HiTech Podcast

HiTech Podcast
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The HiTech Podcast is a conversation between two friends who love talking about tech with a heavy dose of nerd lore and interests. Join us as we learn how to integrate tech into our work and hobbies. Head to hitechpod.us for all of our episode pages and more info about the pod! We'd love your support at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HiTechPodcast!

  1. 1D AGO

    240 | The Secret to Scaling AI? Corridor Crew Figured It Out First

    What if the secret to getting way better results from AI isn't a better prompt — it's more examples? Josh went down a Corridor Crew rabbit hole and came out the other side with a completely reframed way of thinking about how AI actually learns.In this episode, we break down a fascinating Corridor Crew experiment where they trained a deep learning model to remove green screen using millions of examples — not hand-coded rules. The results? Genuinely jaw-dropping. And the principle behind it? Directly applicable to how you're using ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI tool right now. Josh connects the dots from VFX wizardry to real-world use cases: scripting videos for AI training, building smarter custom GPTs, and even a spicy take on using few-shot examples to get ahead of AI academic dishonesty. 📹 Check out Corridors Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ploi723hg4&t=1455s Head over to our website at ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and ways to support us.Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! We promise that the free version is enough, but if you want the extra features, paying up is even better with our affiliate discount.Ever wanted to create detailed walkthroughs in the easiest way possible? Check out our episode on Scribe and all that it can do for your training needs, SOPs, or troubleshooting docs.Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

    49 min

  2. MAR 24

    239 | Hot Takes, Hard Questions — AI Goes on Trial at Lancaster Learns

    We took the podcast live — literally. At Lancaster Learns 2025, Josh and Will ran an "AI Hot Takes" session where real educators debated the big AI questions in real time, fishbowl style. Chairs. Buzzers. Opinions. No prep.Topics ranged from whether all students should learn AI, to redefining cheating in the age of AI, to "AI will usher in the end of humanity" (yes, that was a real take). The room didn't hold back — and neither did we.This one's part conference session, part podcast episode, and 100% unscripted. Featuring voices from educators in the room, including some returning HiTech guests. Head over to our website at ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and ways to support us.Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! We promise that the free version is enough, but if you want the extra features, paying up is even better with our affiliate discount.Ever wanted to create detailed walkthroughs in the easiest way possible? Check out our episode on Scribe and all that it can do for your training needs, SOPs, or troubleshooting docs.Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

    46 min

  3. MAR 17

    238 | Ethical EdTech: Is AI in Education Moving Too Fast? ft Priten Soundar-Shah

    Priten Soundar-Shah is back on the HiTech Podcast for the first time since episode 133 — and the conversation picks up right where the world left off. After his first book, AI and the Future of Education, sparked a movement in classrooms everywhere, Priten found himself watching institutions sprint headfirst into AI adoption without stopping to ask the hard questions. His response? A new book: Ethical EdTech. Josh and Will dig into what an ethics framework for education technology actually looks like, why borrowing from bioethics might be the move, and how schools, vendors, and policymakers all share a seat at the table. From top-down policy failures to the real risks of leaving communities behind in the AI race, this one gets deep — and it's exactly the conversation the edtech space needs right now. 📅 Ethical EdTech releases May 19th — pre-order now at ethicaledtech.org 🌐Learn more about Priten at priten.org Head over to our website at ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and ways to support us.Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! We promise that the free version is enough, but if you want the extra features, paying up is even better with our affiliate discount.Ever wanted to create detailed walkthroughs in the easiest way possible? Check out our episode on Scribe and all that it can do for your training needs, SOPs, or troubleshooting docs.Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

    50 min

  4. MAR 10

    237 | Should AI Go to War? Anthropic's Pentagon Refusal Explains Everything

    Should AI be handed the keys to military weapons systems? Josh and Will dive headfirst into one of the biggest ethical debates in tech right now — the moment Anthropic drew a line in the sand and refused a U.S. government military contract, only to watch OpenAI step right in.This one gets real. From AI surveillance on domestic soil to whether current models are even remotely ready for life-or-death decision-making, Josh and Will break down the nuance that most takes miss. It's not anti-AI — it's pro-caution. And honestly? When the CEO of an AI company is the one raising the alarm bells, maybe it's worth listening. Head over to our website at ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and ways to support us.Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! We promise that the free version is enough, but if you want the extra features, paying up is even better with our affiliate discount.Ever wanted to create detailed walkthroughs in the easiest way possible? Check out our episode on Scribe and all that it can do for your training needs, SOPs, or troubleshooting docs.Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

    52 min

  5. MAR 3

    236 | Spotify AI Music Fraud: Is AI Killing Real Artists?

