Author: AJ
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An Accessibility Odyssey: Preparing Faculty for WCAG Compliance Before 2026
In 2024, the Department of Justice passed a ruling updating Title II and the ADA. With it, it brought on new mandate that all digital materials must meet WCAG compliance setting a course for higher education, public institutions, and federal agencies, making accessibility a legal requirement by April 2026. Yes, you read right, all digital…
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An Oncoming STORM for AI Academic Writing | Stanford STORM
“Synthesis of Topic Outlines through Retrieval and Multi-perspective Question Asking” is a bit of a mouthful, but STORM is a Stanford AI research project that is a “writing system focusing on the pre-writing stage to generate long, grounded, Wikipedia-like article for a given topic from scratch.” In a single prompt, that is only 20 words or less.…
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Call into your own personal show about your notes | Google Notebook LM
Google’s Notebook LM has been subtly evolving since its initial release, and in this video, I take a look at a new beta feature to their podcast or Audio Overview feature. To recap, NotebookLM is designed as an AI-powered notebook that helps summarize and process notes, and introduced an interesting podcast-style feature for a new…
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DeepSeek | Solve for X
In the last month, another AI appeared as if it had just “fallen out of the sky,” to borrow the phrase many media pundits used. It evoked a similar sense of amazement to what surrounded OpenAI’s ChatGPT when it debuted over two years ago. This time, however, Chinese startup DeepSeek has sent shockwaves through the…
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Whisk up some AI images?
“Prompt less, play more” is the slogan for Google’s new service, Whisk, fresh out of their Experiments lab. Bringing with it features that blend the strengths of DALL-E and Adobe’s FireFly engines: And new questions of copyright infringement? Whisk UI and UX From the start, Whisk has a simple drag-and-drop reference image interface where you…
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Are we going to see smarter AI models?
ChatGPT felt like the first truly revolutionary tool since the smartphone. Practically overnight, it captured global attention, showcasing how Large Language Models (LLMs) could create the illusion of human-like communication. In less than three years, AI has expanded beyond text to reshape photos, videos, and more, with even bigger possibilities on the horizon. But as…
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Is OpenAI’s Sora Soaring AI Video to New Heights?
This week, both Apple and OpenAI debuted their public version of their new expansion of their AI multiverse. Let’s take a look at Sora and what it plans to bring to the AI video landscape. https://sora.com/library Arguably, the internet’s most respected tech reviewer, Marques Brownlee, from MKBHD, has the best and most succinct breakdown of…
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Training AI to Play Gameboy Pokémon Red
As a recent convert to the world of Pokémon, thanks to my 8-year-old’s enthusiasm for the card game, I’ve found myself reflecting on the nostalgia of the original GameBoy Pokémon games. I remember when these games first came to the U.S. in the late ’90s, when my friends with GameBoys were taking on the role…
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The Future of AI: Not a Matter of If, but When.
Engaging AI Topics, and Videos, to Explore During Your Academic Winter Break | 2024 <Update> 10 December, to reflect Google’s unveiling of their Quantum computer processor The Rise of AI Ubiquity AI has already transitioned from a buzzword to a pervasive reality. From recommendation systems that tailor our online experiences to generative models capable of…