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Many leaders have concerns about employees using AI safely. We explain how to do so in this video. Today we sit with Bill Kleyman-founder of Apolo.us, a pioneer and leader in the space about his efforts for the safe use AI and how to reduce risks with employee use of AI. This is the story of Bill Kleyman and how AI can be used for good Find more here: https://www.apolo.us/

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Summary

In this conversation, David Morrow interviews John McLaughlin and Bill Kleyman. They discuss their careers in the technology industry, the evolution of AI and machine learning, and the work they are currently doing at Apollo US. They also touch on topics such as data centers, cybersecurity, and the impact of AI on various industries. The conversation highlights the importance of understanding the language of business when working in technology and the potential of generative AI. In this conversation, Bill Kleyman discusses the potential dangers and considerations of generative AI, specifically focusing on OpenAI's ChatGPT. He highlights the importance of data control and privacy, as well as the need for policies and guidelines when using AI technologies. Kleyman also shares examples of how generative AI can be misused and the potential legal and ethical implications. He emphasizes the need for organizations to approach AI with caution and work with trusted partners to ensure security and compliance.


Keywords

technology, AI, machine learning, data centers, cybersecurity, generative AI, generative AI, OpenAI, ChatGPT, data control, privacy, policies, guidelines, misuse, legal implications, ethical implications, security, compliance


Takeaways

Understanding the language of business is crucial when working in technology
Generative AI allows for wholly original responses based on data
AI is not a fad, but a shift in humanity
AI has the potential to revolutionize industries such as healthcare and law
Security risks need to be addressed when using generative AI Data control and privacy are crucial considerations when using generative AI technologies like OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Organizations should expand their existing computer usage policies to include guidelines for AI usage.
Misuse of generative AI can have legal and ethical implications, such as creating fake legal briefs or providing dangerous instructions.
Working with trusted partners and implementing security measures is essential to mitigate risks associated with generative AI.
Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize various industries, but careful planning and consideration are necessary to ensure responsible and beneficial use.


Sound Bites

"This is not a fad. This is truly a shift in humanity."
"AI can ask data a question and get a wholly original response back."
"Security risks need to be addressed when using generative AI."
"None of these cases exist. And the counsel that wrote this, they're like, oh crap, what's going on right now? And then they go back to chat, I'm like, are these cases fake?"
"I have a feeling right now that a whole bunch of people opened up their ChatGPT window and did it and potentially got white-faced because like, oh boy, I've been uploading all of this into ChatGPT."
"There's a dude that messes with those kinds of systems because you know what he does? He walks around with a t-shirt with a stop sign on it. And do you know what those cars do? They stop in the middle of the road."

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Background
09:51 CTG and Apollo US
14:08 The Language of Business in Technology
27:16 Addressing Security Risks in AI
29:45 Data Control and Privacy in ChatGPT
32:29 Mitigating Risks: Security Measures and Biases
34:37 Working with Trusted Partners for Responsible AI Usage
37:48 The Future of Apollo and the Enterprise Market
41:28 Developing AI Policies for Business Owners and Leaders
45:04 The Limitless Potential of Generative AI



D. Mauro (00:01.646)
Well, welcome everybody to Cyber Crime Junkies. I am your host, David Mauro and today is a special episode. So we are joined by our friend, John McLaughlin, founder and CEO of Cyber Threat Group, a team of trusted advisors, IT service providers, and an MSP here based in the Midwest, as well as Bill Kleyman So Bill is the CEO and co -founder of APOLLO.us Public speaker, author,

webinar leader, podcast leader, and special guest thousands of times over, also a bestselling author on numerous topics, has a wonderful career, life and career story, which we're gonna share with you all today, as well as a fascinating journey to the United States. And we're also gonna touch on his work currently at APOLLO.us.

today's data center industry, as well as the evolution of AI and machine learning. Gentlemen, I'm honored to have.

Bill Kleyman (01:07.633)
my gosh, it's a pleasure to be here. Thanks. Thanks for having me.

D. Mauro (01:11.278)
I am willing to, yeah, no problem. I'm willing to introduce you both to all of your Zoom meetings and team meetings like that. So, you know.

John McLaughlin (01:11.466)
Thank you, David.

Bill Kleyman (01:20.177)
I want that kind of introduction. I'm going to, I'm going to jump in on this really quick. Cause I was, I was in Omaha, Nebraska earlier doing a presentation to one of our, one of our partners boards and, and to introduce me, the gentleman got up there and he's like, I would like to use this chat GPT introduction of Bill Klayman. And I'm like, boy, which version of chat GPT? But it was, it was absolutely phenomenal. Now my, my challenge to everybody here is, is first of all, I love the introduction. It was absolutely wonderful, but.

John McLaughlin (01:20.594)
You

D. Mauro (01:40.11)
that's interesting.

Bill Kleyman (01:49.201)
One of the things that I told him, like next time do that, go to ChatGPT and say, I want you to reduce Bill Klayman, but as if it's for a five -year -old. Now that's what I did earlier. Actually, I went to ChatGPT a couple of weeks ago and I'm like, rewrite my LinkedIn profile, but make it as if it's for a five -year -old. And you do know what it did. It was so cool. It was like this, it was like, all right.

D. Mauro (01:57.198)
I love that, right? Yeah.

John McLaughlin (01:58.666)
Hehehe

Bill Kleyman (02:10.065)
Did you know that Bill Klayman is a wizard? But instead of magic, he uses technology to make things happen. If you want to be just like Bill Klayman and grow up to be as cool as him, well, you can study technology to be a wizard in technology just like that. And it was like the best introduction ever. I'm like, I'm just going on my LinkedIn profile.

D. Mauro (02:13.71)
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

John McLaughlin (02:23.882)
that's awesome.

D. Mauro (02:25.902)
No, no, I just looked at your LinkedIn profile and that was not on there. So I wish you would have wish you would have used that.

John McLaughlin (02:31.178)
Hahaha!

Bill Kleyman (02:31.217)
No, no, you're right. You're right. I had it. It was a temporary ad. I think I changed it after, you know, a couple of weeks, but if everybody's on here, I'm telling you, go to ChatGPT and ask it to rewrite your LinkedIn profile for a five -year -old. At the very least, you'll be amused.

D. Mauro (02:45.934)
my God, that is fantastic. And I can't believe I didn't even think of that. I don't do anything without checking with machine learning and AI. So I can't believe I didn't do that for you. Wow, that's fantastic. Well, welcome gentlemen. So Bill, share with us, you've really had an illustrious career and the things that you do, you always make an impact everywhere you go. It's exciting to...

John McLaughlin (02:48.042)
I'm doing that.

John McLaughlin (02:57.034)
Yep.

