Kia ora koutou and welcome to this weeks AI wrap. I wanted to try Jasper generative AI this time but needed to put in my credit card for a trial. So I moved onto Copy.ai. This week there has been a tonne of news on AI with articles on AI's learning from toddlers movements, do Americans trust AI's, a few New Zealand use cases on the farm and eradicating pests.

Social media platforms have become the "digital town squares" of our time, enabling communication and the exchange of ideas on a global scale.

With Indians making up 5% of New Zealand's population and forming a valuable source of skilled IT workers, a new initiative aims to build on linkages between the two countries' digital and tech sectors.

While there is evidence pointing to the distraction cellphones cause, and cyberbullying is clearly a toxic trend, the problem is too nuanced for a blanket cellphone ban during the school day.

This week I tried using Google's Bard to write this blog. Over 20 articles with everything from AI and War (scary), AI and emissions from airplanes (cool), Apple, Toyota, IBM all investing heavily, facial recognition gone wrong, automation tools for technical debt and scrum masters.