Commando
Of course.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, that reminds me. My son plays Xbox and he couldn't find his good Xbox controller. He's got the, you know, the one the peasants use. But he had his pro. He can't find his pro. It was in the fridge.

Kim Commando
It was. How did it end up in the fridge?

Andrew Babinski
He got a Capri sun out, and when he grabbed the capri sun, he set it down to put the straw in and just close the doors.

Kim Commando
God, he is so your son. He really is, you know? But sad news, the guy who invented the remote control, he died the other day.

Andrew Babinski
Really?

Kim Commando
He's 96. Wow.

Andrew Babinski
Well, I mean, he lived a good life.

Kim Commando
Yeah. They found him in the sofa.

Andrew Babinski
It's always, always the first place you look.

Kim Commando
It is. And on that happy note, welcome. It's Kim Commando. Today. I'm, of course Kim Commando. And Andrew Babinski is not.

Andrew Babinski
No, I'm Andrew Babinski.

Kim Commando
And just a. Just a quick reminder to, like, comment, follow and share. Subscribe.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, it's so easy.

Kim Commando
All of the above.

Andrew Babinski
So easy. Just hit share, send it to someone, say, hell, I like this show, you should check it out. You don't even have to push it. It's not even a hard sell.

Kim Commando
No, it's not.

Andrew Babinski
You should just check it out. They're gonna love it.

Kim Commando
And just, like one person did we.

Andrew Babinski
Are we wearing the same color on purpose?

Kim Commando
I'm wearing black.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, this is black.

Kim Commando
Really?

Andrew Babinski
What do you think it is? Are you gonna say it's dingy black?

Kim Commando
It's kind of dingy black.

Andrew Babinski
It's black.

Kim Commando
It is. Maybe it's the socks that are still dingy. I bought you new white socks.

Andrew Babinski
I'm wearing your new socks. These are the Kim commando socks.

Kim Commando
Well, here's the deal. For everybody who's just listening in and you're not watching the show, you're listening to the podcast, is that Andrew was wearing gray socks. And I was trying to explain to him, like, yeah, either Clorox the socks to make them white, or you buy new ones. And so you kept wearing gray socks. So I actually spent like $8 on Amazon.

Andrew Babinski
And this is when I found out, too, that it's no longer trendy to wear the short socks.

Kim Commando
No.

Andrew Babinski
Like, I thought that's what I was supposed to wear. I thought that's what all the cool kids were wearing. It's the tall socks now. You even bought the good ones.

Kim Commando
See, I am on target.

Andrew Babinski
You are. I am not only the digital goddess, the fashion goddess.

Kim Commando
Thank you.

Andrew Babinski
You're welcome.

Kim Commando
What do you have coming out?

Andrew Babinski
We have universal income. Artificial intelligence may force us to move towards universal income, and it doesn't make any sense. And I'll explain to you why.

Kim Commando
Hmm. I'm not sure that they would cover the PJ for me.

Andrew Babinski
I don't think Kim Commando's gonna be replaced by Chad GPT.

Kim Commando
This is not gonna happen. And we have a great interview coming up in just a little bit. Guy is so amazing. Have you watched his video?

Andrew Babinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Oh, gosh, I would so love to, like, just go on an exploration with him.

Andrew Babinski
Why don't you?

Kim Commando
It'd be fun. I should do that.

Andrew Babinski
You should tell him next time I just invite him. He won't mind. He'll do a collab with you.

Kim Commando
Yes, a collab. Yes. And don't forget winfromkim.com dot. We're giving away a brand new iPhone 15. And again, that's winfromkim.com dot. Winfromkim.com dot. And now there is a catch. You have to get the newsletter. Yeah, just a few times. And, you know, we get great comments every single day. I looked, we have now 223,000 thumbs up.

Andrew Babinski
That's phenomenal.

Kim Commando
I know. On our newsletters. Isn't that crazy?

Andrew Babinski
That is crazy.

Kim Commando
And so every news, every. Some comments, actually, most of the comments are things like, you know, love the content. Great job. Don't know how you do this every day. This one was so good yesterday, is that I shared it with everybody.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
Now, it does have a curse word in it. Can I say the curse word? Start with an s. Oh, yeah.

Andrew Babinski
You can say shit.

Kim Commando
Okay. All right. I can say that. Okay. So I don't know who this person is, but yesterday gives it a thumbs up.

Andrew Babinski
Right.

Kim Commando
And says, always find great new shit. And I'm 74.

Andrew Babinski
Is he talking about his body? I just thought.

Kim Commando
I thought that was, like, the best comment.

Andrew Babinski
Anything from a 74 year old can be said. They've lived long enough that they can make any comment they want.

Kim Commando
Always find great new stuff. No, can't say stuff. Can't you just see him at home.

Andrew Babinski
Going, I always find great new Kim commando.

Kim Commando
She's something else.

Andrew Babinski
She's always got the best shit.

Kim Commando
Well, I guess we could say that. Cause we're saying that guy said, I'm had a fat ass.

