MacVoices Episodes
MacVoices #25127: Live! – New Beats Pill Colors, Paying for Apple Intelligence, Open AI and Chrome, Perplexity vs. Siri

MacVoices #25127: Live! – New Beats Pill Colors, Paying for Apple Intelligence, Open AI and Chrome, Perplexity vs. Siri

Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Marty Jencius, Web Bixby, and Jim Rea explore the new Beats Pill speaker color exclusives at Target and Walmart, consider the value of paying for Apple Intelligence, and critique Siri’s limitations. Discussions turn to competing AI tools like Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot, comparing user experiences and privacy concerns. Apple’s privacy-first approach is praised, but its AI progress is a concern when viewed against its competition. 

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MacVoices #25061: CES – MacPaw

MacVoices #25061: CES – MacPaw

At CES in Las Vegas we stopped at the booth of first-time exhibitor MacPaw to talk to Garrett Krivicich, Head of Global PR about their new move into the enterprise market with CleanMyMac Business. Delivering remote Mac maintenance such as device cleaning, malware protection, and more, it simplifies keeping your company’s Macs delivering optimum performance while being protected from the bad guys. Garrett also gives us an introduction to Eney, their new smart assistant LLM that will operate on-device and integrate with a variety of third-party apps. 

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MacVoices #25042: Live! – A Deep Discussion About DeepSeek

MacVoices #25042: Live! – A Deep Discussion About DeepSeek

MacVoices Live! digs deep into the many questions surrounding the sudden rise of DeepSeek, a large language model that allegedly was trained at a fraction of the cost of what the “big LLMs” have required. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Marty Jencius, Eric Bolden, Web Bixby, Jim Rea, and Jeff Gamet have conflicting thoughts, opinions, and concerns over the what’s, hows’s, as well as whether it represents yet another threat to both the individual and U.S. security.

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MacVoices #24187: Live! – The Zombie Unofficial Apple Weblog Affair

MacVoices #24187: Live! – The Zombie Unofficial Apple Weblog Affair

The MacVoices Live! panel of Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, James Baraniak, Marty Jencius, Jim Rea, Mark Fuccio, Eric Bolden, Ben Roethig, Jeff Gamet, and Web Bixby has an emotional reaction to the return of The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) under a new owner. The domain was acquired and transformed into an AI-re-written site. The panel expresses shock and disapproval at the unethical practice of utilizing past writers’ identities for AI-generated content without permission. We analyze the potential legal ramifications, emphasizing copyright and intellectual property violation concerns, and explore the worrisome landscape of internet content manipulation. With a focus on authors’ rights, The site was changing in real time while this session was being recorded, and the panelists comment on those modifications as they happened. 

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MacVoices #24167: MVL – Road to Macstock with Michael D.J. Eisenberg, The Tech-Savvy Lawyer

MacVoices #24167: MVL – Road to Macstock with Michael D.J. Eisenberg, The Tech-Savvy Lawyer

Another brand new stop on The Road to Macstock Conference and Expo is a conversation with Michael D.J. Eisenberg, The Tech-Savvy Lawyer. Michael discusses about how he became a dedicated Mac user, and how his talk will on insights into using artificial intelligence for automation tools like Hazel, AppleScript, TextExpander, and Microsoft Word. He also offers a tip or two from another passion: coffee. 

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MacVoices #23183: MacVoices Update – 2023-06

MacVoices #23183: MacVoices Update – 2023-06

In the 2023-06 Update, Chuck talks about Macstock Conference and Expo and The Road to Macstock, Take Control author interviews, and the studio/office refresh. The use of large language models has made its way into MacVoices’ production, and Chuck covers the goods and...

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