AI Apps- August 21, 2025

Lecture from August 21, 2025 summarized by Notion AI 

Overview of AI on Smartphones

The workshop explored various AI applications available on smartphones, with a focus on practical uses for everyday tasks. The instructor explained that AI has evolved from basic voice recognition to more sophisticated applications, and is now integrated into many smartphone features. While Apple's new "Apple Intelligence" requires iPhone 15 or newer devices with iOS 18, many third-party AI applications work on older phones and across both iOS and Android platforms.

Translation and Identification Apps

Several AI-powered translation tools were demonstrated:

• Google Translate and Apple Translate both offer text, voice, and camera-based translation
• Camera translation allows users to point their phone at text in another language for instant translation
• These tools can be valuable for travelers, though accuracy isn't always perfect

Identification apps highlighted included:

• Picture This: Identifies plants and can diagnose plant health issues
• Seek by iNaturalist: A free app from the Academy of Sciences and National Geographic that identifies plants, animals, and insects while contributing to scientific research
• Shazam/Recognize Music: Built into iOS to identify songs playing nearby

AI Assistants and Their Differences

The instructor compared several major AI assistant applications:

• Gemini (Google): Offers interactive responses with voice capabilities
• ChatGPT: Provides detailed written responses but less interactive
• Copilot: Features camera integration to "see" and describe surroundings
• Claude and ChatOn: Alternative interfaces that provide more guided prompts

Each assistant has different strengths and user interfaces, making certain ones better suited to different needs and preferences.

Other AI-Powered Applications

Additional AI applications demonstrated included:

• Google Photos: Offers "Magic Eraser" functionality to remove unwanted elements from photos (alternative to iOS 15+ features)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot: Creates documents, meeting agendas, and other content based on simple prompts
• Health apps: Can identify food and calculate calories from photos

Next Steps

• [ ] The instructor will bring an iPhone 15 to the next session to demonstrate Apple Intelligence features
• [ ] Participants interested in exploring AI apps should try different interfaces to find which works best for them
• [ ] When downloading Google Photos, users should disable automatic backup to avoid duplicate storage

The workshop emphasized that while AI technology continues to advance rapidly, these tools can be helpful assistants rather than something to fear, with practical applications for research, creativity, accessibility, and everyday tasks.

Notes

Transcript

Thank you, thank you. Yeah, I know a few, you know, I think AI is definitely a hot topic and we're in the middle of it, being in San Francisco. This is the hub where AI is, and I don't know if you talk to family members that are definitely, you know, younger, you know, looking for jobs, and a lot of them are now coming back to the city for opportunities in AI.

It's a hot topic and you hear about it all the time in different ways. And I think sometimes it's used incorrectly, too. Everything's just AI. You know, AI has been around for a long time and, you know, the most basic form of AI that – I'm still waiting for the projector to start – the most basic form of AI was really in voice transcriptions, you know, being able to understand what you're saying.

And remember, it's not just understanding what I'm saying, it's understanding what every single person with different tones and different, you know, inflections and different everything's accents. And that's the basics of when they started to kind of make recordings and use artificial intelligence to understand us, understand our voice.

Now, they do a pretty good job, right, when we talk, and to the point where we can actually set up our voice-activated devices to really actually only understand our voice. So, if somebody else is in the room and they say the exact same key word to get their device started, if I say, Siri, hey Siri, not all of your devices will start to activate. It'll just be mine, right?

Okay, so that's how artificial intelligence is one of the beginning parts of it. Because I was looking at different apps for your phone. I'm still trying to get the projector to work. Hold on.

So I was looking at different apps for your phone because we've already talked about the computer and I showed you different websites and I showed you how it's been integrated in with different services. But today's the iPhone class. I wanted to show you how it's done on the phone. And I wanted to show you more about Apple and what they call Apple Intelligence is the new word.

For their artificial intelligence built into the iPhone and if you go to settings if you have iOS 18 Right

Has Siri been affected? Yes, in a way. So one of the things I did discover is Apple intelligence really works on if you have a phone that's version 15. Mine's a 14. So it won't work. But next week, my son, who has a newer phone than I do, he has a 15.