Andrew Babinski
We can bleep all this. It's fine.

Kim Commando
Okay. Which I don't.

Andrew Babinski
No, that's your problem.

Kim Commando
Are you saying I do?

Andrew Babinski
No, I said we can bleep all the curse words.

Kim Commando
No, you said, I said I had a fat ass.

Andrew Babinski
At no point, did I. And that's not a bad thing. To be honest with you. Sometimes it's gonna be a good thing.

Kim Commando
Are you saying I have.

Andrew Babinski
I didn't say anything about your ass in any way, shape or form.

Kim Commando
I don't know how I can have a big one. I'm like size four.

Andrew Babinski
No one said you had a big ass.

Kim Commando
You just did.

Andrew Babinski
I did not.

Kim Commando
I don't know how heather puts up with you.

Andrew Babinski
I wanna listen to the playback of this show.

Kim Commando
All right, here are the top five things you need to know about a tech. It's happening right now. You know, all the big companies, they have their big AI rollouts. I know we had OpenAI, which is pretty cool. That was pretty cool. We have Google with Gemini. And then Microsoft came out. Microsoft. They were kind of a sleepy little company until most recently.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, were they?

Kim Commando
I mean, a lot of people, they had to pay you to use Bing, and then they see Microsoft Word. It was really exciting to be like, oh, wow, there's a new version of Microsoft Word out.

Andrew Babinski
Their operating system, though, is on like 3 billion computers. It is, I don't know if they're a little sleepy, a little company sleepy at the wheel. Oh, like behind the times got you.

Kim Commando
Yes. And so they rolled out all their new AI stuff. One of them is called recall.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
And recall will take snapshots of your screen every few seconds of everything that you ever do so that this way you can look at it later. So every single thing that you do on your computer, when would that be needed? Apps, video calls, browser activities, what are.

Andrew Babinski
They doing with all this stuff?

Kim Commando
They say that this way in case you were like, oh, I wonder what that is that I looked at five days ago. You could go back and I would.

Andrew Babinski
Not be turning that feature on.

Kim Commando
I don't know if that's a good idea.

Andrew Babinski
I don't want any evidence. Paper trails just get you in trouble.

Kim Commando
Login details, no porn sites.

Andrew Babinski
And they're going to take all that and feed it into an AI machine and know everything about you.

Kim Commando
And it's exclusive to their brand new line of AI powered PCs called Copilot plus. Oh, it's plus copilot plus.

Andrew Babinski
It's not just regular copilot. No one's buying that.

Kim Commando
And the PCs start at $1,000. Wow. You know, start shipping in June 18. Uh, the big deal is that the AI is actually, the gpu is built into the laptop, so you don't have to like. And when you make a request now with AI, you have to like, it has to go into the cloud and then come back with the answer. But it's all going to be done on the laptop from now on.

Andrew Babinski
But how does it get updated? Does it like, refresh its information every single night?

Kim Commando
Okay, I'm sure. I thought this would be really cool. Microsoft Edge, you know their browser?

Andrew Babinski
No, I didn't know that was the thing.

Kim Commando
I know. It's a sleepy little company. Okay. They're going to put AI into edge. This is really something. So if you're listening or watching a video, like in Spanish or Russian or Japanese or whatever, it's going to do real time translation.

Andrew Babinski
How often are you sitting there watching a video in Russian or Japanese?

Kim Commando
Okay, I have never done that, but maybe this is. Maybe that was the reason why.

Andrew Babinski
Never. You'll go to YouTube, you'll find a video in Russian just so you can see how it works and that it will never be used again.

Kim Commando
Probably not.

Andrew Babinski
I appreciate your honesty, okay?

Kim Commando
But this is what Microsoft has come out with. It's gonna be, you're not on there.

Andrew Babinski
Watching Gorbachev beast and his videos. That are going viral in Russia. Yes.

Kim Commando
Wanna do that? It's gonna be so good.

Andrew Babinski
Thank God I have this.

Kim Commando
I've always wanted to hear lithuanian language.

Andrew Babinski
Lithuanian? Why do I gotta learn Portuguese? I'm never going to Portuga.

Kim Commando
So smart. You probably went to public school.

Andrew Babinski
Absolutely.

Kim Commando
All right, speaking of AI, there are now three important high income skills that you need to have that AI cannot replicate. Okay, story number two. You might want to make a guess.

Andrew Babinski
It's. No, I am clueless. I mean, problem solving.

Kim Commando
It says problem solving.

Andrew Babinski
That's what AI does.

Kim Commando
Well, maybe it means, like, human problem solving.

Andrew Babinski
We talked about this last week, that someone held up a piece of a code to a camera, and the AI went, oh, this is what you got wrong. This is what you got wrong. This is what you got wrong. My brother in law, who I really can't talk about, he worked on some, like, some talk secret stuff. He is a rocket scientist, like, legit. And he uses. They have an internal AI with their company, so it net. The information never gets out.

Kim Commando
Right.

