AI Experiments
Over the past twelve months or so, I have studied and experimented with Artificial Intelligence. I have concluded that it should not be a cause for apprehension, but rather viewed as a resource to provide assistance across various facets of my professional and personal endeavours.
This page is a record of a selection of the small-scale projects and conceptual developments that I have undertaken during this time.
AI for Designers
This is a course that I am currently taking with the Interaction Design Foundation. I have currently gained enough marks to complete the course with a pass and gain my certificate, but I’m aiming higher, so here is a screenshot of my current progress till then.
Deep Research
I wanted to learn more about how children in UK primary schools are taught to learn to read using phonics. I wasn’t taught to read in this way, and was finding that I could only go so far when helping my children when they got home.
I also found that this led me to want to understand more about dyslexia, what it is, how children who have been recognised as having dyslexia can be helped, etc.
So I asked Gemini to do some deep research for me on these topics, figuring that it would be valuable knowledge, but not something that I had the capacity to achieve myself.
My children have a new set of words that they need to practice spelling every week. I was finding that getting them to learn these spellings by just getting them to use the look, cover, write, check method wasn’t working, my daughter was finding it frustrating as she couldn’t remember the order of the letters, while my son would just plain refuse to participate as he found it boring.
I heard about NotebookLM from a podcast and thought i’d give it a go for helping my children. I loaded up the list of words, gave it a bit of context, and the age of the audience to make sure it was engaging and fun. I tested it out on my children, and they loved it!
Gemini Gem
