It’s happened again. You’d think that after many years of writing this column I would stop being astonished. Not so. A free artificial intelligence tool for creating animation absolutely delighted me. My prompt was this: “This video should be in the style of a cartoon. An automobile races down a country road toward the viewer.… The post Give AI Animation a Whirl: Free Tools Generate Astounding Results first appeared on Iowa Source.| Iowa Source
President Trump has promoted a bill that would disallow states from regulating artificial intelligence for the next 10 years. Pope Leo, on the other hand, views today’s AI wave as a new and disruptive industrial revolution that requires regulation in order to defend dignity, justice, and labor rights. In other words, their views represent an| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
Okay, let’s get this out of the way: this is not another column about using artificial intelligence for shopping. But it just happened that my friend Bill emailed me a shopping-related tech question on the very day that I had planned to investigate a new “deep research” feature. (People email me tech questions thinking I’m| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
What’s my idea of heaven? That would be the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas each January. A whole week of state-of-the-art gadgets. Can you imagine? And, no surprise, one of the highlights this year was artificial intelligence. One of these years I’ll attend, but for now I’ve asked my favorite chatbots for some| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
Not for the first time, a coyote decided to attack one of my trail cameras. He succeeded in knocking it down and tearing the mounting strap into six pieces. So yes, these straps do sometimes need to be replaced. I decided to order some, and wondered if ChatGPT could help me shop. So I gave| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
I was having lunch with a friend, talking about professional tennis, when we wondered about the relative heights of tennis legends Nadal, Federer, and Djokovic. I reflexively picked up my phone and spoke the question to ChatGPT. In seconds we had the answer. When my trail cameras recently captured images of birds that I didn’t| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
There’s a certain irony to artificial intelligence. I can go to ChatGPT (ChatGPT.com) and quickly and seamlessly get access to all the world’s information. Whatever I want to know, ChatGPT instantly serves it up. But, ironically, I don’t have the same quick and seamless access to all the information stored on the computer sitting in| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine