Steph Beckett (00:37)
Hey

Gary Kayye (00:38)
Hey, good morning. How’s everybody doing this morning?

Steph Beckett (00:41)
I’m doing good, how are you, Gary?

Gary Kayye (00:43)
I’m doing well and ⁓ I am back on campus today. I’m at the un I’m in one of my classrooms I teach in, Steph. ⁓ one of our newer buildings. ⁓ and I’m excited for Rave TV today. There’s this is you know, summer’s usually slower, but we’ve had a lot of news and a lot of stuff going on. And of course last week we just had replay right before the holidays. And you’re watching Rave TV, which is the industry’s only weekly live TV show. We’re coming to you live.

Steph Beckett (01:04)
Yeah.

Gary Kayye (01:13)
nine a.m. Eastern time. and ⁓ that allows our European friends. Congratulation to Belgium for beating our soccer team, which just decided not to show up the other day. and ⁓

Steph Beckett (01:22)
Right.

They I think

at this point we can just kinda expect our soccer, football, whatever you call it, our our the Americans to not really the men’s at least to not really like that. ⁓

Gary Kayye (01:37)
Yeah, I I was gonna say that men’s

men’s soccer is back in the place that it usually operates, which is the thirteenth most popular sport in the United States, right behind bowling. ⁓ and so for during this there yeah. During the during the World Cup. No, it’s not. It’s not. during the World Cup it got popular, but ⁓ yeah.

Steph Beckett (01:49)
Is it? I feel like it’s more popular than

Where did you get your information? Can you share your sources?

Gary Kayye (02:04)
⁓ if it wasn’t for the World Cup, the I mean of course the World Cup years it’s more popular, but it was unfortunate. But hey, we didn’t expect to win. Belgium’s a great team. They have I mean, they had a superst they have two superstars on their team. Our s our so ⁓ two superstars didn’t show up, unfortunately. But ⁓ I’m I’m you know, I have to be honest with the my friends at Barco who are they’re from Belgium. I’m pulling for Norway and I’ll tell you why. The Norwegians have really impressed us in North Carolina because they’re practicing

Here in Greensboro, North Carolina, they’ve been really

Steph Beckett (02:34)
Yes.

Gary Kayye (02:35)
they have been really assimilating themselves into the culture here. And a number of them have told us that they want to move to North Carolina, and two of them have said that they want their kids to go to the University of North Carolina. So I’m really excited about about how they have fallen in love with North Carolina and Bucky’s stuff. I don’t know if you saw that.

Steph Beckett (02:38)
Ha ha ha.

I keep seeing TikToks of Norwegians who have come over for the World Cup. Like they’re in like New York City. They’re kind of everywhere. And they keep like eating American food and being like, this is so good. Like I get why all of y’all are fat. Which is like Which is real. Like we we one thing about America, we have really good food. It doesn’t make you skinny.

Gary Kayye (03:20)
Well, it’s definitely just ’cause it’s good doesn’t mean it’s good for you. That’s those are two different things, right? ⁓ and we have a lot of preservatives and I think they’ve been impressed with those.

Steph Beckett (03:23)
Yes, yes.

Have you had like

Norwegian food though? It

Gary Kayye (03:33)
yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’ve

I’ve been to Norway a few times and and I love the culture there. ⁓ all the Scandinavian countries and I like the food, but not not everybody does, but I do.

Steph Beckett (03:42)
I’ve never had it, but I have one of my best friends is from Norway, so I’ll often be like, What do you eat? Like at home, and it’s like a lot of like

Gary Kayye (03:51)
Comfort foods. A lot of c what we call comfort foods here. Like you know, heavy soups and things like that. And but I mean, they have a they have a they they eat a lot of fish. A lot of I mean, just think about the amount of fish that comes. Yeah, and ⁓ and you know, hey, if if I lived there I would do the same thing because it’s all fresh. But but but yeah, I mean it’s gonna be a great tournament. We we are enjoying hosting the World Cup here, and we’re really excited for everybody who’s come to the US and gotten excited about

Steph Beckett (03:58)
Yeah.

