Author: Christine Betterton-Jones
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What can I do with Google Docs and the “Google Docs Editor’s suite” ?
Everyone who has a Gmail account has access to Google Docs which is an online word processor included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite. This includes Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Drawings, Google Forms, Google … Read more
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Machine translation perils
On Thursday, January 26th we discussed the failings of machine translation and put Google Translate, https://translate.google.com DeepL https://www.deepl.com/en/translator and ChatGPT https://chat.openai.com through a series of challenges. Translation fails pre-date machine translation of course. The following articles summarise some amusing (and … Read more
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Don’t fall into the machine translation trap!
AI has improved translation on the fly for web pages, emails, even the spoken word. However these tools have their limitations and are prone to bloopers. This Thursday January 25th we’ll take a look at how we can spot dangerous … Read more
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Managing Spam, Scams and Phishing in 2024
On Thursday, Jan 18th we discussed these increasingly sophisticated attempts to steal your identity or money. AI tools have enabled tricksters to create convincing e-mails and websites. Ever wonder why we use the term “spam” when referring to unwanted junk … Read more
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Spam, Scams and Phishing in 2024
These sometime dangerous annoyances are getting more sophisticated by the day, especially with the development of AI. This Thursday, January 18th, we’ll review the current situation and discuss how to manage these threats to our privacy and security.… Read more
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Getting creative with AI – playing about with some free on-line apps
On Thursday 11th January we looked at some of the websites offering free access to tools using AI for creating video and music. We also looked at Chat GPT4 in the guise of Microsoft’s CoPilot in the Edge browser. Here … Read more
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Getting creative with AI tools
Since the introduction of “ChatGPT , a huge number of apps and browser extensions have been released to enable us to create poems, novels, images, music, videos (just about anything you can think of) merely by describing what you want … Read more
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Tech Trends in 2024 – how might they affect us?
Many different consumer electronics and IT developments are coming along this year. On Thursday , January 4th we had a lively discussion on how they might impact us. Here are links to some of the articles which guided our conversation:… Read more
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Global connections through music this Christmas 2023 – some YouTube videos with a difference
On Thursday, December 21st, Chris shared video clips which reflect our shared humanity through music – sometimes in unexpected ways! Carols with interesting origins Gabriel’s Message” or “The angel Gabriel from heaven came”How many people realise that this … Read more
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Carols with Global connections and moving musical moments
This Thursday, December 21st Chris will show some videos of carols which have international and historical links – some obvious, some less so. Do you know of any carols which have an interesting history? We’ll also search YouTube to see … Read more