Andrew Babinski
And he uses it all the time. He sits there and types up a bunch of code and then ask the AI, what did I do wrong? How can you fix this? How can you make this more efficient? How can you make this shorter? And that's problem solving.

Kim Commando
So yesterday, I wanted to show Barry chat GPT four. Oh. And so I fired it up.

Andrew Babinski
Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Omni?

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
So that's what the O means.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
I didn't know that. I didn't know you.

Kim Commando
Really?

Andrew Babinski
No. And I asked you when they named it that. Why would they do that?

Kim Commando
I was like, I don't know.

Andrew Babinski
And then you learned.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
That's great.

Kim Commando
And so I had a firearm.

Andrew Babinski
You were gonna shun me for not knowing?

Kim Commando
Exactly. And so I was all ready to show it. And then he came into the house with the mail and. And he got some stuff at the house that he didn't want them to know, our home address. And so he's like, oh, I don't know how they got our home address. I don't know how they got the home address. And then out of my phone, you hear, oh, you sound like you're frustrated. It doesn't need to be frustrating. What can I do to help you?

Andrew Babinski
That's cool. That's neat.

Kim Commando
That was AI. And Barry's like, oh, they're listening all the time.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, well, that's how they find out your home address.

Kim Commando
Number two, personal branding. That AI cannot do.

Andrew Babinski
What does that mean?

Kim Commando
Well, it's kind of like the commando brand.

Andrew Babinski
Uh huh.

Kim Commando
You know, being recognized, you know, 98% across the country.

Andrew Babinski
So basically defining what you, who you are as a person.

Kim Commando
Who you are. Yeah. Who are, who you are as a person in relation to your business.

Andrew Babinski
Right. But AI can't be used to sell that. How to market yourself.

Kim Commando
Oh, no, it can be used for that.

Andrew Babinski
That's what I'm saying. These are all.

Kim Commando
How about number three? Communication skills.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, that's true. I mean, that's going to lessen the more we use AI, it is going to lessen our communication skills.

Kim Commando
I use it all the time. I mean, so, Allie, she's so cute. So, Allie, it was her fifth year anniversary working here.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
On Sunday.

Andrew Babinski
Well, that's a bummer.

Kim Commando
Yeah. So on Tuesday morning, we were in a meeting, and she says, just want to let you know that it was my five year anniversary on Sunday.

Andrew Babinski
And you missed Monday, too. She let one full business day pass.

Kim Commando
I know she did that.

Andrew Babinski
She knows what she's doing.

Kim Commando
Okay. So then I said, oh, well, I actually looked at her and she says that. She says to me, somebody must feel like an a hole. I said, yeah, that would be me. That would be me. I said, I'm really sorry about that.

Andrew Babinski
Your edible arrangements will be here in 2 hours.

Kim Commando
And I said, well, I said, don't worry, I'll send a note out to the whole staff.

Andrew Babinski
Did you?

Kim Commando
And I said, and I'm going to use chat GPT for it.

Andrew Babinski
Right from the heart.

Kim Commando
So I made sure that went out and talked about, like, paradigms and goals. You can totally tell that I did not write this. Just totally tell. All right, moving on to number three, TikTok. The average american spends 95 minutes a day on TikTok.

Andrew Babinski
There's a lot.

Kim Commando
Tick tock is fixing to get ready to come out with 60 minutes video.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, don't make it doesn't make sense. I know they're trying to compete with YouTube. I know that that's their goal. They're, they're hoping they'll make more money that way. But that's not why people go to tick tock. That's like taco Bells coming out with a new steak or a new, you know, chicken sandwich. That's not why you go to Taco Bell. That's not why you go to TikTok.

Kim Commando
I don't think it's gonna work. Number four on our list is Hertz rental car. I don't know if you heard about this, is that, you know, Hertz has 30,000 Teslas that they're trying to dump.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
Which I wouldn't. Buy one. Advise anybody buy one.

Andrew Babinski
I'm in the market. I may be in the market for a new car.

Kim Commando
You never buy a new car from a rental company.

Andrew Babinski
No, but maybe I'll get a Tesla with self driving because I think it's cool.

Kim Commando
Okay. All right, let's see how that works on the 202 for you.

Andrew Babinski
I saw someone. They bought one of these Hertz cars, got it home, took it for a couple of drives, and then it bricked. It totally went. Operating system died. It was useless.

Kim Commando
Well, they are now having a system glitch so that if you do rent an ev from them, you want to make sure that you check your receipt, because, you know, like, with a gas powered car, that you can pay for the gas ahead of time, and if you don't fill it up, then they charge you, like, $12 for a gallon of gas.

Andrew Babinski
Right.

Kim Commando
Okay, well, now there's the skip. The pump fee is showing up on ev invoices.

Andrew Babinski
Well, I definitely skipped the pump. Do you have to return it the same charge that you took it?

Kim Commando
I don't know.

Andrew Babinski
That's interesting.

Kim Commando
That's a good question.

Andrew Babinski
Cause, I mean, it's equivalent to the gas and the other vehicle and the other rentals.

