Category: Presentations 2025

On our final Thursday session of the year, 18 December, Chris showed a variety of YouTube clips to entertain Club members while they waited for the Xmas celebratory drinks and nibbles to be served. Here are links to the videos … Read more

Google is adding AI to a range of its tools. On Thursday, 11 December, we tried to look at some of these …with only partial success! Google AI Studio Chris introduced Google AI studio, which is a tool for … Read more

On Thursday, 4 December, we tried to help a club member who wanted to buy a Windows 11 laptop for €300. All he could find online were “no-name” Chinese brands of which he was suspicious. We discussed whether it would … Read more

Many online tools for detecting AI content are hosted on sites designed to assist people who want to create things using AI to make them appear more “human”. Detecting Mixed Media is a problem: e.g. is a real photo modified … Read more

On Thursday, 20 November, we discussed new developments in the scammers’ playbooks. On November 6, Google had issued a fraud and Scams advisory which we looked at in detail. Fraud and Scams 2025 – key takeaways The 2025 Global Anti-Scam … Read more

On Thursday November 13 we compared the behaviour of several AI chatbots ChatGPT – https://chatgpt.com/ (logged in with a gmail account) Gemini – Google.com AI mode Co-pilot – Microsoft Edge / Icon top right Perplexity – https://www.perplexity.ai/ Skywork AI (a … Read more

On Thursday, October 6, we discussed whether content created by AI models could be managed and controlled. Chris defined such content as something created by instructing an AI model on what to produce by describing it in words (a “prompt”). … Read more

On Thursday, 30 October, we looked at some websites providing tools to create AI-generated videos. There are quite a few online. Many were linked to ChatGPT so that users can use text prompts to “create” their films. We played around … Read more

On Thursday 24th October the workshop reviewed the causes and solutions for slow computers. Temporary slow down. It can be frustrating when your computer appears to slow down to a crawl when you are trying to use it for … Read more

On Thursday, October 17 we explained some of the common AI terms in layman’s language. We then went on to discuss the challenges posed by “Generative AI” . What is AI ? in a nutshell it is “…the … Read more