Category: Weekly Newsletter
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‘Tis the Season for the Scammers… Fa la la la.. 🎶
The festive shopping season is revving up, and scammers and fraudsters are finding new ways to filch our money. This Thursday, November 20, we’ll discuss the scams hitting the news this year and how to avoid getting caught. … Read more
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Chatting with the AI Chatbots
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
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How do the chatbots Chat Gpt, Copilot, Gemini and Deepseek differ? What do they “know” about me? Does it matter?
Chatbots are becoming increasingly intrusive. Microsoft’s Co-Pilot is an integral part of Windows 11, Google’s Gemini pops up in the Chrome Browser. Everyone seems to want to use ChatGPT to improve their writing efforts, while the new kid in the … Read more
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AI generated content – it’s not all “slop”
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
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Can AI-generated content be controlled?
We live in a world where convincing AI-images, videos, music and books can be generated at low cost by anyone. No specialised skills are required apart from telling the AI what to make through a good text prompt. While this … Read more
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Fun with AI videos
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
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Last Thursday of the month: Drinks and nibbles and DIY AI videos!
Now that the summer break is over, the last Thursday of the month will feature a social get-together after we have enjoyed a fun presentation. This week, Halloween is approaching, so we’ll play around with some online AI video generators … Read more
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Help – my PC is running slowly
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
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Help – my PC is running slowly !
Although PCs tend to slow down after time, they do not get physically “getting old” in the same way as we do. They just get clogged up with mostly unnecessary junk. So what can we do to clear out the … Read more
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AI terms explained – and the challenge of “Generative AI”
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