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This site provides a landing page for all our u3a AI National resources. A good place to start for first time users is the u3a Subject Advisors and Subject Network website. This introduces the different resources available such as how to contact the AI Subject Advisor, what the AI for Everyone Project Team is and who are the members, how to register for the AI Monthly Newsletter, and if you are setting up an AI group, class or workshop, how you can network with others in the u3a who are doing the same.
Team member’s names have been moved to u3a AI Subject Advisors page
The Resources icon will take you to resources for:
- AI Beginners
- AI for AI Groups including details of courses you can run locally
- AI for Other Groups such as Family History and Creative Writing
- AI for Committees
New to AI in the u3a?
Keep up to date with AI in the u3a by signing up for our monthly newsletter at the AI SUbject Advisors page.
If you want to start using AI Chatbots like ChatGPT and are happy to give it a go by yourself but don’t know where to start then our Beginners Padlet is for you.
Thinking of running AI classes or an AI group in your local u3a or looking for help to get your u3a Committee on board? If so join like minded u3a members in our zoom based AI Agitators Group Link
If you have any suggestions for improving this web site or need additional support please contact Alan Freeland .
AI Online Events
AI News Sessions held on Zoom each month
AI News Events are 90 min Zoom based updates on what is happening in the world of AI. Any u3a member can attend. Unless otherwise stated they take place at 10am on a Friday. Each event is chaired by a member of the AI team.
Go to https://www.u3a.org.uk/events/educational-events#Events and scroll down to find the next AI news event and book a place.
Alternatively they are listed on the u3a AI Subject Advisors page.
Other National and Regional AI online events are also listed on the Subject Advisors page.
Past Presentations
AITools
| AI Tools | Additional Tools | Additional Tools |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | OpenAI Academy | Elements of AI |
| AI foundations for everyone | AI for the Third Agers | |
| 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 | ||
| Transport | ||
| The Times Tech podcast dated 3rd July: | Can a driverless car really cope with London traffic & is the big AI bromance over? |
Who to Follow and Read and u3a AI Newsletters
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