Yeah. Well yeah.

Gary Kayye (04:20)
our country here and of course you know Steph and I love going to other countries. We love traveling internationally with with Rave and ⁓ but but but like going back to what I was saying we we did a replay InfoComm 2026 last Wednesday or Thursday. I can’t remember which day I think it was Thursday. ⁓ was it Wednesday or Thursday? Wednesday was it third no it was Thursday. It was the second. And you can actually what

Steph Beckett (04:22)
Yeah.

Yeah. That’s true.

yeah.

Gary Kayye (04:48)
What kind of facial expression is that of me? What what he couldn’t you couldn’t you couldn’t catch a better one than that? Jeez, that looks terrible. I look I look freaked out. She’s doing this on purpose. I’m gonna get you back, Steph.

Steph Beckett (04:50)
Yeah.

Ha ha ha ha ha!

You already have. I feel like everything you share with me is already always like ugly.

Gary Kayye (05:11)
All right, I’m gonna get you back, Steph. Anyway,

replay replay InfoComm 2026 was last week, and you can actually go watch it. If you are a member of Launch, you can go watch it absolutely free, and you can download whatever you see there. And and we we covered about 50 products out of the 1800 products that we shot videos of at the show. We shot a little over 1800 videos of different products. We covered 50 of those.

Steph Beckett (05:21)
Okay.

Okay.

True.

Mm.

Gary Kayye (05:41)
one of the most popular one was probably the poster paper. ⁓ a lot of people commented on that or while it was going on.

Steph Beckett (05:44)
Yes. That has

that video of your booth tour, I think the last time I checked, I checked again yesterday. It’s like almost at a hundred thousand views now. So nice. Good job, Gary.

Gary Kayye (05:56)
Yeah. Yeah, that’s the Planar

video tour was also very popular. A lot of neat stuff in there as well. ⁓ Sony video tour was popular. There’s a lot of ⁓ a lot of really cool tour videos. And all of it is at raypubs.com slash infocom. You can actually type type in your favorite manufacturer and you’ll find all those videos. Or you can type in product names, ⁓ or you can even type in types of products like PTZ cameras and

Steph Beckett (06:02)
Yes.

Gary Kayye (06:25)
All the videos on PTZ cameras will appear.

Steph Beckett (06:28)
Absolutely, you can do that. the only thing that you can’t get from watching replay on demand is the CTSRUs. Those are only available if you watch live. But I’ve gotten a few ⁓ emails from people being like, can I still watch this? And yes, you can. You just go, you make your launch account, and then it’ll show up on demand. And we now have a very nifty search bar. So you can search all of the demand on-demand content and it will show up. So if you look up replay, every replay will show up.

Replay InfoComm, that one last year’s, all of them will show up. So if you just want to go and watch, you can totally do that. So absolutely.

Gary Kayye (07:06)
All right, so we want to make sure that you know about this month’s ⁓ temperature check. And two random participants this month who take our temperature check survey are going to get fifty dollar Amazon gift cards. ⁓ and so we want you to fill that out. And this month’s temperature check explores what contributes to the most successful project outcomes, where challenges are most likely to arise in our industry. Up sure AI will be one of those, and what you can do to improve. ⁓ this is this particular

Steph Beckett (07:18)
Yes.

Gary Kayye (07:35)
temperature check, we are actually asking manufacturers, integrators, consultants, and end users to take it because it applies to all of you. So please consider taking our temperature check.

Steph Beckett (07:42)
Yeah.

Yes, please. Alright. So we are going to go to a quick spot from our sponsor and partner, Shure ⁓ this is on the Shure Cloud and it’s all about simplifying device management at scale. So we will be right back.

Gary Kayye (08:01)
How long is this break?

How long is this video?

Steph Beckett (09:15)
you’re in a you’re in a different spot.

