Two free 90-minute AI classes for your patrons — no presenter fee for the library.
My hearing went before my eyes did, in the high registers, which is precisely where the warblers live, and the bird walks got quieter for me years before they got quieter for the woods. The phone changed that, and the change deserves to be better known among people our age. The free app called Merlin, from Cornell, listens to the birdsong around you and names each singer on the screen, live, in plain English, northern cardinal, house wren, and something it flags as a mystery. For the eyes there is the camera, photograph the bird at the feeder, and the identification comes back with the reasoning, why this and not the similar one. Where the chat programs earn their place is the learning around it. Ask the program to build you a month by month course on the birds of the Hudson Valley, what arrives when, what leaves, what the confusing fall warblers are about, and to quiz you like a patient tutor, and it does, and my yard list and my knowledge of it have both doubled. The deeper point, for those of us past seventy, is that the world gets quieter and smaller exactly when the eyes, the ears, and the memory start their slow retreat, and these tools push back on all three fronts at once. The bird is named. The song is subtitled. The memory has a keeper. My granddaughter and I walk the rail trail now, her with Merlin, me with Merlin, racing to confirm the bird before the other, and the woods are loud again, in the best way.
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Governments are writing AI law now, with Europe's AI Act furthest along. Expect nutrition-label-style disclosure: what is AI, what data it touched, and what it may not do.
A whole research field works on keeping AI accurate, fair, and controllable. It moves slower than the hype and matters more than skeptics admit.
AI can fake faces, voices, and video convincingly. Verify before amplifying: find the original source, and slow down whenever something makes you furious, because that is the design.
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From the library's own site, source.
Hours change with the season, so we link the library's own site instead of copying a schedule that could go stale.
Path one: ask the library directly. Patron requests carry real weight with program coordinators, and their website and phone number are linked above.
Path two: tell us you want a class at The Field Library (Peekskill) and we will count you in when we schedule one there.
Collected from the library’s own website. Availability changes — confirm details on their site.
Live, beginner-friendly, 90 minutes each. Your first two classes cost $0, including the presenter fee — bring us in, see how your community responds, then decide.
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No presenter fee. No contract. You provide the room, chairs and wifi — we bring everything else.
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Want a class here? Leave your email and we’ll tell you if one gets scheduled at The Field Library (Peekskill) — and pass the count to their program coordinator.
One email only when scheduling news exists. Or call the library and say you’d attend — patron requests carry real weight.
Heard about us from a neighbor? Forward this page to whoever books programs at your library.
No. Nothing is sold or pitched in the room, and patrons never pay to attend. Take-home materials are free.
None, and here is the model: your first two classes cost you nothing, we collect attendance and feedback, and the next library books us because yours proved it works. Repeat classes after that are a modest honorarium sized to your budget.
A room, chairs, and wifi. We bring the projector, adapters, a backup hotspot, printed handouts — every attendee leaves with a printed AI cheat sheet.
Library AI Courses teaches free, live, 90 minute AI classes at public libraries across the region. A listing here is a directory entry, not an endorsement by the library. Classes get scheduled when a library books one or enough patrons ask. Library staff: how booking works →