Kim Commando
I don't see how you. I don't see how they could do that.

Andrew Babinski
Well, if they can make a buck on it, you definitely. They'll definitely do it.

Kim Commando
I'll tell you, those baby, don't hurts me.

Andrew Babinski
I knew a joke was coming. All right, see, you read down on the iPad and then not make eye contact.

Kim Commando
Okay. Finally, this gen zers just getting out of college.

Andrew Babinski
Right?

Kim Commando
Okay. One in four gen Z ers have brought their mom or dad to an interview. Yeah. No, for a job.

Andrew Babinski
What? That is embarrassing.

Kim Commando
One in four. One in four.

Andrew Babinski
It should be one in a billion.

Kim Commando
Okay. One quarter of all parents are filling out the job applications for their kids.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, my gosh. So what. What qualities could you bring to our company? Ask my mom.

Kim Commando
You know what? There was somebody who interviewed here, and it was in this building, so it must have been, like, within the last, you know, say, six years, right? I don't remember pre Covid. That's. I know that because sometimes with the company, I'm always thinking, like, that was before COVID that somebody did show up. I think it was for a studio position with their mother in the interview.

Andrew Babinski
Or just waiting there.

Kim Commando
Well, they. The mother came in with them into the lobby.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
And then Amber came in and said, this person's here. With their mother. And I'm like, you know, that is just a bad sign.

Andrew Babinski
That's a red flag.

Kim Commando
That's a bad, bad sign. That's a bad sign.

Andrew Babinski
That's too many. That's too many people bring in their moms.

Kim Commando
You know, I always thought, like, you know, I always go back and I start thinking about, you know, when I was interviewing for jobs. I mean, you remember. You were always nervous. Were you nervous?

Andrew Babinski
I've only had one interview. I've worked for one company since I was 19 years old.

Kim Commando
Really?

Andrew Babinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
That's it?

Andrew Babinski
Yeah. My resume is awful.

Kim Commando
Well, I remember the time I was asked, like, you know, they always ask the question, like, what's your three year goals? And I was always like, I don't know. Your five year goals? I don't know. Can you perform? Are you a good team player? No.

Andrew Babinski
Hey, well, if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?

Kim Commando
Can you perform under pressure? Right?

Andrew Babinski
Sure.

Kim Commando
But I can perform the Bohemian Rhapsody.

Andrew Babinski
That is a queen deep track joke, and I absolutely love it.

Kim Commando
All right. Can you sing it?

Andrew Babinski
Bohemian.

Kim Commando
Okay, but how about pressure? Bohemian Rhapsody?

Andrew Babinski
Oh, I see a little silhouette of a man's gotta whoosh, gotta bush. Can you do the Fandango? I know the whole thing if you want me to keep going. Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening. Galileo, Galileo, Galileo.

Kim Commando
Okay, that's enough. You know what's gonna happen? People are gonna have this song in their head for the rest of the.

Andrew Babinski
Day, or the YouTube video is gonna get deleted because we don't have the rights for it.

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Kim Commando
Hey, its Kim commando. Today, its your fun podcast about all things digital. And no, this is not the Kim commando show. Its not. I know you might think it is. The Kim commander shows just a little bit difference. Only me. And it's all callers, all the time. Okay, Andrew's not here. Which Andrew? We need to give you a nice round of applause because you got. He got a promotion. That's right. No, no.

Andrew Babinski
Still the bottom of the bucket here, Adam.

Kim Commando
Glad to have you with us.

Andrew Babinski
Thank you. Appreciate that, Kim.

Kim Commando
So you got a big job.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah. So, for the last five years, I was the executive producer of the morning show at 99.9 Kz in Phoenix, Arizona, which can be heard on the I Heart radio app. My bosses will love the fact that I mentioned that the Kim Commando show today podcast and the Kim Commando show both available on the iHeartRadio app. Absolutely, 100% free. You don't have to pay for anything. But I got promoted from executive producer to co host of the morning show.

Kim Commando
So as you're driving around in that case van right now.

Andrew Babinski
Right.

Kim Commando
I want to. I want, you know, I just want to see your face on that van. Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
I asked if I could do that, and they said absolutely no one in the city, in this building or the state wants that. So, no, we will not be putting your face on the side of anything.

Kim Commando
They don't want it.

Andrew Babinski
No. Have you seen me?

Kim Commando
Would they put my face on?

Andrew Babinski
No.

Kim Commando
I could smile. Hi.

Andrew Babinski
Hey. I noticed the new sign outside. I don't want to divert. I know. I have a guess. Why did you make the sign outside so much shorter?

Kim Commando
It's not shorter. Same size.

Andrew Babinski
Really?

Kim Commando
Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
It seemed the other one was so much high in the air.

Kim Commando
How big is. How much is twelve inches?

Andrew Babinski
It's huge. Four inches is actually huge.

Kim Commando
All right, Jeff. A dangling fury. The dangling fury. Jeff Johnson, he's a big youtuber. He's bigger than we are.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, that's true. That's most youtubers.

