EdTechSR Ep 303 Happy Birthday Google!

Podcast from August 30, 2023

Check out our Episode 303 from August 30, 2023! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

1. OMG APPLE EVENT

2. Google is 25 Years Old!!! (Android Police; 8 August 2023)

3. AI images are getting harder to spot. Google thinks it has a solution (The Washington Post; 29 August 2032)🎁Link

4. Guy Puts Artist Back Into AI System After He Begs to Be Removed (Futurism , 2 Aug 2023)

5. Stephen Wolfram on Computational Thinking (Wes’ blog post from 7 Aug 2023)

6. A.I. Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat (NY Times, 27 Aug 2023) 🎁Link

7. AI Image Generation in Google Slides is Here (Flipped Classroom via YouTube)

8. Google’s “Help Me Write” AI is coming to Chromebooks on a system-wide level (Chrome Unboxed; 25 August 2023)

9. Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation (Washington Post, 25 Aug 2023) 🎁Link

10. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education sues social media companies over mental health impacts (25 Aug 2023) 

11. The ‘US Cyber Trust Mark’ finally gives device makers a reason to spend big on security (TechCrunch, 23 Aug 2023)

12. Jason’s Geek of the Week: MacBook Air M1 on Sale! 

13. Wes’ Geek of the Week: [VIDEO] Sharing Voice Memos (Family Oral History Project) - full lesson

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

1. Brave is Adding a Native AI Assistant to its Browser (Thurrott.com; 22 August 2023)

2. Google’s Recorder app could be set to receive AI generated summaries (Chrome Unboxed; 24 August 2024)

3. In Praise of Boring AI (One Useful Thing from Ethan Mollick; 2 August 2023)

4. GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers (Arxiv; 10 July 2023)

5. Researchers figure out how to make AI misbehave, serve up prohibited content (ArsTechnica, 2 Aug 2023)

6. What normal Americans — not AI companies — want for AI (Vox; 18 August 2023)

7. 40% of workers will have to reskill in the next three years due to AI, says IBM study (ZDNet; 18 August 2023)

8. Is your data safe with Google’s generative AI? Here’s what you need to know (Chrome Unboxed; 15 August 2023)

9. Is the AI boom already over? (Vox; 29 August 2023)

10. US Copyright Office wants to hear what people think about AI and copyright (Verge, 29 Aug 2023)

11. You can now train ChatGPT on your own documents via API (ArsTechnica, 23 August 2023)

12. https://ideogram.ai

13. Now Available: Duet AI for Google Workspace (Google Workspace Blog; 29 August 2023)

14. Google Docs adds new AI-driven proofreading option to help you create high quality writing (Chrome Unboxed; 30 August 2023)

15. UPDATE: How to try out Google’s new decoupled Chrome browser on Chromebooks (Chrome Unboxed; 25 August 2023)

16. Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generated voices (Rest of World; 27 July 2023)

17. The Google Assistant is getting a big reboot around generative AI (ArsTechnica, 1 Aug 2023)

18. Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AI (The Verge; 15 August 2023)

19. There's very little a Chromebook can't do compared to Windows or a Mac (Android Central; 14 April 2023)

20. Microsoft AI Subscription: A New Era In Productivity Tools (AutoGPT; 19 July 2023)

21. From the Yikes Department: Microsoft retracts AI-written article advising tourists to visit a food bank on an empty stomach (Engadget; 18 August 2023)

22. All hail the new EU law that lets social media users quiet quit the algorithm (Tech Crunch; 25 August 2023)

23. X sues hate speech researchers whose “scare campaign” spooked Twitter advertisers (ArsTechnica, 1 Aug 2023)

24. Can Tech Save Democracy? With Rose Jackson (Openweb Podcast, 8 Aug 2023)

25. The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco. (NYTimes, 13 Aug 2023) #GiftLink

26. Record Labels File $412 Million Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Internet Archive (Rolling Stone, 12 Aug 2023)

Image Attribution: “Google Birthday Box!” (CC BY 2.0) by clevercupcakes