3 Cool Tools
- News
- Google latest report on AI water use https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/measuring-the-environmental-impact-of-ai-inference
- RootsMagic 11
- New version has first ‘draft’ of AI features for stand along genealogy software
- AI Prompt Builder – uses data in your RootsMagic tree to write a custom AI prompt to copy to ChapGPT, etc.
- Note – it doesn’t request research
- FamilySearch Full Text Search
- Has moved out of labs
- Find in Search menu in main website
- New features:
- AI-generated summaries of records, including names and relationships.
- Search fields for year, place, and image group number (DGS).
- Almost 2 billion records from various countries and languages.
- Ability to search by specific collections, which are grouped using digitization metadata.
- Automatic translation of record summaries into your preferred language.
- Perplexity Comet
- LLM built into the Chrome web browser. The future of AI?
- Can remember and compare things across multiple tabs – not just things entered in the chat interface
- Can, if you let it, access your google email and calendar.
- Can automate tasks
- Can ‘use’ your browser – open tabs, click items, fill out forms
- Resources
- The Family History AI Show, by Mark Thompson & Steve Little
- Genealogy and Artificial Intelligence Facebook Group
- Legacy Family Tree Webinars