Peter Cooper led the session.
Video: How Al already Impacts Us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJC8VIDSx_Q
What is AI/generative AI/machine learning/AI agent? (PDC)
[Note that these are just my understandings of the terms - there are many other definitions, and many useful resources]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to computer systems capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as learning, problem-solving, and decision-making [This all-embracing definition includes what might be called automatons, a more relevant modern definition is “is an umbrella term for a range of technologies and approaches that often attempt to mimic human thought to solve complex tasks” – such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.]
Generative-AI-An-Introduction (a simple presentation generated by AI!)
https://gamma.app/docs/Generative-AI-An-Introduction-j6b2jxvki1xio2c
Machine-Learning - a-simple-introduction
https://gamma.app/docs/A-Simple-Introduction-to-Machine-Learning-xc62macmgggyrx3
Machine learning (ML) is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) that enables computers to learn from data, identify patterns, and make predictions or decisions without explicit programming, improving their performance over time.
* Supervised Learning
* Unsupervised Learning
* Reinforcement Learning
AI agent - scroll down to see the “AI Overview” result when you Google: “What is an AI agent?”
https://www.google.com/search?q=What+is+an+ai+agent
An AI agent is a software system or program that can autonomously perform tasks, make decisions, and adapt based on data and user feedback, often automating processes and workflows. (eg an AI system that actually does things like “book a flight”)
Video: Making a Deepfake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZFqcvhHkcI
Report: Honor’s Deepfake Detection
https://www.honor.com/global/news/honor-shanghai-mwc-2024/
Demos (PDC)
- Use of Gamma to generate slide shows: https://gamma.app/ (results above)
- Use of Google to get an Overview generated by Google’s AI system (again see above)
- https://notebooklm.google/ : See the podcast generated by the Notebook I created here - It uses just https://u3aivo.uk as its source. You should be able to hear the generated conversation; but you are not able to interact with it in the way I can
(For more on NoteBookLM see “12 NotebookLM Epic Use Cases You Must Try” on YouTube – an excellent demo of a range of uses from simple to complex) - (Microsoft) Copilot (locally on Windows PCs) used to “generate a picture of a group of people playing Rummikub in a garden”, then “make them older”, then “make them British”
- https://www.perplexity.ai/ - I asked “as a charity is it better for us to use direct debits or standing orders?”
- ChatGPT from openai.com – I “prompted it with “I want you to write a simple handbook for the group leaders in our St Ives (Cambs) u3a to help them run their groups. Ask me questions to help create a suitable prompt for an LLM to generate this handbook. Our website can be found at u3aivo.uk.”