October 02, 2024

TEH 231: Podcast AI. Future of search. Passkey resistance.

1 hour 6 minutes

In This Episode: Podcast AI. Future of search. Passkey resistance.

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

0:30 LN: NotebookLM – AI makes a podcast

https://notebooklm.google.com/

Used this article: https://askleo.com/you-are-not-too-old-for-technology/

Created this podcast- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzgxNpTyl1g –

3:00 GR: Creating a podcast with NotebookLM

4:30 They were a bit annoying…

Video: Club MacMost Exclusive: Using Notebook LM to Digest Information

Education. How it can be used in college, and meetings

8:30 TikTok – AI realizing it’s AI… the podcasters realize they aren’t real

It’s a notebook. The podcast is just a part

15:15 GR: Dualities in how people perceive AI (LLM)

16:00 Plagiarism. People often go right to the bad uses. But “plagiarism” isn’t unique to AI.

17:30 Cliffnotes

People can fake stuff lots of other ways.

All knowledge comes from some place else

24:40 LN: The progression of search: Yahoo! -> AltaVista Search -> Google -> ???

26:15 Not Kagi.com, though it’s good as a traditional search engine

26:25 Perplexity.ai is giving me amazing answers

32:30 Searching for ourselves

40:10 GR: When did we start talking about Passkeys?

Passkeys have problems: https://world.hey.com/dhh/passwords-have-problems-but-passkeys-have-more-95285df9

Passkeys are failing to catch on, and for even more reasons than this post states

It’s hard to explain

52:00 LN There’s ALWAYS another way to sign in. Bootstrap problem

55:00 LN: I asked perplexity.ai to “explain passkeys to me like I’m 5”: https://www.facebook.com/askleofan/posts/pfbid0BfnQoYMfQ5FmkuudovxEHuLvwm2oMFgRtWpmn1RhUoZKCizjdnvD99RSmn9KL354l

Get off my lawn!

57:00 LN: Complaining. Because one thing is wrong/broken/insufficient, then all things are wrong/broken/insufficient.

Fallacy of composition – assuming that something true of part of a whole must also be true of the whole.

58:00 GR: Luddites / the new OS has nothing I need so I’m not upgrading.

Ain’t it Cool

59:40 LN: Silo on Apple TV (Fallout vibes)

1:02:00 GR: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

1:03:05 LN: What’s the Difference Between OneDrive and Google Drive and Similar Services? – askleo.com/174112

1:04:40 GR: 15 New Hidden iOS 18 Features https://macmost.com/15-new-hidden-ios-18-features.html

Transcript

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