EdTechSR Ep 326: Live from Japan!

Podcast from 8 May 2024

Check out our Episode 326 from May 8, 2024! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

1. Google’s New AI Predicts Molecular Behavior, Which Could Supercharge Drug Discovery (CNet, 8 May 2024)

2. Our Students’ Future in an AI-World is Debatable (Higher Education Digest; 3 May 2024)

3. Related: The American Lyceum

4. AIs can now pull quotes from articles without hallucination (Stefan Bauschard; 8 May 2024)

5. This Week in Tech 977 Gahoo Yoogle (with Amy Webb and Kevin Rose)

6. Mitt Romney Reveals Twisted Reason Why Congress Moved to Ban TikTok (New Republic, 6 May 2024)

7. OMG NEW APPLE STUFF!  Everything announced at Apple’s Let Loose iPad event (Engadget; 8 May 2024)

8. Apple’s Crushing iPad Ad Trashed By Hugh Grant, Justine Bateman & Almost Everyone Else (Deadline, 8 May 2024)

9. Is Apple BEHIND on AI???  Fitting Facts To The Narrative At The Washington Post (John Gruber, Daring Fireball; 6 May 2024)

10. The New Propaganda War (The Atlantic, June 2024)

11. How your behavior became the world’s biggest resource (Technically Optimistic Podcast, 24 April 2024)

12. Change Healthcare cyberattack was due to a lack of multifactor authentication, UnitedHealth CEO says (AP News, 1 May 2024)

13. UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on ‘substantial proportion of people in America’ (TechCrunch, 22 Apr 2024)

14. Jason’s Geeks of the Week: ChatGPT… for travel advice! and Fallout on Amazon Prime

15. Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Democracy and Human Rights Need Your Voice! (2.5 min) and all recorded “Webinars with Wes” are FREE! and free Grow with Google course “AI for Educators”

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

1. Nervous about falling behind the GOP, Democrats are wrestling with how to use AI (AP News, 6 May 2024)

2. Will AI dream up the hit TV shows of the future? (BBC; 8 May 2024)

3. OpenAI offers a peek behind the curtain of its AI’s secret instructions (Tech Crunch; 8 May 2024)

4. Google search boss warns employees of ‘new operating reality,’ urges them to move faster (CNBC; 23 April 2024)

5. The Man Who Killed Google Search (Edward Zitron; 23 April 2024)

6. Google paid Apple $20 Billion to be default search engine in 2022 (Apple Insider; 2 May 2024)

7. With YouTube Booming, Podcast Creators Get Camera-Ready (New York Times; 26 April 2024) Gift Link

8. A Columbia professor wanted to document history. NYPD arrested him outside his home (Yahoo News, 4 May 2024)

9. Why the TikTok ban won't solve the US's online privacy problems (DeCoder Podcast, 25 April 2024)

“AI Jason in Japan” (CC BY 2.0) by Wesley Fryer