Google’s AI Art & Poem generator
Here’s a neat little project from Google. The site will ask for a word, and then take your picture. The AI will convert your picture in to art and create a poem based on the word.
AI generated faces in the classroom
This Person Does Not Exist is a website that uses artificial intelligence to create faces of realistic looking people. It’s uncanny how good the pictures look, knowing that they are computer generated. There were a couple that looked a little off when I looked through several of the pictures, but a majority look real. These…
Find datasets in Google’s Dataset Search
Google Dataset Search is a search engine for various sets of data available on the internet. This could be used by students to find more information out about something they are studying. To use the site, you visit Dataset Search and start typing the kind of data you want. Dataset Search will search as you…
Getting students ready for artificial intelligence in the workforce
The future impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on society and the labour force have been studied and reported extensively. In a recent book, AI Superpowers, Kai-Fu Lee, former president of Google China, wrote that 40 to 50 per cent of current jobs will be technically and economically viable with AI and automation over the next…
Today I learned that you can make the formula bar bigger in Google Sheets
Formulas can get pretty complex in Google Sheets (or any spreadsheet for that matter), and the one line formula bar raises the annoyance bar. Being able to extend the formula bar is a godsend! Excel already has the ability, and apparently Google added the ability back in 2016. I just found out about it last…
How much does social media affect a teen’s well being?
The effects of social media use on teenage life satisfaction are limited and probably “tiny”, a study of 12,000 UK adolescents suggests. Family, friends and school life all had a greater impact on wellbeing, says the University of Oxford research team. It claims its study is more in-depth and robust than previous ones. Source: Social…