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What if the world’s most common name carried a secret?Is John Smith My Name? is part detective story, part family road trip, and part experiment in how emerging AI can bring history to life. Civil engineer John Oliver Smith and storyteller Davar Ardalan set out to confirm his English or Irish roots — only to uncover a hidden German-American story stretching from the Shenandoah Valley to Württemberg, Germany.At the center is CK, Catherine Kessler AI: both a Custom GPT archivist and a Voice AI persona powered by Amazon Polly. Built on transcripts, archives, and research, CK makes history ...

Join Davar Ardalan, a seasoned media technologist with experience at National Geographic, NPR News, and IVOW AI, as she explores the transformative role of artificial intelligence in media. In this engaging 3-part series, "AI and Media Insights," Ardalan, the Founder of TulipAI, helps journalists understand the capabilities and limitations of AI technology, particularly in content creation. At TulipAI, we have been producing trainings on audio innovations for journalists and examining the ethical considerations of AI voices. We produced this podcast series talking to ChatGPT to test these new ...