Schedule

Last update: Monday 8/27/24

The editor of this blog will produce three scheduled publications every week: a "Useful AI News" page; a TL;DR summary of the most important new events on the news page; and an audio podcast version of the TL;DR summary.

Our publications aren't for AI experts. They are for knowledgeable computer users who want to figure out what they need to learn about the new AI tools so they can use these tools in their studies and in their future employment.

A. News page ... daily

The news page, divided into ten sections, will be updated every day. Links to our newest stories will be printed in red font. From time to time, links to older news stories (black font) whose content has been overcome by events will be deleted. However, enough older links will be retained so that readers can get a quick sense of where we are and how we got here by skimming the headlines of the remaining articles in chronological order. No section will ever include more than 12 stories.

B. Top Stories ... Saturday/Sunday

Copies of links to the week's top stories on the "Useful AI News" page will be placed in the headlines section of the news page on Saturday.  The headline section will be cleared on the following Monday.  Announcements of the top stories will be posted on the blog's @neoskeptics account on X/Twitter and to the editor's LinkedIn account on Saturday afternoon and Sunday. 

C. TL;DR ("too long; did not read" summary) ... Sunday (afternoon)

A chatbot will produce a draft of a summary of the top stories. The editor of this blog will post an edited version of the draft as this week's TL;DR summary in a new note on the blog on Sunday evening. 

D. Announcements of TL;DR ... Sunday 
Announcements of the TL;DR summaries will be posted on the blog's @neoskeptics account on X/Twitter and to the editor's LinkedIn account on Sunday afternoon. 

E. Audio podcast ... Monday (morning)

A draft audio recording of the summary will be generated by the Descript app in the editor's voice. Using the Audacity app, the editor will refine the audio draft into a final podcast file.The editor will add a link to the podcast file to the TL;DR summary page on Monday morning.

F. Announcements  of Podcast..  Monday (afternoon)/Tuesday 

Announcements of the podcast summaries will be posted on the blog's @neoskeptics account on X/Twitter and to the editor's LinkedIn account on Monday afternoon.