EdTechSR Ep 294 IoT Firmware Updates

Podcast from May 17, 2023

Check out our Episode 294 from May 17, 2023! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

1. ChatGPT Adds Web Browsing Feature to Rival Google Bard and Microsoft Bing (Decrypt, 16 May 2023)

2. Wes’ ChatGPT Powered Javascript Program of the Day

3. Influencer who created AI version of herself says it’s gone rogue and she’s working ‘around the clock’ to stop it saying sexually explicit things (Insider, 11 May 2023)

4. AI technology “can go quite wrong,” OpenAI CEO tells Senate (ArsTechnica, 16 May 2023)

5. Meet OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who learned to code at 8 and is a doomsday prepper with a stash of gold, guns, and gas masks (Insider, 1 May 2023)

6. Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny (New Yorker, 3 Oct 2016) archive.today link

7. Professors Are Grappling With an Excruciating Assignment (Slate; 4 May 2023)

8. Amazon Is Being Flooded With Books Entirely Written By Ai (The Byte by the Futurist; 6 May 2023)

9. Your DNA Can Now Be Pulled From Thin Air. Privacy Experts Are Worried. (NYTimes, 15 May 2023)

10. Hackers Contacted Cybersecurity Firm CEO’s Son, Wife in Extortion Attempt (Bloomberg, 10 May 2023) – Archive.Today link

11. Malware turns home routers into proxies for Chinese state-sponsored hackers (ArsTechnica, 16 May 2023)

12. Wemo won’t fix Smart Plug vulnerability allowing remote operation (ArsTechnica, 16 May 2023)

13. Professors Are Grappling With an Excruciating Assignment (Slate; 4 May 2023)

14. Jason’s Geek of the Week: video2recipe.com

15. Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Disruptive Decentralization in Social Media and AI – Bluesky Default Content Moderation – take-a-screenshot.org

Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:

1. Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning (NYTimes, 16 May 2023) #GiftLink

2. Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 (Microsoft Research, March 2023)

3. Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles (Stratechery, 15 May 2023)

4. Can we count on the government to do something about AI? (Vox; 16 MAy 2023)

5. Spotlight: AI Myths and Misconceptions (Your Undivided Attention Podcast, 11 May 2023)

6. AI poses risk to humanity, according to majority of Americans in new poll (ArsTechnica, 17 May 2023)

7. It’s Not Just About ChatGPT.  Other AI Technologies Are Heading to Schools (Education Week; 9 May 2023)

8. How Do We Ensure an A.I. Future That Allows for Human Thriving? (New York Times; 2 May 2023)

9. Newspaper Apologizes For Accidentally Running Deranged Ai-Generated Article (The Byte/Futurism; 16 May 2023)

10. How Google is branding AI: Sparkles, Duet, and ‘generative’ (9 to 5 Google; 16 May 2023)

11. Pew: 60% of U.S. Twitter users have ‘taken a break’ from the platform in the past year (TechCrunch; 17 May 2023)

12. Google will start deleting inactive accounts after two years (ArsTechnica, 16 May 2023)

13. Apple’s new ‘Personal Voice’ feature can create a voice that sounds like you or a loved one in just 15 minutes (9to5Mac, 16 May 2023)

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