Gary Kayye (09:18)
Yeah, I thought I

would show you what it’s this is the same classroom. This is the view outside the classroom. And just to kind of give you an idea of what the classroom looks like.

Steph Beckett (09:22)
very nice. ⁓

this is the famous classroom. This is the one that you helped design, right?

Gary Kayye (09:32)
One of them. This is in the new Curtis Media Center. So there’s ⁓ one, two, three, four, five, six classrooms in here plus a studio. So I’ll show you ⁓ a few different kinds of classrooms. This particular one is ⁓ this one seats fifty-four students or fifty-two students in the collabor collaboration form. But you can see it’s surrounded by windows. And so what we’ve done is we put ⁓ we project on the walls, right? So we have three projectors in here.

Steph Beckett (09:43)
very cool.

Yeah.

Uh-huh.

Gary Kayye (10:01)
And then we have a whole bunch of ⁓ monitors as well. ⁓ and nothing is on the side where the wall windows are so that way students can enjoy the view. Now of course it’s summertime stuff, so there’s only summer school going on, which means not much.

Steph Beckett (10:12)
Yes. Yes. With

so many windows in there, how bright do the projectors have to be?

Gary Kayye (10:20)
we’re using six thousand Ants Lumens Epsom projectors. ⁓ and they’re they’re plenty bright. and they’ve been here about two years and we haven’t had to do anything to So yeah, really impressed. We’ve had one Samsung monitor go down. We out of the thirty maybe we have in the building, ⁓ we’ve had one Samsung monitor go down. No PTZ camera problems, no problems with the ⁓ with the ⁓

Steph Beckett (10:24)
Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Gary Kayye (10:48)
with an Arava system, so yeah.

Steph Beckett (10:50)
Yes. New Rava audio, Xtron connectivity, ⁓ Epson projectors. Yes.

Gary Kayye (10:54)
Yeah, it’s all AV over IP. Yeah, all

AV over IP using the XRON nav, which I’ll show you as well.

Steph Beckett (11:02)
And how how well can everyone hear using New Rava? ‘Cause that you just have that it what is it? Do you have the H D X in there or is it the H D Ls?

Gary Kayye (11:12)
we have dual HDLs, right? So we have the HDL three hundred dual and there’s two in here on the walls. ⁓ and ⁓ yeah, ⁓ so we had a dead spot in this back corner back here, and so therefore we use their voice lift feature to fix that problem. ⁓ but ⁓ yeah, it’s it’s yeah, it’s a little bit of trial and error in the very beginning, but no problem since then. That was a couple years ago.

Steph Beckett (11:15)
Okay.

⁓ cool.

That’s cool. That’s awesome.

Gary Kayye (11:39)
Yeah, you have to you sort

of have to go around the room that’s this large and figure out is there a pl you know, the only issue would be if a student was on remotely and a student in the back left corner asked a question, that’s where that’s where the dead spot would come in. That’s the person sitting there would hear fine ’cause they’re in the classroom. Yeah. Yeah.

Steph Beckett (11:44)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah. ⁓ that’s very awesome. Well speaking of

PTZ cameras, Lumens has a new one that just came out this week. This is the VC R thirty two HDIP PTZ camera. So this is gonna be for a lot of different application types. It’s gonna be for your meeting rooms, your classrooms, courtrooms, podcasts, studios, houses of worship, really anywhere where you might need a PTZ and the ability to stream live. ⁓ this

A new model is aiming to replace the VC R31 because this one adds this new level of control and RS232 over IP. ⁓ This has a very sensitive image sensor. It’s got 72.5 degree horizontal field of view, and it’s got a wide angle lens that can capture groups and room layouts like in a way that’s supposed to be very natural.

⁓ so it’s got video over HDMI, USB 3.0, and ⁓ Ethernet for flexibility and supporting it however you might need it. So ⁓ full information is on Rave Pubs if y’all would like to go on and check that out.

