EdTechSR Ep 330 AI Summer Surge

Podcast from July 19, 2024

Check out our Episode 330 from July 18, 2024! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

1. GPT-4o mini released (OpenAI; 18 July 2024)

2. SchoolAI

3. Google Vids - Google’s Blog post about Google Vids:

4. ‘One screen, two movies': Conflicting conspiracy theories emerge from the Trump rally shooting (AP, 18 July 2024)

5. NotebookLM goes global with Slides support and better ways to fact-check (Google Keyword Blog)

6. Meta tells court it won’t sue over Facebook feed-killing tool—yet (ArsTechnica, 17 Jul 2024)

7. Claude AI summary and analysis

8. Microsoft is changing how it delivers Windows updates: 4 things you need to know (ZDnet, 18 Jul 2024)

9. Apple rolls out iOS 18 Beta: List of eligible devices and how to update your devices (LiveMint.com; 17 July 2024)

10. FCC closes “final loopholes” that keep prison phone prices exorbitantly high (ArsTechnica, 18 Jul 2024)

11. Jason’s Geek of the Week: Google AI Studio

12. Wes’ Geeks of the Week:: Social Media Text Formatter (CustomGPT - details / instructions) and “Teaching the Conspiracies - Part 2” (starts Sunday, July 21!)

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

1. Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless (The Markup; 17 July 2024)

2. Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4 (Open AI Blog; 27 June 2024)

3. Record labels sue AI music generators Suno and Udio alleging “unimaginable scales” of copyright infringement (MusicTech, 24 June 2024)

4. It May Soon Be Legal to Jailbreak AI to Expose How it Works (404 Media, 18 Jul 2024)

5. State-Sponsored Russian Media Leverages Meliorator Software for Foreign Malign Influence Activity (FBI & CNMV, 9 Jul 2024)

6. Eureka Labs

7. 3 things parents and students told us about how generative AI can support learning (Google Blog; 18 July 2024)

8. Google Researchers Publish Paper About How Ai Is Ruining The Internet (The Byte; 4 July 2024)

9. New ways to get creative with Microsoft Designer, powered by AI (Microsoft Blog; 17 July 2024)

10. Flint AI

11. Anything LLM

12. FACT FOCUS: A look at false claims around the assassination attempt on former President Trump (AP, 16 Jul 2024)

13. noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store (TechCrunch, 3 July 2024)

14. Elon Musk’s X may succeed in blocking Calif. content moderation law on appeal (ArsTechnica, 18 Jul 2024)

15. Musk's X adds pro-Trump icons for Trump hashtags (Mashable, 18 Jul 2024)

16. Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (Slate, Louis Barlay, 7 Oct 2021)

17. Zuck vs. Zuck: 7 thoughts (Louis Barclay on Substack, 3 May 2024)

18. Was There A Trojan Horse Hidden In Section 230 All Along That Could Enable Adversarial Interoperability? (TechDirt, Mike Masnik, 2 May 2024) “using section 230 proactively for declaratory judgment”)

19. A brief update on Zuckerman vs. Meta (Ethan Zuckerman, 9 May 2024)

20. Police allege ‘evil twin’ of in-flight Wi-Fi used to steal passenger’s credentials (The Register, 1 July 2024)

21. Sick of scams? Stop answering your phone. (Washington Post, 17 June 2024)

22. Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry (Futurism, 8 May 2024)

23. Google Search’s New AI Overviews Will Soon Have Ads (Wired, 21 May 2024) - Archive.ph version

24. Wes’ Unshared Geek of the Week Links: AI Facebook Suspension (1 July 2024) and Book: Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality by Renee DiResta (2024) and Stand Out with Meta Verified ($23/mo for FB & IG)

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