AI Articles

 This article introduces AI fundamentals, comparisons to past industrial shifts and search engine usage.  It outlines public and expert views on societal benefits and risks, importance of guardrails, and discusses potential future steps for this transformative technology. 

For travelers who love languages, but aren’t fluent, the dream of a smooth and frictionless live translator is quite alluring. This article reviews various AI based communication tools, including Apple's new Live Translation, and platform differences with Google Translate.  Includes a communication ladder useful to deciding between the tools. 

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Becoming an Actuary in an AI World. How can future actuaries and other professionals combine strong actuarial fundamentals with AI fluency and independent critical thinking to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.  Supplementing extensive industry materials, provides additional practical suggestions and resources to further a professional career. 

 What does an actuary actually do? This slide presentation explores the blend of analytics, business judgment, emerging technologies including AI, and interdisciplinary thinking that helps actuaries solve complex real-world problems.  From resumes and internships to interviewing and long-term career growth, this session shares practical advice for building a rewarding and adaptable professional career. 

What does it mean to become future-ready in an AI world? This slide presentation examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping professional expectations, learning, and decision-making, while highlighting both its opportunities and limitations. Success will increasingly depend on combining strong fundamentals, AI fluency, and independent critical thinking. 

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Why does AI sometimes produce convincing but incorrect answers? This presentation examines the most common AI failure modes and discusses the importance of transparency in documenting AI's role in a project. The goal is to help users combine AI capabilities with sound judgment to produce work that meets professional-quality domain expert co-creation standards. 

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If an AI answer sounds confident, detailed, and well-written, does that mean it's trustworthy? Not necessarily. This framework explores three major ways AI systems can fail—not just by being wrong, but by being incomplete, unstable, or deceptively convincing. Understanding these failure modes may be one of the most important skills for anyone using AI at work, in school, or for decision-making.

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Would you trust a document differently if you knew how much of it was created solely by AI? From simple grammar assistance to fully AI-generated content, borrowing from a widely accepted tornado risk scale, this proposed AI Contribution Scale offers a new way to think about transparency, authorship, and trust in an increasingly AI-powered world. 

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  Are today's students preparing for careers that may look very different a decade from now? Drawing on hundreds of interviews, podcasts, articles, and public discussions, this article synthesizes perspectives from 21 prominent AI researchers, founders, and educators. Rather than advocating a single viewpoint, it encourages readers to explore where their own thinking aligns within a broad spectrum of informed perspectives on the roles that technology, human adaptation, and thoughtful governance may play in shaping the future. 

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  For travelers who love languages, but aren’t fluent, the dream of a smooth and frictionless live translator is quite alluring - Spanish (Catalan) version. This article also includes a comparison of how well 9 AI models, ranging from Claude and DeepL to WhatsApp and Apple Live, scored when performing a Back Translation Test (round trip English to Spanish back to English) on a portion of the original article.