This is a companion page to the AI-for-everyone page. The Ai-for-everyone page is aimed at u3a members who are new to Ai or who are just interested in the basics and want to keep up to date with our monthly AI News events. This Ai-for-Enthusiasts page contains more detailed or specialised articles and information more relevant for the u3a AI project team and for AI Group Leaders.
If you have any suggestions for improving this web site please contact Alan Freeland .
| AI Tools | ||
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| notebooklm | ||
| Suno – Create a song | Udio – Create a song | All about Gemini – May 2024 |
| ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot | ||
| EVI – Empathic AI (4) | Perplexity (2) | PI – natural conversations (2) |
| OpenAI ChatGPT (2,3,4) | Microsoft Copilot (2,3,4) | Google Gemini (2,4) |
| Anthropic Claude 3 (2) | Stable Diffusion (3) | Midjourney (1,3) |
| (1) Not free, (2) Text, (3) Image, (4) Voice | ||
| Courses | ||
| AI for everyone | AI for the Third Agers | Elements of AI |
| AI foundations for everyone | ||
| Education | ||
| AI for Teachers | People-Centred AI |
| Healthcare | ||
| AI and Medicine October 2024 | AI and the NHS |
| Languages | ||
| Spanish | Duolingo | |
| Law Enforcement | ||
| AI in Law Enforcement | Using AI in Policing |
| Society, Ethics, Morals | ||
| Impact |
Who to Follow and Read
- AI Technology
- ARS Technica – a popular and highly readable science and computing blog
https://arstechnica.com - TechCrunch – their AI blog
https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/ - AI Explained
https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official - Andrew NG’s DeepLearning for technical courses on machine learning
https://www.youtube.com/@Deeplearningai
- ARS Technica – a popular and highly readable science and computing blog
- AI Tools, Trends and Ethics
- Matt Wolfe – an enthusiast who focuses on AI tools and trends
Blog: https://futuretools.beehiiv.com/?utm_source=futuretools.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=apple-intelligence-loading&_bhlid=1583721c555f34afff7ba6071776f8e7ce701265
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mreflow - Dr Alan D. Thomson – a super enthusiast with a focus on Ethics and Responsible use
Blog:
https://lifearchitect.substack.com/subscribe?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=email-subscribe&r=dvb0q&next=https%3A%2F%2Flifearchitect.substack.com%2Fp%2Fthe-memo-1oct2024&utm_medium=email
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrAlanDThompson - Ethan Mollick (@emollick on X) for practical uses of AI
- Matt Wolfe – an enthusiast who focuses on AI tools and trends
- AI Skeptics and the Dangers of AI
- Gary Marcus – a long haul AI specialist who’s skeptical of the current hype
Blog:
https://garymarcus.substack.com/subscribe?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=email-subscribe&r=dvb0q&next=https%3A%2F%2Fgarymarcus.substack.com%2Fp%2Fsorry-genai-is-not-going-to-10x-computer&utm_medium=email - Brian Merchant – a skeptic
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/subscribe?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=email-subscribe&r=dvb0q&next=https%3A%2F%2Fbloodinthemachine.substack.com%2Fp%2Fin-california-no-ai-bill-is-safe&utm_medium=email - Edward Zitron – a skeptic of all of Big Tech and their power
https://www.wheresyoured.at/saaspocalypse-now/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter - Tony Seba – An apocalyptic enthusiast
https://www.youtube.com/@tonyseba
- Gary Marcus – a long haul AI specialist who’s skeptical of the current hype
- Other Podcasts
- BBC Radio 4 – The Artificial Human
- Surrey Speaks: Will AI….? Occasional 15min podcasts from Surrey University
- Books
- Ethan Mollick Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
- Ray Kurzeill: The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
- Gary Marcus: Taming Silicon Valley
- Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus. Non technical – provides an historical context to the importance of Information
