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 podcasthttps://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 NotebookLM4:30 They were a bit annoying…Video: Club MacMost Exclusive: Using Notebook LM to Digest InformationEducation. How it can be used in college, and meetings8:30 TikTok – AI realizing it’s AI… the podcasters realize they aren’t realIt’s a notebook. The podcast is just a part15:15 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 CliffnotesPeople can fake stuff lots of other ways. All knowledge comes from some place else24:40 LN: The progression of search: Yahoo! -> AltaVista Search -> Google -> ??? 26:15 Not Kagi.com, though it’s good as a traditional search engine26:25 Perplexity.ai is giving me amazing answers32:30 Searching for ourselves40:10 GR: When did we start talking about Passkeys?Passkeys have problems: https://world.hey.com/dhh/passwords-have-problems-but-passkeys-have-more-95285df9Passkeys are failing to catch on, and for even more reasons than this post statesIt’s hard to explain52:00 LN There’s ALWAYS another way to sign in. Bootstrap problem55:00 LN: I asked perplexity.ai to “explain passkeys to me like I’m 5”: https://www.facebook.com/askleofan/posts/pfbid0BfnQoYMfQ5FmkuudovxEHuLvwm2oMFgRtWpmn1RhUoZKCizjdnvD99RSmn9KL354lGet 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 TeshBSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
1:03:05 LN: What’s the Difference Between OneDrive and Google Drive and Similar Services? – askleo.com/1741121:04:40 GR: 15 New Hidden iOS 18 Features https://macmost.com/15-new-hidden-ios-18-features.htmlTranscript
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