Gary Kayye (13:09)
And PureLink introduced a kind of interesting product, ⁓ big long part numbers, but ultimately it’s on our website at raypubs.com. But what it does is it converts USB-C to HDMI. So if you have you know where you have installs where you have HDMI, but you want to add USB-C, but you don’t want to replace the encoder, this becomes an encoder in front of that. So you can use it to convert USB-C to HDMI so that you now have USB.

Steph Beckett (13:32)
That’s cool.

Gary Kayye (13:37)
connectivity wherever you had HDMI before, but it adds a hundred hundred watt power. ⁓ so it allows you to anytime you plug in something USB C it allows it to charge as well. So it’s a neat little product and it’s and it can handle up to eighteen gig ⁓ video. Mm-hmm. Yep.

Steph Beckett (13:49)
That’s cool.

Very cool. That’s nifty. ⁓

this next blog is from Hope Roth, and I wanted to talk about it today because I thought you would really like it, Gary. She basically read this article in Tech Dirt about how this billion dollar AI company, Medvi, is like essentially a giant scam because it’s built, it’s like a company built on fake AI-generated images, fake testimonials. ⁓

They allegedly dispense like GLP ones, but the ones that they dispense are just placebos. So it’s just basically a fake AI-generated company aimed to make money. But she talks about how a lot of these new AI-driven breakthroughs are not real. Like they just promise that they’ll be able to build things faster and better. And she was like, but if it’s building faster slop, it’s still AI slop.

⁓ and she kind of talks a little bit about LinkedIn posts and how like LinkedIn is just like a mountain of AI slop these days. And so basically, like she was saying that even if you’re worried like that you’re not gonna get the impressions that you want, like, are they AI impressions? Like, you know, we need to start thinking about like making

quality content over just pushing out more, more, more in hopes to get the impressions that we want, which I thought was a really good point.

Gary Kayye (15:31)
Well, ⁓ I took my students up to LinkedIn and I met the guy who’s in charge of LinkedIn’s feed. So I will send a link of this article to him since she called it LinkedIn AI Slop and see what his response is because they’re trying to fix that problem. They they have a bunch of systems in place to prevent that from happening. I think he would agree that was the case in February, March, April this year, but they they implemented a bunch of changes.

⁓ around the middle of May that ⁓ blocked all those AI bots from posting on LinkedIn. So I don’t know if she’s checked it out lately. I’m curious if she would agree ⁓ that it’s still that way on LinkedIn now compared to what it was earlier this spring.

Steph Beckett (16:13)
Well,

I think it’s not necessarily like AI bots on LinkedIn anymore, but it’s like we even turn to AI to write our LinkedIn posts for us. And that’s why all LinkedIn posts right now kind of sound the same because everyone’s using like some AI model to write them.

Gary Kayye (16:31)
I don’t use I never

use AI to write ⁓ my social posts. ⁓ I you’re saying we as in collective we, as in the people in the world. Okay, yeah. Yeah, I I think it’s possible that definitely people are lazy or are concerned about grammar and are using AI to try to fix those types of problems because not everybody feels like they’re a good writer. But the truth of the matter is, especially on LinkedIn, you’re better off posting in your own voice and tone.

Steph Beckett (16:38)
Yes, the collective we, people of social media.

Gary Kayye (16:59)
And not having LinkedIn fix it because it’s it’s the dots won’t be connected when somebody meets you. You won’t sound like what they expect you to sound like. ⁓ so I you’re better off making those mistakes and being yourself on LinkedIn. And and and I only know this because I spend an entire semester teaching students how to brand themselves to get jobs and and get the career they want. ⁓ and and we talk a lot about the authenticity.

Steph Beckett (17:08)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Gary Kayye (17:27)
that you have to come acros that has to come across in posting, not just on LinkedIn, but Substack and all the other social platforms as well. ⁓ I I yeah, and that’s something we could talk about more later. But I definitely want to read that article. I didn’t see that on there, so thanks for bringing that up. ⁓ one of the coolest booths I went to at InfoComm Steph was ViewSonic. They were showing some really neat things. The thing that I think ⁓ most impressed me was their their

Steph Beckett (17:34)
Yeah. I

Gary Kayye (17:54)
Pletra of LED displays. I think a lot of people don’t realize all the LED stuff they have, but they also introduced a new series of commercial displays, the CDE31 specifically, and here’s a spot on that.

