A King Gives Away His Crown

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A Texas high school football player gave fans another reason to cheer, after turning over his homecoming king crown to a friend with cerebral palsy. Fossil Ridge Panthers quarterback Max Akin stunned the crowd during a halftime ceremony when he kneeled and presented his crown to team equipment manager K.L. Norwood, who was also nominated for king. “What I did wasn’t as admirable as how K.L. treats everyone,” says Akin. “Loving everybody and having a heart like K.L. is what really matters in this world.” 

Read more at CNN

18 Amazing Things AI is Being Used to Do Now

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Build Walls

An autonomous excavator can build a wall out of nearby boulders by an AI system that uses the data to determine the best placement for each boulder – HackaDay

 

Predict Weather

NASA and IBM are building an AI for weather and climate applications – Engadget

 

Map Icebergs

Researchers at the University of Leeds have created an AI system that can map icebergs in satellite images 10,000 times faster than humans - ESA

 

Mute Chip Crunching

Frito-Lay has created an AI-powered mic filter that can remove the crunching sound created by eating chips during online gaming sessions – Marketing Drive

 

Predict New Stable Compounds

Google DeepMind has created an AI system that can predict the structure of crystalline materials much faster than humans – The Next Web

 

Track Tomatoes

A data visualization tracking tomato production in Europe – Data Innovation

 

Make a Movie

Make I asked ChatGPT to create a Hallmark Christmas movie — and it went better than expected – Tom’s Guide

 

Be a Personal Assistant

Personalized A.I. Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them? – New York Times 

 

Win Awards

The Grammys will consider that viral song with Drake and The Weeknd AI vocals for awards after all – Engadet

 

Let you Speak in Other Languages

This new AI video tool clones your voice in 7 languages — and it's blowing up – Tom’s Guide

 

Edit Major Movies

How Will Editors Use AI? The Tech’s Role in Production and Post Scrutinized at IBC – Hollywood Reporter  

 

Translate Podcasts

Spotify develops ai-powered voice cloning tool that can translate podcasts into multiple languages – Music Business Worldwide

 

Fashion Modeling

Spanish influencer agency designed this AI model after deciding real-life influencers are a pain – BGR 

 

Create Anime  

Tezuka Fans Unimpressed by Black Jack's First Official AI-Generated Manga – CBR

 

Read Books for you

Why Read Books When You Can Use Chatbots to Talk to Them Instead? - WIRED

 

Haggle with Sellers

See how well you can haggle with AI to purchase real products – AI Garage Sale

 

Create a Dead Actors Voice

AI-Generated Jimmy Stewart Narrates Bedtime Story for Calm App – Variety

 

And do other chores

6 ChatGPT mind-blowing extensions to use it anywhere – Medium  

Here's what I know for sure

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There are three depths of knowing.

  1. Hearsay: You’ve heard of the president. You’ve heard of Mt. Everest.

  2. Introduction: You’ve been introduced to the president. You’ve visited Mt. Everest.

  3. Intimately: You’re a good friend of the president. You’ve climbed Mt. Everest.

Understanding comes when you wrestle with these questions:

  1. What is the surest thing to you? 

  2. What would be the most impossible thing to doubt?

Stephen Goforth 

Separate Identities

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Although the act of nurturing another’s spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one’s own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved. The genuine lover always perceives the beloved as someone who has a totally separate identity. Moreover, the genuine lover always respects and even encourages this separateness and the unique individuality of the beloved. Failure to perceive and respect this separateness is extremely common, however, and the cause of much mental illness and unnecessary suffering.

Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

Disrupter’s DNA

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Clay Christensen (who wrote The Innovator’s Dilemma and came up with the idea of “disruptive innovation”) put together a study called The Innovator’s DNA, which attempts to take us inside the minds of successful innovators. Christensen and his fellow researchers believe it's more than a case of good genes when it comes to disruptive innovators. Christensen found five habits common among them:

  1. associating: Innovators connect seemingly unconnected things (He writes, "Innovative breakthroughs often happen at the intersection of diverse disciplines and fields).

