Joannabot Answers Your Questions About the iPhone 16

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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After more than a decade reviewing iPhones, WSJ senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern built an AI chatbot to handle questions about the latest models. She joins host Zoe Thomas to explain how the bot was built and ask it some questions about the iPhone 16. Plus, executives have a new power move, switching to dumbphones and fax machines. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Scarlet Johanson. My family relied on public assistance to help provide meals for us.
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0:19.0	Welcome to Tech News Briefing.
0:20.0	It's Friday, September 20th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:25.7	Make way for the new executive power move using low-tech gadgets.
0:31.6	We'll tell you why being less reachable is a flex and who can pull it off.
0:37.8	And then, our senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern has reviewed iPhones for over a decade.
0:44.0	Now, she's handing off the job to generative artificial intelligence.
0:49.0	The real Joanna will join us to explain why and tell us what she thinks of the answers provided by
0:54.8	Joanna Bot. But first, are you fed up of hearing your phone beep all the time?
1:03.3	Tired of your watch vibrating?
1:05.5	Do you just want a break from all your screens?
1:08.6	Well, so do executives.
1:11.0	And our on-the-clock columnist Callimim Borshirs is here to tell us how some bosses are
1:16.1	pulling back from high tech.
1:18.7	So Callim, what has made the use of low-tech or older tech devices such a status symbol.
1:24.1	It's the novelty, right? I mean if I flash back 15 or 20 years when people had their
1:28.5	blackberries, that was the status symbol, right? Oh, you're so important that you
1:32.1	would have to be reachable anywhere, anytime. Well, not basically all of us are. That's not special. That's not impressive anymore.
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