Category: Presentations 2024
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Tips on detouring around paywalls
On Thursday, October 10th we experimented with getting around online newspaper paywalls as described in this article : 18 Free Ways to Get Around a Paywall to Read an Article https://lifehacker.com/how-to-bypass-a-paywall-to-read-an-article-for-free Some of the methods described are a bit techie, … Read more
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You can browse privately in Chrome and Edge (sort of ), but it’s a bit of a faff
To find privacy settings In Chrome: Click on the “Kebab” menu (three vertical dots, top right of the address bar). Select Settings, Privacy and Security. There are umpteen pages of links and settings. It’s worth starting with the “Privacy … Read more
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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
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AI Voice cloning for everyone!
On Thursday 19 September, we looked at how anyone can do AI voice cloning – at a price! Why would you want to clone your voice? Perhaps an illness like Parkinsons means that you are gradually losing the ability to … Read more
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Is it a fake image or real? What can AI tell me about a photo?
On Thursday, 12 September we played around with AI and images. We took a look at this website which generates faces of people who do not exist. They look very real! Just refresh/reload the web page to generate a … Read more
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The AI Translation Challenge – and more besides.
On Thursday, September 5, we compared the performance of ChatGPT, Microsoft Co-pilot and two online translation tools: Google Translate and DeepL when given some translation tasks…and played around with more besides. Several Club members use ChatGPT, mainly as a writing … Read more
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AI in Higher Education more ….
Following on from the presentation by Grant Douglas, he has kindly sent us some reference information for this topic and a copy of the slides he used. A collection of articles on the topic of: How Generative AI Is Reshaping … Read more
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The Impact of AI in higher education. Presentation report.
On 11th July 2024 Grant Douglas gave a talk explaining the impact that Artificial Intelligence is having, and will have, on higher education. Grant is a senior professor of practice, and the intercultural track coordinator at IÉSEG School of … Read more
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AI – the nitty gritty of Large Language Models
How do LLMs work? There is an EXCELLENT intro on the Swiss site http://www.soekia.ch/gpt.html for preparing teachers to explain it to students. Unfortunately it is in German. Here is a survey of LLMs – while highly technical, it contains interesting … Read more
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AI – the Naked Truth – Part 1: Neural networks
On Thursday, June 27th, Peter Breger gave part 1 of his personal investigation into how AI works. This week he looked “under the hood” into neural networks. Here are links to some useful on-line resources. 1. Sabine Hossenfelder looks at … Read more