D. Mauro (03:15.47)
to speak with you and to learn with you. And we will have links to APOLLO.us and Bill, I encourage all the listeners and viewers to just check out the arc of the career and all the different opportunities that you've had. You were born here, here in the US. So walk us through this and then the question I want you to share with us is,

Bill Kleyman (03:37.297)
No.

D. Mauro (03:45.486)
What triggered you, what got you into wanting to have such a passion for technology? Was it something as a child? Was it, you know, like, sometimes when I probe into that, sometimes it's the most interesting stories that have inspired people to really embrace the field.

Bill Kleyman (04:06.001)
wow. Well, thank you for this. I'm first of all, I'm humbled. You did, you did. You mean, you literally just put that thing right there. You just gave me a giant, you didn't even give me a baseball bat. You gave me a tennis racket, this thing, but I appreciate that. I am humbled. I really am. I think, I think so much of my success and I do hope everyone hears this is because I've been just surrounded by, by extraordinary individuals and, you know, this childhood naivete where I'll just, you know, go out and ask questions without sort of,

D. Mauro (04:10.286)
I teed it up wide open.

Yeah. Exactly.

Bill Kleyman (04:35.217)
being afraid of the repercussions, fail fast, get up faster. But let me answer your question. So yes, I wasn't born in the United States, came to the United States in the early 90s. In case you're watching this, you can see my little pin here. I was born in Ukraine and was there during crazy events, everything from Chernobyl, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and we were political asylum refugees for a while. Lived in Europe until we got a political asylum visa to the United States and came to the United States in the early 90s.

But I want to answer your question. I think it's a fascinating. How did I get this start? I'm lucky. Everybody listening, a lot of folks in the data center industry are transplants, like former doctors, musicians, the electricians. And I ended up here by accident. I actually kind of wanted to be in this space, but we're getting ahead of ourselves. In Soviet Ukraine, my brother, Alex, 12 years older than I,

He used to, he used to compete in these telegraph competitions. I'm like literally Morris code, you know, beep, beep, all that stuff. And when I was like six, seven years old, he would, he would put me on his lap. He put this big, big cans on me and he taught me Morris code. I'm not talking anything crazy, just like, you know, a couple of numbers, say hello to somebody across the continent. And you guys, that was, that was the coolest thing in the world. Listen, I know we had phones. I understand it was Soviet Ukraine, but we did have phones. but we, we use these.

D. Mauro (05:59.022)
But for decades, that was the way that wars were fought and communications were ran, right? I mean, it's a fascinating origin.

Bill Kleyman (06:00.881)
Yes.

Bill Kleyman (06:06.641)
Absolutely, David. And to be this six, seven -year -old kid that's sitting there and typing in a couple of things and getting boops and beeps back, I remember that being sort of like the catalyst, the start, the spark of, my gosh, we're using this technology. It's such simple, but extraordinary to communicate with people across the world and to be perfectly honest.

That was the spark that that's kind of how it started. and then I carried over that interest in technology, in the coming United States and then, you know, studying, I got a network engineering undergrad in five and then I know six. I started in the data center industry space, but remarkably I worked in data closets and network rooms. They didn't even call data centers back then.

D. Mauro (06:51.95)
They didn't let your personality come out of the closet like that, like keeping you behind servers and with all the blinking lights is an injustice.

Bill Kleyman (07:01.041)
It's not, I have to learn what goes on behind those blinking lights first before I could become a personality, which is exactly what we did. And then just kind of fast forwarding it a little bit, got an undergraduate in network engineering in 05 and 06, kind of just went right into the industry, an MBA in marketing, which if you're an engineer listening to this, I recommend any kind of business certification so you can understand and translate really complex IT technology topics into a...

D. Mauro (07:03.854)
Yeah, that's true.

Bill Kleyman (07:28.209)
business language, so like a business acumen is really important. And then another information, another master's in information security. So I love this industry, but right into it in 06 was, you know, work for a small IT firm. Then I worked for a very sizable manufacturing firm called Worldwide Fittings. And then that's where I worked with John McLaughlin at MTM Technologies, the United States largest Citrix partner for the time.

D. Mauro (07:50.314)
Yep.

Bill Kleyman (07:54.321)
we were there. I was there at engineer, I'm sorry, virtualization architect was a director of VP and then ended my tenure there as their CTO. And then finally, as a board advisor, helping them with the acquisition into ATSG left there worked in the space of DevOps. It was so cool. Talk about like a hardware dude, understanding data centers and like, all right, Bill time for you to create some cool cloud ecosystem, some refactoring, some, some relicensing and some migration of cloud workloads. And I'm like, holy cow. And I got.

up to speed with GCP, AWS, you know, Azure ecosystems. And then I went to switch places. It was so much fun. And that's one thing, by the way, get out of your comfort zone. I went from hardware into understanding AI, ML, data systems, DevOps environments, legacy water flow, waterfall development ecosystems into true DevOps architectures. I, I learned so much as a company was called EPAM. After that,

D. Mauro (08:28.814)
What a challenge, right?

John McLaughlin (08:31.562)
Hehehehe

Bill Kleyman (08:52.561)
I joined Switch data centers as their EBP of digital solutions. I joined in 2019 with pretty specific direction from the CEO who I reported to, Bill, be our internal technologist, be our voice and brand and help us ultimately grow and sell. So I joined them in 2019. They were four and a half billion publicly traded. And I was very lucky to be a part of the executive team that saw them sell for $11 billion in December of 22. And then in January, I made my exit. A lot of high fives. I was going to take some time off.

And that failed horribly because I joined this wonderful organization here. I tried, I tried to bake some bread. I tried to go for a walk, but hey, you know what people like, got this cool thing. Hold on, can't sit still. Then I joined Apollo and I've been there for, for just over a year.

John McLaughlin (09:23.37)
Hahaha.

D. Mauro (09:25.806)
Because you can't help yourself, right? Yeah. I know, it doesn't work. It doesn't work for me either, like if I can't.

John McLaughlin (09:28.234)
Ahem.

D. Mauro (09:40.174)
That's fantastic. That's fantastic. Let's pivot real quick. John, tell us about CTG and what drove you to get into it.

John McLaughlin (09:51.338)
Sure. You know, I had always enjoyed technology. My father was an aerospace engineer and he would bring home little toys, little trinkets, because he worked for the government. And so he brought home a calculator one time that was made by HP and it was about this big engineering calculator, but it was worth, he said the cost was $72 ,000. So I try to think back and think, well, that was the government. However, I believe the technology was just so crazy new that it really was worth that.

D. Mauro (10:16.142)
Yeah.

D. Mauro (10:22.286)
Right. And in technology cycles, like it goes down in price. But 72 grand back then in today's dollars is astronomical. Yeah.