Kim Commando
Well, you know, we just getting really started with it. We're a little slow to the YouTube game. It's true. Jeff has millions and millions and millions of followers. I mean, just, you know, and just hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of you.

Andrew Babinski
Maybe he could scoot a couple of his. Our way. Maybe he could find the Kim commando show on Google Earth and the Kim commando today podcast and scoot him over our way.

Kim Commando
And that's what he does. The trek planner, he calls himself. He uncovers ancient ruins across the southwest. Maybe you could find Barry. People used to live in them, eat in them. Here's the kicker. They are not marked on the map. And that's really what the big deal is. He takes his drone out and he seeks these really wonderful places out. Look at the footage on that. Just amazing.

Andrew Babinski
It's like he's a detective for ancient ruins.

Kim Commando
You know what? He's going to get his own show.

Andrew Babinski
Someday on, like, discovery or something like that. Absolutely. His videos are phenomenal.

Kim Commando
So, Jeff, thanks for being here.

Jeff Johnson
Thank you so much for having me today.

Kim Commando
So how would you define your YouTube channel to everybody?

Jeff Johnson
Oh, I would say very amateur archaeology, exploration, drone videos, hiking, something along those lines.

Kim Commando
And so how did you come up with this idea? Because it's so unique.

Jeff Johnson
Yeah. So I've been doing this for a long time, even before I had a YouTube channel or a following on YouTube. I've been doing this for a long time, just on my own and publishing stuff on my own website. And then I kind of transitioned to YouTube, where I had only about 300 subscribers back then. And then I just kind of would say stuff like, I found this on satellite photos, but as of last year, I kind of changed that to, I found something on Google Earth, and I just kind of went with that. So that's. That's kind of what happened. The last year and a half or so since taking off, my. My channel's taken off.

Andrew Babinski
So now walk us through the process. Do you just, like, throw a dart and randomly start searching somewhere on Google Earth to see if you see an old building?

Jeff Johnson
Yeah. Sometimes it really is like that. Sometimes I'm just like, where do I want to explore? And I have the whole earth. I mean, I have stuff in the United States, down in Central America, over in Africa. Like, I have stuff all over the place, but my general interest is, like, the American Southwest. And so I'll just kind of pick an area. It really is just like that. Pick an area and then zoom in on Google Earth and just kind of go around. I can't tell you all my secrets, of course.

Andrew Babinski
Fair enough.

Jeff Johnson
But I just kind of zoom in and just kind of find something that looks interesting, and then mark it just with, like, a little pin. And I have a color scale, so if it's, like, a yellow or green, it means it's not very interesting. But if it's, like, a red or a purple, that means it's, like, I'm 80% sure that something is there that is worth going out and exploring.

Kim Commando
So what has. What are, like, some highlights? What are some, like, really great things that you found that you were even astounded at?

Jeff Johnson
Oh, my gosh. Yeah. So, one of my favorites is something I found, I think, last year. It's like the circle on top of a boulder, and I knew it was something man made, because perfect circles on top of boulders just seems very unnatural to me.

Andrew Babinski
And so either man or alien, it's got to be one of those two.

Jeff Johnson
Very true. So I went out there thinking that, you know, aliens are, you know, man made. And I go out there and do this long hike, and. And I could see in the distance, and I could see, like, this little kind of line on top of this boulder. And I was like, whoa. A very straight line on top of this, you know, kind of, you know, jaggedy looking boulder. And I just knew there was something on top of it that was man made. And as I got closer, I could see the little stacked rocks, which indicate to me a ruin. And then that's when I got my drone out. And. And that, to me, was just such an incredible find, because I think just the area it was in is just beautiful, too. But I couldn't get up there, so it's, like, still a mystery, even though I flew my drone, but I couldn't get up there. And just imagining, like, who was up there, why they were there, and what they were doing is just. It's just so exciting to me, you.

Kim Commando
Know, that is interesting. I mean, to really think, you know, to think, like, what did they do? How did they get there? What was their life like? Yeah.

Jeff Johnson
Yeah.

Kim Commando
You know. You know, I was talking to my editor at the Daily Mail, and I said, you know, you just seems like you guys are just running a lot of these pictures, like, you know, like, where they reconstruct somebody's face, you know, from, like, 20,000 years ago. And I said, you know, why do you do so many of these? He's like, page views. People love. People love this stuff. People love this stuff. Now, have you ever found something and gotten to a place, Jeff, where you're like, oh, I probably shouldn't be here? Like, it was dangerous for you to be there?

Jeff Johnson
Yeah. So there's a couple times in my videos that I talk about this because it requires. Usually I'm out there by myself. And so if I come to a situation like that and my gut or, you know, those instincts are saying, you know, don't do this, then I don't do it. And that's where the drone comes in, because it's like, we still win. We still get to kind of explore, but a personal visit is maybe too dangerous. Or maybe I'm just, you know, not. Not feeling it right then and there for sure, but. But there. There's a couple times for sure. Even in my last, I think it's two videos ago or three videos ago where I'm just like, I'm not. I'm not feeling this. Or maybe it was a month ago, whenever it was, but sometimes I just. I just don't do it because I just don't feel safe or comfortable or something seems off.

