Byte-sized AI: An introduction to artificial intelligence
EAPO in partnership with ABC Life Literacy Canada hosted a webinar to provide the foundations of AI (artificial intelligence) technology. Topics covered: what AI is, what it can do, its limitations, and how to keep yourself safe when using it.
Our speakers also explored Pi AI, an AI tool that is designed to have meaningful conversations with users without users needing high digital or literacy skills.
SPEAKER
Ellie Tamura, Programs Specialist, ABC Life Literacy Canada
Mansi Bhavsar, Workshop Facilitator, ABC Life Literacy Canada
Presentation (Download)
Byte-sized AI: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Resources:
ABC Life Literacy
https://abclifeliteracy.ca
ABC Connect for Learning
https://abclifeliteracy.ca/programs/abc-connect-for-learning/
Contact: Ellie Tamura, Programs Specialist
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.abclifeliteracy.ca
Elder Abuse Prevention Ontario (EAPO)
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 416-916-6728 Toll-Free : 1-833-916-6728
Website: www.eapon.ca
RESOURCES
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools (Free and paid versions available)
ChatGBT – is a form of generative AI — a chatbot tool that lets users enter prompts to receive humanlike images, text or videos that are developed by OpenAI
https://chatgpt.com/auth/login
Pi – (Personal Intelligence) is an AI chatbot that is designed to have meaningful conversations with users.
www.pi.ai
Copilot Microsoft- is a conversational chat interface that lets you search for specific information, generate text such as emails and summaries, and create images based on text prompts you write.
https://copilot.microsoft.com/
Adobe Firefly – is a suite of generative AI-powered features for creating image content. It’s a free tool, but does require a login. Adobe Firefly can make the really wild and funny images.
https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/firefly.html
Resource Fact Sheets from ABC Financial Literacy Canada
Natural Reader Lessons for Assistive Technologies
Natural Reader is a free text-to-speech app that reads text and documents to you out loud
https://abcconnectforlearning.ca/wp-content/uploads/natural-reader-android.pdf
Google Translate
https://abcconnectforlearning.ca/wp-content/uploads/Google-Translate-Computers.pdf
Spotting Fake News and Using Snopes.com
https://abcconnectforlearning.ca/wp-content/uploads/fake-news-snopes-en.pdf
