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00:00:26is November 2nd and All Souls' Day, so we will talk about that this morning.
00:00:31measuring this new value or how we "Where does this belief come from, how is it done so that
00:00:34the little souls would come home and whether it is desired that all souls come to their
00:00:37home and how to notice that they have been home, we will talk about this background
00:00:41this morning and we will talk about Men's Health Month, because
00:00:45November is Men's Health Month, November,
00:00:48Movember, yes, men, you have to think about this
00:00:51from any angle, but you have to
00:00:53and I think and not just think, but also act. Today we will talk about
00:00:56prostate cancer, but not about what is always talked about."
00:01:00go get checked, think about your age, all
00:01:03predispositions, think about everything, but we'll talk about what happens when a person receives
00:01:07a diagnosis, how life goes on, what kind of support
00:01:11that person gets, and so on, so life after diagnosis could be
00:01:14our focus topic today, but it is important in any case,
00:01:18any aspect of men's health,
00:01:37The global UI consulting firm's
00:01:41survey shows what? It shows that AI definitely increases productivity
00:01:44in many cases, but does this
00:01:47productivity translate into financial results or not
00:01:51and what does it depend on? I would like to know more about this. Yes, do companies and entrepreneurs get richer?
00:01:54And we can ask Mart Mäe about this, because the study actually shows
00:01:58quite interesting trends. Good morning, Mart, good
00:02:02morning, so what does it show? That productivity, not
00:02:05versus then, but productivity and with that financial results and
00:02:09AI at the center of all this. What can we say
00:02:11most simply about the survey results? Basically, the survey says
00:02:15that AI theoretically increases our
00:02:18productivity, but if we start looking at the results,
00:02:21then actually it doesn't seem that this productivity growth is anywhere
00:02:25to be found, which raises several
00:02:28questions as to why this is the case. It's as if expenses
00:02:31have been made, activities are
00:02:34done with AI, but the result is not yet
00:02:37achieved. And what is the reason for this? We see that the work of many employees
00:02:41is done faster, the opportunities of AI,
00:02:45as if the company knows how to utilize them, but what is the
00:02:48"but" moment here then? Well,
00:02:51let's say, I'll give an example, let's say that a job that took six
00:02:54hours is done in four, and two, two hours
00:02:58are supposedly saved, but those two hours are not... in turn, for some
00:03:02additional activity, so that we do something more, something better, meaning
00:03:05that we don't apply that time to do something more,
00:03:09better, more expensively, cheaper, whatever we do with it, that
00:03:12doesn't actually happen today, and that's the problem, that you supposedly save two
00:03:16euros, if you don't do anything smart with it, then it doesn't actually do anything
00:03:19for you. But what should companies do then, because this is the
00:03:23key point, how to make the time saved by AI
00:03:27genuinely work for the company, yes? Yes,
00:03:30basically, the thing that stops it is that individual
00:03:33tasks are done, a little bit here, a little
00:03:37bit there, but there is no systematic approach. This means that if we
00:03:40look at the entire process, whatever
00:03:43the company does, if we look at the whole, if we think about what is the
00:03:47new and better way to do these things and how we apply AI
00:03:50there, generally that's where it stops, because
00:03:54it's just, again, I said that we do elements here and
00:03:58there, but we don't actually change the whole, so then the benefit
00:04:01remains very, very small and often, as you said, it doesn't actually
00:04:05translate into financial results, and this is not only an Estonian problem, it's actually the same problem
00:04:09globally. How many companies have already understood this formula
00:04:12and have reorganized their work processes and this is actually
00:04:16reflected in the financial results? Does this somehow emerge from the study, that there are also those who
00:04:20have actually still clearly benefited financially from all this?
00:04:23Yes, of course,
00:04:26there are definitely fewer of them than more, but
00:04:30there are such companies, and those who specifically take the approach that
00:04:34we don't hold on to anything old, we think about what is the new and better way to do things, we know what our
00:04:38goal is, how would we then do it differently, so that
00:04:41we can free ourselves from the old baggage, so to speak, and think
00:04:44freely about a new way of doing things,
00:04:49and I right? Well, that's easy to say, often it's very difficult, but from the employee's
00:04:53perspective, what is the situation now? We talked about work that
00:04:57can be done in four hours instead of six.
