TEH Podcast

TEH Podcast


TEH 206: AI is smart and dumb. Robots can be cute. And Passkeys.

October 18, 2023

In This Episode: AI is smart and dumb. Robots can be cute. And Pass keys.




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
  • 2:00 How’s about collecting data for vaccine reactions, and sore arms.
  • 5:00 GR: AI mishap when trying to summarize the last episode. It’s scary better and scary worse.
  • 9:15 You could have a podcast with ChatGPT.
    • GR: What The If (He’s been doing some of his podcasts where he interviews fictional and historical people using ChatGPT and ElevenLabs)

  • 12:30 LN: A video I shared with my patrons. Made exclusively with TEH listeners: Updating an article. It’s me using AI in a few ways to refresh an older article.
    • 15:00 Using it for images.

  • 17:00 GR: Adobe conference.
    • 19:50 LN: Cast Magic. Makes transcripts, bullet points, summary.

  • 20:30 GR: Disney Robot. Cute adorable robots. Emotive robots.
  • 22:00 GR: Also – Diplomacy Robots. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-diplomacy-robots/ Very nice robots who use diplomacy. Like ChatGTP is overly nice. More plausible future than futuristic sci-fi.
    • 26:00 Questionable Content.
    • 27:00 Disney robot walks through through the woods.

  • 31:00 LN: Battery technology and the future.
  • 34:00 Starlink enabling LTE mobile phones from satellite.
  • 35:15 LN: Passkeys & Google: https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/passkeys-default-google-accounts/ 

  • 41:30 GR: (Something other than computers) NASA’s Oxygen-Generating Experiment MOXIE Completes Mars Mission  
  • 44:00 Mars is a planet inhabited only by robots.
  • 45:45 Tie it all together with happy building robots.

Ain’t it Cool
  • 48:30 GR: Futurama is back