Advances in technology are, for me, heartwarming. I am at heart a progressive. As a world, we must always be improving, or we are decaying. Sometimes both happen at the same time. But these are in the plus column.
Khanmigo gets better. This looks like something we may even use for language learning. Especially the writing part. Watch this 13-minute section from the TV documentary 60 minutes.
I get a firehose of new tools with daily newsletter/posts from There’s an AI for That (TAAFT) and TLDR. It’s nice to focus on one thing once in a while. I like the first better because I can customize what it sends to me more easily.
Three more from Google this week. One for right now, one for a year or two down the road, and a third farther out.
- Gemini Version 2. I find Google’s AI just so much more useful when connected to things like Docs and Forms and their whole infrastructure. Looking forward to the improvements.
- XR Glasses: eXtended Reality includes AR and VR and is the fashionable term (Microsoft has been using it for years). The Glasses are a definite upgrade from Google Glasses of a few years ago. Lots of progress. Looking forward to seeing a real product soon.
- Quantum Computing. I’ve been spending way too much time learning what a big breakthrough this new chip called Willow is. Great explanation at NYTimes podcast Hard Fork (see the second story).
Here is one for teachers and other spreadsheet users. Kevin Stratvert has wonderful how-to videos. He used to do pretty much excusively Microsoft software. This is new for him and for me. AI in a spreadsheet. It does a couple of things like matching up names and grades on two different sheets that take me a long time to do. I’ve signed up and plan to use it this weekend.
That’s all for now. Lots more stuff coming down the pike, though. Teachers, check out Russel Stannard‘s channel for lots of good hands-on tools. Check out his latest on Magic School.
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