Check out our Episode 320 from February 21, 2024! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:
High school senior: Why aren’t more teachers embracing AI? (CNN OpEd, 16 Sept 2024)
Sora by OpenAI (official)
VIDEO: AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever (Marques Brownlee)
VIDEO: Introducing Sora — OpenAI’s text-to-video model (10.5 min)
Musk’s X sold checkmarks to Hezbollah and other terrorist groups, report says (ArsTechnica, 14 Feb 2024)
New Surgeon General Advisory Raises Alarm about the Devastating Impact of the Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation in the United States (US Dept of Human Services, May 2023)
Senate poised to pass biggest piece of tech regulation in decades (Washington Post; 15 February 2024)
Kids Online Safety Shouldn’t Require Massive Online Censorship and Surveillance: 2023 Year in Review (EFF, 28 Dec 2023)
Media Literacy
Here's why conspiracy theories about Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl are spreading (NPR, 1 Feb 2024)
After years of losing, it’s finally feds’ turn to troll ransomware group (ArsTechnica, 20 Feb 2024)
Hardware
After trying the Vision Pro, Mark Zuckerberg says Quest 3 ‘is the better product, period’ (The Verge; 13 February 2024)
Wes’ Geeks of the Week:: Rewind: Third Wave Internet with Ben Tarnoff (Reimagining the Internet, 18 Jan 2024) and Grandparents of Media Literacy and wesfryer.com/after (reboot),
Jason’s Geek of the Week: Matt Wolfe Channel (YouTube)
Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:
Apple Has a New Open-Source AI Image Editor (LifeHacker, 7 Feb 2024)
US says AI models can’t hold patents (ArsTechnica, 14 Feb 2024)
Google launches “Gemini Business” AI, adds $20 to the $6 Workspace bill (ArsTechnica, 21 Feb 2024)
Sarah Silverman’s copyright infringement suit against OpenAI will advance in pared-down form (Engadget; 13 February 2024)
QuillBot (paraphrasing your writing)
Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way? (VOx; 30 January 2024)
Bluesky gets nearly 800K new users in its first day open to the public, despite outages (TechCrunch, 7 Feb 2024)
Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says (ArsTechnica, 14 Feb 2024)
Attribution: Image created with ChatGPT 4 and DALL-E 3, shared to Flickr.