00:13:31 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Welcome to all members and guests! Guests, if you want to join, see https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ Everyone will be muted during the presentation. Feel free to use the Chat window to comment and ask questions. After the presentation, people will be able to unmute themselves. Please feel free to do so if you want to ask a question or make a comment 00:17:50 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: So are the AI's going to kill humanity off? 00:18:06 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: So they can make more paperclips..... 00:21:48 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: https://opcug.ca/presentations/2026-09-ai.pdf 00:22:56 Harvey Hope: Replying to "https://opcug.ca/presentations/2026-09-ai.pdf" Shhhhh 00:26:47 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Generative AI - For best results, give lots of context—even ramble—when prompting • https://www.computerworld.com/article/3853747/the-secret-to- using-generative-ai-effectively.html 00:27:23 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Many AI tools for image generation • Microsoft Copilot – https://copilot.microsoft.com • OpenAI ChatGPT (was DALL-E for image generation) – https://chatgpt.com/ • Google ImageFX – https://labs.google/fx/tools/image-fx • Google Gemini – https://gemini.google.com/app • X Grok – https://grok.com/ • NightCafé – https://creator.nightcafe.studio/ • Perchance AI Image Generator – https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generator • Ideogram – https://ideogram.ai/t/explore 00:29:48 Timothy: Their is spelt wrong. 00:34:22 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: Replying to "Their is spelt wrong." There it is 00:43:11 Lynda Buske: I disagree with my edited photo at Remic since Gemini added an entire inukshuk that didn't exist. 00:43:45 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Replying to "I disagree with my edited photo at Remic since Gemini added an entire inukshuk that didn't exist." That was bonus! 00:45:18 Stew Bruce: So we have Men without Hats. ? 00:46:32 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: https://app.reve.com/ 00:48:15 Timothy: Dumbo! 00:48:30 Tristan: Reacted to "So we have Men witho..." with 😆 00:49:20 Steve Parker: What would it say if you asked it what it was a picture of? 00:52:55 Dianne Laporte: Had photo from 1950s, with my father & 2 brothers with the deer they had shot while hunting. Rifles showed too. Gemini said that it couldn’t improve photo because of dead deer and rifles! ( Outside its acceptable parameters it said.) Gave me alternatives to improve photo but have yet to do. 00:55:47 Stew Bruce: Replying to "Had photo from 1950s..." I suppose it would have difficulty with old war photos as well. 00:57:48 bea: Integration of machine learning in ECCC global weather prediction system if anyone is interested in this webinar 00:58:49 bea: you can email me at bea.taylor.alt@gmail.com 01:01:29 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): https://www.perplexity.ai 01:02:45 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: I've used perplexity to create a CSV of coming local cycling events, with the source URL in one column 01:04:57 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): https://ithy.com 01:05:06 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: https://ithy.com/ 01:05:40 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20260325_PowerPoint.pdf https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20260527_PowerPoint.pdf 01:06:04 KABAHENDA KIGGUNDU: It seems that ithy is not free. 01:07:55 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: So is Ithy iffy? 01:08:31 Steve Parker: how do you get appcontrol integrated into Claude.ai 01:10:10 PC: Info on ithy site that it's free: https://ithy.com/article/ithy-ai-free-usage-details-951yotvq 01:10:37 Timothy: wait until the end of our DST, perplexity may have a fit this year with all the changes. 01:14:27 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Kevin Stratvert—Google AI Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cvczHJSRNs 01:14:28 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: FWIW, you can split excel formulas between lines and indent to help it make sense 01:14:30 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): AI Andy (additional examples) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6c_uwQwV9A 01:20:56 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: Cntrl-Z is your friend... 01:21:45 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Replying to "Cntrl-Z is your friend..." Ctrl+Z is the universal keyboard shortcut for Undo 01:24:49 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Gemini Notebook https://notebook.google.com/ 01:26:24 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: I used gemini notebook to break out info from my doc who resigned 01:27:13 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: The queries were suggested by perplexity.... 01:31:17 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: There are MANY fake youtube videos 01:34:23 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ai-grief-bots-ghosts-deceased-loved-ones-9.7306354 01:34:44 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: You could probably create an avatar for yourself from your emails, WhatsApp, .... 01:36:42 Timothy: It's weird but different from watching old family films or pictures after the person has died. 01:37:14 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: There are many fake videos of Trump 01:37:39 Timothy: yeah but they are funny. 