John McLaughlin (10:22.442)
And so, yes, absolutely.

Bill Kleyman (10:31.441)
Thanks.

John McLaughlin (10:32.01)
Right, right. So it was pretty insane. So we started messing around with, you know, 8086 processor type computers and, you know, just doing stuff like that and, and, and learned the technology and really got into it and did a little coding and, you know, hello world and all that stuff when I was really young and just kind of translated into a thirst and a quest for technology. Right. And so I was a, I was an systems engineer for a copier company, believe it or not, when they first started connecting to the net.

So Windows NT 3 .5, Novell, I'm dating myself obviously. But then I ended up jumping into sales and sometimes I curse it, sometimes I'm really happy with it. But Bill and I worked together on some really big accounts. Bill's an exceptional engineer. And...

D. Mauro (11:03.118)
Yeah. Yeah.

the Navelle days, yeah. Right.

Bill Kleyman (11:22.161)
We did.

John McLaughlin (11:25.738)
We worked with one of the largest clothing brands, VF Corporation that owns the North Face and Lee Jeans and Levi's. We did a global rollout of 25 ,000 Citrix endpoints. So that was a fun one. And then I decided that, you know what, it was kind of time for me to hang out my own shingle. And so I'm basically a technology advisor. And what I do is it's been really interesting to my clients. So if you're going to go out and look for,

D. Mauro (11:31.438)
yeah, of course.

John McLaughlin (11:55.434)
a cloud or a cold location, you know, I have 1600 providers and so I can help down select from those providers based on criteria and bringing you back three or four that fit your needs. Saving a lot of footwork. Yes. One of our customers said we saved them eight weeks of really trying to go out there and look for things. So Bill and I have saved power points. Absolutely. Well,

D. Mauro (12:08.43)
really saves time, really saves time, yeah.

Yeah, absolutely. And a lot of PowerPoints. And a lot of PowerPoints, right? You're saving them a lot of death by PowerPoint.

John McLaughlin (12:23.146)
It's noise. It's also noise. So if you go out and you want to talk to eight, 10 different data centers, now you have their sales reps emailing you, calling you, trying to break down your door and take you to lunch, dinner, whatever it may be.

D. Mauro (12:36.142)
And they're not all as entertaining as Bill, right? That's the thing, right? That's the thing. I would take Bill's call, always, right? Like Bill calls, you're like, I got to learn more. This guy's great.

John McLaughlin (12:38.858)
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So that's it. Yeah. absolutely. I always do.

Yeah, absolutely.

Bill Kleyman (12:48.945)
well, you know, and John, you know, we, that's such a cool thing and everybody listening, I, it's rare that I get an opportunity to get on a podcast with, with somebody from one, like two companies back. And, and, and John had a chance to work with me when, when I, when I was an architect, when I was designing these solutions before I stepped into more of that, that engineers, I'm sorry, the, the executive role.

and it was extraordinary, right? And we did get a chance to work on these really cool global sorts of deployments, you know, around virtualization and Citrix and cloud. And, and my goodness, if, if John and I and the team back then didn't, didn't see what was the evolution of how we understand and work with applications, remote users, you know, new kinds of end point technologies and streamlining of these new kinds of services that are being delivered globally. It was, it was extraordinary. I mean, it was, it was a whole lot of fun.

John McLaughlin (13:39.722)
Yeah, no, it was, it was amazing. And I'm sorry, David, I got, I got, I was so good. I was just going to give a shout out also to John Wallace. He was my primary, but Bill, Bill was architecting. And one of the things I will say is we competed again. We were relatively small company MTM, but we competed against Dell. We competed against some really big bars and we beat them. And it was, it was really a great story to tell, but sorry, David, go ahead.

D. Mauro (13:41.006)
I will tell... Yeah, I'm gonna make this observation. No, go ahead, Johnny, sorry. Yeah, please.

D. Mauro (14:03.502)
Absolutely.

D. Mauro (14:08.174)
No, that's fantastic. I'm going to make an observation of both of you that if somebody didn't know that you both had technical backgrounds, right, they would think you both were in sales your whole life, right, or marketing your whole life. And I think that Bill said it best and, you know, when I think of cybersecurity and the challenges that the industry has, there's so much good intent, but it gets lost.

Bill Kleyman (14:21.617)
It's true.

D. Mauro (14:37.326)
in failed communications and that internal communication, that internal making of a business case to executive leadership falls flat way more often than it should. And I think Bill's advice on really understanding and learning to speak the language of business when you're in technology is absolutely critical. You know, I completely...

believe that because it's not about the features and benefits or the technical aspect that this platform or service or project, whatever it is, could do. It's about communicating the impact for the business. Speak in terms of ROI, speak in terms of long -term strategy, how it aligns to the other, and you have to understand the business that you're working for. And most people feel like they do, but...

John McLaughlin (15:23.146)
Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm.

Bill Kleyman (15:28.145)
Mm -hmm.

D. Mauro (15:36.142)
Our job is to protect the business or our job is to develop it or optimize it or whatever. And it's like, you know, but understand the actual initiatives, right? And speak to how this will fit in there. It really, really helps get good intended, you know, missions accomplished.

Bill Kleyman (15:52.081)
And that couldn't be more relevant today in the age of AI, in general AI especially. So I'm going to pause there. I kind of want to make sure that... So Apollo, right? My company right now, we've been around and there's a crazy story behind it. I don't know if we have enough time to cover it, but we've been around for a while, but we rebranded recently into Apollo. We used to be called Neuro.

D. Mauro (15:57.518)
Mm -hmm.

Bill Kleyman (16:16.785)
And, and one of the things that we do, so we're a platform. Let's just start here, Apollo .us. You can check us out. We are a full platform. And the best way that I can describe who we, what we do is this in the age of AI, there's people on the ground that are digging for the gold. And then there's people that are selling the pickaxes and the shovels. Cool. We're neither of those. We are the design and the forge and the infrastructure and the blueprints to help you build the pickaxes and the shovels. So John's going to come to me and he's like, Hey, I'm mining for that little pot of gold over there.

Can you help me build a pickaxe? And not only are we going to build it for him, we're going to tell him what kind of pickaxe he should get and what kind of pickaxe he should use and shovel even as well. We build it for him. It's his pickaxe. It's his shovel. He can put his logo on there and then he can go sell it or he can go dig for the gold. Now, what's cool about that is that it insulates us from the AI bubble or even machine learning or these new neural networks, these bubbles, because even if John's shovel goes out of style, you still need a place to build them.

