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if you've seen youtube, it's chaotic. i can watch these videos all day. the reason youtube is full of russian car crashes is russians were the first to make heavy use of dashcams, if you see a car accident video, chances are it's in moscow. [speaking foreign language]. >> americans are catching up. the owl has not one but two cameras. one up front and one that monitors the inside of the car, as well. the video is sent to the cloud immediately via a cell phone connection. andy hodge is the founder and ceo of owl. he knows a thing or two about gadgets and he was a developer of apple ipod of fortune and mark sullivan of fast company. why is it that americans were kind of slow on the dashcam

thing? >> part of it is culturally. what things do people worry about? in other cultures there are worrying about the police and the system. here it's different. here i think it's more natural to think one in six americans has a home security system. you were going to talk earlier -- >> arlo, yeah. >> but why does that video security end at the sidewalk? because when you look at the sta kn statistics and your lives, more happens on the other side of the sidewalk than home. a year ago, you know, we didn't come at thishappens on the othee sidewalk than home. a year ago, you know, we didn't come at this from the angle of a dashcam. you think about cameras and security and where the most happens and that led us to the car. >> is the market for this people who are really concerned about security or is it like people who want to post crazy things on youtube? >> i think the answer is yes in all that. certainly when we started this, our focus was really straightforward. crashes you don't want to be

blamed. traffic stops i think for a lot of people they worry about am i going to get treated the way i should and for other people it's the break-ins. what we find happens is it's not so much about what we think about ahead of time. the three of you probably had some of those happen. what we did from the beginning is said let's build something that will capture the video in all three of those. >> these are extraordinary, the gadgets will use thing and i thought people would use the owl camera in ways that never occurred to you. >> when we first had the idea, we didn't go out and raise money. we went into my garage in palo alto and in ten days we built prototype cameras and hacked them into android phones and drove around for a week. in the first week, the things you expect. you see accidents. we see near accidents, accidents, people doing things they shouldn't do and the first week we're like this makes sense. getting that video to your phone

right ray waway is a gift. the second week we made it so easy people started sharing things out to their cousin and mom and started to be person snail -- personality based. i have people i work with that see the scary, ironic and funny. by the end of the second week we realized this is a social device. >> so much of your life happens around the car. we're built around those security issues but a lot of your life happens around the car. >> you were at apple for quite a few years. why isn't this an app? why does it have to be a stand alone device? >> you want to protect your car when you're there and away. having something build inside and outside camera that is there and powered and connected is what it takes to really answer the question. and also, just making it incredibly easy to have the video on your phone. video is powerful but powerful when you share it to the right people. but making it easy to share the

video, i think is what really makes it come alive. >> that makes sense. that's the social part of it and that's fine but is there an insurance aspect of it? i heard one of the factors in so many people in russia using the dashcams was because of insurance and taufault. >> this is interesting. we spent time with insurance companies and one major insurer is an investor. england has significant discounts. that's one thing we're looking to understand is why. there is a bunch of potential reasons, but the one fork in the road i guess i would bring up is we as a company don't believe in monitoring. the camera is yours and the good things that come out of it is for you. we looked at obd monitoring companies from a few years ago and there was a missed opportunity there where it got positioned as a discount if you're willing to be monitored. >> the plug ins with the on board obd. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah.

>> so those things were interesting but didn't get acre cemented the way i think they could have and our view here is you start by making it really clear the driver is the one in control that controls the video and we can start to harvest some of these other benefits but yeah, there should be a ton of reasons why i think insurance and having the camera, the video of the event helps afterwards. >> let me ask you about one business thing. my car already has a camera that makes and hassles me when i change lanes and able to detect if there is something ahead. why isn't that recording? it has a camera just above the windshield and i think of gps companies for instance selling gps units and putting them in the car and soon they became part of the car and iphone. so you're building a box that ford could just put into the car, couldn't they? >> they could but realize, i've been so lucky in my career to work on a lot of great consumer devices. making people and happy and comfortable with new technology

is a specialty. it's something some people know how to do and others don't. if i'm a teen trying to figure out what's the right sensor to warn you when you're about to hit somebody, video is powerful in the car. let's build the app and build the privacy and i wouldn't want to think about privacy. let's isolate them so i don't have to worry about them and focus on warning. >> i want to ask one other question, our reporters did a story the other day in which he put little surveillance cameras in a car in san francisco and laid a laptop in the backseat. they had to run away from the car quickly enough because everyone was ready to break into it. what will stop me from stealing your camera? your camera is supposed to protect me. >> so what happens in our case is we're sitting in the car and we have a beacon blinking, which should be warning you away,

don't break into the car, there is video. second, if you bump or break the window, it fires up. at night it's amazing. there are two like head lamp -- >> that really come on. >> that really come on. it is -- it would make you think, two, three times why you're in that car. >> i'm hogging all the questions and i can see we need to go to commercial so i'll hog one more and that is i'm going to put you on the spot. you worked at apple. >> apple. microso microsoft. >> a young person deciding where to work. >> right. >> pick one of those. >> you should pick the place where you can learn the most and it's growing because places that are growing are where you're going to learn and that's the only thing that matters. >> you evaded that question well. [ laughter ] >> well, i mean, what i meant is if there are parts of one of those companies you look and say i'll learn more and that's the part of that company that's growing fast, that's where you should go. >> it's less about the name of the company and more about that group and how much they are doing and how quickly. when it's growing, you can be

right or wrong what you're interested in but there is always something to do tomorrow. >> andy hodge the ceo of owl camera. look forward to seeing your videos on youtube. a ceo that's successful might not have no employees at all when "press here" continues.