01:39:56 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Seedance https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-4-p32fDLOo 01:40:27 Joc: Something weird, all I'm seeing is Chris, not the video he's trying to show??? 01:40:53 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Replying to "Something weird, all I'm seeing is Chris, not the video he's trying to show???" I am seeing the videos but thye are choppy 01:41:14 Maureen: Videos are great for me 01:41:33 Joc: that's real odd! 01:41:46 Stew Bruce: Replying to "Something weird, all..." Everything is smooth here 01:41:50 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Titanic alternate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUq_nVEYWL0 (time: 4:50-5:02) 01:41:53 Bob Herres: Replying to "Something weird, all I'm seeing is Chris, not the video he's trying to show???" I see videos 01:42:17 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Critterz ithy.com/a/wlr7ky87 01:43:23 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Suno https://www.sondo.ai 01:44:34 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Correction!!! Suno https://suno.com 01:44:57 Stew Bruce: Sam made all that stuff for Acme? Coyote is gonna sue his butt. 01:45:02 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Full 3-minute song • https://suno.com/s/OFGeLOzYuFRwfZic 01:45:22 Steve Parker: Very similar song to the theme for the movie Bolt 01:45:28 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: The Monkees! 01:45:40 Timothy: Replying to "Sam made all that stuff for Acme? Coyote is gonna sue his butt." Saw the movie on the weekend. It was good. 01:46:04 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): OPCUG membership Full 2 minute 47 second song • https://suno.com/s/DlqCNOiv642LiKjX 01:46:29 Denis Therrien: Tag this song to the OPCUG homepage ! 01:46:30 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ 01:47:29 Carol Pearson: Reacted to "Tag this song to the OPCUG homepage !" with 👍 01:47:46 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Google Gemini integration in Google Chrome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBjM0SHg-aU 01:49:36 Natalie: Replying to "Google Gemini integration in Google Chrome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBjM0SHg-aU" Link came up as unavailable/private 01:49:36 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: Chrome has a youtube summarize extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-summary-with-chat/nmmicjeknamkfloonkhhcjmomieiodli 01:50:06 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Microsoft Copilot integration in Microsoft Edge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Envvyjvva8 01:50:44 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Web browsers from AI companies Comet from Perplexity.AI • https://www.perplexity.ai/comet  Samsung Browser in partnership with Perplexity.AI • https://browser.samsung.com/  Norton Neo (from Gen: Norton, Avast, AVG, CCleaner…) • https://neobrowser.ai/  Atlas from OpenAI (ChatGPT) (only for macOS) • deprecated as of 2026-08-09 • rolling capabilities into a new ChatGPT desktop app & Chrome extension 01:52:02 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): XAI—Explainable AI https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/ https://www.swiftask.ai/blog/explainable-ai-xai 01:52:55 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): AI universal assistants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXVvvRhiGjI Using Project Astra while walking around London, England https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIIlJt8JERI 01:54:55 jenn faubert: i need that to find my glasses! 01:55:49 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: Your android glasses will find your other glasses 01:57:45 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Agentic AI: the latest rage Automatic buying is already here https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ai-shopping-agentic-payments-9.7222389 https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-rufus-ai-assistant- personalized-shopping-features 01:58:16 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Is an agentic AI PC the future? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJe2IOO1224 01:58:51 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): AI agents as Genies https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agent-benchmark 01:59:12 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: And his daughter 02:00:57 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/the-openai-hack-shows-the-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle.html 02:01:02 David Odynski: are students going to do their own work or is AI then they have no knowledge when they graduate. 02:01:18 Tristan: Like any tool AI can be used for good or bad. The big unknown however, is that AI is the first tool that can make its own choices. We'll see how that goes, though some alarm bells are starting to sound for some caution. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/anthropic-researcher-resigned-9.7337789 https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make 02:02:22 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: Apple M series computers can run AI pretty well, with as much unified memory as possible 02:02:28 Timothy: less than 10 years to go. 02:02:58 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: AI will make money by automating companies. 02:03:31 Stew Bruce: Young people are finding out that software programming is no longer a viable career path thanks to senior programmers using AI instead of hiring junior staff. 