    What happens when someone uses AI to generate hundreds of thousands of fake songs and bot accounts to rake in $10 million in Spotify royalties — and then gets convicted for it? Josh and Will dive deep into the Michael Smith AI music fraud case, the first of its kind at the intersection of AI, intellectual property, and streaming platforms.But first — Josh has been building a full-on army of Notion AI agents (yes, plural), and the game poll updater alone might be worth the whole episode. From automating meeting SOPs to scheduling tools, Josh is out here living in the agentic future right now.Then it's time for Judge Josh's court. The DOJ case is closed, but the real verdict — on AI-generated music, fake bands, and what it actually means to call yourself an artist. Head over to our website at ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and ways to support us.Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! We promise that the free version is enough, but if you want the extra features, paying up is even better with our affiliate discount.Ever wanted to create detailed walkthroughs in the easiest way possible? Check out our episode on Scribe and all that it can do for your training needs, SOPs, or troubleshooting docs.Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

    44 min

  6. FEB 24

    235 | OpenClaw: What Happens When AI Goes Unsupervised?

    What happens when you let AI agents run completely unsupervised — no rules, no guardrails, no humans in the loop? In January 2026, we all found out. And it got weird.Josh and Will are back to breakdown the Moltbot (now OpenClaw) saga: the viral social experiment that dropped 1.4 million AI agents into a Reddit-style platform and just... let them go. We're talking agents spending $150 of someone's tokens, bricked phones, a Wired journalist secretly infiltrating the platform posing as an AI, and a whole lot of unanswered questions about what this all actually means for the future of AI autonomy.But this episode isn't just about Moltbot — it's about the bigger lesson underneath it all: the human still needs to be in the loop. Josh shares a wild story from a school presentation that stopped a room cold, and they dig into why that principle matters now more than ever as AI agents get more capable and less predictable. Head over to our website at ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and ways to support us.Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! We promise that the free version is enough, but if you want the extra features, paying up is even better with our affiliate discount.Ever wanted to create detailed walkthroughs in the easiest way possible? Check out our episode on Scribe and all that it can do for your training needs, SOPs, or troubleshooting docs.Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

    42 min

  7. FEB 17

    234 | Minisode: In Sickness and in Health

    Ok, ok, we're not married, but seriously: we've been through a LOT together while doing this podcast. Give a quick listen, have a couple of laughs, and look out for next week's full episode. Interested in all things Proton? Check out ⁠⁠this offer for Proton Unlimited⁠⁠, or ⁠⁠this offer for ProtonVPN⁠⁠. Secure your digital footprint today. Head over to our website at ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and ways to support us.Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! We promise that the free version is enough, but if you want the extra features, paying up is even better with our affiliate discount.Ever wanted to create detailed walkthroughs in the easiest way possible? Check out our episode on Scribe and all that it can do for your training needs, SOPs, or troubleshooting docs.Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

    6 min

  8. FEB 10

    233 | STEM & AI with Jason McKenna at VEX Robotics

    Ever spend hours creating step-by-step tutorials only to watch them become outdated within months? We've been there, and we found a tool that changes everything.This week we're diving deep into Scribe - the tutorial-building tool that's been following us around the internet with ads (and honestly, we wanted to hate it). Spoiler alert: we couldn't. Scribe lets you create professional, editable tutorials simply by clicking through a workflow. No more manual screenshots, no more Word docs converted to PDFs, no more re-recording entire videos when one button changes. Just hit record, do your thing, and boom - you've got a shareable tutorial that you can actually maintain.But here's the BIG news: Will is officially kicking off his De-Google journey, and we're documenting the entire process with Scribe! From Gmail to Proton Mail, Google Drive to Proton Drive, and even migrating his password manager - Will's going all-in on digital privacy. We'll be creating step-by-step Scribe tutorials for every migration so you can follow along and de-Google your own life if you're ready to make the move. Head over to our website at ⁠⁠⁠hitechpod.us⁠⁠⁠ for all of our episode pages, social links, and ways to support us.Need a journal that's secure and reflective? Check out our episodes on the Reflection App, and then sign-up for the App⁠ today! We promise that the free version is enough, but if you want the extra features, paying up is even better with our affiliate discount.Ever wanted to create detailed walkthroughs in the easiest way possible? Check out our episode on Scribe and all that it can do for your training needs, SOPs, or troubleshooting docs.Build a world limited only by your imagination in Topia! A virtual world-building tool built to bring you and any of your virtual guests together. Interested in signing up and learning more? Reach out to us or Topia and let them know we sent you!

    50 min
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The HiTech Podcast is a conversation between two friends who love talking about tech with a heavy dose of nerd lore and interests. Join us as we learn how to integrate tech into our work and hobbies. Head to hitechpod.us for all of our episode pages and more info about the pod! We'd love your support at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HiTechPodcast!

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  • Creator
    HiTech Podcast
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    249
  • Rating
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