00:05:01The employee definitely benefits from this, but fears arise,
00:05:04uncertainty arises, and perhaps a job is lost, exactly,
00:05:07so that's also another reason why we
00:05:11look at the survey, that actually if
00:05:15an employee fears for their future,
00:05:18then the company probably won't see or
00:05:21get any benefit from using AI, because why should they do it? Because if
00:05:25they do something very well, then the result is that their
00:05:29so-called result, which is measured in time, their time
00:05:33usage decreases, but the work remains the same, because as we said before,
00:05:36nothing new is added, we don't know how to measure this new thing, we are
00:05:40used to measuring time, that if we start...
00:05:44offer our service differently or make a product, then
00:05:47then value arises from that, right? As long as that is not there, then
00:05:51it can happen that the employee is punished, and if they don't trust their organization
00:05:55in that regard, that yes, I believe that if I make this thing
00:05:59better, then we all benefit, so if that trust isn't there, then obviously
00:06:03they won't start doing it, right? Well, it sounds like there are a lot of such situations now, that
00:06:06an employee understands that something can be done in three
00:06:10hours instead of six, but what does that mean for me?
00:06:12The moment you start thinking about it, but then it's the employer's place to
00:06:16intervene and completely rethink the employee
00:06:19evaluation and valuation system differently, not to say
00:06:23goodbye to the employee, but to think about what they can do with that newfound
00:06:26three hours, exactly, exactly,
00:06:29so this is about building a layer of trust, if we think
00:06:33about the digital state as a whole, why is our digital state so successful? Because we trust
00:06:37the state, yes, that's what now needs to happen in parallel, to trust your
00:06:41organization. That indeed, if we do things better,
00:06:44do things differently, then it will get better for everyone, not that
00:06:48my job just disappears after that, right? That's not the good
00:06:51way to do it, right? Last week's big
00:06:55layoff news, they kept coming, there were many of them, they
00:06:58caused a lot of fear in many people. How do these
00:07:01layoff announcements align with your research or not?
00:07:05That, well, companies have still seen that AI does people's work
00:07:08and we no longer need these people in this position. So should
00:07:12employers actually think differently, wait, wait, let's not
00:07:16lay off, but put these people to work for the company in a different way, or
00:07:19have these entrepreneurs understood that they simply don't need
00:07:22these people? Let's say that in the internal
00:07:25affairs of every company, there are so many nuances that I can't say exactly about specific examples,
00:07:29but what I can say in general trend is that
00:07:33AI has made the competitive situation much
00:07:36faster. This means that you have to react very, very quickly,
00:07:39that probably some options that were
00:07:43suitable at that moment, whether you always have to
00:07:46lay people off, I would say that probably at some point there is no exclusion,
00:07:50there is no other way, but this is not the only way, that's the thing, when we talk
00:07:54about restructuring work, then
00:07:57if our work changes, it doesn't always mean that the
00:08:00role disappears, but again, it's not excluded, that
00:08:04of course part of it is also that we actually
00:08:07might not need certain roles, we don't know how to use it differently, but at the same time, there might be
00:08:11other organizations that need them, right? Well, in a specific organization, it's no longer needed,
00:08:15right? But for the employee, the current knowledge, which is also based on your research,
00:08:18is important, that the ability to retrain, to adapt, it's
00:08:22super important, if the company allows it at all, to seize
00:08:25those opportunities, so that you don't have to lose your job, but maybe
00:08:29an application will be found for you, well, so that you can be useful to your company
00:08:32in a completely different way, exactly, and well, if I thought that if a manager came and said,
00:08:36"You know, we're making a big change, we're going to start using AI," then as an
00:08:40employee, I would think about that as an opportunity to learn
00:08:43how to work in a new way, how to do things the way
00:08:47I actually want to, and if you gain that experience,
00:08:50then basically you have a very unique experience also in a global
00:08:53sense, that we actually completely redid all our processes, because
00:08:57there are still very few people today who are willing
00:09:01to do that, who have experienced such a process where we simply
00:09:05replace our processes with AI, so that's actually a very unique experience,
00:09:08so I would rather recommend going along with it and
00:09:11gaining a unique experience. What could the coming years bring,
00:09:15is there reason to believe that, well, what you have talked about
00:09:19at length today, that it will be understood more and more and
00:09:23at some point this increased productivity, that it will actually be reflected in
00:09:26financial results? Well, let's say these so-called
00:09:30small factors are already visible today, that
00:09:34both in Estonia and globally, that
00:09:37there may have been a weariness with this so-called, I call it playing with AI, that
00:09:41one wants to get the real thing, so that
00:09:44this trend is already visible, that people want to get the
00:09:48real benefit, meaning that's the thinking, how do we really implement
00:09:51it as a whole in the organization, not that everyone tinkers a little
00:09:55in their corner, that's already visible, I would say that rather it's already
00:09:58today, let's say we are already stepping on the path that will lead us to this result, so
00:10:02that this predicting is a yearly
00:10:05task like this, let's say I would say that in 12 months
00:10:09we will definitely see something different.
