August 09, 2023

TEH 200: Two Hundred Episodes, Listening to your keyboard? Facial Recognition, Vocabulary Helps.

57 minutes

In This Episode: Two Hundred Episodes, Listening to your keyboard? Facial Recognition, Vocabulary Helps.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

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1:00 Episode numer 200!

Episode 1 was Nov 2017 and it was titled: “For One Welcome Our New A.I. Overlords.”

Now almost 6 years later, LLMs are “AI” and the concern is more about misinformation, stealing content, and people losing jobs. What changed?

5:30 Another headline was: And are there too many streaming services?

7:40 LN: 20 years!

8/10/2003 – There was a bug in IE 6!

10:00 Changes in Google

11:30 GR – #1 was iPods in schools

15:30 GR – A new way to steal passwords.

18:20 So so unlikely. Spy movie stuff. The paranoid will love this!

19:30 Two-factor and password managers thwart this.

20:20 But, interestingly, it does make a good case AGAINST pass phrases.

23:00 LN: Facial Recognition: Pro and Con

Easy access at the airport: big pro (for me)

Big con: Woman sues Detroit after facial recognition mistakes her for crime suspect

Old white guys…

29:40 Medical use

30:20 LN – Grammar tools: Pro and Con

Google Search can now critique your grammar and how I use it

33:40 GR – (Aside) How is it that so many reddit posts have bad grammar and even spelling? Even right in the title. Are that many people simply turning off these features?

Vocabulary helps

Ain’t it Cool

43:50 LN – More therapy: (YouTube Shredder)

47:50 GR Oppenheimer. Forget IMAX Laser. Saw it in 35mm baby!

53:30 (What, no Barbie? 🙂 )

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

54:20 LN – 8/10: What I’ve Learned Answering Questions for 20 Years

55:10 GR – Get Creative With Numbers Spreadsheets

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