TEH Podcast

TEH 210: Tech divide, new and old. Practical AI. Search engines. Future of programming.

Listen Later

In This Episode: Tech divide, new and old. Practical AI. Search engines. Future of programming.


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.)

Top Stories
  • 0:50 GR: The tech divide in everyday life. Dealt with a 2023 ticket system and a 1990s parking system in the same evening with remarkable contrast
    • 08:00 LN: License plate recognition
    • 09:30 GR: Pay by phone parking meters
    • 14:00 LN: Practical AI (as opposed to chatgpt, co-pilot, etc.)
      • Added into existing tools like Photoshop, Canva, & others.
      • Often disguised as features (though often AI because marketing)
      • Grammar tools, for example, have been around for some time, and they’re getting smarter.
      • 20:00 Large language models – turning into a buzz term
      • 23:00 LN: Find myself using different search engine(s)
        • 26:00 GR: Apple and search and billions of dollars!
        • 30:00 GR: Will AI take over programming? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft 
          • 32:00 Coding is an art
          • 35:00 History in coding
          • 40:00 Computer language speaks computer
          • 49:00 Engineering
            • Ain’t it Cool
            • 51:00 LN: What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies – Tim Urban (Wait but Why)
            • 52:30 GR: Star Trek – rewatching original
              • BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
              • 59:20 LN: My Computer Is Infected With Malware. Should I Just Throw It Out? 
              • 59:45 GR: The Practical Mac Buying Guide
                • ...more
                View all episodesView all episodes
                Download on the App Store
                TEH PodcastBy TEH
                • 4.7
                • 4.7
                • 4.7
                • 4.7
                • 4.7

                4.7

                40 ratings

                More shows like TEH Podcast

                View all
                Freakonomics Radio by Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

                Freakonomics Radio

                32,317 Listeners

                No Such Thing As A Fish by No Such Thing As A Fish

                No Such Thing As A Fish

                4,874 Listeners

                MacBreak Weekly (Audio) by TWiT

                MacBreak Weekly (Audio)

                2,015 Listeners

                Accidental Tech Podcast by Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

                Accidental Tech Podcast

                2,142 Listeners

                The Audio Long Read by The Guardian

                The Audio Long Read

                850 Listeners

                Upgrade by Relay

                Upgrade

                1,219 Listeners

                The Daily by The New York Times

                The Daily

                113,004 Listeners

                The Ancients by History Hit

                The Ancients

                3,373 Listeners

                Hard Fork by The New York Times

                Hard Fork

                5,540 Listeners

                The Rest Is History by Goalhanger

                The Rest Is History

                15,844 Listeners

                The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

                The Ezra Klein Show

                16,218 Listeners

                The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart by Comedy Central

                The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

                10,635 Listeners

                The Rest Is Politics by Goalhanger

                The Rest Is Politics

                3,231 Listeners

                The News Agents by Global

                The News Agents

                1,031 Listeners