02:03:35 Tristan: We have to teach AI the Three Laws of Robotics lol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics 02:04:45 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): About That with Andrew Chang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIPLnU6dPxc 02:05:00 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Why Big Tech’s AI Spending Is $3 Trillion Higher Than It Seems • https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-big-techs-ai-spending-is-3- trillion-higher-than-it-seems-e1067bb2 02:05:13 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Impacts of AI data centres https://ithy.com/article/ai-environmental-impacts-4lcd8l3z 02:05:52 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): AI resources This presentation • https://opcug.ca/presentations/2026-09-ai.pdf • https://opcug.ca/opl/ai.pdf (as updated for OPL presentations)  AI news—an evergreen document of “interesting” AI news • https://opcug.ca/opl/ai-news.pdf  The Rundown AI • free daily emailed newsletter on latest in AI • https://www.therundown.ai/  11 ChatGPT Tips and Tricks • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjUrz_epSTI  LTX Studio • good explanation of what’s involved in text to video • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAoomBA3Kfk  Where AI Provides Value • blog post by Bruce Schneier—security expert • https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/where-ai-provides-value.html 02:06:41 Tristan: The data center environmental issues are due to lack of government regulation. It is entirely possible to build green data centers, however that would eat some profits. 02:07:21 Bob Herres: ✅✅ Fantastic /Standing Ovation ! ty 02:08:43 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 02:08:50 Gail Eagen: Thank you sooo much. great presentation!!! 02:08:59 Michelle Faber: Thank you. Very informative. 02:09:02 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Chris.Taylor@opcug.ca • https://opcug.ca/presentations/2026-09-ai.pdf • https://opcug.ca/opl/ai.pdf (as updated for OPL presentations) • https://opcug.ca/opl/ai-news.pdf 02:09:06 France Picard Ottawa: Fantastic presentation! Thanks! 02:09:11 Tristan: Thanks Chris for the great presentation! 02:09:12 MP: Very interesting! Thanks Chris! 02:09:18 Diane P: great presentation !!! 02:09:18 Mark Hunter - DPCUC: Thanks so much Tim! 02:09:20 Ruby LG: Thank-you! 02:09:31 Joc: Fantastic presentation! 02:09:32 E O'Driscoll: FAB presentation!!! Many, many thanks. 02:09:33 Carol Pearson: Thanks Very interesting 02:09:33 Maureen: Thank you so much. This was an excellent presentation. So informative! 02:09:37 Mark Hunter - DPCUC: I mean Chris. 02:09:37 Diane: Thank you for a very informative presentation. 02:09:42 Paul Graner: Thanks Chris 02:09:47 Timothy: Very very good presentation Chris. 02:10:09 PeterK: Thank you very much. Verry informative. 02:10:26 Brett Martensen: Does Generative AI understand what it is doing? 02:11:11 Sherida Harris: Thank you Chris. This was very informative. 02:11:41 Stew Bruce: Ai is being used to detect AI 02:11:42 Dianne Laporte: Terrific ! Thanks. 9 months since I saw you present AI at a library & lots new! 02:12:51 Michelle Faber: Have a good night everyone. 02:13:40 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: There are various ways to detect AI. Images, video can be invisibly watermarked. Some AIs write predictable words and constructs. 02:14:13 Carol: "We live in the day and time of Google and AI. It's replaced the elder. Google can give you knowledge, but it can't provide wisdom. . . . camaraderie, that friendship is everything." —excerpt from book, WHO NEEDS FRIENDS—An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship Across America (2026), Andrew McCarthy . . a delightful read, IMHO. 02:14:17 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: Some jurisdictions will require AI signification 02:14:24 Allison: Really great presentation Chris! 02:14:50 Dianne Laporte: Is it possible to see slide #s on screen? Would help me go back to specific pages of particular interest 02:15:15 Tom Trottier with pet Rex: Prompt addition for avoiding sounding AI: No antithesis. No corrective negation. No paragraph pinning. No parataxis. No summary beats. No rhetorical crutches. No negative parallelisms. No negative anaphoras. No contrasting pairs. No rule of three. No em dashes. No throat-clearing openers. No landing sentences. No setup/payoff constructions. No parallel sentence structures within a paragraph. Vary sentence length unpredictably. No stacked noun phrases. No filler intensifiers (eg genuinely, really, truly, actually). No corporate-register verbs (eg leverage, underscore, reflect). No nominalization. No hedging qualifiers. Write for the spoken voice. No performed enthusiasm. Your response should be in the style of [author] Adhere to ADS-STE1OO Simplified Technical English as much as possible. 02:15:26 Jose Costa: Reacted to "Is it possible to see slide #s on screen? Would help me go back to specific pages of particular interest" with 👍 02:15:26 Bob Herres: Thank you Chris! Completely so well done !! 👍 02:15:28 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Replying to "Is it possible to see slide #s on screen? Would help me go back to specific pages of particular interest" The PDF viewer should give you the slide (page) numbers 02:15:48 bea: great presentation and information. 02:15:54 bea: thanks 02:16:08 Denis Therrien: Merci. Extra! 02:16:14 Lorraine Boulay: Great presentation, Thanks 02:16:23 Timothy: I saw at one point over 80 people. 02:16:31 Natalie: Thanks! So much new info. 02:16:33 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Replying to "I saw at one point over 80 people." 82 at least 02:16:37 E O'Driscoll: Thanks again and good night! 02:17:43 Lorraine Boulay: One AI search and two people to review its accuracy. No shortage of employment. 02:17:50 Eldon Gaw: Chris, If what you are doing is called retiring, I am keeping working :-) Thank ypou for such an amazing presentation. 02:17:51 Dianne Laporte: Reacted to "Is it possible to see slide #s on screen? Would help me go back to specific pages of particular interest" with 👍 02:17:59 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Chris, If what you are doing is called retiring, I am keeping working :-) Thank ypou for such an amazing presentation." with ❤️ 02:18:32 Eldon Gaw: Yeah syre~