I'm going to bring his, and I'm going to demonstrate Apple Intelligence for all of you. But as you just mentioned, you don't have a 15, you don't have a 15, whatever. So today we're going to focus on different apps that you can use on your phone. Even though you don't have 15, right? That use artificial intelligence, not necessarily Apple's.

Artificial intelligence or what they call Apple intelligence. Okay, because that's again specific only to Iowa to iPhone 15s or above Where do I find it?

So your phone is the operating system. Okay, so just real quick cuz I never was like, what about me? What about me? So if you open up settings Okay, so if you open up settings, does anybody see Apple intelligence in their settings?

Right, you see it because you have a 16. I don't see it because I have a 14. If you don't see it, you don't have it because your phone's not new enough. That's how they're getting you to upgrade to the newest phone. But again, I'll show you this next week. How can you check which phone you have and which operating system you have?

We go to general, okay, and in general we go to where? About. And under about it has on the the second and the third bar.

The second bar says the iOS version, which is 18, so I'm up to date in the newest iOS Okay, so I can't upgrade or update anymore But under that, it says my model of my phone, for me, right here, it says it's an iPhone 14, which means that I will not be able to use Apple Intelligence to the full extent

because I don't have a what number? 15 or higher, okay? Not the iOS, but the actual what? Phone, the hardware, okay?

The S.E. is a special edition. Sure, special edition is good. But the easiest thing to notice is if you go back into settings and you don't see anything that says Apple intelligence, right? Then that means that you don't have it. And your phone's not new enough. But don't worry, I'm not singling you out today because mine isn't either. So I can't show you, okay? So don't worry about it. So today we're just going to work on different apps that you can add to your phone.

No matter what version of a phone you're using. Does that include Android? Kind of. Yeah, you could download the same apps. Right. So it's kind of an equalizer for all of us, kind of like how I did the other class before, where everything's through the internet. You can go to Gemini, you can go to ChatGPT, doesn't matter if you're on a Mac, doesn't matter if you're on a Windows machine, anybody can do it, that kind of thing.

So these apps, yes, most of them, if not all of them, are on Android and iOS. Okay, so the simplest AI app that probably all of you used at one point or another is what?

No, before that. Translators. Right? If you've ever used a translator, whether it's to speak and practice your language, or practice someone else's language, or to see if you're saying... French correctly or just to remind yourself of your high school French to say, oh did I get that phrase right? You know, let me say it in English to see if it comes out right. Translators are an early version of artificial intelligence.

OK, and of course now they're much more advanced, right? So if you've gone on a trip, if you've gone traveling, you really don't need. A translator. Okay, you can use your phone and you can literally hold on the microphone. Well, actually it's going from Chinese to English.

But I'm going from English to Chinese.

Banana? Banana? No, see I need to go the other way. Excuse me.

Let's try this again. So now I want it to translate my English to Chinese, and I don't know why it said banana, but I want to know what banana is in Chinese.

And it spits it right out. Okay, now I can have somebody sit there and read it, right? Or, even better, I could push this little speaker and...

So that's artificial intelligence in technology world in its simplest form. But for us, as all of you see, That's pretty amazing, right? How accurate is it? It depends, I think, on the language, and it depends on what you're saying. But I have noticed that it's not 100%, which is why I have to say it's not always accurate.

Okay, so before you rely on it to write and finalize contracts, please have somebody verify it carefully before you Yeah, you're gonna sign the wrong thing, okay?

Do you have to be on the internet? Yes, yes. So that's a good point. You have to be on the internet to do this. Right. Why?

Because most of this information is remote, right? And your phone is really just a conduit between... You're what you want and the computer that's somewhere else that's doing all the processing, that's doing all the thinking, and through the internet spitting out the result back to your phone.

So that you can then use it, okay? You can for translators though, you can download the language and you can use the translators on your phone, okay? So you can download the dictionary language by language, because each dictionary, as you can imagine, is just a huge amount of information. So that's why.