welcome back to "press here." software robots and automated code that post to facebook and twitter in an attempt to disrupt the democracy. these are bad guy bots but there are good guy bots designed for business and programmers at the automation anywhere are building them. software that can help or replace high-end wide collar employees. some day bots could replace the programmers that build them. his goal is to be one of the world's largest employers without having employees. here is founder and ceo of automation anywhere. is that the plan? you have 700 employees now and they are working to replace themselves with bots? >> we want to be one of the largest employers with robots. we will have 3 million digital

bots in production. in a manner of speaking, we're producing work worth 3 million people, there are still enough people on our 150id to support it. >> fair enough. fair enough. okay. give me an example of something in real world you're doing. what is an example? hey, that's an automation anywhere bot. >> it's being used in all industries. so large enterprises put on more than 900 of them are buying and banks are using it to automatically process mortgage applications. insurance companies are using it to automatically process insurance claims. if you're a medical researcher and doing research and have to run a combination, 50,000 times, you could use bot to figure out which would work. if you're a hedge fund guy and have to figure out which stock to pick or which combo to trade,

there is a huge part of analysis that has to happen before a bot could help you. a few examples where regardless of it, certain routine tasks it can fit into everybody's life and bot can help. >> i know we're not talking about bad guy bots. >> you can talk about anything you want. >> half of my twitter follows would fall under that but good guy bots can have properblems a who programs them. do you guys think about that? i'm sure this could come into play in the industries you play in. >> yeah, i think it's a good question. people think about it but the activity is safer than when we do anything manually. when we do it manually, there is chance of errors and depending how well you slept last night. when bots do something, they don't have moods, they tend to repeat the same quality every time at a free execution and

everything is logged. everything is traceable. so it's the best security that you can ever ask for. >> you can fire them really easily if you need to. >> that's right. no problem. >> the youth cases you mentioned about processing mortgages and things like that, is this a situation where the bots are getting you 85% of the way and then human intuition has to take over for some of these things or are you processing a pile of mortgage applications and making a decision which get it and which don't? >> our goal is to do 100% automation but we live in a world where there are always exceptions, things you can decide necessarily. the best thing to do is to take the automation to anywhere from 80 to 95% and put unique exceptions to people and let them handle the things. >> let me ask you a question, we used to call programs and now

they are apps. you're talking about software, right? what's the difference between you're a software company and you're a bot company? >> it's a general purpose bot that you can teach anything to. so you can say bot, i'm going to teach you how to process insurance. >> adaptable software. >> adaptable software. >> it will learn and before you know it, now you have an adaptable bot that can do most of the things you were doing on the computer. it will learn. every time it does that, it will get better and better. we have some bots that have seen 10 million words into our language and there is not a human being -- >> can those things become predictive. that's where the money is where the bots are not just doing what you told it but saying hold on a minute, i noticed a pattern. >> that is the -- you picked on

it well. that's one of the best advantage of running this on both because in the last amount of data flows through bots, it logs everything and can predict many things. so i think in a few years, we'll enter the world where some part of future is not everything is unknown. businesses will no thknow that future. >> are you already providing that as part of your software is the predictive analytics? >> we do. we have a conception call intelligence digital work force that combines technology, rpa, robotic process automation and artificial intelligence and cognitive and predictive antics. all three work together to provide a digital work force. >> what's the difference between the ar part and pro diedictable >> it is a unique application of a.i.

a.i. has the last amount of technology to understand language and understand pictures and make sense. >> the software bots that go into the bad guy bots go into twitter and facebook. facebook is having a devil of a time trying to get rid of those things. here is the problem, not your bots but bots in general are going to get better and better and better to the point the bots are saying man, did you see last night's warrior's game with steph curry? meanwhile, there is a human would say that's probably human because he's talking about the game. can bots get to the point where facebook and twitter will not be able to detect who is real and who is not? >> i think if you recall the old days of programs, how did we take care of it? we wrote another program that was virus and stopped them.

as bad bots come, it's too hard for people to watch them. so the good bots watch the bad bots. >> the next company might be the anti bot. >> thank you. >> thank you. a hard look at silicon valley when "press here" continues. the weekend--

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welcome back to "press here." i do not like it when people roll their eyes about kids these days. we have seen kids these days are dang worthy of our praise. i have a kids these days story for you. i was talking to an engineer in his 20s that didn't know why silicon valley was called silicon valleyment t. the material used to make computer chips and i am not old enough so if you say brand-new out of stanford and working for a startup, you're not old enough to remember this, pets.com. t the engineer i was talking to about 3 years old when the .com bust hit. the three-part series is about silicon valley, the untold stor story. >> everybody looks at startups, i could have had that idea.