How long is this?

Steph Beckett (19:17)
and you’re in a new spot again. Amazing. did you just walk up a floor?

Gary Kayye (19:20)
I am in a new room. Ups this one’s on the third floor. And of course in front

Yeah did and there’s the window.

Steph Beckett (19:30)
Amazing. It looks great. And this is another room that is this another one that you helped design?

Gary Kayye (19:31)
Yeah. All right, cool.

Yes. ⁓ I mean, same design in all the rooms, so

Steph Beckett (19:42)
okay. Very cool. I see the projectors up there. Epson. Very cool. Mm.

Gary Kayye (19:47)
Yeah. Each each room has at least two projectors.

yeah, those are I don’t know if you can see Let me see if I can position where I can see as well. There you go.

Steph Beckett (19:55)
Yeah.

yeah.

Gary Kayye (20:00)
We’re projecting on the walls.

Steph Beckett (20:01)
yes. Very cool. How do you feel about the exposed ceiling trend? I feel like that’s such a thing everywhere right now.

Gary Kayye (20:03)
Mm-hmm.

It’s just cheaper. It’s less expensive. You just blow the insulation in there. ⁓ like basically paint it on. And it allows us to reconfigure pretty easily, right? Because you have this truss up there. ⁓ it’s just a cost savings thing. This it this building is at at the University of Northana is the first ⁓

Steph Beckett (20:14)
Uh-huh.

That’s true.

Gary Kayye (20:35)
building completely off the grid from the standpoint of the power grid goes. we generate our own power by having solar panels on the roof and we actually are generating power for other buildings on campus. So this building is sort s completely self supporting. ⁓ it’s not off the grid in the sense that we obviously have internet and stuff like that, but yeah.

Steph Beckett (20:44)
That’s cool.

We can’t which ⁓

wh which building is that again?

Gary Kayye (20:55)
Curtis Media Center.

Steph Beckett (20:57)
Is that new? Was that that was built after I left? After I graduated.

Gary Kayye (20:59)
Yeah. yeah. This is only

this is only like two years old. So yeah, yeah. Yeah. Do you remember the Phillips do you remember the Phillips annex? Yeah, it’s right there where that used to be. They tore that down, yeah.

Steph Beckett (21:04)
for sure. I’ve long been graduated. That’s awesome.

Mm-hmm. ⁓ okay, very cool.

wow, nice. So it’s it’s not far from the J School.

Gary Kayye (21:19)
No, it’s right next door to it.

Steph Beckett (21:21)
Okay, very cool. Alright, well continuing on here, we’ve Bose Professional has still not changed its name. I think it’s gonna fully change like remember when we talked about how it’s rebranding. Do you remember what the rebrand name is, Gary? I can’t remember. It’s it’s that speaker.

Gary Kayye (21:39)
it’s the ⁓ I can’t remember. We talked about it last week or two weeks ago. Yeah.

Steph Beckett (21:44)
Hold on. Yes. 802

Labs. 802 Labs. for the 802. So it’s still Bose Professional as for now, but everybody like prepare. It’s it’s not for very long. ⁓ they have introduced the Showtime STS eleven eight E sub. ⁓ this is an installation grade 18 inch sub that provides obviously the deep immersive base that

Gary Kayye (21:48)
Okay, Dr. Louds, yeah.

Steph Beckett (22:10)
most Bose systems and Bose professional systems are known for. But it’s for indoor and outdoor. ⁓ So it’s supposed to give like an easy way to add some low frequency energy to your Bose professional system. But yes, this is for permanent install and obviously a lot of like performance driven spaces. So I think like in a concert hall this would be really great.