Andrew Babinski
How about one of them? How about one of your misses? Like, you see something, you're like, I know that this is a ruin. This is something ancient. And you show up, and it's in a. An abandoned 1997 volkswagen farfragnuken.

Kim Commando
Yeah. McDonald's cup.

Jeff Johnson
Yeah. I would love to find that still. I was actually thinking about this earlier today, and I'm trying to figure out if I should make a video to kind of show the realities of this type of thing. But I thought for sure it was a ruin just because of how it was laid out. And I get up there, and there's nothing there. Like, there's no rocks or anything. But come to find out, this just how the. Like, the cliff and the overhang was, and the shadow, it looked like there's a straight edge, and it turned, and.

Andrew Babinski
It was all shadow.

Kim Commando
Yep.

Jeff Johnson
It was all shadow. So it was really just. I didn't get there. And I'm like, oh, now, do you.

Andrew Babinski
Still make a video of that? Do you still put that miss on your YouTube channel?

Jeff Johnson
I'm thinking about doing it.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
You know what? I think you should. It's kind of like. It kind of makes you a human, you know, it's.

Jeff Johnson
Yeah, I should.

Kim Commando
Yeah, I think I will. So, now, do people, like, submit ideas for you? Like, Jeff, you ought to go here.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, I found this on Google Maps.

Jeff Johnson
Go check it out all the time. Yeah. I get so many requests and ideas and things, and I've even done some videos from those requests, too, but it's mostly just my searches and finds. But, I mean, every day, I get something from somebody, which I'm very appreciative and very grateful to those people, but I just can't. I wish I could do them all.

Andrew Babinski
I have a request, and I know this is maybe hard, but do you think you could find Atlantis?

Jeff Johnson
Yo. Might take a while. Couple weeks.

Kim Commando
I bet you could. I don't think it's in the southwest. No, I'm not sure. I'm seeing that whole geography thing going on.

Andrew Babinski
I have a horrible geography.

Kim Commando
So, Jeff, is this your full time gig?

Jeff Johnson
This is now, yeah. This is this transition from a hobby to a very part time gig to a part time to now. Now full time.

Kim Commando
And how much money are you making?

Jeff Johnson
Enough to provide for a family of five.

Kim Commando
Wow.

Andrew Babinski
Fair enough.

Kim Commando
Okay. That's great. That's awesome. And so I. So, because I know we always. We always have a lot of people who are listening and people who are watching that. They're thinking, like, you know, I could. I have this great idea for a YouTube channel, and I can do this, too. And I'm sure. I mean, this has not been an overnight success for you, right?

Jeff Johnson
It has not. No. It's been, like I said, I started my YouTube channel, I think, in 2013 or 2014.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Jeff Johnson
And this Googler stuff, I just kind of implemented just slowly over the years, but it really was last year, like, early January, when this sort of took off and. Yeah, like I said, yeah. Now it's a full time thing.

Andrew Babinski
That's awesome.

Kim Commando
Well, that's great. Hey, Jeff, congratulations to you. Thanks for being here.

Jeff Johnson
Thank you.

Kim Commando
So much luck to you. And when you get to that Discovery Channel show, I want you to remember, like, hey, we were here.

Jeff Johnson
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I will. For sure. Thanks, Kim and Andrew. Yeah. Thank you.

Andrew Babinski
And if you happen to see my remote controls on Google Earth, could you please drop a pin and send me where they're located? Sure.

Jeff Johnson
Yeah. Thank you.

Andrew Babinski
I appreciate it.

Kim Commando
See, I love success stories.

Andrew Babinski
That's awesome.

Kim Commando
I mean, you know, here's a guy found something he's passionate about, loves to do it, and, you know, and that's always my advice to people because they say, like, you know, how can I be successful like you? I'm like, number one. You can't.

Andrew Babinski
First you build them up with that confidence.

Kim Commando
No, I'm always positive. What I tell you? You can't do something for the money.

Andrew Babinski
No. And with him, too, it's something cool, something interesting. It's not just an influencer sitting there putting their makeup on for 45 minutes a day. It's really interesting. His channel is really interesting.

Kim Commando
I still can't get over that video of that woman with the seven year old girl putting makeup on. I just. I just can't get that out of my head that this mother has propped up her seven year old to put on adult makeup, where the little seven year old girl's going, contour, contour, contour.

Andrew Babinski
I mean, it's absolutely disgusting. Unless she's pulling in like, 200 g's a year, then I. Maybe I. I need to get my daughter to start doing it.

Kim Commando
You know what? I'll help. I'll underwriter.

Andrew Babinski
See, we turn around just like that.

