From Pluribus News: TECHNOLOGY: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has signed legislation requiring app store operators to ascertain a user’s age when they first set up accounts on personal devices like iPhones and Androids. The first-of-its-kind measure is meant to allow easier age-gating for app developers, to provide minors with an age-appropriate experience. ( Pluribus News ) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Newsom vetoed legislation that would have banned minors from accessing com

This week's review is on Teaching with AI - A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by Jos é Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson. A book which states its aim clearly - focusing on the how, not necessarily the why or why not of using AI in teaching. Bowen and Watson present a brief overview on what AI is, before proceeding to Teaching (which includes a discussion of cheating, policies, and quality) and Learning (feedback, assessments, writing). The first section is l

Sam Altman dropped a news bomb on X yesterday, from the BBC : OpenAI plans to allow a wider range of content, including erotica, on its popular chatbot ChatGPT as part of its push to "treat adult users like adults", says its boss Sam Altman. In a post on X on Tuesday, Mr Altman said upcoming versions of the popular chatbot would enable it to behave in a more human-like way - "but only if you want it, not because we are usage maxxing". Made by Sora. As Edward L Hamilton commen

Although it pains me to recognize any good coming from Stanford (or Google for that matter), this is good and something I called for...

Meta continues to work hard to be the worst social media and AI company : Meta announced on Wednesday that data collected from user...

From Google : A few months ago, we expanded Gemini in Classroom to help educators use AI for their common teaching tasks. Today, we’re...

The Better Pastor: A Fable  by Patrick Lencioni Clocking it at 101 pages, The Better Pastor aims to provide - in story form - simple...

This week's review is on Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell . A book written by an expert on AI -...

From Google : we’ll be introducing agentic capabilities to Gemini in Chrome. These will let Gemini in Chrome handle those tedious tasks...

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church 1879-1884: The human person needs to live in society. Society is not for him an extraneous...

Following up on my July 1 first post: " Gemini Summer? " and from July 18 " Gemini's Assent and A Modest Proposal , " we continue to see...

Ravi Yer and Jon Haidt's After Babel substack highlighted the Australian government's new social media age limi t: The law places the...

Harvard Business Review published a guide to using AI in team meetings: " 3 Ways AI Can Improve Team Meetings ." Elisa Farri and Gabriele...

Courtesy of the Neuron : behold, the ability t o branch a new chat in ChatGPT! So like, why would you want to do this? As Micah, the...

This idea comes out of a presentation from Brendan Schneider's AI Marketing Summit and a session from Joshua Clark . One of the problems...

For the general public is being reduced to a state where people not only are unable to find out about the truth but also become unable...

Last week, I was privileged to present at several schools and dioceses on the topics of Artificial Intelligence and Data-driven...

More amazing than the world of image and video creation (and the explosion of deepfakes , historical tik toks and more) is the world of...

Like many fields, Artificial Intelligence is marked by companies aggressively copycatting each other. For market monopolization, each...

Having entered into its third year as a commercial product, large language models like ChatGPT, et al., are having to innovate to be a...