⁓ anywhere where like plays are performed, performance centers, things like that. But it’s also ⁓ IP fifty five rated, I believe. So it can also be outside, but again, like a permanent install, like concert venue or something. So, you know, we’ll see. Well I’m gonna keep my eye on this rebrand situation and see when that fully goes live. I think probably later this summer.

Gary Kayye (23:04)
Okay, so NSCA has appointed their new leadership team, or elected, I should say, their new leadership team. President is Shaddon, and I’ve known Shadon since he was probably like 25 years old. He’s at Avidex now, ⁓ but was years and years and years ago in Southern California. American video, I think, at the time. He’s the president, Don Master, who I’ve also known a long time as the vice president. He’s from ⁓ AVI systems now called Forte.

Steph Beckett (23:15)
Yeah.

Gary Kayye (23:30)
⁓ the treasurer is Chris Chris Wasp who’s from Ronco and secretary is Christina De Bono, ⁓ from Cleartech Media. So yeah, congratulations to all of them.

Steph Beckett (23:40)
That’s awesome. Very exciting. then our other story I wanted to talk about. This is ⁓ from Silicone Core at InfoComm. ⁓ so Silicone Core and Bright Logic, they showed this like native touch interaction on fine pixel pitch LEDs during InfoComm. it basically included a large form touch-enabled 2.6 millimeter with embedded IR that

drove this interaction across an extended 1.2 millimeter fine pixel pitch LED floor canvas. So basically this is supposed to show how interactive experiences can be driven across large format LEDs while maintaining that high image quality and visual performance because I think sometimes there is a trade-off there. ⁓ but it was Silicon Court that developed this in partnership with BrightLogic and it’s supposed to

like partner with their Touch Controller Pro platform. ⁓ so if y’all like an interactive content experience, it’s gonna be really great for things like museums, anywhere super immersive. ⁓ so if you want to learn more about that and how it works, the full story is on Ravepups.

Gary Kayye (24:57)
Alright, check out this piece from our partner Crestron, ⁓ and they’re of course pushing the the application that they did in Spain ⁓ for the big soccer stadium, so check it out.

Steph Beckett (26:14)
Amazing. Where where are you now?

Gary Kayye (26:15)
Hey.

In the studio downstairs, ⁓ on the bottom floor is our studio. Yeah, we teach students how to not just be in front of the camera but behind the camera and ⁓ yeah, we have everything you can imagine here.

Steph Beckett (26:22)
very cool. Ooh.

That’s very cool is that for Carolina Week?

Gary Kayye (26:37)
It’s for everything that the students do here. And in in addition, ESPN uses this studio in the control room specifically and during football games and basketball games sometimes. But we can also rebroadcast any content from Memorial Hall or from ⁓ any of the arts centers, any of the stadiums. Yep.

Steph Beckett (26:38)
Okay.

very cool. Very

nice. Yes, I know, ⁓ gosh, it’s still Carolina Week, right? Like that’s the news show that they do, which is very cool. and then Sports Extra. Yeah. Very cool. That’s awesome. That looks a lot different than the one that we used to have in Carol Hall.

Gary Kayye (27:02)
Yeah. And they have sports extra. Yep. Yep. Yeah.

I imagine that it does, but ⁓ yeah, that’s but one last story we have, Steph, and that’s about Focal launching the Scala Utopia Evo ⁓ speaker Evo speaker, which is ⁓ part of the Utopia range. It’s a speech a speaker made in France and features a Prism tweeter and an profile mid range. So it’s a three way architecture based speaker. you can learn all about it at raypubs.com.

Steph Beckett (27:19)
Yes. Evo Mm-hmm.

Absolutely. And that is pretty much all the news we had. The only other thing that I want to remind everyone is we have an upcoming launch and learn that’s on AI data and trust. it’s kind of like I wanted to talk a little bit about AI and ethics. ⁓ you know, Gary, maybe you should come. Maybe you should be on this with me.