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Hey, it's Kim Commando. Today it's your podcast about all things digital. And just a quick reminder, if you have not already entered to win that brand new iPhone 15, you want to go to winfromkim.com dot once again, that's winfromkim.com. and do us a huge favor. Make sure that you like, comment, follow, share, subscribe Andrew, you wanna put your phone down?

Andrew Babinski
I'm just getting a note for the show.

Kim Commando
Oh, okay. I was just wanna know, are we bothering you right now?

Andrew Babinski
I have one more guest left on wordle. I gotta get it.

Kim Commando
I didn't do it today. No, don't tell me the answer.

Andrew Babinski
Neither have I. I haven't done connections, wordle, any of it.

Kim Commando
You haven't done. Do you do the mini crossword puzzle?

Andrew Babinski
Yes. Best time is 58 seconds.

Kim Commando
Really?

Andrew Babinski
That's my best time now, normally I'm like three minutes, four minutes. But my best time is I sent.

Kim Commando
You one that I think was like 58 seconds. I screenshotted that of yours. Yeah, didn't I? A while back.

Andrew Babinski
Maybe I'm just copying and pasting that and telling people that's my best time.

Kim Commando
I think you probably have.

Andrew Babinski
So the godfather of AI, Professor Jeffrey Hinton, he has come out and he used to work for Google and he helped spearhead a lot of the artificial intelligence that we're seeing commercially available now. He is worried, he is legitimately worried that over the next five to seven years, AI will seem like such a win for big industries and companies that they will replace their minimum wage workers.

Kim Commando
With artificial intelligence, which is happening.

Andrew Babinski
And because of this, he thinks that we should have a universal income to replace the money that all these workers are going to lose because it's going to ruin the economy. So I'm sitting back and I'm like, okay, we're going to take a group of people that are not making a ton of money, probably 1415, $16, and we're going to put them out on the streets because computers are going to do all of their work. And then we're going to take tax dollars and just give them a salary. Not to work, but we're eliminating them from the workforce where they were paying into the tax system to support that free money that we're going to give. Why don't we just tell companies, don't replace your workers with AI.

Kim Commando
There seems to be like that circle going around, circling down the drain.

Andrew Babinski
It doesn't make any sense if the plan is to give people free money.

Kim Commando
Okay. Although it reminds me of all these people who just sat their butts on the couch during COVID the money.

Andrew Babinski
That's true. I get that. But this where, this is gonna be a long time, right? This is the future as well.

Kim Commando
You have to, you have to retrain people for skills that are needed, like, you know, oiling the robots.

Andrew Babinski
But that's the case. Why not put the money instead of giving people just universal income, we do. We reeducate them. We pay for them for. To go to school so they can get skills that are actually marketable and used in the workforce. So they're not there sitting doing nothing.

Kim Commando
How much would you think they would get?

Andrew Babinski
Well, you would think, I don't know, 30,000 a year?

Kim Commando
I couldn't live on that.

Andrew Babinski
Well, I understand that, but we're not talking about you. But this isn't the answer. If we're really going to have AI replace an entire level of the workforce, just paying them to stay at home is not the answer. Also, we're not going to be able to afford it, but they're also not going to be contributing members to society.

Kim Commando
And they're not going to be happy because of that. They're not just going to want to sit on the couch and do nothing. They're not going to want to get. Well, they might want to just sit on the couch.

Andrew Babinski
I'm sure there's a percentage that would. That would love it, especially people who are, you know, near retirement or something like that. But that's not a viable answer for this problem.

Kim Commando
It's not going to work.

Andrew Babinski
We are creating ourselves. Just don't do it. How about that? Just don't have artificial intelligence replace those positions.

Kim Commando
But they are doing it. I mean, like, you have the flippy.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, I mean, there's tons of examples. Sure.

Kim Commando
I mean, where, you know, Flippy's doing all the hamburgers now and person's not standing there.

Andrew Babinski
When it comes to the AR argument that the artificial intelligence is going to end us all, we. There's a simple solution to that. Don't allow it to happen.

Kim Commando
Going to happen.

Andrew Babinski
But why?

Kim Commando
Because it is. Because you have people that are controlling AI. They're trying to come up with these standards. I mean, the UN is involved, and then, you know, open AI, they had this whole ethics division gone.

Andrew Babinski
What happened?

Kim Commando
We don't know. They laid them all off.

Andrew Babinski
They got replaced by AI. And AI is like, hey, guys, the ethics are totally fine here. I looked at it perfectly fine.

Kim Commando
Just, we're gonna blow each other up someday.

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Hey, it's Kim Commando. Today it's your fun podcast about all things digital. Make sure that you like, you comment, you follow, you share. And then also, if you're getting the audio version of Kim Commando today, you can get the full multimedia experience by going to YouTube.com, kimcommando, rumble.com, kimcommando x.com, comma, Facebook. I mean, it gets so tiring.

Andrew Babinski
Your energy level is just falling with every single website.

Kim Commando
Is it?

Andrew Babinski
Yes.

Kim Commando
This keeps going on and on.

Andrew Babinski
We also have the show on an Etch a sketch that we have in the parking lot. If you want to go. Watch out there.

