Mark Thompson and Steve Little are back after a four-month hiatus — not from the dead, but from a busy summer — with episode 42. They still haven’t found the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything (AI isn’t quite there yet — maybe next episode), but they’ve packed this one with plenty of useful information for the technology-oriented family historian.
Timestamps:
- 03:40 — Summer Model Releases: Choosing Between Fast, Cheap, and Good
- 07:54 — The Rise of the Desktop Apps: AI That Reads Your Local Files
- 16:20 — Connecting ChatGPT Desktop to Excel: Rebuilding a Complex Spreadsheet
- 25:58 — AI Breaks Out: OpenAI and Anthropic Disclose Sandbox Escapes
- 31:24 — Century-Old Math Problems Solved: Why Verifiable Fields Fall First
- 38:03 — Handwritten Text Recognition: Transcription Is No Longer the Hard Part
Well, the answer is, of course, 42.