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Duck Duck Go has been advertising itself on TV recently. Is it a browser or a search engine? Is it all it’s cracked up to be? Is it safe ? Is it better than Edge or Google and Chrome ? … Read more

Last Thursday, we played about with faces of people who didn’t exist. This week Thursday, September 19 we’ll have fun with voices of people who don’t exist and (more disturbingly) fake voices of people who do exist – voice clones. … Read more

Last Thursday, Elaine demonstrated how ChatGPT could accurately transpose handwritten Old English text from a photograph. This Thursday, September 12th, we will dig a little deeper. I know I can tell a bat from a cat – but can AI? … Read more

This Thursday, September 5th, we kick off a new season of presentations by challenging both ChatGPT and Co-pilot with some translation tasks. Have they improved their performance over the past few months? Can I trust them to write a sensible … Read more

On Thursday. June 11th, guest speaker, Grant Douglas will discuss the impact Artificial Intelligence has had on higher education in recent years. Grant is a senior professor of practice and the intercultural track coordinator at IÉSEG School of Management, where … Read more

This Thursday, July 4th, Peter Breger continues his personal reflections on Artificial Intelligence by looking under the hood (or inside the black box) of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Co-Pilot and Google’s Gemini (it used to be … Read more

This Thursday, June 27th Peter Breger will share some of his personal reflections about what is arguably the most important development in Information Technology today – Artificial Intelligence. He will peer under the hood of AI to find out what … Read more

On Thursday, June 20th we discussed what software club members pay for and what free software they use. Several members pay annual subscriptions for software such as Microsoft Office 365, Malwarebytes Premium, VPNs, specialist software such as genealogy programs and … Read more

Many of us use “free ” apps on our phones and PCs. What are the best and safest places to get them? Often these apps are supported by ads or are “crippleware” (cut-down versions of the paid-for versions). What would … Read more

My Windows 10 laptop cannot be upgraded to Windows 11 and they say that support for Windows 10 will end soon… must I buy a new computer? I only do documents, photos, email and internet. Is there an alternative to … Read more