EdTechSR Ep 324: Deep Dives into Disinformation

Podcast from 17 April 2024

Check out our Episode 324 from April 17, 2024! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

1. Texas will use computers to grade written answers on this year’s STAAR tests (Texas Tribune, 9 April 2024)

2. Hard Fork Podcast: “A.I.’s Data Wall + a Surprise Privacy Bill + What Happened to the TikTok Ban?” (12 Apr 2024)

3. AI Music Generation Takes Center Stage: Udio and Suno

4. Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections (ArsTechnica, 17 Apr 2024)

5. https://substack.com/@katieharbath 

6. The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? (Nature; 29 March 2024)

7. Apple Plans to Overhaul Entire Mac Line With AI-Focused M4 Chips (Bloomberg; 11 April 2024)

8. Apple is reportedly planning a big AI-focused M4 Mac upgrade (The Verge; 11 April 2024)

9. Jason’s Geek of the Week: AI Chat Battle!

10. Wes’ Geek of the Week: StoryGraph

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

1. Society of Authors survey reveals a third of translators and quarter of illustrators losing work to AI (Down The Tubes, 12 Apr 2024)

2. Google Vids is a ‘new AI-powered video creation app’ for Workspace (9to5Google, 9 Apr 2024)

3. Microsoft Copilot AI will soon run locally on PCs (Engadget; 28 March 2024)

4. Ethics / Legality

5. How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. (NY TImes; 8 April 2024)

6. Ideogram releases update

7. Ideogram releases update

8. “Google Vids” is Google’s fourth big productivity app for Workspace (ArsTechnica, 9 Apr 2024)

9. 5 Workspace announcements from Google Cloud Next '24 (Google Blog; 9 April 2024)

10. Google brings AI-powered editing tools, like Magic Editor, to all Google Photos users for free (Tech Crunch; 10 April 2024)

11. Critical takeover vulnerabilities in 92,000 D-Link devices under active exploitation (ArsTechnica, 8 Apr 2024)

12. Boston Dynamics’ new humanoid moves like no robot you’ve ever seen (ArsTechnica, 17 Apr 2024)

“EdTech Situation Room: Episode 324” (CC BY 2.0) by Wesley Fryer