A lot of this artificial intelligence has only become effective because the internet is so fast, that with the internet being so fast, as you work on it, the results come up right away. And it's kind of seamless, as if it was your phone doing the processing power. But instead, it's actually done remotely and then spit back to you. But it happens so fast.

But yes, you're right. If you turn off the internet, this kind of function will not work. Same thing's true about the other part, which is a fun one, especially when you're traveling and you have a sign that you can't. read on the translator. So this is Google Translate that I'm using now. I can push camera and it will translate my sign.

See that? Oh wow. Right? Okay. So just the other day I bought something in Japantown that was in Japanese. And I couldn't figure out how to use it. And all the instructions were in Japanese. And I used this device to look at the instructions. And, of course, the translations were very literal. You could tell the words were like, that doesn't make sense. But it gave me an idea of what to do.

I was able to do it without trying to have to figure it out myself. So again, this is a live translation. So if I hover this over anything else, it will translate automatically. So I can then hold this up to another English sign, right, like maybe here, and it translates it all into Chinese. You see that?

And again, that's all done through the internet. A picture of this, an image of this is being sent to another computer. Another computer is using AI to figure out, okay, this is probably what it is, spits it back out to me as if it was real time. Now, how are they using this even more? What's the newest tool that people are using that make it easier than always having to look at your phone?

Those glasses, right, right? You thought they were silly. I'm not talking about the VR. The virtual reality ones are not. I'm not talking about the big ones that you don't see out of. I'm talking about the actual like you can buy him now. It actually a store.

like any store and I think Ray-Ban makes them. They're metaglasses right and there's different ones that are out there. Google has their own but they're glasses that you wear right okay because It's common to wear glasses, right, not goggles, glasses, and then your glasses will have a little screen on it. Okay, that will either show you something, or you can plug it into a...

Little like your bud and it will speak to you so you can imagine as you're looking around same way this was able to translate that English to Chinese. I can look at a sign and it'll translate exactly what it says on that sign without me having to hold my phone up like this, it'll look very natural, right? And I could sit there and have a conversation with you in a different language as it transcribes to me.

What you're saying so that I could just respond naturally without having to read or look at something. Yes.

I think it's just regular glass. But you can, I'm sure, if you want a correction. I'm sure you can add that to it if you want. Yes.

But if you have contacts, you can still just wear regular glass, right? Right, right. So I'm trying to stop these notifications. Yes.

Are you holding it down the whole time? If I hover this over, I'm not pushing anything. It's doing it automatically. So anytime it finds English, which is what I've asked it to translate up on the top, English to Chinese, Right, it's doing the translation and I'm not pushing any buttons. The button here to press it is only to take a picture. So if I wanted to capture this document and the translation, I could take a picture of it and then I have a copy.

of this translated. But if I change it from Chinese simplified to say, what dictionary do I have here?

I don't know. Here, French. There's French.

Right? Okay. So that's French right there. Oh, I mean, sorry. Is that better?

Well, you know what I mean. Here. Yeah?

This is artificial intelligence in a simpler way. Again, any device. If you have an Android, you have an iPhone. That's Google Translate. So Google Translate is not the AI. It's the app that is focused on translation that uses artificial intelligence.

And that's the main thing to remember is artificial intelligence is the engine and the, I guess, what we talked about, the platform, right? Did I say platform? The engine, I guess, is a better way to say it. It's the engine, right? It's the processing power.

The app itself is going to be focused on different things. Okay, so translate is going to work on translations. You can work on other ones to do different things. And that's what you'll discover about artificial intelligence is in the App Store, there's an app basically for everything. So, another one that I use.

You might have seen it. I don't think we have it.

So yeah, this is one for plants, right? And you've probably seen little apps for these and they say, we can prevent your app from having disease. So you take a picture of the app and it... What does it do? It detects that. It actually detects what plant it is. Right? Have you seen that? Okay. You take a picture of it. It looks at it and it'll tell you this is a whatever plant. This is how you take care of it. It basically pulls up a...

dictionary, right? And that's, again, artificial intelligence. I have no idea if this will work, but let's just see.