00:10:12"We see difficulties, but we also see the first victories. Mart, thank you
00:10:16for this overview and a very interesting, slightly different view on how
00:10:20artificial intelligence is used in companies or is not actually
00:10:23used yet. Thank you.
00:10:26Tonight, of course, there is Osoon, because it's Monday and
00:10:29Osoon talks about mosquitoes. West Nile virus is
00:10:33a potentially very dangerous disease,
00:10:36has claimed many lives even in Europe. Last year,
00:10:39scientists discovered for the first time a mosquito carrying this virus
00:10:43in Estonia. Have our mosquitoes become much more dangerous than they were
00:10:47before? Osoon will investigate that tonight.
00:10:49"Mosquito bites are usually just
00:10:56an annoying few-minute
00:10:59itch for us, but for veterinarians and scientists, these same
00:11:02tiny pests have become a worrying
00:11:06research subject, because through mosquitoes, new
00:11:10dangerous parasites and also diseases can reach
00:11:14our pets and eventually
00:11:16humans.
00:11:19So, Maare, what are you doing here? We're going to put up mosquito traps,
00:11:22but then the question arises, why would
00:11:26you want to go in there, and for that, we have a whole bunch of dry ice with us.
00:11:29Ah, such a secret, aha, so they
00:11:33like it? They like it, when the dry ice melts, then
00:11:37actually quite a lot of CO2 is released from it,
00:11:40exactly, and CO2 is what attracts, because
00:11:44when we
00:11:46sweat, mosquitoes also come to us, right? Exactly,
00:11:50so this is the component we use to attract
00:11:53these singing mosquitoes.
00:11:56Scientists are focusing on disease agents
00:11:59associated with mosquitoes. In Estonia, parasites
00:12:02that primarily affect dogs are found, which can
00:12:05rarely infect humans. In addition to
00:12:09parasites, the West Nile virus has recently
00:12:12come into the focus of scientists, which has already claimed
00:12:15141 lives in Europe
00:12:17this year.
00:12:25All Souls' Day today and the season of souls has begun with November, and
00:12:28Einike Sooveli is also here. Good morning. Good morning. Well, Einike, you know these customs and
00:12:32traditions, that nowadays it's
00:12:35such a lovely thing that people still put a little candle
00:12:38on November 2nd, right, or a little lamp either on the window sill or just
00:12:42in the room, and perhaps they don't even think about the deeper meaning, but
00:12:45it's just so lovely to be, mhm, and it's also such a
00:12:49simple thing, right? Is the burning of candles, keeping the light
00:12:53in the house during the time of souls, an old tradition?