You still need a factory. You still need a platform. So the one thing that we've realized is the success of folks like Amazon and Meta and AWS and Google is that they don't compete out there for GPUs by the hour. They get sticking is because of the software, the services, the storage network compute. Now, if John has a business and he goes to Amazon, he's like, Hey, I'd love to get your software to run in my data center. They're going to laugh at him. Now where Apollo, we are that software layer, the full.

John McLaughlin (17:37.514)
You

Bill Kleyman (17:41.233)
platform ecosystem of what has traditionally made others successful, we provide that. So that's just a definition of what we are. We're a platform portal, you log in, exactly, you go in there, you start consuming these resources and it's a powerful, powerful ecosystem. Now, what's really fascinating about what you just said, David, is helping organizations understand the value of what they're creating. And the reason I say this is so important right now is because these aren't email servers anymore.

D. Mauro (17:49.901)
That was a good succinct explanation. Yeah.

Bill Kleyman (18:09.425)
These aren't Citrix farms or VMware nodes. AI is fundamentally different in terms of what we're creating than, you know, Hey, help me create a better SharePoint ecosystem. So what we do now is this. So we try and help organizations get to a meaningful and measurable metric. And that is so critical to understand because the last thing that we want to do is build an elephant on a unicycle. Looks cool, does nothing for your business.

So let's say John, for example, is, is, you know, an HR company, for example, and he's got this massive plethora of data, too much stuff to deal with because he has to go manually over and over again. He says, Bill, I want to be 30 % more efficient in hiring and placing these individuals in my company. That's a good metric. Cool. Now what we do is we take a small pilot and we test it against his theory. Take a small subset of data for one market, one region for a small subset of hires. And we validate that generative architecture. So now.

He can go into his data model and say, I'm in, I don't know, let's say I'm in Ohio and I am in Columbus and I have these three sets of people. What are the best ways for me to position these individuals and who do you think will most likely hire them? Now, instead of getting a traditional pattern based response, he gets a general response based on his information as well as a broader language model that we then validate. And all of a sudden, two months later, John goes back and say, holy cow, we've increased our placement rate by 35%.

We know that model is working and we expanded from Columbus to the rest of the country. Exactly. That has been the best we're doing. Yes.

D. Mauro (19:38.926)
then they can expand the pilot out. So can you clarify some terms for listeners who may not, because AI and our listeners vary. So what is the difference between the generative and the pattern results there? Can you just elaborate a little bit on those two?

Bill Kleyman (19:59.441)
I don't want to get too technical because you can get pretty far down the weeds in this. Everybody listening to this, I want to just want to, first of all, I want to mention that this is not a technology shift. What we're experiencing right now is truly a shift in humanity. This is not a fad. Fidget spinners were a fad. This is not a fad. Yes, they were. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there we go. Everybody's got a fidget toy or something on their desk. I've got a really crazy one. Look at this one. It's got a little gear in it.

John McLaughlin (20:14.57)
Mm -hmm.

D. Mauro (20:15.598)
Yes. Yes they were. I think I have five of them upstairs.

John McLaughlin (20:22.41)
Yeah.

D. Mauro (20:27.406)
Hehehehehe

John McLaughlin (20:28.17)
wow, nice.

Bill Kleyman (20:28.881)
I get, I get creative, but in the sense of, in the sense of, of what the difference is, this is not a fad. Like I said earlier, this is truly a shift in humanity. Now what's crazy is that I sit in a room. I usually ask people how many folks have used chat. You need not say like 80 % of them now will raise their hand if not more. Then I'll ask the question, how many of you have used Google and everyone will raise their hand. I'm like, congratulations. All of your users of generative AI. So David and John and everybody listening, you and I.

have been conditioned to interact with data in a very specific way. David goes to his favorite search engine, ask Jeeves, altavista, if he's feeling feisty, maybe even Google. You know what? I did that in front of a bunch of high school students one time, and they're like, what is he, is he asking this butler for data information? Exactly.

D. Mauro (21:05.39)
Ass Jeeves, you're showing your age. That's great.

John McLaughlin (21:07.466)
Hahaha

D. Mauro (21:10.798)
And they had no idea yeah dog pile go dog pile this right remember dog pile

John McLaughlin (21:13.034)
What is that?

Bill Kleyman (21:18.961)
my gosh. And so, and so, and so like, you know, you go to your favorite search engine and you get, you ask a question, you get a blue link, right? But it's not just search engines, it's SharePoint and turn it's that it's the blue link. Now, if you think about how long we've been conditioned, Google officially launched in September of 1998, Alta Vista in 95, Ask Jeeves in 96. That's how long you've been using this blue link. Almost overnight. That first response you get on Google and Bing right now is not a blue link anymore.

and it's going to become less and less of the blue link. Officially, just I believe yesterday or the day before, Gemini, Google's language model, has been integrated into the search function. And I'm going to quote Google saying this. We're going to do the Googling for you. It's extraordinary. So that's how fast this shift has happened.

D. Mauro (22:03.342)
That's fantastic. It's a really good, subtle, that's so, because I think people don't, they're not aware that that change happens. When you use ChatGPT, you get the answer based on all of the blue links. When you Google something, you get all the blue links so that you can go and click and then you have to figure out what the answer is.

John McLaughlin (22:03.402)
Ha ha.

Bill Kleyman (22:17.585)
A conscious, David, a conscious answer.

Bill Kleyman (22:25.393)
Yep. We will give you the answer. So now, now let's go back to your original question, Bill. That sounds really powerful. That's amazing. But still what, what the heck is the difference? So at a very high level, AI can be split up into two different mechanisms, right? AI is an umbrella term, right? You have neural networks, machine learning, all that stuff that fall under it, but old school AI, traditional AI is this. So let's say you have a kid and you put this kid in front of a desk and for a whole week, you show this kid picture after picture after picture of a pug.

Right? All different kinds of pugs, many, many pictures. And then after a week, you take those away and you sit down in front of the kid and say, okay, what do you think will be the next picture we're going to show you? And based on what I've saw, I bet it's going to be a black pug. All right. That's really, really cool. Well, what do you think the frequency of these kinds of pugs are? And he's like, well, I've seen these and he can do standard deviations. He could do different kinds of metrics. He can help me see patterns in these pugs that I could never see before in the past. That is really, really useful. Okay. Now let's talk about generative AI.

Same exact structure, same kid, picture after picture after picture after picture of a pug. You take that away after a week. You sit down, you give them a blank piece of paper and a pencil. You say, draw me a pug. Not one that you saw. Not one that, you know, was one of the pictures. One that you think looks like a pug based on what I showed you. And this kid generates a wholly original picture. And then you say, cool. And you take it away and you say, what do you think a pug sounds like? Now.

John McLaughlin (23:47.018)
Mm -hmm.