So I'm going to take a picture of the cotton tail.

It's analyzing it. And there's a pussy willa. Right? Okay. Pussy willa. Which is correct, right? Is that right? Pretty good, OK? No more no more guessing anymore. I mean, it's it's lousy, right? We don't have to think we just take a picture of it. It tells us what it is, right?

So again, yes, we do have to trust it. But at some point or another, yeah. So it needs attention. It's not doing well. I wonder why. So this is what it also does is it goes further, checks your plant to see what's wrong with it and then gives you suggestions. So if I push check

I'm curious what it says. It's over watered. It's infected. Yeah, it's not doing well.

So this one here is called Picture This. There's a lot of them. But this is using artificial intelligence, right? It takes a picture, analyzes it. This one analyzes English to a different language. This knows to look through a whole bunch of plant photographs and compare plant pictures.

to then spit out the information. Some people have another app. I forget what it's called.

It's actually free, I think, too. And you can actually identify animals and even sounds of animals and trees. It's actually put out by some university. If I can remember the name, or if you remember the name, tell me. But the purpose of that is to just more or less collect, or more to document, where people are finding these.

specific species of plant life or animal life wherever they live so they can start to kind of create a map around the world in terms of The distribution of these different animals that people are reporting that they've seen. But it's used as an identifier. So if you see a coyote and you don't know if it's a coyote or a dog, take a look.

Take a picture, it'll check it and say, yes, this is a coyote or whatever, and it'll tell you what kind. Same thing for like a tree, it'll tell you what kind of tree it is. And there's ones that will listen even to bird sounds. And it will identify which bird, chirp or sound it is, and it will say this is a whatever bird.

I don't know. I'm not a birder. I don't think birders would do that. Not yet. Right, exactly. I hope not, OK? So yeah, that's one of the other apps. So again, it depends on what you need, right? So if you're one that Would like to have a green thumb, but seem to have trouble. Sometimes that app that I just showed you picture this, which and there's tons of them in the app store.

So you can look up if you go to the app store, right? There's plant. I just look up plant identification.

There's a whole bunch. So picture this was the first one that popped up. That's what I'm using and then there's others

Yeah, yes, thank you. So I think this is the one that's free. The iNaturalist. Seek by iNaturalist is the one it is. I'll put this down.

Let me just read it real quick.

It's part of the Academy of Sciences National Geographic Society. So they created this app to collect data for where... distribution of certain animals and plants are found. So there is another purpose to this obviously, and if you want to read the fine print you can. I think for this one it's pretty clear, but it is free.

Whereas the other one I had picture this. Part of it is free, the identifier is free, but when it says it's sick, if I want to fix it, I have to pay for it to tell me how I can make my plant better. Okay, yeah, okay. It's Seek by iNaturalist, right? So it identifies plants, animals, insects.

Right. Pretty neat.

Let me add that to my list.

Good. So kind of neat, right? So we have the translator, we have Seek. Someone else just mentioned one of them. Oh yeah, the other one is to listen to music, right? So if you play a song or you're listening or you hear a song playing in the elevator and you're like, ooh, what's that tune?

Right? Like, who is that? What is that? Right? I like this song or I just can't remember. On your phone, they have built into it what they call Shazam. And Shazam is actually, that's an early app too. It's been around for a really long time. And Shazam will listen to the song, try to match it with its database, and then spit back out to you the name of the artist, the album, and the song.

or not the album, maybe the name of the artist and the song, whatever. So this is actually built into your iPhone. And that's Shazam.

You have to tap on it to start it and once it starts listening then it will yeah then I'll start to play right so if I have Here.

So it used to be its own app, but now it's built in to the Apple iOS Shazam. So that was in the control panel, you know, when you pull down from the top right. And you'll see that little icon for Shazam.

I was going to pull up a song. Does anybody want to play a... Can anybody play some music real quick?

You want somebody who wants to sing?

Here, I got it.

