In This Episode: ChatGPT Searches, Digital License Plates, and Social Media Trends
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05:35 — 60.1MB)
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
- 0:45 GR: ChatGPT search engine.
- 2:30 It’s like Perplexity
- 2:50 Is this the end of Google?
- 4:00 You can set ChatGPT as default search engine
- 11:30 Leo: Perplexity search continues to impress me
- 12:00 GR: iPhone call recording
- 15:00 Locating the other caller
- 25:00 GR: Vinyl license plates not allowed everywhere – What is a digital license plate?
- Expensive digital screen!
- 26:50 Theft prevention… plate changes to the word “stolen”
- 35:00 GR: Apple Vision Pro, sales slow
- 40:00 LN: “Canon is releasing a new spatial lens for the EOS R7” – reminds me of something (Star Trek)
- 43:40 GR: AI Prime video recap
- Finding Kelsie Grammer
- 49:00 LN: One More Year (for $30).
- 51:00 Hardware requirements for Windows 11
- Conspiracy theories
- 53:00 GR: Social media stuff. Bluesky gets 1 million new subs, but Threads adds a million per day.
- Seeing a lot more engagement on both, but mostly Threads.
- Bio pages
- https://askleo.com/link-in-bio/
- https://macmost.com/social
Ain’t it Cool
- 58:00 LN: Star Trek Prodigy, Netflix (yeah, I’m into escapism these days). Umbrella Academy too.
- 1:00:00 GR: Neal Stephenson’s Polostan, Bomb Light Cycle
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
- 1:03:20 LN: Going Passwordless Without Going Passwordless
- 1:04:13 GR: How To Record Calls On an iPhone
What program do you use for transcribing your audio to written text? It does a great job of it.
We’ve played with a few, but right now we’re using https://www.castmagic.io/ for the transcript and more.
Thank you, Leo. A bit pricey for my minimal needs. I’m been using otterai but it has real trouble distinguishing between different speakers let alone getting words right, e.g. “Aristotle” always comes out “aerosol,” which I find hilarious. Thanks again and keep up the fine work–I’ve been a follower for many years.
I’ve been experimenting with Bard and Copilot as a search engine with questions to Ask Leo!, and I find they come up with a totally wrong answer. I tell them it’s wrong and I correct them. They come back with an apology and say I’m correct. They have access to the correct information but give the wrong results. I’m probably helping train the LLM but there’s so much incorrect information on the Web and those AI engines have a hard time determining what is correct and what is different.
I also use AI to check my answers. I’ll compose an answer and submit it to an AI engine. It’s caught a few errors but most of the time it agrees.