UVTAGG - 2024-02-06- Press Release: Online Mtg, 10 Feb 2024, 10-12 Noon MT, DONALD R. SNOW on GETTING STARTED WITH FREE AI
2024-02-06
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Donald R. Snow -- snowd@math.byu.edu
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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 10 Feb 2024 on Zoom and Facebook
10 am - 11 AM MT: DONALD R. SNOW on GETTING STARTED WITH FREE AI
11:10-12 Noon MT: DONALD R. SNOW on AI Q & A
More details on UVTAGG.org and on the UVTAGG blog.
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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday Morning, 10 Feb 2024, 10 am - 12 Noon MT on Zoom and Facebook
Details and links to watch are on https://uvtagg.org and on the UVTAGG Facebook page.
10 am - 11 AM MT: DONALD R. SNOW on GETTING STARTED WITH FREE AI
11:10-12 Noon MT: DONALD R. SNOW on AI Q & A
ABOUT DONALD R. SNOW:
Don is a Californian by birth, with Snow ancestors from Southern Utah. He is a retired Professor of Mathematics from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, and has lived in several foreign countries, both for mathematics and church assignments. After retiring from the BYU Math Faculty, he and his now deceased wife Diane, served four Family History missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including being Directors of the New York Family History Center in Manhattan, in the Illinois Nauvoo Mission working on a FH project, and in the London England Family History Centre. Don served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Utah Genealogical Association and was the Host of their online Virtual Chapter Meetings for several years. He has been a VP of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group (UVTAGG) since the early 1990's. He is a frequent speaker at FH venues and loves teaching and playing his accordion. His website is http://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html
ABOUT THE MAIN PRESENTATION and CLASS: GETTING STARTED WITH FREE AI
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is helpful in many ways, including family history. Once you get started it is easy to use. This presentation will help you get started with some of the major free AI websites and how to use them. Examples will illustrate this and give you ideas to use it. The notes have the links, so if you use them online, you can just click and go to the AI website. The AI websites we will discuss are Microsoft's Copilot, Googles' Bard, Open AI's ChatGPT, and Summarize.tech, a website that will give you a text summary of close-captioned YouTube videos. The notes and other related information, all with active internet links, will be on the handout and posted on https://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html .
All meetings of the Group are open to the public and have the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history. The Group is in its 34th year and previously was called the Utah Valley PAF Users Group. On the blog is a way for anyone to receive the press releases via email. Members of the group ($15/year), besides being able to interact with presenters on ZOOM, receive the monthly email newsletter, TAGGology, and have access to the more than 650 videos of past presentations and classes. TAGGology contains a wealth of information about genealogy, including information for Temple and Family History Consultants. Free sample copies of the Newsletter can be requested by emailing uvtagginfo@gmail.com .
Officers of UVTAGG are Gerhard Ruf, President; Laurie Castillo, 1st VP; Don Snow, 2nd VP; Secretary (Vacant); Jerry Castillo, Membership Officer, Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Treasurer; Librarian (Vacant); Carol Hill, Social Media Publicist; James Anderson, FamilySearch Coordinator; Chris Stevenson, Brent Nelson, Jerry Castillo, and Dawn Brimhall, Broadcast and Website Specialists. For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at uvtagginfo@gmail.com (801-602-5048), or 1st VP Laurie Castillo at gengal@comcast.net , or 2nd VP Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu .
Donald R. Snow, 2nd VP, snowd@math.byu.edu .
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Dr. Donald R. Snow, Retired Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA - snowd@math.byu.edu