Kim Commando
I can't believe you just thought the sign was smaller.

Andrew Babinski
It looks so much smaller. I want to find an old picture because I know I did a video in front of that sign. I don't think it's the same size.

Kim Commando
No, you know why it is the same size is because we need to have, like, some permit from the city to make it smaller or bigger.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
But I think what you, you see, it's maybe it's an optical illusion, because at the bottom it used to say, Westar multimedia entertainment.

Andrew Babinski
Okay?

Kim Commando
And then I thought, well, who cares about them? I mean, we've got 100,000 cars going by every day. So I put get Kim.com.

Andrew Babinski
That'S smart. Yes, because I love to search for websites while I'm driving. It's perfect.

Kim Commando
Somebody could be a passenger. You're so negative all the time.

Andrew Babinski
Well, here, here's something I'm going to be more negative about. I usually don't fall for clickbait because I know I recognize an intelligent person. I go, that's clickbait. I'm not going to click on it. And then I see the headline? You're not going to believe what happens when you click on the I'm not a robot link on a website. And what did I do? You clicked immediately because I want to find out if I'm not going to believe it. What do you think happens when you click on the I'm not robot and then it pops up and it's like nine pictures you have to find which one's the crosswalk you got.

Kim Commando
I hate the one that you have to twist in order to make the picture.

Andrew Babinski
Right. So all that's a diversion. All of that clicking on pictures, they do use it for information of their self driving vehicles and stuff like that. But what's really happening is when you click on I'm not a robot, you are giving them permission to look at everything on your device, your search history, the last time you made a phone call, the last time you made a text message, all of that information. And that's how they're proving you're not a robot. Not because you can recognize which one's a fire hydrant.

Kim Commando
What's the difference between a robot and a robot?

Andrew Babinski
One's correctly pronounced, the other is how you say it.

Kim Commando
Well, that, you know, that is interesting.

Andrew Babinski
Isn't that crazy?

Kim Commando
It is. But the whole captcha thing, the problem with that now is that the robots and the bots are figuring out how to get around all the captchas, right?

Andrew Babinski
But if they're using your history, and you see the history is hitting 1000 websites in the last 15 minutes, I.

Kim Commando
Think it's a combination deal.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
I don't think it's just one or the other.

Andrew Babinski
You have to do both. It's like a two key system.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
Okay. Which reminds me, I have a great joke, and I know you know this joke, so you're gonna have to pretend along that you don't know.

Andrew Babinski
Okay, hold on, let me get my.

Kim Commando
Okay, but this is something that, you know, we always like to provide a certain amount of entertainment and information. I feel like this podcast has been very informative.

Andrew Babinski
Both? Yes, absolutely.

Kim Commando
Okay.

Andrew Babinski
We've had some laughs and some learning.

Kim Commando
Except for the time you called me a fat ass.

Andrew Babinski
I never did. And I want to see the tape.

Kim Commando
A man buys a robot that slaps people when they tell a lie.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
Decides to test on his family that night.

Andrew Babinski
I don't know this joke.

Kim Commando
Oh, you don't? No, this is a classic. You're gonna love this. Okay, I'm gonna start again because I thought that you actually knew this. Okay, so guy buys a robot mm hmm.

Andrew Babinski
I wonder what the robot does.

Kim Commando
Stop it. My God, I hate you. Slaps people when they tell a lie. So he decides to test it on his family that night. So the man asks his son, hey, son, what did you do after school today? He says, oh, dad, I just came home right from school, and I thought I would get all of my homework done right away. Robot goes over, slaps the kid, okay. Son says, okay. I was actually watching a movie. And the dad says, oh, what kind of movie did she watch? He says, well, you know, I don't really want to tell you about it, but it was Star wars episode five. Guess what?

Andrew Babinski
Robot slapped him.

Kim Commando
Robot slapped him? And robot says, oh, just slaps him. And then the son says, all right, I have to tell you the truth. It was really Debbie does Dallas. Father says, oh, I would never watch a movie like that.

Andrew Babinski
And the robot comes over and slaps.

Kim Commando
The Dallas, slaps him over. And the mom laughs and says, oh, he's certainly your son. And then the robot slaps them off.

Andrew Babinski
That's great. That's a good one. I remember that one.

Kim Commando
That was a good one.

Andrew Babinski
Maybe I'll use that on the show. I co host 99 nine. Kez, are you gonna give me credit? Sure.

Kim Commando
And then, you know what? If you're gonna give me credit, you don't have to talk about, like, joining the commando community, okay? You just say, you know, get Kim.com.

Andrew Babinski
All right, I'll say it. I promise. If I use that joke, I will. See? With no context.

Kim Commando
Perfect. You might think it's like he's gone mad. It's crazy. We'll call him Adam. This program is a copyrighted production of Westar multimedia entertainment and protected by the copyright laws. Any rebroadcast or use of this program.

Andrew Babinski
For commercial, business, economic, or financial purposes.

Kim Commando
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