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AI Video Generators

On 10th March 2025 By Kate ScottIn Tools, Video Generator2 Comments

This is another big one - I'm covering video generators. There are quite a few that people are talking about, and most of them aren't as easily accessible as the LLMs and image generators. Some have free usage tiers, but the generation speed is slow (as in hours to days), while others will give you …

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Image Generators 101

On 24th February 2025 By Kate ScottIn Image Generator, Tools2 Comments

The image generators are improving rapidly, and more are appearing all the time. Much like the LLMs, there are some tools that are built from scratch, and others which sit on top of others, with some fine tuning applied. The ones listed below are all 'from scratch' versions. All the image generations tool other than …

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Learning to use AI tools

On 17th February 202510th February 2025 By Kate ScottIn Commentary, Learning, ToolsLeave a comment

I ran a survey (mostly on LinkedIn) over the past few weeks to get a feel for where people go to learn about AI tools, and also what they think are going to be the important skill areas to be able to get on top of. The skill areas I asked about were: Understanding and …

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Perplexity

On 10th February 202524th February 2025 By Kate ScottIn Learning, Tools1 Comment

Welcome to one of my favourite tools! Perplexity is basically a cross between Chat GPT and a standard Google search. You ask it a question, it checks a bunch of different websites, then gives you a summary of its findings. WITH the source websites listed, so you can check. Where this is most useful is …

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Intro to LLMs

On 27th January 202527th January 2025 By Kate ScottIn LLMs, Tools1 Comment

Quick caveat before diving in. This area of tech is moving insanely fast and while I'm aiming to stick to the foundations here, if you're reading this post more than a month after it was published, check the details, things could be out of date. So, first up. LLM stands for Large Language Model, and …

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Welcome to my new adventure

On 14th January 202524th February 2025 By Kate ScottIn CommentaryLeave a comment

So I've been playing around in AI for a while, and writing for a while, and teaching for a while. I figured it was about time to bring it all together.

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