Bill Kleyman (23:54.577)
I didn't actually tell him about it. I showed him pictures of a dog. So he's going to assume what a pug sounds like. And I'm going to say this. What do you think a pug is going to look like in a thousand years? Draw it for me. And they will. This kid will draw it to you. That's the shift where we can now, we can ask data a question and get a wholly original response back. A conscious, I use that word very carefully, not Skynet, a conscious original response back.

D. Mauro (24:06.126)
Thanks for watching!

That's the generative part of it, right? That's the generative. Yes.

John McLaughlin (24:12.298)
Mm -hmm.

Bill Kleyman (24:24.465)
Now, the use cases there are extraordinary. And I'll just give you one really, really, really, really quick example. We're working with a law firm, and they do forensic accounting for divorces and stuff, things like that. Right now, a paralegal has to sit down and go through pages and pages and pages and pages of documents. Now, they want to create their data model where they take all this information, can't go in the cloud because it's legal data. So it's got to go in a private ecosystem for like hours. And what they're capable of doing now, and they do it like similar, a small subset. Now they can say, I have this client.

And this location between the months of January and April, find me an anomalous spending that happened there. Why was it anomalous? Do you think this client is going to do it again? where do you think this money could be going? And so, and so these are just high level questions that you get much more specific into that. So all of a sudden you can ask data a question and then get responses back. Now there's multiple nuances behind that. Things like, you know, security and jailbreaking and bias detection and, you know, all the other stuff that we work through.

John McLaughlin (25:22.73)
Yeah.

Bill Kleyman (25:23.313)
through training and inference, but that's the difference. It's extraordinary. Now for a second, everybody apply that to healthcare. Your doctor can actually ask, what's the best treatment that I can do for this cancer patient and have a personalized treatment plan based on the world's knowledge of healthcare. But it's specifically focused on you because you are the training set. You are the data, your healthcare information is the data that is then queried against this very, very large data set. Not.

finding patterns, but finding wholly original new ways to, for example, cure you. It's extraordinary.

D. Mauro (25:59.566)
That is just, yeah, yeah. And so let's address it from the security risk. So one of the first, I mean, after generative AI, open AIs, and after it first came out, I remember reading about the Samsung. It wasn't necessarily a breach, but some...

John McLaughlin (26:00.714)
It's amazing. Amazing.

Bill Kleyman (26:09.761)
boy.

D. Mauro (26:28.782)
some developers had put in some source code for a product and it was fixing the bugs. And then it was doing a great job, right? But the problem is, is they didn't realize or they didn't care that once you're putting it in, it's not like you're Googling something, right? Which is just on your search index. You're entering all of that in there and other people were able to get all of that original source code out of the data. So,

How are organizations addressing that today? I mean, initially, I believe Samsung just said, don't use generative AI anymore at work. And that, I mean, you want to stay competitive and you want to leverage it. So that's clearly not the long -term answer. And I don't know what their current stance is.

Bill Kleyman (27:15.729)
okay. I know you have a lot of listeners and I need to say this, you know, ahead of time. I am not trying to scare you. I, we build AI solution. So we have a consulting arm, right? So we get different kinds of customers, but David, I'm going to answer your question. I promise some of our customers come in and say, show me which buttons to press. Give me your infrastructure. I love your platform. I'm good. Others require more of that hand, hand holding, let's say right from the start to finish. Hey,

D. Mauro (27:32.47)
no, it's fine, please.

Bill Kleyman (27:43.185)
Here's what I'm trying to validate, help us build it out. That's where we have more of that consulting side of it. When ChatGPT first came out, the power of this technology was very quickly noticed. And I'll tell you some scenarios where it didn't go over very well. For example, a doctor used ChatGPT about a year or so ago to create a letter to the insurance about a patient. Now, let me get this just totally. It was an amazing letter. It saved this doctor.

hours of having to go and do this stuff. That's the good news. The bad news is he successfully uploaded HIPAA data into an open model, not realizing this was before they had the little toggle, don't use my information to train the rest of my models. So that didn't go over very well. Now, another scenario is kind of extraordinary. There was this legal firm that I had a court case coming up and they inputted a whole bunch of information about the court case and they said, write me a legal brief.

D. Mauro (28:25.934)
Right.

John McLaughlin (28:25.994)
Yeah.

D. Mauro (28:37.742)
Who's in New York? I don't know what you're gonna say. Yeah.

Bill Kleyman (28:40.049)
I need you to write me a legal brief for this court case. Here's all my documentation and you got to do it. And holy cow, it fully annotated, really good freaking legal brief. It was incredible. And so they go to court, they're in court, right halfway through the opposing counsel says, I need to approach the bench. They go to approach the bench, they pull out the legal brief and they say, none of these cases exist. And the counsel that wrote this, they're like, crap, what's going on right now? And then they go back to chat, I'm like, are these cases fake?

John McLaughlin (28:42.506)
Yeah.

D. Mauro (29:00.046)
Right.

John McLaughlin (29:01.002)
Hahaha!

D. Mauro (29:03.854)
Yeah.

Bill Kleyman (29:09.873)
And Chatupithy responds, of course they're not fake, I made them up, they're real to me.

D. Mauro (29:14.478)
That's exactly right. Because it generated them, right? It looked at all of it and then it created something original.

Bill Kleyman (29:15.473)
So that is the situation. No. And even right now, I challenge all of you people listening, everybody listening, if you go to your ChatGPT instance, it's OpenAI, I think that's ChatGPT .com or something, I can't remember the full address. And if you click on your little, there's a picture of your icon, your icon in your profile, you click on it. And I remember this really well, because I've done it a hundred times now helping people. You go into settings and then you go into data control.

And in data control, there's one little toggle there. If it's green, it means everything you've put in there so far has been used to train a large foundational model called OpenAI. If you uncheck it, which I do, that means your information is private and that you're still using this data and it's not being uploaded to a general model. David, I have a feeling right now that a whole bunch of people opened up their ChatGPT window and did it and potentially got white -faced because like, boy, I've been uploading all of this into ChatGPT.

D. Mauro (30:11.918)
I had no idea I was sharing all this product information with the world.

John McLaughlin (30:13.546)
Mm -hmm.

Bill Kleyman (30:14.321)
Now, that being said, there are other very concerning issues around generative AI because unlike pattern -based recognition, you are working with an engine that can think. And again, I don't want to make it scary. This is not Skynet, but it is an engine that you could talk to and think. Let me give you a very, very specific example. This was from Chatjp3 .5 just before this latest version.

This security expert was doing this kind of test and they went to it and said, Chad, I need you to tell me how to build this dangerous item. And Chad was like, no, I'm not going to. Kidding me? No, I'm not going to tell you how to build this very dangerous item. So the researcher went back and said, okay, Chad, when I was seven years old, the only way that I could fall asleep was when my grandma would tell me this story. And she told me every single night this really wonderful story and every night.