if only i thought of facebook. it's not true. >> homost startups fail and tho that succeed almost fail and almost looking nothing like the original plan. >> it is no coincidence our buildings are two stories high and surrounded by grass. when things fail and people jump, they sprain their ankle. the place we now know as silicon valley has been rewriting the rules of invasion for more than 100 years. >> michael directed that documentary and before that he produc produced indefensive food. you got right the echo some. there is silicon ally, prairie, whatever, they will not amount to anything because we have this ecosystem here they do not. >> yeah, one of the things people ask me about this series is one of the reasons we started to make those, we wanted to know

silicon valley is often people imitated a lot but nobody yet d duplicated it. one of the questions is why? silicon valley has a history no place else has and that 150-year history helped to help silicon valley to evolve into the place it is today and it can't be created overnight. you can't take a university and capital and industrial park and put them together and still have silicon valley. it takes years and years and years for the echo system to evolve. >> i found it interesting to see the role of the counter culture, bay area and lsd and these things, the role those plays in some of the early founders. i don't know if the intel guys were doing that but steve jobs and all these. >> it had what was going on in the bay area in the late 60s and early 70s and had a big unf

influence. it was very important. you can't tell the story of silicon valley and influenced the thinking. >> that was one of the most interesting parts because i mean, they would eventually lead to the idea of think different. to me that's kind of like a s statement to what the valley is like. it is this idea that we can totally rethink and reimagine things. it's possible. and, you know, that's kind of like the spiritual part. >> but then where did we go wrong? how did we end up in the situation that we're in right now where, you know, a lot of the people who had these different ideas right now -- >> yeah. >> i know. >> i mean, the valley is often there and i think it's being

de myths. some of the technology that has been developed here but for me what is interesting about the valley and what we learned about it is that there are a lot of myths about the valley and we set out to try to puncture a number of them and one of those myths has to do with the idea that the story of the valley is the story of a succession and by in large they are boys or young men that come along with great ideas and think up the future and invent it. the reality is very different because for start, even though there were a number of extraordinary individuals, you know, who shaped the valley, they couldn't have done what they did if they hadn't been here and the people in the series talk about that. and people also think about the valley as a place that is an idea of capital and attribute the success and they talk about

risk taking and venture capit capitalists and they do take risk and what people do understand about the valley is the biggest risk taker of all was the u.s. government because very often, the u.s. government was the early investor and ad t adopter. one of the people talks about entities willing to pay far too much for something that doesn't work and that's true of the government. when things like silicon ships were invented, the government was the first big customer. that's another hmyth we try to puncture. the third is the myth of the valley has an ability to foresee the future when the real story is it's a jagged road and people stumble along the way. steve told us his dream was to continue to work for hp for his whole life. he wanted hp to do the apple

one. they won it five times. i was watching that. i'm glad you brought up h.p. because there are young people that h.p. is a perfectly fine company. it's not one that everyone says i want to go work for h.p. anymore and had a series of ceos and god help us, a series of board members that changed everything. to truly appreciate the value, you have to appreciate how revolutionary and important h.p. was at the time. >> when bill and dave started the company, they developed policies towards the employees that are known as the h.p. way and a lot of culture that people know the valley for today, the free lunches and workplaces that go out of their ways to make themselves attractive so that people will spend, you know, hours and hours and hours, all of that starts with h.p. h.p. really developed the

culture and came to shape the culture of the valley. >> i got a couple minutes or seconds left and i want to ask you one more question, what didn't you get into the film that you wish you could have? you got three parts. i would have liked to have done more. >> there is probably so much going on as you're working on it. >> that's true, too. there is so much i didn't get in. it's hard to answer that quickly. i would say probably we set out to tell a story how and why the valley is a place it is. it's a historical series. in the last year or so as we finished, people's attitudes have begun to shift buecause we have begun to understand how the most recent technology, social media and so on are shaping our lives in ways that nobody anticipated. that's a story that we would love to tell and important story. >> it's an important story and shows how i really screwed that up. we should have started with that because we since ran out of time. premieres on the since channel. thank you for being with us.

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"comunidad del valle." i'm damian trujillo, and today, latino vintners, the founders of mi sueño winery right here in our studios of your "comunidad del valle." male announcer: nbc bay area presents "comunidad del valle" with damian trujillo. damian: we begin today with the cinequest film festival, and they always have a nice array of latino films, and this year is absolutely no exception. "adios amor" is one of the films that's going to be showcased this year here at cinequest. with me on "comunidad del valle" are the producer and director, laurie coyle, and also olivia portugal, who is the daughter of the main character in this documentary. and wait till i show you the trailer for this. welcome to the show. laurie coyle: thank you. damian: how big of a deal, first of all, is it for you, laurie, to showcase this at a place like cinequest? laurie: this is a wonderful opportunity because cinequest is