QUESTION · ARCHIVE

What was shown in the AI water cooler?

ASKED BY · Guy Cochran · SEATTLE, WASHINGTON · 26 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:42:24

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Bill Davis

No one on the panel watched the AI water cooler, so no answer provided.

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42:23What was shown in the AI water cooler? I don't know. Didn't watch it. If anyone else has any comments, they can raise their hands. But I don't know. So let's go to the next question, I guess. Francis Frey in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I use the RODECaster video for Zoom teaching. Depending on what I send in from an iPad, it can be blurry. Notability, handwriting is crisp and sometimes graphics are blurry from the same app.

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