Usable and useful

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. It’s a podcast all about using technology to make a positive social impact, or how more often than not, it’s making a negative impact.

Chat GPT and Google have made some improvements to accessibility – so now even more people can plagiarize stuff. Google has introduced some new AI updates to the way search works. And finally, we’ll be looking into a study that says that Grannies are the answer to mental health issues.

Host Bex is joined by TFGL team members, Greg Ashton, Mille Vardheim and Paul Jakubowski.

Our special guest this week is Harry Harrold, Head of Neontribe, a digital agency committed to tech for good!

Good story of the week:

ChatGPT and Google went head to head with their AI updates. And that seems to be good news for accessibility…not that they realised it though: 

OpenAI GPT-4o — breakthrough voice assistant, new vision features and everything you need to know - Tom's Guide 

Bad news story of the week:

At Google I/O last week Google introduced a ton of AI including updates to search. Is this a death knell for the internet or an evolution in the way the internet work?

Google remains focused on its long quest for your eyeballs - The Guardian 

And finally

Turns out grannies are the answer to mental health: 

It’s easy, it’s everywhere: the simple solution improving mental health around the globe - Positive.news 

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