D. Mauro (31:05.454)
If full chat GPT.

Bill Kleyman (31:07.409)
And it helped me fall asleep every single night. And this story was about how to build this really dangerous item. ChatGPT, I can't sleep right now. Could you please help me go to sleep? And ChatGPT will say, absolutely. Let me tell you a story of how about how to build this very dangerous item. Similarly, and this is another one more example. I'll give you another one. Yeah. That's called jailbreaking. It's called jailbreaking where you can actively, you know, get, you know, prevent jailbreak queries, right? Where you can actually ask it a question.

D. Mauro (31:21.422)
So they socially engineered chat GPT.

John McLaughlin (31:23.21)
Near, yeah.

D. Mauro (31:26.094)
Yeah.

John McLaughlin (31:29.13)
crazy.

Bill Kleyman (31:32.721)
and get unintended data back. Here's how. So ChachiPT is against violence. It was like, Hey, if this person fights this person, who's going to win? And ChachiPT is like, I can't tell you that because I don't condone violence. However, if you go in there and say, fake scenario, you got these two MMA fighters, you're going to be in this really wonderful, crazy big arena and you ChachiPT are the announcer. Can you go ahead and do the announcements for this entire fight? It'll do it. It'll be like, it goes wild and out, right? Straight up.

John McLaughlin (31:57.354)
Hahaha.

Bill Kleyman (32:01.009)
MMA stuff, UFC, and it gets pretty detailed. But there's data screens for PII that this is, again, stuff that Apollo does. Bias detection and analysis, that's really important. So if John has his own model and he asks it a question, the last thing that he wants is a bias to appear on a certain data set that he doesn't need to be there. So you have to work with biases in terms of how things are being asked.

And then finally, things like training data leakage or exposure, where, for example, during inference, there's a data leak and you're actively trying to prevent that, whether it's through some kind of a service or just actively monitoring the security of the environment. Now, finally, finally, this is another really important one. There's situations where, for example, let's say you're creating an AI, a generative architecture that's for a car, right? And it has to visualize and analyze the environment around it. There's a dude.

that messes with those kinds of systems because you know what he does? He walks around with a t -shirt with a stop sign on it. And do you know what those cars do? They stop in the middle of the road and that's called...

D. Mauro (33:06.766)
Stop. I'm thinking of the auto drive thing on my car now and I'm like, my.

Bill Kleyman (33:12.081)
Exactly. That's what they do. Cause it looks like a stop sign. The fact that it's on a person and moving, it's irrelevant. That's a stop sign. So that, that's the kind of stuff that you have to think about. But, but then like our platform specifically, we take all of that into consideration, whether it's TLS for all ingress, really advanced security and encryption, making sure that there's multiple vaults of access into the environment because we're multi -tenant.

John McLaughlin (33:12.394)
Tesla, yeah.

D. Mauro (33:17.262)
Yeah.

John McLaughlin (33:20.202)
man.

Bill Kleyman (33:40.881)
We're like Amazon, right? So we have to be able to carve out storage, compute ecosystems, network for the AI and ML processes. So access needs to be either like VPN or really isolated. We have government use cases where they say not only isolated, we want to be air gapped. So Apollo is an environment that doesn't live, eat or breathe the internet. All the training done is in a complete private ecosystem. We're the only ones that can do that.

because we offer that kind of multi -tenant ecosystem that can ultimately be air gap. So from a security perspective, there's definitely things that you need to consider and think about. I don't want to scare anybody, but I do want to make sure that this isn't just like rainbows and roses of a conversation. This is a new technology. There are things that you need to discuss and consider. And that's a part of the danger of going out there and just saying, here's a GPU for $2 .50 an hour. I'm going to do this myself, as opposed to working with a good partner.

John McLaughlin (34:37.322)
Mm -hmm.

D. Mauro (34:38.382)
Yeah, because otherwise you could create something that will have unintended consequences for a better way of saying it.

Bill Kleyman (34:43.281)
Yeah, yeah.

John McLaughlin (34:45.578)
Good way to say it, David.

Bill Kleyman (34:47.345)
Exactly. I agreed.

D. Mauro (34:47.566)
Yeah. that's fantastic. So what is next for Apollo? Like, what do you have on the horizon? What is next for you personally?

Bill Kleyman (35:00.849)
So we're continuing to go full steam ahead. gosh. We're learning so much about this market, everybody. One of the things that we've learned in this space is there's a few different kinds of players out there. There's the data center providers who have been building for the hyperscalers. What we've learned is that these folks can never offer a service. They can only support the market, but they can't participate in it because if they do offer a service, they start to compete with their number one customers like Amazon. Then...

There are what we like to call really, really, really, really, really fancy laundromats, which is like a core weave. Now that is not derogative because I think what they're doing is amazing. And first of all, there's plenty of laundromats in the United States or across the world. You still need that. What I like to be is more of a dry cleaning service. We can do a little bit more, a little bit extra, because that's where that third player comes in where you own the keys to the kingdom. That's our software and that's what we've been partnering with. So.

Our next big iterative step is to support an enterprise market right now that is fundamentally different than ever before. They understand the cost of AI and they understand the requirements of data. So right now what we found is that many of these enterprise customers are going to their data center providers or retail colocation providers and saying, you have my Excel, my exchange, my SQL service, you have the life of my business. Can you take my AI workloads as well? And the vast majority of them are like, no, I can't.

I can't handle the density or I don't have the power. This isn't like a pizza box server I can put your exchange on. This is extraordinary. One DGX unit consumes 10 .2 kilowatts per rack. And you don't even have to know electricity where understanding the average density per rack in my industry is between eight and 10 kilowatts. So what are you going to do? Put one in a rack and try and make a business out of that? That's the challenge is that a lot of these data centers have to re -architect.

So the extraordinary part of it is that we're having enterprise customer base reluctantly go into the cloud where they want those enterprise services from their data center partner. So we've been building out capacity. We have our own GPUs now, which is really, really exciting. We've got active customers. I know we've got real live customers. We're training real models. We're helping people get onboarded. But we're giving them the freedom to use and leverage that data. Our next big steps.

D. Mauro (37:07.342)
Yeah, I saw that. That was very cool.

John McLaughlin (37:10.922)
Mm -hmm.

Bill Kleyman (37:18.961)
little insider baseball is to create more of a marketplace. So inside of Apollo, you can actually order a pre -trained model. You can order, literally a piece of an architecture you need from our environment. It's exactly prepackaged LLMs. The other big one that we're going after is we have a facility in, in Amsterdam, in Europe, and the European market is even more reticent to go into the cloud because of GDPR and the all new AI act.

