Motorola Edge 2023 Photo Quality Review

I have been using the Motorola Edge 2023 since August 2024 and this camera takes some incredible images.

In comparison to the older cameras that I used to have in the mid 2010s, this camera is much better than those older phones here. I decided to take some pictures in the Northern Virginia area. Specifically, the Tysons Corner area with all the big glass buildings.

The Motorola Edge 2023 is not a high-end phone but the quality of these images show powerful the phone cameras are getting now. When I got my Nikon L810 in 2012, I thought that was an impressive camera. These photographs are showing the improvement in the quality of phone cameras since the mid 2000s. In that previous era, the quality of these cameras was quite limiting and sometimes were seen as potato cameras. Now, these phone cameras are being used to make high quality movies.

While these buildings in Tysons Corner are not the nicest looking buildings, they are futuristic looking buildings that appear well in the camera.

This phone is absolutely worth the money just for the camera alone. The smartphone has long since made the regular cameras unnecessary for most consumers. I still have my Nikon L810 for the uses of taking pictures of objects which are far away but the smartphone is simply more convenient and better to use when you just want to take photos with as little in the way as possible here.

Overall, these photographs are of high quality and well worth a look if you want a cheap smartphone that takes great photos.

ChatGPT Deep Research Tutorial for High School Students

ChatGPT Deep Research

ChatGPT is changing the world of education, and I hope to be able to help make the process more usable for students specifically in the High School settings.

A new feature is available in the new versions of ChatGPT known as “Deep Research”. Basically, it makes ChatGPT spend lots of time looking through every source of information available to give you the best answer for you to do research on your topic.

Using this process requires that you are subscribed to ChatGPT Pro.

Step 1: Use the Deep Research button on the chat box in ChatGPT

Click on the plus sign on the chat box in ChatGPT.

Then scroll to the Deep research with the telescope icon and click on the button.

ChatGPT Deep Research Icon Screen

Step 2: Ask your question

The next step is to type out your question. In this case, I chose to ask about the Roman army under the first Roman Emperor, Augustus. It would be wise to make sure you clarify specifics.

ChatGPT Deep Research History Questions

ChatGPT will ask you what you to focus on. Choose a topic that is relevant to your research.

Step 3: Focus your research

I selected Recruitment and Training and the chatbot begins its research on various sources.

ChatGPT Deep Research Sources Screen

This process takes time and will take about 5 to 7 minutes depending on the topic. ChatGPT will show you what sources it using to conduct its research while the process is undergoing here.

Step 4: Check the results

ChatGPT will save you time. It will summarize many websites into a single response which will have hyperlink bubble located next to the regular text. Clicking these links will take to the websites so you can expand upon your research.

ChatGPT Deep Research Sources and reports

This tool will greatly help in research here.

Step 5: Integrate your research with original ideas

This is probably the hardest aspect of using ChatGPT here. Many students simply want to complete the homework without effort. This has been covered in publications multiple times. However, it is clear that the tool is here and its time to use to help reinvigorate an often-stale teaching profession. Students need to enhance their thinking and not let a machine replace it.

How Gemini Nano Banana Pro creates Historical images of the Carolingian Empire.

Google Gemini Carolingian Empire Shoes

ChatGPT is getting better at making images efficiently. However, Gemini is still better at making photorealistic images, but the gap is not as big as it once was.

Gemini’s ability to recreate reality will be very important when it comes to history education. The ability to create photorealistic depictions of pre-photographic eras is going to change the teaching profession here. We will now be able to go beyond looking at photographs on Google or Bing Image search.

People on the internet have been quite lazy in recent years, and human created content needs people to go outside and actually photograph things and also make drawings. However, we are not seeing that, so Gemini is giving us the next best thing here.

The image above shows us the power of Google Gemini here. Images can now give us the ability to recreate social relations and see clothes and architecture across the ages.

The days of Dalle-3 making mistakes are now in the past.

Considering it was only really a couple years ago, and we now have photorealistic images of historical ages.

Instead of using static textbooks, we now breathe life into these textbooks with AI.

Many establishment people may not like having this happen. These institutions have ossified and are unwilling to change.

Education now has another chance to change. This change will make history education more accessible but also increase thinking about other cultures and history of social class in other eras.

People should try to embrace it rather than being so defensive about it. In my experience, High School was a real bore with teachers in front of the smartboard but not using it. Students have not been trained by parents and their community to truly care about their education beyond the grades. With LLMs we now have the ability to change that here.

Education can now truly become interactive and intriguing to students.