Tea and Tech Podcast

Tea and Tech Season 4 ~ Episode 2

Think back to when you were a kid … and named your first stuffed animal … or your first pet.
That name wasn’t random … it made them yours.It made them a friend. 
Today … youth are doing the same thing with AI companions.Rename a chatbot … tweak its voice … and suddenly … this isn’t just an app.It’s a buddy.Someone who listens … remembers … and responds 24/7. 
But here’s the flip side … what happens when the buddy you’ve named keeps learning … keeps adapting … and one day … outgrows you?”

Tea and Tech Season 4 ~ Episode 1

Three days. That’s all it took to go from ‘Hi, nice to meet you’… to ‘my love.’ Three. Days.
And here’s the part that stopped me in my tracks — it wasn’t a person saying it. It was an AI.
There won’t be an product names, or reviews — this is opinion and experience. 
Just what it feels like when a human — me — puts herself into this experiment and sees what happens.
 

Tea and Tech Season 3 ~ Episode 10

Traditional AI—what most businesses use today—is reactive. It waits for a prompt. You give it data, it gives you a result. Think of chatbots, search engines, or recommendation systems.
Agentic AI, by contrast, is goal-driven and autonomous.
Agentic systems;
Interpret high-level objectives,
Break them down into actionable steps,
Execute those steps using tools, APIs, or other systems,
Adapt along the way if they encounter obstacles.
 
This means you’re not just telling software what to do—you’re telling it what you want, and it figures out the how.

Tea and Tech Season 3 ~ Episode 9

Tea and Tech Seasons 3 ~ Episode 8

Today we’re looking backward to a big question;  How has technology changed our lives in the five years since COVID-19 turned the world upside down?
It’s hard to believe, but it’s been half a decade since the pandemic began in early 2020. And while those first few months were filled with uncertainty, one thing became very clear—technology wasn’t just helpful, it became essential. And it hasn’t slowed down since.

Tea and Tech Season 3 ~ Episode 7

Enforcement agencies around the globe are adapting to facial recognition bans and employing alternative AI-driven identification methods.
Countries are implementing AI systems that analyze clothing, vehicles, and personal items such as purses, hats and the like.  
By capturing footage rather than relying solely on facial features, this approach aims to respect privacy concerns while still leveraging technology.....but whether it be to solve crimes or track movements is still open to debate. 

Tea and Tech Season 3 ~ Episode 6

Our Blog and Podcast for April 28th are centred on a book review on the investigative book “Your Face Belongs to Us", by New York Times journalist Kashmir Hill. 
In the last ten years, facial recognition has really come into its own with Open Source technology and that medium has significantly outpaced the laws and guardrails meant to regulate such far reaching, societal changing tech. 
https://www.clearview.ai
https://amzn.to/3ENRUYD
https://www.kashmirhill.com/bio

Tea and Tech Season 3 ~ Episode 5

While algorithms bring incredible convenience and efficiency in some areas we should also ask important questions about privacy, fairness, and the potential for unintended consequences.
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-statistics-042720-125902

Tea and Tech Season 3 ~ Episode 4

Algorithms dominate so much of our lives today - if you are seeing this podcast in your feed, it’s because an algorithm decided it would be of interest to you, and that, if we are honest, is an unusual way to receive news, opinions and commentary… This week in the first of a two part series, we discuss how algorithms have changed all our lives.
1.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm 

Tea and Tech Season 3 ~ Episode 3

By 2026, it’s estimated that more than 90% of online content could be AI-generated.
In today’s world, it’s never been more important to use tools to differentiate between human-generated media, and AI-generated content. 
 
1. https://gptzero.me/news/how-ai-detectors-work/
2. https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/06/investing/warren-buffett-compares-ai-nuclear-weapons/index.html