Category: AI
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“Avenues:” AI & Academia
Instead of the usual year-end wrap-up of trends or speculation about where AI may go next, I wanted to close 2025 differently. It’s not hard to find the ongoing and heated debates around AI; ranging from the highly political to the environmental to questions of practicality in the workforce. But putting aside these debates, hot…
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Roll Your Own AI: Ollama for Local LLM Use
Techs and DIY enthusiasts, including two particular technologists on a certain podcast in Bellingham, have always shared their pursuits and explorations in experimenting in how get the increasingly more centralized web back to being decentralized. Tinkering to find new affordaible ways to back regular technologies or services back “home”, or localizing them, so there is less reliance…
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FA25 AI Trends in Education: Agentic Browsers and defending the Friction of Learning
Back in June, I wrote my observation on the snapshot I see that was AI and its implications up to the end of the last academic year. Every fall, I like to take a bigger prospective look at what has developed in the arena of AI and what forecast how it might impact education in…
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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…