Artificial Intelligence (AI)

I recently ran across the research of the late Dr. Albert A. Bartlett, a physics professor who spent decades warning that our greatest human flaw is an inability to understand the exponential function. His most famous analogy involved bacteria doubling...

In the world of AI, we often find ourselves treating chatbots like colleagues. We say “please,” we offer a “thank you,” and sometimes we even apologize for a typo. But recent data suggests that this digital etiquette comes with a...

I spent some time looking how AI can "describe" a video and provide guidelines on how that video might be able to be improved. I then wanted to be able to move those notes into time coded markers to help...

In academic video production, my primary tool has always been creating video—2D and linear. However, my ongoing testing with organic chemistry visualizations pushed me to try a different approach. After receiving some excellent feedback, I tried SVG (and ultimately WebGL)...

What began as a simple experiment turned into a full benchmarking session. I found a sepia tone photograph of my father-in-law from the 1950s. I wanted to see what it might look like in color, so I started uploading it...

The transition from Gemini 3.0 to Gemini 3.1 Pro isn't just a incremental update; for those of us involved in media technology and digital storytelling, it represents a fundamental shift in how AI perceives and constructs visual logic. We are...

As many of you know, I’ve been deep in the trenches of testing AI video creation for academic projects at Duke University. My "litmus test" has always been trying to accurately animate molecular bonding—a project that dates back to the...