October 17th Newsletter

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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” — Alan Turing Upcoming Events The ChatGPT Café– Starting this week! In partnership with Amherst Information Technology, AILA is hosting a series of pop-up computer laboratories in October and November to offer members of the Amherst…

The ChatGPT Café

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In partnership with IT and the AI in the Liberal Arts (AILA) initiative, we are excited to bring the ChatGPT Café series to the Amherst community. In this series of informal exploratory pop-up cafés, faculty, staff, and students at Amherst College will have the opportunity to experiment with the latest paid versions of ChatGPT4 and reflect on their experiences. Come join us at…

October 3rd Newsletter

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke’s, Third Law.  Upcoming Events AILA T-Shirt Contest Submissions- Oct 15th Deadline Calling all creatives! AILA is hosting a T-Shirt Design Contest, and we want YOUR designs to take center stage. Whether you’re an AI enthusiast or a humanist with a passion for innovation,…

Bolstering AI with Computational Ability & Curated Data

Academic Technology Services & AILA welcome, Andy Dorsett, a representative from Wolfram Research. He will discuss an innovative new plugin for ChatGPT, Mathematica’s built-in machine learning, and its connections with other AI systems. Wednesday 9/20 @ 4p; Paino Lecture Hall, Beneski 107 Some insight into Wolfram|Alpha’s strategy! Read more about it in the links below:writings.stephenwolfram.com Wolfram|Alpha as…

AILA T-Shirt Design Contest

Submit by October 22nd! Want to win $20 and get your design on a t-shirt? Help AILA design a t-shirt for staff members and yourself by submitting a design by October 15! Submit here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScd0YnJS9QBPxLATLUZmcIl1aJuPfhgN8zGJfIRu2rrn9lSqQ/viewform…

AILA Open House 9/14

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Join Artificial Intelligence in the Liberal Arts (AILA) for Cookies and Convo Students, faculty, and staff please stop by C209 on Thursday, 9/14 from 1-3p to get know our new AILA Team! We will have AILA stickers, Insomnia Cookies, and folks ready to answer all your Artificial Intelligence related questions. All questions and levels of AI knowledge welcome. Come learn about…

CopySmith AI – an AI copywriting tool

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Welcome to our Copysmith review. It’s an AI copywriting tool from founder Jasmine Wang who’s been doing some exciting things with AI in content marketing for quite a while….

Murf AI Tutorial / Text-to-speech AI voice generator

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By Ali Sbeih Description Tutorial a) For either option, you will get multiple options to specify the type of audio or video that you are creatingb) You get 10 minutes of speech/transcription for free a) You can choose from a range of available languages as well as accentsb) You can also filter the voices based…

Check out Midjourney!

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By Sherry Jiang Check out the showcase for Midjourney! 1600×780 319 KB 1600×816 350 KB WARNINGS before you start the tutorial: 1. Midjourney almost has nearly no censorship.2. The final product that you generate is also visible to other users. Therefore, you may encounter disturbing content from other users during the process. Please be mentally…