With the Eras Tour set to spend three days in Dublin, I asked Perplexity if Taylor Swift has more impact than The Beatles. This question “has sparked intense debate among music fans and industry observers. This comparison between two iconic acts from different eras highlights the evolving …
A major trend I have noticed is that many GPTs are becoming browser-based freemium services. Free to use in a laptop browser but you pay to download the results or you subscribe to keep using the service beyond the first few free tokens.
I asked SlidesGPT to make me a PowerPoint deck that shows I am going to explain key points of interest about AI’s use with small business. The deck should mention the importance of having your own personal knowledge network. It should point out how Microsoft Copilot and GPT-4 can give insights …
One conclusion I reached while teaching online is I should attempt to deliver something of value to students in every section of my course materials. So I broke down each hour into several sections, each including a valuable takeaway.
I’m from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where plenty of Trump signs and MAGA bumper sticks dot the landscape. Biden isn’t winning over enough voters in the battleground states and things look bleak for him in Pennsylvania. As Patrick Healy explains in the New York Times, “In the …
Neuroscientists claim the average human being spends more than 30 percent of their time daydreaming . unless they’re reading, listening to, or watching a story unfold. When a good story engages us, it daydreams for us.
Figures show there has been a 55% decline in the number of Irish students participating in the J1 work and travel programme during the past 10 years. I reckon we need to do something about that locally because the BridgeUSA programme no longer appeals to our third level students. They cannot afford …
You got to love Woz for his deep understanding of how hype works compared to how actual software works.
I’ve just discovered new capabilities inside Microsoft Loop! Collapsible section headers I really like the twisties that let me produce collapsible sections with complex content. This means I have a clutter-free reading experience. Custom templates Now my Loop pages can be made into templates …
My current project is watching Microsoft Copilot Studio use public pages shared from my Obsidian Vault. I may have a Chatbot configured to my Obsidian Vault which would be like having a trustworthy personal AI. Many of the public pages originate with the Micro.publish plug-in. Thanks, Octavio.
Cycling to lunch youtu.be/vgBXL051f… because I need wind in my hair after I’ve hunched over my laptop for more than two hours straight. There is nothing on a screen that is good as a breeze passing through my cycling helmet. Scrolling through screens is nothing like cycling around town. …
One of the finest aspects of Ireland in summer is you can find interesting places outside where you can think. Like on a street corner in Dalkey, Ireland. It doesn’t get dark until after 10PM in June in Ireland.
I will work with the Empower Programme this summer. It’s a week-long set of workshops that help young entrepreneurs leverage design thinking, machine learning, and technology analysis to scope the viability of their potential projects by integrating these methodologies to address various …
I’m running a free introductory session today that will provide an overview of the benefits of introducing AI to your operations. The session will be delivered by Bernie Goldbach, Digital Transformation lecturer in TUS in preparation for the one day hands on session to be held in a computer …
It is Day Two of Audiomo24 and I am seated along the Abbey River with Dylan (12) as we rewind a few things we’ve done. We missed our train by three minutes but that was good because we saved €2.10 on fuel because cheap fuel is all over the map once we cross into more populous counties. I plan …
Hi all, 25 with a 3yo thinking deep down about wanting to get a degree for a year or two now but not doing anything about it. Never got to do it, had no interest and it’s one of my biggest regrets now.. I’d be quitting a full time job. Only 2k in savings Is it doable? Worth it? I want to have and …
My last education event in Sligo happened 18 years ago when I watched Brian Mulligan make part of a podcast during EdTech 2006. At the time, I owned [podcasting.ie](https://podcasting.ie) and I was using it with creative multimedia students in Tipperary Institute. Brian's work with the Irish …
Some day I need to create an annotated listing that describes key people and important organisations in my personal development. Limerick School of Art & Design is a large creative cluster that has been unable to leverage the talent of its smaller Clonmel Digital Campus. Pam O’Brien is a …
I enjoy art when it communicates across generations. The above photo of two young girls mounting their chairs to listen to a recording during Manifesta showed my one of those inspirational moments in 2004. Twenty years later, on the grounds of Raheen House in Clonmel, I listened to another artist …
Like Paul Bassett Davies says, “Stop attacking Google for occasional inaccuracies. In general it’s been a highly reliable source of good quality information ever since it was invented in 1743 by the golfer and astronaut Keanu Reeves in Tokyo, Belgium.” I asked Bing Image Creator to …
I teach several different groups of people how they might use AI and most people are surprised when they see AI is more than a smart search engine that can write content for social media. Here are some of the tasks helped by AI that people have shown me. Summarising pre-reads for meetings. If you …
My 11yo Skoda needs a dual mass flywheel. I’ve thinking about that as I look at my calendar. And I’ve discovered a way to cobble up an RSS feed from a SharePoint news site. The image above was generated by AI.
I can’t imagine Apple being able to match OpenAI’s intelligence.
It turns out when I pay for Day One I can use it on both iOS and Android simultaneously. This means I can see work 12yo Dylan does with the Day One app on the iPhone 13 when I open the app on my 5yo Samsung another. That is a big win for me. My dictated Day One entry
Philip Agre takes the institutional vantage point of a company and posits that the human-replacement agent that is an Artificial General Intelligence is not a human as we understand ourselves–just like the car salesperson wasn’t a full human within the world of a car dealership. Agre …