Category: AI
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Choose Your Own Adventure: “We’re Not Ready for Superintelligence”
I admit in advanced, this post may seem a bit more sci-fi over academic. But it’s easy to either get freaked out by AI or dismiss it altogether. Most people still view it as a slightly smarter Siri or a hit-or-miss “Hey Google.” Some see it as helpful sometimes, yet when it isn’t, just frustrating…
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State of AI in Higher Education | Summer 25 Edition
The views expressed are not to represent that of WWU, ATUS, or its subsidiary departments, and is intended as an op-ed of the author. -AJ The changing state of AI and its impact in higher education continues to become more and more complicated. There’s still a high level of concern among both faculty and students…
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Believable AI Video Creation, even from a Single Image
It is easy to get caught up in the negatives of AI video creation, especially as computing power continues to make things more lifelike and more believable at a quick glance. But in this post, I want to focus on the positive and the possibilities of what something like a tool like Google’s Veo could…
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From Spellcheck to Red Flags: Understanding AI Detection in Your Writing
How Much ‘AI’ Grammar Check Can Get Flagged as AI Writing? In this video, I’m taking a deep dive into an increasingly important topic in your coursework; how generative AI tools, like Grammarly, intersect with academic integrity at Western. In collaboration with the Academic Honesty Office, I break down a sample paper and show you…
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Call into your own personal show about your notes | Google Notebook LM
Google’s Notebook LM has been subtly evolving since its initial release, and in this video, I take a look at a new beta feature to their podcast or Audio Overview feature. To recap, NotebookLM is designed as an AI-powered notebook that helps summarize and process notes, and introduced an interesting podcast-style feature for a new…
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DeepSeek | Solve for X
In the last month, another AI appeared as if it had just “fallen out of the sky,” to borrow the phrase many media pundits used. It evoked a similar sense of amazement to what surrounded OpenAI’s ChatGPT when it debuted over two years ago. This time, however, Chinese startup DeepSeek has sent shockwaves through the…
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Whisk up some AI images?
“Prompt less, play more” is the slogan for Google’s new service, Whisk, fresh out of their Experiments lab. Bringing with it features that blend the strengths of DALL-E and Adobe’s FireFly engines: And new questions of copyright infringement? Whisk UI and UX From the start, Whisk has a simple drag-and-drop reference image interface where you…
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Are we going to see smarter AI models?
ChatGPT felt like the first truly revolutionary tool since the smartphone. Practically overnight, it captured global attention, showcasing how Large Language Models (LLMs) could create the illusion of human-like communication. In less than three years, AI has expanded beyond text to reshape photos, videos, and more, with even bigger possibilities on the horizon. But as…
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Is OpenAI’s Sora Soaring AI Video to New Heights?
This week, both Apple and OpenAI debuted their public version of their new expansion of their AI multiverse. Let’s take a look at Sora and what it plans to bring to the AI video landscape. https://sora.com/library Arguably, the internet’s most respected tech reviewer, Marques Brownlee, from MKBHD, has the best and most succinct breakdown of…