  2. questioning: Innovators keep asking why things aren’t done differently ("What would happen if we did this?"). Questions outnumber answers in conversations and a good question is respected as much as a good answer.

  3. observing: Innovators are also intense observers. They pay attention to detail.

  4. networking: They are great at networking ideas. They are constantly "finding and testing ideas through a diverse network of individuals."

  5. experimenting: Innovators are constantly trying out new experiences and ideas. They "explore the world intellectually and experientially, testing hypotheses along the way."

Read more here.

15 Articles about how AI is Impacting Jobs

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Disruptive Innovation

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Innovation distance explains why so many of those who turn an industry upside down are outsiders, even outcasts. To understand this point we need to grasp the difference between the two types of innovation. Sustaining innovations are improvements that make the product better, but do not threaten its market. The disruptive innovation, conversely, threatens to displace a product altogether. It is the difference between the electric typewriter, which improved on the typewriter, and the word processor, which supplanted it.

Another advantage of the outside inventor is less a matter of the imagination than of his being a disinterested party. Distance creates a freedom to develop inventions that might challenge or even destroy the business model of the dominant industry. The outsider is often the only one who can afford to scuttle a perfectly sound ship, to propose an industry that might challenge the business establishment or suggest a whole new business model. Those closer to - often at the trough of - existing industries face a remarkable constant pressure not to invent things that will ruin their employer. The outsider has nothing to lose. But to be clear, it is not mere distance, but the right distance that matters; there is such a thing as being to far away.

Tim Wu, The Master Switch

25 free (mostly one hour) Journalism courses

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Free short online courses to strengthen your skills and add a line to your resume. Most of these Poynter courses are one-hour in length or less.

Journalism Fundamentals: Craft & Values - A five-hour, self-directed course that covers basics in five areas: newsgathering, interviewing, ethics, law and diversity. 

Telling Stories with Sound - Learn the fundamentals of audio reporting and editing in this self-directed course.  

How to Spot Misinformation Online - Learn simple digital literacy skills to outsmart algorithms, detect falsehoods and make decisions based on factual information

Understanding Title IX - This course is designed to help journalists understand the applications of Title IX.

Clear, Strong Writing for Broadcast Journalism - One-hour video tutorial  

Powerful Writing: Leverage Your Video and Sound

In this one-hour video tutorial, early-career journalists will learn how to seamlessly combine audio, video and copy in captivating news packages.  

Writing for the Ear - In this five-part course, you’ll learn everything you need to write more effective audio narratives.

Fact-Check It: Digital Tools to Verify Everything Online 

News Sense: The Building Blocks of News - What makes an idea or event a news story?

Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More - Finding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.

Avoiding Plagiarism and Fabrication - For authors, editors, educators, journalists, journalism students, news producers and news consumers. 

The Writer’s Workbench: 50 Tools You Can Use - Ethics of Journalism Build or refine your process for making ethical decisions.

Conducting Interviews that Matter  

Make Design More Inclusive: Defeat Unconscious Bias in Visuals 

Online Media Law: The Basics for Bloggers and Other Publishers - Three important areas of media law that specifically relate to gathering information and publishing online: defamation, privacy and copyright.

Freedom of Information and Your Right to Know - How to use the Freedom of Information Act, Public Records Laws and Open Meetings Laws to uphold your right to know the government’s actions.

Journalism and Trauma - How traumatic stress affects victims and how to interview trauma victims with compassion and respect. 

How Any Journalist Can Earn Trust (International Edition) - What news audiences in various parts of the world don’t understand about how journalism works.

Is This Legit? Digital Media Literacy 101 - MediaWise’s Campus Correspondents explain the fact-checking tools and techniques that professionals use in their day-to-day work.

The On-Ramp to Media Literacy - Center for Media Literacy  

How Any Journalist Can Earn Trust

Dignity and Precision in Language

How to Avoid Being Sued: Defamation Law in the 21st Century

Conducting Interviews That Matter