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Meta’s new AI image-generator, Muse, will use your Instagram content, unless you tell it not to
If you are an Instagram user, its owner, the social media company, Meta, has begun using your content to feed its new image-generator app, Muse. If you would rather they didn’t, here’s what you can do about it.
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Landscape design with Claude: My front-yard border looks great!
Claude and I make a great team: I constructed a prompt for a front-border planting scheme; Claude designed a layout and recommended a list of plants; I drove to the garden centre, purchased them, and arranged for a landscaper to plant them. I can recommend landscape design with Claude!
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Using Metrics/KPIs Together with AI-Derived Data Assessment, Decision-Making and Process Control Techniques to Strengthen a Community Foundation
The Coronado Community Foundation used AI to identify and evaluate nonprofit metrics, helping improve fundraising, decision-making, community impact assessment, and strategic planning.
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AI Is Helping the Scammers. Let It Help You Too.
Artificial intelligence is making scams, phishing attacks, and identity theft more effective than ever—but it can also help defend against them. In this article, I describe how I used ChatGPT as a virtual security consultant to build a threat model, inventory my assets, identify vulnerabilities, and develop a practical security improvement plan for my family.
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Vibe-Coding with Claude: A personalized cocktail-recipe generator
A cocktail is a symphony of gustatory, olfactory, and visual pleasure, garnished with fun. As a newbie to the mixology world, keen to expand my cocktail repertoire, I sought some help in devising a few new ones. So, I vibe-coded a personalized mixology app. Time to crack open the drinks cabinet!
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Vibe Coding with Claude: A camera lens-format converter
How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? Three: one to hold the ladder, one to change the bulb, and one to push the wheelbarrow full of lenses used to photograph the event. Swapping all those lenses between camera types is no joke, though; enter, my lens-format converter app.
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Lecture: Brains and AI – The Future of Education and Learning
UCSD Professor Terry Sejnowski will give a lecture , open to the public, at the Winn Room in the Coronado Library on Wednesday, June 10 from 6:30-7:30.
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Which future careers will be resistant to AI-driven job-losses? Let’s ask Claude
The prospect of a job apocalypse, blighting the career prospects of today’s wave of college graduates, is concerning policy-makers and parents alike. But surely there are some fields that will prove resilient? I wonder what Claude thinks…
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My Favorite Source of AI Insights and Entertainment: The Hard Fork podcast
The airwaves are full of blogs, podcasts and videos, purporting to cover the latest developments in AI. I regularly tune in to one which is not only insightful but entertaining: The New York Times tech podcast, Hard Fork. It’s now available on YouTube, outside the NYT paywall, and it’s a blast.
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Cooking with Claude: Harissa-spiced fish and shrimp tagine
As the saying goes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. In my case, it was a staple of Middle-Eastern cooking that was being eaten, in a real-world test of a Claude-generated recipe.