EdTechSR Ep 297 Exciting Apple Announcements

Podcast from June 7, 2023

Check out our Episode 297 from June 7, 2023! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

1. A Chatbot Was Designed to Help Prevent Eating Disorders. Then It Gave Dieting Tips (WSJ; 1 June 2023)

2. Can a chatbot help people with eating disorders as well as another human? (NPR; 24 May 2023)

3. What will stop AI from flooding the internet with fake images? (Vox; 3 June 2023)

4. OpenAI still not training GPT-5, Sam Altman says (TechCrunch; 7 June 2023)

5. A professor accused his class of using ChatGPT, putting diplomas in jeopardy (Washington Post, 18 May 2023)

6. Here’s What Happens When Your Lawyer Uses ChatGPT (NYTimes, 27 May 2023)

7. Teachers are on the front lines of a battle to change how teens use social media (CNN Business; 3 June 2023)

8. YouTube rolls back its rules against election misinformation (TechCrunch, 3 June 2023)

9. Apple introduces the 15‑inch MacBook Air (Apple PR)

10. Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple silicon to Mac Pro (Apple PR)

11. Apple’s $3,499 Vision Pro Headset Will Test Marketing Might (Bloomberg; 6 April 2023) - free from Yahoo Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-debuts-3-499-vision-211946203.html 

12. Malicious Chrome extensions with 75M installs removed from Web Store (Bleeping Computer, 2 June 2023)

13. Google Assistant kills off support for third-party note apps (ArsTechnica, 1 June 2023)

14. Jason’s Geek of the Week: www.chatpdf.com

15. Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Mark Rober tells MIT graduates to throw themselves into the unknown (MIT News, 1 June 2023) and “Demystifying A.I.” on From the Horse’s Mouth

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

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

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

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

9. The US Senate is working to get up to speed on AI basics ahead of any legislation; (CNN; 7 June 2023)

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

11. Introducing Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer (Apple PR)

12. Mac Pro with M2 Ultra first look: boy, that’s a big chip (The Verge; 5 June 2023)

13. Apple’s most expensive M2 Ultra Mac Pro is $40,000 cheaper than the maxed-out Intel model (The Verge; 5 June 2023)

14. macOS Sonoma drops support for another wide swath of Intel Macs (Ars Technica; 5 June 2023)