In this episode of the Family History AI Show, hosts Mark Thompson and Steve Little discuss recent developments in AI for genealogy.

They recap the groundbreaking AI Day at the Ontario Genealogical Society conference, highlighting the engaging presentations made throughout the conference. An exclusive interview with Daniel Horowitz reveals MyHeritage's user-friendly approach to AI. The hosts discuss tech giants' recent challenges and contrast them with Apple's strategic AI implementation.

The Tip of The Week provides practical advice on managing AI hallucinations. Leveraging custom GPTs for genealogical research takes center stage.

The episode also touches on the power of AI in summarization, as demonstrated in a recent Research Like a Pro podcast. Wrapping up, Steve previews his upcoming course on AI in genealogy at GRIP, promising an in-depth exploration of this rapidly evolving field.

00:30 Headlines

01:15 Big AI Conference in Toronto

Life at the Jagged Edge.

10:00 Perplexity gets called out by Forbes Magazine

11:42 Microsoft delays Recall on Copilot + PCs

13:50 More thoughts on the importance of Apple Intelligence

20:35 Interview with Daniel Horowitz, MyHeritage’s Expert Genealogist

30:20 Tip of the Week: Managing Hallucinations

AI Rapidfire

40:18 Microsoft Removing Support for CustomGPTs from Copilot

45:00 Nicole Dyer, from Research Like a Pro, covers summarization and introduces the importance of disclosure

49:20 Perplexity goes after Google by offering common Google searches

50:50 Upcoming courses and announcements

53:54 Tout fini

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In this episode of the Family History AI Show, co-hosts Mark Thompson and Steve Little discuss the exciting developments in AI announced at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) last week. In particular, Apple's promise of a more secure, private approach to AI. Apple's approach to AI is compared with Microsoft's Recall feature and Google's Memory, highlighting the importance of security and privacy to genealogists.

Mark and Steve also discuss recent updates to ChatGPT's Data Analyst, showcasing its improved spreadsheet analysis capabilities, which could greatly simplify research for some genealogists.

This episode's AI Tip of the Week encourages labeling of AI-generated content to give the gift of trust to future researchers.

1:30 Apple announced a new kind of AI last week, Apple Intelligence

12:15 Microsoft Recall feature highlights privacy and security concerns

22:37 ChatGPT's Data Analyst update

35:39 Family History AI Tip of the Week: Give the gift of trust to future generations by labelling AI content

42:10 AI Rapid Fire: International adoption of AI tools on the rise

51:22 Upcoming AI events with Mark and Steve

OpenAI:

https://www.openai.com

ChatGPT:

https://chatgpt.com/

Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/improvements-to-data-analysis-in-chatgpt/

“Genealogy and Artificial Intelligence (AI)” Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogyandai

Anthropic:

https://www.anthropic.com

Meta AI:

https://ai.facebook.com

Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP):

https://www.gripitt.org

National Genealogical Society AI Toolbox Series

https://www.ngsgenealogy.org/ai/aitoolboxworkshop/

Apple Worldwide Developer Conference:

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc

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“These tools are so useful […] that even if there are prohibitions against their use, […] there's an incredible temptation to use them surreptitiously.” - Steve Little

Join Mark Thompson and Steve Little as they discuss the AI stories affecting the family history community. AI outages, ethical debates, and cutting-edge tools were all big news this week.

Also, listen to how OpenAI's new content deals, Google's very bad awful week, and Perplexity's innovative Pages tool, could impact your genealogy research in the future.

Please leave a comment/review to let us know how we’re doing, and what you would like us to discuss in future episodes!

00:30 Major outage of tools on June 4th, 2024

02:48 Ethical considerations for using AI for genealogy

10:38 OpenAI's new content licensing deals

13:54 Google fumbles AI-overview rollout

17:20 Perplexity's innovative Pages tool simplifies research

23:57 OpenAI announces more free stuff included in ChatGPT

29:16 AI Tip of The Week: Treat Your Chatbot Like a Human

32:34 Rapid-fire updates

32:41 OpenAI Announce development of a new large language model

34:08 Partnership between Apple and OpenAI expected soon

35:45 Elon Musk announces $6B investment in Grok.AI

36:38 Meta/Facebook announce a paid version of Meta.AI coming “soon”

39:31 Upcoming Announcements

39:37 Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference

39:45 Ontario Genealogical Society Conference

40:05 Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh

41:07 Tout fini!

OpenAI:

https://www.openai.com

ChatGPT:

https://chatgpt.com/

“Genealogy and Artificial Intelligence (AI)” Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/genealogyandai

Google AI Overview:

https://ai.google

Perplexity AI:

https://www.perplexity.ai

Perplexity Pages Tool:

https://www.perplexity.ai/pages

Anthropic:

https://www.anthropic.com

Meta AI:

https://ai.facebook.com

Ontario Genealogical Society Conference:

https://conference.ogs.on.ca

Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP):

https://www.gripitt.org

Apple Worldwide Developer Conference:

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc