OBS Overview
This is my portfolio over the 2023-24 school year!
Trinket Project 1 – 2023
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This didn’t end up working (but I will be troubleshooting this in the future)
<iframe src="https://trinket.io/embed/python/e780e72123" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>My NHL Predictions Graph
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I made a calculator that calculates the gravitational potential energy or kinetic energy of an object. It can also solve for the other variables such as velocity squared, or mass.
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I made an RPG game using if statements
<iframe src="https://trinket.io/embed/python/972b730436" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Auroras Website
In science class I made a website on auroras for my research project
Google AI Search Errors
Summary:
Recently, people have been finding that Google’s new AI has been giving strange and possibly dangerous answers. Users have been sharing experiences where the AI gives them advice such as “eating one small rock per day is recommended”, referencing an article from The Onion, a satirical website. But, Google says that these are “isolated examples”, and not an accurate representation of everyday user activity.
The AI was first released to a small sect of people in the UK in April, but was released to the general public in the US in May. The purpose of this AI is to give a brief summary of a topic when you search. Google is currently waring
Critique:
This wouldn’t be the first time that Google’s AI has had some issues. In February of 2024, Google released Gemini, a chatbot which was under fire due to its large amounts of diversity. While normally this would be a good thing, when asked to generate images of a historical figure such as George Washington, it often depicted him as a person of colour. While Google dominates in the search engine industry, it shows many struggles in AI. Even though Google has invested $100 billion into developing AI, we haven’t been able to see the results of that yet. I am still optimistic for the future, and I hope that they will be able to release an AI as good as their search engine.
Notebook LM
Summary:
Originally called Tailwind, Google has released a new AI called Notebook LM, which may be the new way to take notes. Google says that they started building the system from scratch, with a language model in the centre (hence the LM).
In our ever-changing world, there is a lot of new information which can be very difficult to keep up with. Google proposes that this will be able to condense information from multiple sources, greatly helping students and teachers. The AI also lets you “ground” the AI into your sources. Notebook LM can provide summaries, be asked questions about the uploaded document, and even create short scripts or even podcast episodes based on the content it is given.
Critique:
I personally believe that, while Notebook LM is a very impressive technology, it may not be suitable for many students, especially those in grades 8-10. This is because teachers often don’t provide students with the materials that the AI needs to do what it was programmed to do – condense large amounts of information into small, easy to read points. This also isn’t the first AI to be able to achieve something like this. Chat GPT and other language-model AI’s also have the capabilities to consensus information and present it in new ways. But, I was able to try it out, and I was able to find that it is able to condense a 60-page document in less than 15 seconds, which is incredibly fast, especially for an experimental model. Overall, I do believe that this AI is a good concept, it doesn’t have anything that separates itself from its competitors.