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.)

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• 0:30 LN: NotebookLM – AI makes a podcast
  
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  • https://notebooklm.google.com/
    
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    • 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
    
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    • 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)
  
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  • 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 -> ??? 
  
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  • 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?
  
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  • 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
    
  
  
  

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

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• 59:40 LN: Silo on Apple TV (Fallout vibes)
  
• 1:02:00 GR: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
  

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• 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