Aside from learning about the latest products, services, technologies, companies and more, we also like to interview executives, experts, people of interest, and fellow technology journalists, with Chris Griffith a very welcome guest!
On the fourth edition of the Talking Tech with Alex Zaharov-Reutt TV show (where you can watch each week’s hourly episode in full),, we our first guest was Vinay Samuel, the CEO and Founder of Zetaris, which you can watch and read about here!
My second guest on on TNTRadio.live was Chris Griffith, an award winning journalist, communications professional, technology reporter, writer, commentator and speaker – the video interview is embedded immediately below, after which I summarise what we spoke about – but it was a really great conversation about a range of privacy, censorship and regulation issues, interspersed with history, the uses and abuses of AI, major tech trends, the Apple Vision Pro headset and more!
A freelance technology journalist for the last year and a half, which still includes writing for The Australian, ChannelNews and elsewhere, we had a rich conversation that started with a look at Chris’ 48 year career and the seven years before that learning computer science as it was in the 60s and the incredible journey Chris has been on since.
Chris’ LinkedIn page is a glimpse into an interesting overview from Chris of the tech experiences and milestones he speaks about in answer to my various initial questions, which included his early days in tech and more!
Then we went to Generative AI and the thoughts Chris had on its uses and usage. We spoke about how Google, Meta, Apple, OpenAI and others are crafting AI, and after exploring those themes for a short while, we moved onto the regulation of tech companies, what Chris felt about the proposed mis/disinformation bills, tech censorship, privacy, whether anyone would trust the Meta open source AI LLM or “large language model”‘ that Facebook had anything to do with, and more.
We discussed Apple’s Vision Pro and its reported AI plans, with iOS 18 at WWDC 2024 in four or five months time expected to be a massively giant generative leap for all humankind, after which we finished with Chris going to the Mobile World Congress MWC in Barcelona, in March!
I didn’t time the ending properly so I was sadly a little rushed right at the end, but Chris and I spoke for about 25 minutes, and we had a really great discussion that I’m sure you will enjoy, so please watch the interview above!
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Don’t forget to listen to Chris Smith from Monday to Friday at 3pm to 5pm AEDT, with the Cyber Wednesdays segment that I do with Chris each week, after the 4.30pm news headlines through to 5pm, with the start able to vary by a few short minutes depending on whether Chris has finished fully speaking with the previous guest, usually the brilliant Prue MacSween, so we’re all flexible and it’s all good!