00:12:56I think that, well, the fact that we put a candle on the window sill,
00:13:00that's actually not a very old tradition, but
00:13:03still, for Estonians, the candle and the candle
00:13:07flame and fire have always had a very significant
00:13:10meaning. For example, when a child was born, then for three nights and days a
00:13:14candle was kept with him so that the devil would not
00:13:17exchange that child for his horned one, so that
00:13:20fire has always been something that brings good, candles are
00:13:24burned at weddings and at Christmas, so I think that
00:13:28perhaps in the olden days, a lantern was placed on the window sill
00:13:31with a candle, but the fact that it's specifically
00:13:34on the window sill, say on a saucer or in a candlestick, that's more
00:13:38of a 20th-century custom, mhm, a beautiful custom, in any
00:13:41case. Once a little girl asked me how they remember where to
00:13:45come, these spirits, that whether spirits exist or not, that wasn't the question at all,
00:13:48but how they remember where their home is and if they've moved, do they
00:13:52go to the wrong home? No, certainly not, because I
00:13:56think that spirits are so closely connected to us, because if there
00:14:00were no predecessors, there would be no us, at least not in the form we are in
00:14:03now, and that's why it's sometimes sensible to perhaps think, where did I get
00:14:07some characteristic or appearance
00:14:10from, that it might have come from
00:14:14far away, and it's just nice to think that I'm not
00:14:17alone in this world, but that I have such a long
00:14:21history. When my child was little, she was a bit scared of this soul
00:14:27day, I told her to definitely leave the candle burning, extinguish the fire in between and think calmly. She found
00:14:31it a bit scary, I thought there's nothing scary about it, those who come
00:14:34to us, whom we think of, whom we want to come, they definitely want
00:14:38only good for us, why would our ancestors want their descendants
00:14:41to fare badly, certainly not, and then in the old days it was even
00:14:45believed that they should be called by name, that usually the master of the house,
00:14:49when food was left on the table,
00:14:51then he would start calling, "come now,
00:14:55you and you and you," and then they would indeed come by name, not like, "great-grandmother"
00:14:59or old wife, because truly very
00:15:03distant ancestors might not have been known by name, yes, but you simply
00:15:06couldn't let every spirit in, because there were also spirits, for example, the spirit of a murderer
00:15:10or those who wandered around, whom the mummers later
00:15:14scared away, so there were restless spirits who hadn't made it
00:15:17to either side, meaning not to
00:15:21the evil ones nor to, well, how much Estonians
00:15:24believed in God. But that they hadn't made it to the afterlife, and
00:15:27that's why they wandered around, and you weren't allowed to let them in, but then
00:15:31you had to say immediately, "don't you come," or
00:15:33you had to name them by name, and well, the most terrifying were
00:15:37the hanged, who also desperately wanted to get somewhere warm, and, but they weren't
00:15:41allowed in, because it was still the greatest sin to kill yourself, no matter how
00:15:45hard life is, but this is a tradition whose roots extend, who knows
00:15:48where, right, that we actually can't trace it with our finger,
00:15:52that's where it probably starts. All Souls' Day has been celebrated in Estonia
00:15:55since the 14th century, or this time of souls, because now we say that it's
00:15:59November 2nd, but actually it used to start already
00:16:02on Michaelmas, and then according to different sources, it could then end at
00:16:05Christmas or after Martinmas, like. "this entire dark time, when Estonians were already
00:16:09in their threshing barns, telling fairy tales
00:16:12to children, sitting, thinking about the past,
00:16:15thinking about the future, it was such a peaceful time, and then it was believed that
00:16:19it was good for souls to move around if there was no noise, that on All Souls' Day you really shouldn't
00:16:23make any noise, silence and peace. Was
00:16:26food left on the table, or was it placed, taken to the sauna
00:16:30or where was it placed, or just like that in the middle of the kitchen? In some places it is described that
00:16:34the food was left in the sauna, but generally from the sauna, it was definitely necessary to leave
00:16:37one sauna whisk, a piece of soap and warm water
00:16:41for sure, and then one could leave food on the table
00:16:44in the room, and to find out if the souls had indeed visited, because children
00:16:48really wanted to know if they had visited, then usually some
