Posted by
Andy Brown
on 10 December 2024
How good is the new ChatGPT voice mode? Listen to this six-minute conversation and you'll realise that life will never quite be the same again. I genuinely don't think this is exaggerating!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 09 December 2024
For our newsletter competition this month everyone gets one shot only at creating a perfect image in Dall-E. This blog takes a behind-the-scenes look to explain the nuts and bolts of how we used the OpenAI API to get this to work.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 November 2024
Rachel has created two custom GPTs allowing you to get any information on our courses and services. You can use either of these as intended (to get course details, dates, venues or prices) or to give you ideas for how you could implement a similar search GPT within your own organisation.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 November 2024
Google are right to worry about the safety of their current virtual monopoly on search, with breaking news on new desktop search versions of AI tools from ChatGPT and Claude.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 November 2024
A website which generates a different (imaginary) human face when you refresh the page doesn't sound that creepy - but somehow it is.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 November 2024
I regularly include trivia quizzes in our monthly Wise Owl newsletter. Last month for the first - and probably only - time, I decided to enlist the help of ChatGPT to generate the questions, suggest plausible (but wrong) answers and add relevant pictures. Here's how I did this, so that you too can do the same!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 September 2024
Custom GPTs are mini-versions of ChatGPT tailored towards a specific task, whether this be looking up information from your company's procedures or website, subtly skewing answers to questions to meet a particular need - or just having fun!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 04 September 2024
Learning to use AI tools has been a journey for us, although not one which we thought would take in broccoli cats and Neanderthal film reviews. In this blog we look at the 3 best and 3 worst things we've found when using AI tools like ChatGPT.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 August 2024
In creating our two-day course on using AI tools we found a few sources of help particularly useful, and thought we'd take this opportunity to acknowlege them.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 22 July 2024
Having recently compared the 4 main AI tools for text prompts, I thought I'd do the same for image generation tools. In this blog series we compare Dall-E (via ChatGPT and separately via Copilot), Firefly, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion for 3 pre-defined tests to see which ones score most highly for cost, ease-of-use, speed, editing ability and above all for quality of image.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 16 July 2024
I'm sick of reading blogs pretending to explain how Large Language Models work, when the truth is that few people on earth can ever hope to understand how they are constructed. This blog is my attempt to explain as much as 99.99% of us can ever hope to understand about how AI works, and why the other bits will always remain opaque to most people.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 15 July 2024
In this blog we'll compare OpenAI's Chat GPT 4, Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 and Microsoft's Copilot to see which AI tool gives the best results for different types of queries.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 June 2024
StackOverflow and OpenAI have announced a partnership, but I think it's fair to say that not every StackOverflow user is sold on the idea ... !
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 08 May 2024
You can now add Copilot to your 365 licence, although it isn't cheap - this review looks at whether the benefits outweigh the costs.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 April 2024
The Ajelix Excel AI tool claims to help you generate formulae in Excel - so we put it to the test
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 April 2024
How one determined person embedded the published ChatGPT 2 source code and weightings within an Excel workbook to give an insight into how AI works
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 April 2024
Want a complete list of all of the AI tools available for you to use? Here's a website which lists 32 tools just for sarcastic conversations alone!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 April 2024
Don't consider yourself to be musical? Think again! Now everyone can unleash their inner Taylor Swift, using the Suno plug-in within Copilot.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 March 2024
Chat GPT now incorporates a range of mini GPTs dedicated to different tasks. We put a few through their paces, so that you don't have to!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 October 2023
The problem with AI tools like Chat GPT is often having the imagination to think how to use them. To give you some ideas here are 5 ways in which you can use image-based AI questions in Chat GPT for general questions, cookery queries, travel updates, website design help and medical enquiries.
