Tag: Artificial intelligence

Don’t be tricked by AI deepfakes. Here’s how to spot them

It’s getting easier to create AI generated videos and photos, and harder to tell the real from the fake. Last week, billionaire investor Warren Buffett called them a “spreading virus,” after videos that appear to feature his image and voice surfaced online. “It’s not me,” his company said in a press release, warning that viewers […]

What Is Adobe Firefly? Here’s How to Use This Powerful Generative AI Tool

Firefly is powerful, and I won’t be able to cover everything you can do with it. Instead, I’ll walk you through a simple workflow of generating an image using an AI model, and then using that image as the starting frame to generate a short, looping video. At the top, select New. You can either […]

How to submit | Innovation, AI, and education

Rapid advancements in innovation and artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping educational ecosystems globally. From personalised learning and predictive analytics to content generation and adaptive assessment, AI’s integration into teaching, learning, administration, and policy represents one of the most profound shifts in contemporary education. However, while technological possibilities proliferate, critical questions about equity, ethics, pedagogy, human […]

Here’s how to use AI at work to avoid hallucinations and mistakes

Judges around the world are dealing with a growing problem: legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and submitted with errors such as citations to cases that don’t exist, according to attorneys and court documents. The trend serves as a cautionary tale for people who are learning to use AI […]

How to Build an AI Startup: Go Big, Be Strange, Embrace Probable Doom

Earth, it’s said, is home to more than 10,000 AI startups. They’re more abundant than cheetahs. They outnumber dawn redwoods. The figure is a guess, of course—startups come, startups go. But last year, more than 2,000 of them got their first round of funding. As investors shovel their billions into AI, it’s worth asking: What […]

When goodbye comes too soon: How to wrap up science projects quickly

Science projects are designed and funded to last several years, but sometimes end prematurely, leading to lost data and effort. We discuss inexpensive solutions for quickly documenting partially finished projects and for publishing “as you go” in an uncertain environment. Citation: Hagenauer MH, Winham SJ, Freeman ALJ, Sternberg PW, Kolber BJ (2025) When goodbye comes […]

Don’t let AI chatbots tell you how to vote, Dutch authorities warn voters – POLITICO

Dutch voters elect a new parliament next Wednesday. The Dutch data protection authority ran an experiment on how parties were portrayed in voting advice across four different chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Elon Musk’s Grok and French Mistral AI’s Le Chat. The authority set up profiles that matched different political parties (based on vetted […]