00:16:51flour was sprinkled on the table or then ash
00:16:55somewhere, so that it would be visible whether the footprints were there or
00:16:58not, and then, well, I don't know who else went there to do them, well,
00:17:02I don't know, maybe some family member then
00:17:05bit a piece of turnip or something,
00:17:09but, well, I think that if one really wants to believe something, then
00:17:13then it is so, that they probably indeed saw that something had been
00:17:16eaten, if one believed in a kratt, then why couldn't a soul come home and
00:17:19eat this food? And rather it was such a bright and light belief, not that
00:17:23it's a bit scary or something, no, I think the ancient Estonians didn't
00:17:27think there was anything scary about that time, because these were still their
00:17:30close people and they wanted good for them and it was believed that if
00:17:34the deceased longed for anything, it was
00:17:37the sauna and good food and being home, that home was still
00:17:41such a sacred place and I think that rather
00:17:44yes, there was such brightness and gratitude in the soul,
00:17:48that thanks to you I exist and thank you for that. Was
00:17:52there also some kind of warding off or warding magic, that if somehow the murderer's, I don't know,
00:17:56ancestress or ancestor tries to come, then well, some kind of sign,
00:17:59I don't know, on the door scares them away or well, I know that on Martinmas
00:18:03there was a lot of noise precisely to drive them away, but
00:18:07directly, well, I can't say if there was any, well, there were anyway
00:18:11crosses and circles on all doors and all sorts of protective signs were everywhere
00:18:15to ensure that no evil person would come in,
00:18:18and then what has disappeared on All Souls' Day are the soul beggars, in the olden days
00:18:22there were actually soul beggars also similar to Marti and Kadri, yes, but they
00:18:25were dressed in white, usually then
00:18:28women, and sang in such a mournful voice, that you see
00:18:32we came here to you and give us now something to eat,
00:18:35and then there is even a recorded old song, where it is
00:18:38sung that come, that
00:18:42we can get out of the graveyard and then go to our loved ones and
00:18:45then at 12 o'clock we must definitely be back, because
00:18:48the bell calls us back to the graveyard. How
00:18:52much of this is a mixture of ancient beliefs and traditions
00:18:55and Catholic Christian traditions?
00:18:58They are all intertwined, well, Catholic
00:19:01Catholic faith says that it's All Saints' Night
00:19:04and then, like... also
00:19:07specifically rather one day, but for the old Estonians, actually the entire
00:19:11dark time was the time for spirits to come home, but at the same time there are, well
00:19:15a lot of them, we can't say pagan, but ancient
00:19:19customs, that later they were then somehow integrated or, well,
00:19:22adapted to Christianity, so that they would be such that people wouldn't have to give up
00:19:26old beliefs, but that if Christ was added, then
00:19:29people accepted it faster, simply. But the fact that we
00:19:33now light one small candle is actually nice, perhaps then
00:19:36to challenge our memory a little, why we do this, that we look, oh, see, the
00:19:40neighbors have put one, I'll put one too, but what exactly is it? Well, it's cozy and nice anyway, right?
00:19:44Yeah, very, very, thank you for coming this morning and
00:19:48today is All Souls' Day,
00:24:20Good morning, it's eight o'clock and the news continues.
00:24:23In Narva, the C1 level Estonian language
00:24:27was successfully passed by only almost 15% of participants.
00:24:30Across Estonia, the corresponding figure was nearly 30%.
00:24:34According to language teachers, the lack of an Estonian-speaking to achieve a high level.
00:24:37communication environment, the difficulty
00:24:40of the exam, and the lack of suitable study materials make it difficult
00:24:43C1 level requires, in addition to good language skills, the ability to discuss
00:24:47complex topics and one's views. According to the Ministry of Education
00:24:51and Youth Affairs, a pass rate of about
00:24:5430% for the advanced level exam is normal. However, students
00:24:58from Narva often have to find opportunities to practice Estonian
00:25:01daily themselves. More can be read on the
00:25:03portal.
00:25:06As of today, due to the Rail Baltica infrastructure works in Tallinn, the
00:25:10timetable for passenger trains in the eastern and southern directions will change. The travel times for the
00:25:13Aegviidu-Tapa and Narva lines will be shortened, Narva journeys
00:25:16will be shortened by an average of 20 minutes, and
00:25:20Aegviidu and Tapa journeys will be five minutes faster, Elron announced.
00:25:23Infrastructure works will also end on the Tartu-Valga
00:25:26section, meaning that the last journeys of the day can again be served
00:25:30by train instead of bus. Infrastructure works starting at
00:25:33Ülemiste station will also bring changes to timetables in the eastern
00:25:37and southern directions. The biggest change concerns the evening train from Tallinn
00:25:40to Aegviidu, which will depart 35 minutes later
00:25:44than before, i.e., at a quarter past five. Passengers on the Tallinn-Narva line
00:25:48are asked to note that in the morning, the first journeys of the day in both
00:25:51directions will depart earlier than before, and the late-night
00:25:55Narva-Tallinn express train will depart 24 minutes
00:25:58earlier. But let's continue with foreign topics.
00:26:02Before the US mid-term elections, polls indicate a possible change
00:26:05in voter preferences, said US political analyst Lauri
00:26:08Almann on television. If we look at the
00:26:11poll results,
00:26:14which can also be erroneous, then let's say this
00:26:17leaning towards Democrats in various places, as was just
00:26:21said earlier, also in those states where Republicans
00:26:25have usually been in a very good
00:26:28position, in those states where Donald Trump, for example, has won,
00:26:32not by five, six, seven percent, but by
00:26:3510, 12, 17
00:26:38percent. Uh, so in those places, the
00:26:41poll results tend to lean towards Democrats
00:26:44now, and and
00:26:48actually, a certain nervousness is also shown by how, for example, President Donald Trump's
00:26:52visits and speeches during
00:26:55this campaign have been planned. He has visited states
00:26:58that a Republican
00:27:03president would usually not visit.
00:27:06The reigning Bulgarian President Iliana Yotova declared herself the
00:27:09winner of the Bulgarian presidential elections. According to preliminary
00:27:12election results, she, who supports starting a dialogue with Russia
00:27:16and ending military support for Ukraine, received
00:27:1958% of the voters' votes. Her rival,
00:27:23the pro-European Andrei Kyurov, had to settle for about 38
00:27:26percent. Vice President Yotova became president this
00:27:30spring when the previous president, Radev, stepped down. If
00:27:34the election results are officially confirmed, Yotova will become
00:27:37Bulgaria's first president to take office with
00:27:40an election victory.
00:27:42We spoke with Bulgarian citizens about what is on
00:27:46their minds every day.
00:27:48We talked about incomes, we talked about
00:27:52peace, we talked about challenges.
00:27:55And today they understood our message. Many
00:27:59challenges lie ahead, tough
00:28:02times. It is important to
00:28:05say here that at the end of this campaign, we,
00:28:08as a society, as citizens,
00:28:11should seek unity, rather than
00:28:15division. It was divisive
00:28:17enough.
00:28:22Australian police significantly strengthened security at Sydney's
00:28:25most famous beach, Bondi Beach, where a bloody anti-Jewish
00:28:29terrorist attack was carried out last December. To prevent new
00:28:32similar attacks as the anniversary of the attack approaches,
00:28:36250 fully equipped police officers
00:28:39now patrol the beach. Police chiefs confirm that sending
00:28:43police officers in full combat gear to the beach will not be the
00:28:46only security measure. Two men opened fire last December at a Jewish
00:28:50religious holiday celebration, killing 15
00:28:53people. According to the shooters, they were inspired to commit the crime
00:28:56by the activities of the extremist
00:28:58organization Islamic State. But let's return home and talk
00:29:01about the weather. Today the weather is cloudy with clearings and it will rain
00:29:05in many places, with a predominantly southerly wind of 1.6 meters
00:29:08per second, on the coast a south-westerly and southerly wind of 3-9,
00:29:12with gusts up to 12 meters per second, in the evening the
00:29:15wind will turn to the northwest and north in the islands and on the northwest coast,
00:29:19the air temperature today will remain between six
00:29:22and 10 degrees Celsius. We meet again at 8:30,
00:29:26have a nice
00:29:26continuation of the morning.
00:30:50about creative therapies, for example, art therapy exists, then there is
00:30:53movement therapy, then what else, there is music therapy
00:30:57for sure, which in which situation is best?"