In This Episode: Tech divide, new and old. Practical AI. Search engines. Future of programming.
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
- 0:50 GR: The tech divide in everyday life. Dealt with a 2023 ticket system and a 1990s parking system in the same evening with remarkable contrast
- 08:00 LN: License plate recognition
- 09:30 GR: Pay by phone parking meters
- 14:00 LN: Practical AI (as opposed to chatgpt, co-pilot, etc.)
- Added into existing tools like Photoshop, Canva, & others.
- Often disguised as features (though often AI because marketing)
- Grammar tools, for example, have been around for some time, and they’re getting smarter.
- 20:00 Large language models – turning into a buzz term
- 23:00 LN: Find myself using different search engine(s)
- 26:00 GR: Apple and search and billions of dollars!
- 30:00 GR: Will AI take over programming? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft
- 32:00 Coding is an art
- 35:00 History in coding
- 40:00 Computer language speaks computer
- 49:00 Engineering
Ain’t it Cool
- 51:00 LN: What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies – Tim Urban (Wait but Why)
- 52:30 GR: Star Trek – rewatching original