Every Friday and Sunday, Slate’s popular daily news podcast What Next brings you TBD, a clear-eyed look into the future. From fake news to fake meat, algorithms to augmented reality, Lizzie O’Leary is your guide to the tech industry and the world it’s creating for us to live in.
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The fascinating insightful Kenley C. Vogt returns to finish up our discussion on computer history and why he wrote a book to teach kids the fundamentals of AI usage.
- How cable companies added up old analog channels to bring you a fast Internet connection
- Multiplexing: How fiber optic companies pass multiple signals through the same piece of glass
- Why PC salesmen are so arrogant (Like economics, the industry is all man-made and arbitrary!)
- How these power-hungry AI data centers will eventually (hopefully) give way to more distributed forms of computing
- Why schools are always behind on technology, adopting it after the students have.
- Why we should learn to do math without a calculator first, before learning to use it.
- Why we should learn to think for ourselves before just diving in to AI.
- How programmers need to STOP and THINK before acting!
- Then finally we discuss his book: "The Adventures of AI and the Little Learners"
- Can AI be my friend? How does AI work? Can I trust AI results? Will AI replace my teacher? How to use AI in the classroom?
Buy his book "The Adventures of AI and the Little Learners" on Amazon!
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