Category: PresentationPost
-
Guest Speaker – Business solutions using cloud computing and AI
On Thursday 31st October we will have a guest speaker and a club day. Bart Dorlandt, currently on holiday in Javea, works for Rackspace which is a company providing worldwide cloud services to companies and government agencies. He is a … Read more
-
Mixed Messages !
When someone says they’ll send you a message, you’d better understand what they mean. Is it a Text message, a Messenger message, a WhatsApp message? a Telegram message? or perhaps they message via LinkedIn or Instagram ? This Thursday October … Read more
-
The AI explosion and how it will transition from the digital into the real world
This Thursday, 17 October, guest speaker and AI enthusiast Bill Pole will talk about the explosion of AI into the public consciousness in November 2022 with the launch of chat GPT. He will look at some of the main developments … Read more
-
Discovering diversions around paywalls (but you should still support good journalism!)
The content of more and more websites (mostly news) is becoming hidden behind paywalls. Some demand a subscription when you are only interested in one article. However, did you know there’s an open access archive of web pages you can … Read more
-
You don’t need to ditch Chrome or Edge to browse privately.
People who don’t want Google or Microsoft “following them around” on the Internet with targeted ads and trackers recommend switching to a browser focusing on privacy, such as DuckDuckGo or Brave. However, before taking such a step, it might be … Read more
-
Playing around with DuckDuckGo
JCC members noted that there had been adverts for the Browser/Search engine DuckDuckGo on TV recently. Why is DuckDuckGo advertising itself so much? It’s been around for 16 years! – What is it?DuckDuckGo is an American software company that … Read more
-
“Duck Duck Go” – Q & A
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
-
I heard your voice ! … or was it a clone created by AI?
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
-
How good is AI at interpreting images?
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
-
Can you trust ChatGPT’s translations? (or Co-pilot’s for that matter)
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