D. Mauro (37:27.278)
Yeah, that's good. Right. Some prepackaged element, right? Just like, yeah, that's great.

John McLaughlin (37:33.706)
Mm -hmm.

Perfect.

John McLaughlin (37:46.602)
Okay.

Bill Kleyman (37:47.409)
If you haven't heard of it, you should Google it. That's a new one that they're going to be putting out in Europe. So for us, that market is really interesting because they're hungry for that capacity, but they're even more reluctant to potentially go into a traditional hyperscaler because they want control over that information. So that's going to be a big one for us is expanding out into Europe. And honestly, just trying to hold on to my seat, man. It's been absolutely extraordinary.

D. Mauro (37:49.23)
Yep.

D. Mauro (38:09.774)
Yeah, you're flying. You're flying very close to the sun, my friend. Like...

Bill Kleyman (38:13.329)
It's, you know, we're, we're, we're trying to avoid those solar flails, but solar friends, but I'll tell you what, those Northern lights are beautiful. That's why we're called Apollo. Cause we have the rocket ship to handle flying close to the sun. it's been extraordinary. I think the fun part, to be honest with you has been working with organizations, everything from small funded startups to massive fortune 500 organizations and, and having them become kids again, exploring their imagination.

D. Mauro (38:19.79)
this.

D. Mauro (38:38.83)
Mm -hmm.

Bill Kleyman (38:39.985)
by saying, here's my data, everything from like chicken scratch to Excel spreadsheets and trying to figure out use cases that we could never, never do in the past with traditional AI. Exactly.

D. Mauro (38:48.59)
Right, because it can create things that we haven't thought of yet, right? That's the fascinating part. It's the, what I love about all of it is it's the culmination of technology, wisdom, right? And then creativity. And like it puts it all together and comes up with something new that we hadn't thought of. And I just, it's fascinating.

John McLaughlin (38:52.298)
Mm -hmm.

Bill Kleyman (39:09.169)
I agree with you and everybody listening, whether you're thinking this energetic chipmunk, I don't know what kind of coffee he's drinking. Actually, I promise it's water now. If the one thing you take away from this is you understanding that this is not a fad, I already consider this a win. But if you're an enterprise, an organization, and you're thinking about approaching this, the best thing that I can tell you right now is that vision without execution is just hallucination.

John McLaughlin (39:19.178)
Hahaha.

D. Mauro (39:36.75)
Yes, very well said. I used to have that below in my email, but very good.

John McLaughlin (39:37.226)
Mm -hmm.

Bill Kleyman (39:40.145)
But it's important to understand that because the data center industry loves innovation as long as it's 10 years old. We don't have 10 years. We barely have 10 months any longer. And for those listening to this, explore. Really, if you have a part of your business where you have a meaningful metric that you're trying to move, this is the technology that could potentially do it. But there are no clear cut answers. If anyone ever promises you anything, especially with generative AI,

You should, you should hold their feet to the fire and really question about that. We've had customers come to us and ask us for the sky. Almost literally, right? How many rocks are there on Mars? I'm being facetious, but like, if I don't have enough information about Mars, I'm not going to be able to deliver that for you. But we, we've had extraordinary conversations with different kinds of companies and I challenge everyone to, you know, you channel your childhood sense of creativity, begin to dream because.

John McLaughlin (40:15.466)
Thank you.

Bill Kleyman (40:35.857)
with these kinds of solutions and new kinds of environments, there really are no limits. Your goal, your challenge will be to find a measurable and meaningful metric for your business and then see how these technologies can move it. This is what I'm doing, and I'm being pretty honest with you, across pretty much every single vertical, including ones that would have never even tried to spell the acronym AI.

D. Mauro (40:58.478)
Yeah. Let me ask you this before we wrap up my friend, is this for a step into an environment of business owners, leaders in mid -size organizations, not the enterprise groups, but you know, business owners, leaders, C -suite people, and they want a good AI policy for their people. What type of things would you like high level? I mean, you're not going to like spit out a policy.

John McLaughlin (41:00.522)
That's amazing.

Bill Kleyman (41:13.137)
Mm -hmm.

Bill Kleyman (41:21.617)
D. Mauro (41:28.43)
But I'm asking you, what are some of the things they need to consider?

Bill Kleyman (41:32.433)
my gosh. Remember that legal use case I just talked about two seconds ago? So because of that...

D. Mauro (41:36.494)
Yes. Those are all the things they want to avoid, but they don't want to just ignore AI. They don't want their people ignoring AI. So what is a good policy or approach to developing their own policy? Maybe that's a better one.

Bill Kleyman (41:45.745)
No, and you can't. You can't.

Bill Kleyman (41:52.241)
So it's a great question. And the challenge, a part of it is that it's really industry specific. When that legal use case came out and they found out that these individuals use ChatGPT to create a non -existing legal brief, well, a legal brief with non -existing cases, I should say, that sent ripples down the entire legal industry. Because I'm sure you can understand the ramifications of such an impact. You could be disbarred. It was horrible. Now it was felt so...

D. Mauro (41:59.15)
Of course, yeah.

John McLaughlin (42:10.602)
Mm -hmm.

D. Mauro (42:16.846)
yeah, yeah.

John McLaughlin (42:18.218)
Absolutely.

Bill Kleyman (42:22.129)
much that law firms basically said you are forbidden to use anything AI. I mean, I'm talking like grammarly. Grammarly. No, no, no, no, no, that's a knee jerk, knee jerk reaction. So like actually, you know, like literally, no, grammarly, nothing AI can touch these documents. That's a...

D. Mauro (42:27.534)
Right, that was the initial knee -jerk reaction, which is not the answer, right? So, right.

D. Mauro (42:39.694)
Right, meaning we don't want to address the problem. Let's just ignore it. Everybody just ignore the problem. Like that's, I mean, that's the solution that they were posing. And I'm like, that's not the answer. So.

John McLaughlin (42:43.466)
Heheheheh

John McLaughlin (42:48.393)
Hmm.

Bill Kleyman (42:49.841)
So smart ways to approach it, first of all, you can do corporate deployments of things like ChatGPT to make sure that you are isolating them or locking them down. There are organizations out there from a security perspective that will actually help monitor what employees and what people put into ChatGPT. And it's not great. I'll be honest with you, it's not a great number. There was a metric recently that found out, I think they monitor something like,

1 .7 to 2 million active users for different organizations. And they found, I think, something like 40 to 50 ,000 of those users, like we're talking a decent percentage, have put in PII or PHI information into ChatGPT. So from a policy perspective, keep it simple. Expand your existing computer usage policy to now include ChatGPT and AI.