I think.

Anybody know this?

I don't think so. I don't.

So, if I try Shazam, right?

We'll pull it down, push the button.

Told me. See it on top? It detected it right away. Everyone see that?

Questions? Alright, so that's another one. That's called Shazam. That's the one that's right here. It's on your control panel. Whenever you pull it down from the top right, it looks like this kind of fancy S. Yes? So I don't identify music that you're already playing on your iPhone.

I don't think so. The reason why, so the question was will Shazam identify the music I'm playing on my iPhone and I don't think so because it... The microphone and the speaker sometimes can't work at the same time. Right? Yeah. It's a little bit difficult. Good.

Good. Did you find Shazam?

You don't see it?

You could download from the App Store if you want, but if not, again, pull down from the top right to get your control panel, and it might be one of these options that are there, but if it's not there... Just press, like hold down on the screen, and then choose add a control. When you choose add a control, you might get a bunch of options and Shazam should be there.

Okay, in that list somewhere and you just choose to add it

Yeah, play with it. It should be there. Do they call it Shazam?

They don't call it Shazam. They call it Recognize Music. Yeah. You did? Yeah. Interesting. So, I mean, maybe they're not using the Shazam database like I thought they were. I thought the logo kind of looks like it, but maybe Apple has, of course, their own, and they just call it Recognize Music. Okay, yeah. Yes.

Just Google Translate. Google Translate. I mean, Apple has their own translator as well. And that's what you'll discover, is it depends on the app. And it depends on the engine. Remember, like what type of artificial intelligence is it using? Is it using chat GPT? Is it using Gemini? Is it using some other site sort of database? Right.

Depending on what it's using, it will work better than others. So number one, you have to look at the actual translator and the interface to decide which one you prefer. If you're using Apple Translate, and you like it more than Google Translate, go for it. I mean, that's fine. Whatever works for you, okay? So, Apple Translator.

is this right same thing okay but as you can see it looks a little bit different right they also have a camera I have a conversation, so if I hold down the conversation, I can press this and right now it's going from Spanish to English and it's happening live, right? So I can see it happening.

and I can continue on in my conversation and it will start to also translate my English into Spanish as well. Right? Yeah, great way to learn language. Alright, so if I come up with a phrase, I can just learn the phrase right away. And if I want to read it...

Same thing for the camera.

Let's go from English to Spanish.

What?

What do you guys understand? German? Who knows?

Alright, there's the German.

OK, same thing, right? So again, these are all AI tools, right? It just, which one's better? It depends on which one you prefer, right? And then you will discover, maybe some are better than others as you start to use them, but it's hard to say. Here's another one. Of course, going back to the basics, we have the main two up on top that I downloaded. Gemini.

and chat GPT. Remember there's also co-pilot, which is this one here.

And, let me be fair.

And I'll put Google in here, too.

Okay, so Gemini, the one on top, right? Google uses Gemini, right? Copilot, right, uses Cheyenne. Google and Microsoft, the two different ones. Can I use Google as my artificial intelligence? You can. But it doesn't work as well as if you just downloaded Gemini. It will still give you an answer. It'll still give you a response. But if I go to Google and I ask Google.

Uh, let me see.

Can you tell me more about Alexander Hamilton?

It will give me this. So if I go to copilot and I push it, can you tell me more about Alexander Hamilton?

Very different, right? The results. Still working with one another, okay? Remember, Google uses Gemini, but if you really want to start to interact with the artificial intelligence... Sorry. And get kind of a different result.

Much more developed than just a regular Google search. Correct? Let me stop it.

Yeah, but they're also learning too maybe, right? So for every one that turns it in just as a term paper, there's maybe at least hopefully 20. There's the right hopefully there's 20 that learned about actually Alexander Hamilton. So it's going to work both ways. We've all done it. One time or another. Only once we've done it, right? So here, this is why I recommend that instead of using Google, you can still use Google as search, but if you use Gemini, they're trying to make it more natural.