Gary Kayye (27:59)
Yeah, yeah. I mean I think there’s a lot going on with AI and I th I think that people are counting are relying on it. But the the biggest issue for me on AI is I don’t think it’s sustainable. There’s no AI company making any money. I I think people hear these companies and hear about AI and all the stuff that’s going on, but they don’t they don’t actually pay attention to the fact that none of them are profitable. They’re all burning billions of dollars every week. Not not every month, but every week. So I don’t know. I mean I’m not saying there’s gonna be a crash or anything.

I just know that it’s unsustainable without some sort of massive change. I mean, obviously companies are relying on AI, so it’s not gonna go away or anything like that, but financially it’s unsustainable.

Steph Beckett (28:38)
Yes.

I think that also what’s concerning is the race to superintelligence and how quickly Elon Musk and other like, you know, the big the big rich guys are building these data centers without fully understanding what superintelligence even is or what it can create or what it can do. ⁓ at this point they’re just like kind of

building something in hopes that it works, but if it truly works it’s gonna kinda change life as we know it. so

Gary Kayye (29:12)
Well, I don’t I I

I think these people are super smart. So I think they know what they’re doing. I think ⁓ you know, ⁓ ultimately we’re gonna have quantum computing, which is gonna be the biggest development, you know, readily available to everyone. That’s gonna be the biggest development in technology in, you know, hundreds of years. Probably the biggest development since the printing press is gonna be quantum computing. ⁓

And that will solve the data center stuff. The data center stuff is is massively overhyped. It doesn’t use as much energy, it doesn’t use as much water, it doesn’t use as much space as people as people are being led to believe. ⁓ but it’s obviously a problem because there’s no planning. The issue for me is less the result and more about the planning. It’s more about the structural like figuring out okay, who’s gonna do what and how’s this gonna affect each segment of a market. It’s sort you know, it’s sort of like

rolling out a feature but not caring how the feature affects other people in the world. I think that’s the big thing, right? I think countries are going to start regulating AI, which they haven’t done really that much yet. And I think that will slow things down. And then it’ll be a little bit of a reset. ⁓ but but you know you can’t you know I’ve been long ⁓ way I’ve been live long enough now you can’t slow down technology. Like no matter even if there’s an AI bubble and even there’s a slop or whatever it might be, it you can’t slow it down.

Steph Beckett (30:11)
Yeah. ⁓

Yeah.

⁓

That’s true.

Gary Kayye (30:35)
You can’t slow it down. No, I hate it. I think it’s a terrible term. I think it’s a lazy term. So

Steph Beckett (30:35)
You like that term, you like AI slop? Okay. Why do you think it’s lazy?

Gary Kayye (30:44)
because it it’s just like everybody’s sort of making fun of things and I don’t think, you know, I don’t know. I just think it’s kind of lazy.

Steph Beckett (30:49)
think like

AI slop is specifically like when people use it to like generate images that they pretend are real on Facebook. Like that is that to me is specifically AI slop. Like

Gary Kayye (30:57)
Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, my dad my dad the over over the weekend was like showing me something. He’s like, Look at I look what I can do and I like, I thought it was cute. You know, I didn’t want to say anything.

Steph Beckett (31:06)
Yeah. Yes, like have you

seen I am on a really interesting side of TikTok. So I see a lot of people’s like AI generated videos where it’s like this woman and she generated her family members like flying into heaven, but like they warp and like kind of melt on their way, like flying to the ceiling.

Gary Kayye (31:24)
Yeah, clear.

Steph Beckett (31:32)
So to me like that is what that is that is a perfect example of what AI Slop is.

Gary Kayye (31:37)
But I think, you know, it’s funny, right? Some of the stuff is some people are really creative. ⁓ there’s this guy doing ⁓ I forget his what it’s called, but he’s done a YouTube series where he’s generated a ⁓ an avatar using AI and she goes in history and and and immerses herself in a historical event like she’s actually there. like she’s at the Roman Coliseum or she’s in in ⁓ Morocco at a market, you know, thousands of years ago where it is now in

Steph Beckett (31:41)
That’s true.

