My Fun With AI
Artificial Intelligence. It's the new thing. New things often scare people, including me. How will this new technology affect me? Is it just a new way to mine my personal information? How trustworthy is it? I don't think all of these questions have answers, yet, but yesterday I was lucky to attend a live webinar hosted jointly by the Anne Arundel Genealogical Society , of which I am a member, and the Howard County Genealogical Society : AI and Genealogy: Trouble Ahead? presented by Thomas MacEntee, of Genealogy Bargains . The presentation was excellent. Even though the title included "trouble ahead," Thomas really wasn't in the least bit alarmist about the use of AI in genealogy. Quite the opposite, actually: he talked about the various different platforms - pros and cons and what having a subscription to each of them gave - over and above the free versions. He also talked about some of the exciting uses of AI that are already in pla...