There's a microphone down on the bottom. You just press on it, ask it the question, it'll spit out the response. So you do have to kind of think about your question and if it's too general, you can stop it. And then you can, you know, ask the, rephrase the question and ask specifics and then it'll drill down into that type of research. So you could see it's really helping you do research, right, in an interesting way. So I can look at this and I can say, oh, he's born out of wedlock and, you know, and whatever, and I could see something else.

You know, I could look up maybe I don't know.

I don't see anything really interesting on the book, but I could find I could find a little part of this and then I could research that, right, so I could say, oh, tell me more about this university, you know, King's College. Right? So if I press this, tell me more about King's College.

And it needs to think.

Of course, given our previous conversation about Alexander Hamilton.

Okay, probably more information than I actually wanted. Right, right, but pretty... What do you think? Right, as a teaching tool for somebody who's isolated by themself. Has nobody else, you could imagine, you know, worries of their kids being locked, you know, your child being locked in the room doing, what are they doing? Imagine that they're just sitting there talking to AI.

Hopefully they're asking it intelligent questions. But there's a lot of information that they can learn in a way that they can understand. Right? If you just searched for it, they would look this up. Tell me more about King's College.

They would get this and they would just read maybe the first blue part and then they're done. See the difference? Right? Okay. So it's up to you which tool you want. Again, these apps, Gemini, right, is downloadable if you want to try it. Chat GPT works the same way.

So if I press this...

So, all right.

I'm worried.

Sorry, for each one though you do have to log in.

Because they do want to know who you are.

Gosh, sorry.

Okay, so yeah, same thing here. So I can ask it...

Tell me about the inspiration for the Mona Lisa.

Let's see if it heard me.

This is chat GPT.

Right? A lot of information. But as you can see, this one doesn't read back to you. Okay, so this is what I was trying to explain to you is you have two different tools. Both of you will give your responses. Which response is better for the same question? Hard for you to figure out, right? But both of them are pretty comprehensive. This one doesn't read back to me. I like the other one better, just because it's easier for me to interact with. Maybe this is more detailed.

and a better response. So maybe this would be better for some, but it's again up to you. Different engines, different tools. You have to decide which one you like. That was Gemini. Right, right. But if we go here and then now we go into...

Co-pilot.

Hey, Jay.

What? Why are you talking to me? This is weird. Share what you see with your camera, so let's see. I'm here to chat Jay. I'm just looking around. Where am I? What's happening?

It looks like you're in a conference or meeting room with a cozy vibe. Everything okay? With a cozy vibe? Who are all these people?

Looks like you're in a spacious lounge, perhaps in a community or retirement home. With a group of elderly people gathered for an event you will be in.

Weird, right? I just got chills. Yeah, very interesting. Okay, so you can see, so this is Copilot and honestly this is the first time I've ever seen this and I've ever used this. I'm very impressed with how well you can see. What I'm looking at, what do you see in the corner over there?

Looks like someone's sitting in the corner, possibly playing the piano. Perhaps music's adding to that cozy vibe in the room. Okay, that's enough. Thank you. Can you tell me more about how the Mona Lisa was inspired?

The Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci, is thought to have been inspired by Lisa Ghirardini, the wife of a Florentine merchant. This masterpiece reflects da Vinci's skill in capturing the... Okay, so this is interesting. So what I discovered is Gemini is more the interactive one for Google, right? Chat GPT, which is Microsoft, is not as interactive, but the co-pilot version of Chat GPT, as you can see, is very interactive. It wants to know everything that you're doing, and it wants to see everything that you're doing.

Right, but it has a different type of interaction. So this is why you can try these and decide yourself which one matches you better. Going back to imagine wearing those glasses, and I'm talking to that co-pilot voice of mine, and it's telling me what I see, imagine if I'm visually impaired.

It can describe to me what is in front of me, whether it's something that I need to be aware of. you know, that's dangerous or something just, you know, great, whatever it is, okay. Somebody who's visually impaired can go into a museum and look at a painting.