Gary Kayye (32:06)
You know, it’s places like that. And she just goes back and it’s like a day in the life of a Roman living in you know, and part of the Roman Empire, ⁓ and a day in the life of living in the you know, living in England in the twelve hundreds. And and that to me is like really cool because it’s sort of like alternative history, but at the same time it’s it’s educating you at the at the same time. So I that kind of stuff I really like. And some people would call that slot because

Steph Beckett (32:26)
Mm-hmm.

Gary Kayye (32:32)
She’s not real. And some people would freak out because she’s not a real actress playing a part. It’s all being done by AI. But again, it’s doing something we couldn’t have done before. People say, Well, that’s taking away a job from a human. It’s not because we couldn’t have done it before without AI. So it’s not really taking a job away from a human. It’s it’s offering something new. ⁓ so

Steph Beckett (32:50)
That’s fair. I think

I just think there’s l a line. There’s like lines that AI shouldn’t cross. Like like replacing humans in like a real movie, like where they want to cast an AI actress. Like, no, why are you doing that? That’s stupid. Don’t ⁓ Yeah.

Gary Kayye (32:53)
Yeah. Yep.

Well that’s where the regulation’s gonna come in. But

we wanna know what y’all think about this, ⁓ as I walk out of the studio. We wanna know what y’all think. You should comment and tell us what you think about ⁓ you know AI and how it’s affecting your daily job and has it been helpful? I know a lot of systems integrators are really happy that it’s helping them design better systems and it’s ⁓ it’s making product recommendations that are pretty good. So

Steph Beckett (33:11)
Yeah.

Yeah.

And like

at like a very simple level, I used AI the other day to help me generate HTML code because someone asked me to generate something for a story on pubs and I’m like, baby, I can’t write HTML, I just write n words English. ⁓ so I had it generate some code for me so that I can embed it and I feel like that’s how we’re supposed to use it. Like so

Gary Kayye (33:51)
Yeah. I mean it’s great

for that. It’s great for fixing stuff like that. And ⁓ you know, hey, it’s helped me a lot on ⁓ not forgetting things. Like, you know, this is gonna sound stupid, but ⁓ at UNC every single semester they change what is supposed to be on a syllabus. Now I know what I need to put on the syllabus, but they change like all the term all the things we have to tell every student, like accessibility and all the different statements that we have to make, right? Like the grading rubric, all that kind of stuff.

Steph Beckett (34:19)
Yes.

Gary Kayye (34:21)
And I’ll run my yesterday I was working on my syllabi for next semester and I’m running it through AI to say, did I forget anything? And it would say, Yes, ⁓ UNC has added this new policy that you have to put on every syllabi. ⁓ and then I said, Well, is it possible for me to put a link to the policy versus putting it in the syllabi? And they’re like, No, UNC’s policy is that you have to actually put this whole statement on the syllabi. I mean, that for that, that’s awesome that it was able to tell me that, right?

Steph Beckett (34:43)
Yeah.

Yeah, that is that that’s awesome. So I feel like that’s what you’re supposed to use it for. It’s a tool, it’s not like s supposed to be a replacement. So

Gary Kayye (34:50)
Yeah.

Exactly.

Well, as I walk outside and say goodbye, everyone have a great day. And of course you can catch all of our news at raypubs dot com at any time. You can always go to our website and you know, try to stay cool. It’s it’s supposed to not be as hot today. It’s supposed to be like ninety degrees today. So not quite as hot.

Steph Beckett (35:00)
I worked one outside. All right.

Absolutely. Well.

hey, there he goes. He’s we’re losing him. He’s he’s losing the internet. He’s losing that AV over IP. ⁓ there he’s back. Kind of. That’s a great angle. All right. ⁓ on that note, this is Rave TV. I’m Steph. That’s Gary. Thank you guys for joining us. Happy Wednesday. We’ll see you next week. Bye.

Gary Kayye (35:22)
⁓ Yeah, there you go. Is that better? ⁓ bet there you go.