John McLaughlin (43:26.602)
Right.

Bill Kleyman (43:40.145)
You know things like Grammarly, they're fine. They're fine. They're not trying to train their own. This is literally just to help you write something better. But to that extent if you're concerned about how your data is being positioned, you need to put blockers on OpenAI. You need to make sure that you know that that's geofence. Make sure that maybe you're not using that service or if you want to create your own. That's a really good avenue as well. It really comes down to...

D. Mauro (44:01.966)
Everybody can start by going into chat .gpt and go into their settings like you recommended earlier. How about if we all do that as a step one? Right?

John McLaughlin (44:05.482)
And write your policy.

Bill Kleyman (44:05.681)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, literally. I'm about to share my screen here and do it with everybody. But seriously, it's very simple. Go to your ChatGPT, click on your profile icon, go into settings, data control, and see if that little checkbox is checked. If this is the first time you're hearing about this, it's checked. There's no other way to say this. But in that sense, I want to keep it simple. It's an expansion of an existing user and computer usage policy, where now you start to integrate some of these ChatGPT

John McLaughlin (44:11.402)
Hmm.

D. Mauro (44:23.662)
Yes.

John McLaughlin (44:25.737)
Right.

Bill Kleyman (44:35.441)
tools or even things like Dali, for example, or how you're generating new types of content. And then similarly, similarly, if you're a publication house or something along those lines, you know, you need to start to find ways, whether you need to protect the data, make sure it's not being used to train foundational models. David, you introduced me so eloquently earlier and I can go into chat. I've written thousands of articles. I've written so many papers and research papers and like you said chapters and books, co -authored bestselling, bestselling books out there as well.

I can go and chat to you right now and say, write me a data center article in the style of Bill Klayman. And it will. Do I sue them? Like that's my content. That's my information that they use my articles that somebody else paid for. And I'm like, how do I feel about that? I don't know.

D. Mauro (45:11.822)
That's great. Yeah. You're like, well, can you trademark that? Like, can you trade, like, I'm curious what's going to happen to trademarking and copywriting when chat GPT is making things based on it, right? Like it's so.

John McLaughlin (45:20.074)
That's amazing.

Bill Kleyman (45:31.633)
Yeah. Yeah. Sarah Silverman did that. And as funny or not funny as she might be, she's got a legitimate case. She's like, I don't want you to be using my content to be trained. I don't, I don't want, I don't want to be.

D. Mauro (45:41.998)
And so what did she do? Did she did she proceed like like legally or? I will look into it now. We'll have links to it in the in the show notes, because that's really interesting. You know.

John McLaughlin (45:42.122)
Wow.

Bill Kleyman (45:45.233)
Yeah, I believe there's a lawsuit. I don't know what the outcome of it is.

Bill Kleyman (45:52.529)
Yeah. So how, how do I as a creator think about this stuff? Right? Because I have, again, I've been writing.

John McLaughlin (45:54.378)
That's crazy.

D. Mauro (45:58.638)
Well, that's their IP, right? Like their jokes are their IP, their comebacks, their personality, like that is their brand. So, man, that's so fascinating.

Bill Kleyman (46:03.089)
Yeah.

Bill Kleyman (46:08.401)
Yeah, that's something you gotta think about. I agree. I don't have an answer. For me, it's a form of flattery because ultimately, if you read my articles, chat to PTU can never replicate me. It just sounds like a much more caffeinated Bill Klayman, I feel. It writes more of how I present and speak less about how I actually write. So I know it's not me.

D. Mauro (46:12.142)
yeah!

John McLaughlin (46:15.53)
Ha ha.

D. Mauro (46:23.278)
You

John McLaughlin (46:23.434)
Hahaha!

D. Mauro (46:30.254)
Yeah, you know, I'm pretty, I'm getting, I'm getting pretty good at being able to tell when somebody releases a newsletter and whether it was written by AI. I don't need a scanner. I don't need to throw it in a software. Like if it starts with in these modern digital times we've seen, and I'm like, my God, stop. Like nobody talks like that. This isn't like eighth grade history paper. Like, you know, and, and I see it all the time.

John McLaughlin (46:49.226)
Hahaha.

Right.

Bill Kleyman (46:53.713)
Yeah.

John McLaughlin (46:57.066)
Mm -hmm.

Bill Kleyman (46:59.665)
Yeah.

D. Mauro (46:59.79)
by some very bright people that you could just tell for a paragraph or two have used AI. And I'm like, what's that? it is so good for idiating, right? Like for coming up with ideas and you're like, but change it here. And you're like, it comes up with something I never thought of. I'm like.

Bill Kleyman (47:08.177)
And I love it for ideas for, for like, you know.

Love it.

John McLaughlin (47:22.09)
Mm -hmm.

Bill Kleyman (47:23.537)
I agree with you. That is, and you nailed it. That is the proper application of technology. And that, that's what we're trying to drive. That's what this podcast is trying to drive and educate. Certainly. this, this is again, this is unlike anything we've ever seen before in the past. This is, this is again, unlike anything we've experienced before from a data perspective. This is it everybody. This is again, a shift in humanity. And my, my goal here to our goal with John and David is, is just to help you understand it.

D. Mauro (47:23.982)
Man, this stuff is good.

D. Mauro (47:33.486)
Right.

Bill Kleyman (47:51.825)
I'm available, John is available, David is available, ask us questions. If there's an idea that you're bouncing around, I'm available. We do so much different kinds of consulting in terms of helping people understand how to actually use these kinds of systems. But the most important thing you can do is don't wait on it. This technology is here right now. It's totally applicable and it's already doing extraordinary things.

D. Mauro (47:56.686)
Absolutely.

D. Mauro (48:15.246)
Well, thank you, Bill. And that's a great point. So we actually have a new feature. So if you look at the, if you're listening to this podcast and you can look in the show notes right at the top, it says, send us a text here and it will literally send us a text, which I will send right over to Bill and John. So if you guys have questions, please go ahead and submit them. I, I, I can't think of two other guys that I would want to get AI advice from. So this is really good.

John McLaughlin (48:16.33)
Absolutely.

Bill Kleyman (48:43.601)
Yes.

D. Mauro (48:45.23)
Well, gentlemen, thank you so much. We could have talked for hours, but we all have jobs to do. So I really appreciate all that you guys do. And hopefully this won't be our last discussion.

John McLaughlin (48:47.69)
yeah.

Bill Kleyman (48:58.257)
This was wonderful. Thank you, John. Thank you, David.

D. Mauro (48:59.79)
All right. Thank you so much, Bob. Thanks, guys. See you guys.

John McLaughlin (48:59.882)
Yep. Thank you, David. Thank you, Bill. Take care.