EdTechSR Ep 304 Privacy Laws, Please!
Podcast from September 6, 2023
Check out our Episode 304 from September 6, 2023! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:
AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action (ArsTechnica, 6 Sept 2023)
Zoom's New 'AI Companion' Will Catch You Up When You're Late to Meetings (CNet, 6 Sept 2023)
OpenAI seeks to dismiss majority of Sarah Silverman’s and authors’ claims in ChatGPT lawsuits (Venture Beat; 29 August 2023)
Zoom's New 'AI Companion' Will Catch You Up When You're Late to Meetings (ZDNet, 6 Sept 2023)
Poe.com: Quora’s “Metacrawler” of Chatbots (free version available; pro is $20/month)
Perplexity.AI: Research-focused AI chat bot (free version available; pro is $20/month); quotes citations
Connected cars are a “privacy nightmare,” Mozilla Foundation says (ArsTechnica, 6 Sept 2023)
These academics studied falsehoods spread by Trump. Now the GOP wants answers (Washington Post, 6 June 2023)
X sues hate speech researchers whose “scare campaign” spooked Twitter advertisers (ArsTechnica, 1 Aug 2023)
A low-cost Macbook is reportedly in the works to take on Chromebooks (CHrome Unboxed; 5 September 2023)
Now Available: Duet AI for Google Workspace (Google Workspace Blog; 29 August 2023)
Google Docs just got a new AI-powered proofreading tool (ZDNet; 30 August 2023)
Google Docs adds new AI-driven proofreading option to help you create high quality writing (Chrome Unboxed; 30 August 2023)
Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generated voices (Rest of World; 27 July 2023)
From the Yikes Department: Microsoft retracts AI-written article advising tourists to visit a food bank on an empty stomach (Engadget; 18 August 2023)
All hail the new EU law that lets social media users quiet quit the algorithm (Tech Crunch; 25 August 2023)
Huawei's Mate 60 smartphone should have been impossible (Creative Bloq, 6 Sept 2023)
For John Green, the Battle Over Access to Books Has Gotten Personal #GiftLink (NYTimes, 31 Aug 2023)
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Prompt: As the Executive Director of the Montana State virtual school, I am interested in virtual education policies, technologies, and best practices for K-12 education. I am also focused on the development of study and online learning skills in students, educational technology, AI in education, and social studies and humanities education. Please provide a summary of an article that highlights the 5-10 major points most relevant to my role and context.
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Jason’s Geek of the Week: Taking Seriously The Threats Posed by A.I., with Tristan Harris -
Wes’ Geek of the Week: How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education by Sal Khan - Khanmigo
Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:
Brave is Adding a Native AI Assistant to its Browser (Thurrott.com; 22 August 2023)
Google’s Recorder app could be set to receive AI generated summaries (Chrome Unboxed; 24 August 2024)
In Praise of Boring AI (One Useful Thing from Ethan Mollick; 2 August 2023)
GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers (Arxiv; 10 July 2023)
PROOF POINTS: It’s easy to fool ChatGPT detectors (The Hechinger Report; 4 September 2023)
Beyond Ineffective: How Unreliable AI Detection Actively Harms Students (Marc Watkins; 3 September 2023)
Researchers figure out how to make AI misbehave, serve up prohibited content (ArsTechnica, 2 Aug 2023)
What normal Americans — not AI companies — want for AI (Vox; 18 August 2023)
Large language models aren’t people. Let’s stop testing them as if they were. (MIT TEch Review; 30 August 2023)
40% of workers will have to reskill in the next three years due to AI, says IBM study (ZDNet; 18 August 2023)
Is your data safe with Google’s generative AI? Here’s what you need to know (Chrome Unboxed; 15 August 2023)
Is the AI boom already over? (Vox; 29 August 2023)
US Copyright Office wants to hear what people think about AI and copyright (Verge, 29 Aug 2023)
You can now train ChatGPT on your own documents via API (ArsTechnica, 23 August 2023)
6 tips to detect AI-generated student work (eSchool News; 6 September 2023)
UPDATE: How to try out Google’s new decoupled Chrome browser on Chromebooks (Chrome Unboxed; 25 August 2023)
The Google Assistant is getting a big reboot around generative AI (ArsTechnica, 1 Aug 2023)
Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AI (The Verge; 15 August 2023)
There's very little a Chromebook can't do compared to Windows or a Mac (Android Central; 14 April 2023)
Microsoft AI Subscription: A New Era In Productivity Tools (AutoGPT; 19 July 2023)
Can Tech Save Democracy? With Rose Jackson (Openweb Podcast, 8 Aug 2023)
The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco. (NYTimes, 13 Aug 2023) #GiftLink
Record Labels File $412 Million Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Internet Archive (Rolling Stone, 12 Aug 2023)
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