Check out our Episode 321 from March 6, 2024! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:
Apple Has a New Open-Source AI Image Editor (LifeHacker, 7 Feb 2024)
Google Chatbot’s A.I. Images Put People of Color in Nazi-Era Uniforms (The New York Times; 22 February 2024)
Google Chatbot’s A.I. Images Put People of Color in Nazi-Era Uniforms #GiftLink https://bit.ly/3wQ9ff8
Claude 3 Released – (Anthropic; 4 March 2024)
Ideogram 1.0 Released (Ideogram; 28 February 2024)
The AI wars heat up with Claude 3, claimed to have “near-human” abilities (ArsTechnica, 4 Mar 2024)
Windows 11 Gets its First Big Update of the Year With Copilot and Accessibility Improvements (Thurott.com; 29 February 2024)
Biden executive order aims to stop Russia and China from buying Americans’ personal data (Engadget; 28 February 2024)
Walmart isn’t buying Vizio for its hardware. It wants the TV maker’s ad business (Fast Company; 20 February 2024)
$30 doorbell cameras can be easily hijacked, says Consumer Reports (ArsTechnica, 28 Feb 2024)
Microsoft is Killing the Windows Subsystem for Android and Amazon Appstore on Windows 11 (Thurrott; 5 March 2024)
Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip (Apple Newsroom; 4 March 2024)
Jason’s Geek of the Week: New York Public Library’s Digital Collections
Wes’ Geeks of the Week: [VIDEO] Expert Behind Google’s Secret A.I. Writing Tool | Steven Johnson | How I Write Podcast and [PODCAST] How to Fix the Internet: “Open Source Beats Authoritarianism”
Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:
Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat (Courthouse News Service; 29 February 2024)
OpenAI and Elon Musk (Open AI Blog; 5 Match 2024)
US says AI models can’t hold patents (ArsTechnica, 14 Feb 2024)
Creating videos with Pictory.AI (AI experiment documentation by Wes)
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)
AI Tools
Apple Knowledge Navigator (YouTube)
Brave Brings Leo AI to Android (Thurrot.com; 29 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)
Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines (ArsTechnica; 5 March 2024)
It turns out that Odysseus landed on the Moon without any altimetry data (ArsTechnica, 27 Feb 2024)
Attribution: Image created with ChatGPT 4 and DALL-E 3, shared to Flickr.