As if they're looking at a painting and get an analysis of the painting, right? And then they can ask it to tell me more about the description, right? So, you know, museums, think about how museums always have the audio headphones. And somebody has to sit there and go through every single number right and give you a description. Now it can look at it through artificial intelligence without any pre kind of setup. It can just say tell me more about the artist. Oh what was their inspiration?

And you can just interact with it naturally and it will tell you all about. That Monet that's on the wall and that piece and the different period in time or whatever it is. Okay? Pretty interesting. Right? Okay. Oh, sorry.

So artificial intelligence is adding another level of kind of smart to what we do on a normal basis, which is why don't be afraid of it. It's not that bad. However, if they're there, I'll always respond.

You got to put it on ear pods. Yeah, air pods.

well that's when you start to plant things in your brain and it could read your mind and no yeah yes you could type you could type into it and read it Or it will just say it in your ear. I wouldn't be surprised if you start to see it more, that people are just talking to the artificial intelligence, just as it's kind of like if they're on their speakerphone. But.

Yeah. How many arguments have you had with friends where you go to an art show and you're debating if this is right or wrong or whatever? It'll squash that debate right away. So you won't lose a friend. I put Google Photos on here. So on iOS 15 and above, which is not all of us, you can edit photos, and you can mask out something that you don't want in your picture.

Google Photos does it without you needing iOS 15. So those that don't have iOS 15, you could download something. So for example...

Right here. This is a picture, right? Say for example I wanted to edit this and I want to get rid of the people in the background. Okay, I could take this, well you can't see it. There's a magic eraser button on my screen.

And I can erase certain parts. So I'm erasing the person behind them.

Right on my phone. I'm just literally rubbing my finger over it and I let go to get rid of it. No, it didn't get rid of it.

There! Oh, it's going away. Hold on.

Okay, this one.

There. Watch the screen. Oh, here, save it. Wait, sorry. It's one of my teachers. They're gone!

I did a really quick kind of erasic. You can work on it better. Yes, you can start to see their legs are there. I know, don't get too into it. But it's a very quick kind of. Erasing tool that's all done by AI and it detects that there's a shape of a person It'll remove it and it kind of replaces it with the background that's there. So it doesn't look like it's just a white out

Right, but it's something OK, so this is Google Photos. So if you don't have iOS 15 and those that have your friends that have 15 that are bragging and showing they can do this on their 15 you can get. Google Photos on your other...

Right. They do have one? Again, Apple has it. But what version phone do you have? Exactly. So I'm trying to create it so that we're all on equal ground here, so all you need is to download Google Photos, okay? Yes. Yeah, any of them. It should work. It should work. Should. But this is through the app, Google Photos. Just make sure when you download Google Photos, if you do download Google Photos, do not...

I say it again, do not allow it to back up your photos, okay? Because then it's saving another copy of all your pictures to Google, and then they're gonna want you to pay more for space. So yeah, Google Photos. Just do not allow them back up. You're already backing up to iCloud. You're fine. Other ones that are out there...

This one here, Microsoft 365 CoPilot. If you do documents, 365 CoPilot is related to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, all their different What they call productivity tools, right? So I can push a button and I can say, create a document for me, right? Or so I can say...

I don't know. Let me see.

Let's see, what do I want to make?

I'm trying to think what to make. Hold on.

Create a meeting agenda for my first meeting with the environmental board of my housing complex.

So here, it comes up with my meeting objectives. Right? So in a different way, if I want to use it for... If I'm planning a meeting or I don't know what to talk about, or I just need some help creating it before my meeting, I can leave it here and just kind of use it as a template.

I mean, that's really what it's making as a template. Maybe it's great and I could just use it right away. So a lot of different things. Questions? Yes?

Yes, probably. Like what book?

Give me some important talking points for the book Gentleman of Moscow from Moscow.

So you look up talking points.

I've been to those book clubs too. So you can imagine, is this cheating?

How can a teacher use this in a positive way? It can expand their conversation with their students. It can give them more than what they just think of, and they can use this for their next lecture, for their next class, and have all their students talk about it.

