Update 1: added an album of AI edit quirks below
Update 2: a fresh French look into the future of AI
Update 3: AI as a means not an end in-and-of itself
Update 4: a variety of outlooks & further resources
Ongoing: I add items of interest under: 'AI'ding Tool
New blog header: Web maps & AI for the public good
Have I mentionned that AI will need skilled writers more than skilled coders? Forbes wrote here about a US efforts in that regard. The one thing AI won't replace, acc. to the starred (*) 'AI'ding Tool example below is curiosity: it mirrors Steve Jobs' "stay hungry, stay foolish" at Stanford 2005 Commencement Address.
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Community Engagement Series (2023)
23: AI Prompt Engineering Trial 2
A.I. Series
2024
"AI for the rest of us", Part II
"AI for the rest of us", Part III
"AI for the rest of us", Part IV
"AI for the rest of us", Part V
"AI for the rest of us", Part VI
"AI for the rest of us", Part VII
2025
A conversation with AI (long read)
Medium Professional
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The robots aren’t coming… they’re here!
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Medium Personal
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These AI-edited shots aren't about removing elements - esp. people - per se, but rather about removing parts that detract from the photo; in other words, both tools and pitfalls in this narrow AI context. I don't think it's worth it, however, do you? Photo pros like Martin Bond here and Paul Nickeln here certainly don't!
French Connection
See "Medium Professional: 2025: Yon, AI!" above: Flavien Chervet pushes us past next-gen AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) towards "Creative Super Intelligence"; a recent presentation here (go to settings cogwheel for English auto-translate or French original) complements what I found the best intro to AI in English here (French original here)... As seen under both 2025 Medium posts above, he's part of the French & European AI wave to the American & Chinese ones.
'AI'ding Tool
Here I list useful roles as well as caveats for AI: to aid in accelerating preparatory work, rather than to replace actual work; it still needs to be done by humans with the help of traditional IT incl. complementary AI tech:
- Stanford professor who co-founded 4 startups: How to use AI as a 'force multiplier' to start a business - Source: CNBC
- Google's AI 'co-scientist' cracked 10-year superbug problem in just 2 days - Source: LiveScience
- ‘I sent AI to art school!’ The postmodern master who taught a machine to beef up his old work - Source: The Guardian
- “Periodic table of machine learning” could fuel AI discovery - Source: MIT News
- AI just achieved what no archaeologist could : a 2,000-year-old papyrus finally reveals its secrets - Source: Glass Almanac
- * Caltech professor who led Nvidia's AI lab says AI can't replace this one skill - Source: Business Insider
- Google DeepMind’s AI Agent Dreams Up Algorithms Beyond Human Expertise - Source: Wired
- The people refusing to use AI - Source: BBC
- Why We’re Unlikely to Get Artificial General Intelligence Anytime Soon - Source: New York Times
- Researchers cause GitLab AI developer assistant to turn safe code malicious - Source: Ars Technica
- Google's New Video-Generating AI May Be the End of Reality as We Know It - Source: Futurism
- Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves - Source: The Register
- AI pioneer announces non-profit to develop ‘honest’ artificial intelligence - Source: The Guardian
- Researchers create AI-based tool that restores age-damaged artworks in hours - Source: The Guardian
- AI can see you in ways you can't see yourself - Source: New York Times
Caveat emptor
I see the point that AI is an evolution, not an revolution. What do you think?
Same as the Internet came from comp. sci. & the dot.com bubble burst in Y2K (Wikipedia): we thought we could do all on the net, when we still need to start with human interaction that can then be extended on-line - not the other way around to save on, say, costs - AI will likewise be trained and guided or perhaps even replace some of our functions, but human imagination is still ours and not machines'... This "crash course" should get you started on your "journAI"...
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