So again, you know, I know a lot of us walk into AI like, oh, AI is so bad, it's going to take over the world. Yeah, it is, but how can we use it as? A sounding board really is a tool, right, to help make things better. And as you can see here, all of you said, pretty good, right? Pretty good.

OK? Yeah. So that's really, and that's why when you open AI, it just starts with a blank state. And it just asks you, what do you want to do? Right? It doesn't guide you anywhere. It's up to you where you want to take it and what you want to look for. And then you...

Ask it what to do, whether you're looking up information, having it actually think more for you, having it do research, whatever you want, okay, good. Questions about that? Yes.

I think you probably can. Like, can you give me resources of where to go to find more information about this topic? Right, so... And so it sounds to me like...

No. Right, right. It depends on your thought process and how much you want to investigate. But trust me, because it's a machine, it will never become exhausted. I think you'll get tired before the machine says, stop, I can't help you anymore. So imagine going to a library and at some point they say, I think this is all we have in our resources, you're going to have to go somewhere else to look for it. Or I'm not sure how to help you, but go ahead and look.

Right? This has that accessible, or information accessible here. Yes?

It just won't give you that. It does. So you have to ask it for more. No, it does. OK. This particular function.

I'm trying to find an example. When you ask it to do research, depending on which one it is, they will have sometimes down on the bottom The references.

Okay, so this is going back to your questions about Gentleman from Moscow, right? Okay, your talking points. I think if I press this... It's going to show me all the references and what it used to find this information. It cites its sources. If you want to look at it further, you can.

Right, right. And you can tap on any one of these. In this case, it used eight different resources to find those talking points and compiled it up within a matter of seconds. Look at that discussion question. We've got it right there. Yeah, right. Pretty interesting.

So now you don't even have to look through these books or buy these books separately. That's maybe a downfall, right? But it has it all here. I wonder if they get compensated every time it uses the reference material. That would be very interesting. That would make sense, right?

Because you're referring to it, but I'm not sure. If somebody knows, let me know, because I now am worried about how these books get paid, right? If nobody has to buy a book because they can just chat GPT about it, how do publishers and authors get compensated?

Right. Another one, I don't know if we have time to do it right now, only have four minutes. No. I wanted to find a health app. So there's one there that says Healthify Me. There's one here that says Bodyful. And these are used, if you take a picture of the food that you're eating, it'll do a calorie count.

Right, yeah, yeah. I don't know how accurate it is and I'm sure if it does a calorie count you can then log that information, right, and then keep that and then track your There's probably more than just the food, right? It could probably include exercise. It might even link into your phone and then do steps as well and whatever else you're doing so that it can actually maybe even do calorie calculations for you for the overall day and what your intake is and what your outtake.

Is there outtake? Well, your burning is. Your use. Okay. I'm sure you could lift your bowel movements, too. So everything might be in that Healthify app. So if it can check to see if a plant is healthy or not, it can then monitor and help you also track your health.

So there's a ton of them that are out there, right, ton of them. These other two right here, chat on AI and Claude. So when you looked at Gemini and chat GPT, remember, it's just... A blank space that says, tell me what you want me to do. And then you're like, I don't know, right? ChatOn and Claude, they give you more prompts. So they give you, they guide you a little bit more in terms of what you can do. Still using the same engines, right?

But again, kind of like how I showed you the different types of translators and the user interface, right? And how they interact with you. They just interact with you differently. So it might be easier for you to use one of these apps because it's more natural in the way you think.

Then to use Gemini or Chat GPT, okay. So when you go online and you see like all these AI apps, you're like, wow, look at how many AI apps there are. Most of them are just apps that are designed For different users using Gemini or ChatGPT. Okay? Does that make sense? Right. Again, like what we talked about, the analogy of the car, right? They all drive, but they all have a different feel of a drive, and a different look, and whatever. They're the different programs that are still using the basic, which is AI.

All right? So yeah, feel free to explore them. I'll list them down more. But thank you, everybody. Next week, I'll have a newer phone, and we'll do what? Yeah. You can do it on Google. Thanks.