20 Recent Articles about How to Use AI

Surprising ways to prompt AI – Wonder Tools 

5 prompts to have a fun AI chatbot conversation - Mashable 

I write about AI for a living — here's how to become a true power user – Tom’s Guide 

Google unveils invisible ‘watermark’ for AI-generated text – Nature

Adobe promises AI tools that build 3D scenes, animate text, and make distractions disappear. – The Verge

Should You Be Nice to Your Chatbot? – Wall Street Journal

Adobe’s AI video model is here, and it’s already inside Premiere Pro - The Verge

I write about AI for a living — and NotebookLM is the most exciting tech to arrive since ChatGPT – Tom’s Guide  

Perplexity AI : How to Use It for Fast, Accurate Results – Geeky-Gadgets

Meta Unveils Instant A.I. Video Generator That Adds Sounds – New York Times 

I Built a Chatbot to Replace Me. It Went a Little Wild. - Wall Street Journal

Learn From My Worst AI Images and Fix These Biggest AI Fails – CNET 

AI's parent-teen knowledge gap – Axios  

Create Better AI Images With These Expert Prompt Writing Tips - CNET

How to use Midjourney's new AI image editor - Tom’s Guide 

How to cite ChatGPT in APA Style –  American Psychological Association 

How do I cite generative AI in MLA style? - Modern Language Association

What Is AI Best at Now? Improving Products You Already Own - Wall Street Journal 

Can Security Experts Leverage Generative AI Without Prompt Engineering Skills? – Tech Republic

Using AI to buy your home? These companies think it's time you should

Greener Grass

The grass is always greener wherever you water it. –Anonymous

You are who you are becoming

You are who you are becoming. Your virtue as a human individual is not related to any static, unchanging identity; it is about the person you are turning into—who you are today, as opposed to who you were yesterday, or could be tomorrow. You truly are, in Aristotelian terms, the life story you are writing through your actions and habits; as the historian and philosopher Will Durant summarized Aristotle’s view, “We are what we repeatedly do.” 

Research has consistently shown that when people see themselves as engaged in change and capable of progress, they are happier. You will have a better chance of realizing happiness if you can see yourself as a dynamic agent of your own progress. 

Arthur C. Brooks writing in The Atlantic

Matchless

To run yourself down hinders you doing what you can. In effect, when you belittle yourself, you are belittling God. He made you who you are – with your unique talents and lacks. To compare yourself with others is not good. Remember, you are God’s unique original! What an honor and privilege it is to be designed by the Almighty God! He know the end from the beginning. He never makes a mistake. He created you an individual – none other like you – for a purpose.

Ella May Miller

Grace

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace. –Karl Barth

Hot New Job: AI Librarian

The AI revolution is creating demand for hot new job: AI librarian. “The growing demand for AI librarians “highlights how the evolution of technology is creating roles that merge traditional skills like information management with modern demands in data-driven environments. Companies need experts who can curate and translate the data into actionable insights.” -Digiday

I’m uncomfortable with Ideas that are Different than Mine

Insecurity causes us to have a low tolerance for differing ideas or opinions because they seem to be a threat to our authority or validity. We sense that differentness will require us to step away from our comfort zones, potentially exposing our weaknesses.

Les Carter, Imperative People: Those Who Must Be in Control

AI Definitions: Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) - AI trained on billions of language uses, images and other data. It can predict the next word or pixel in a pattern based on the user’s request. ChatGPT and Google Bard are LLMs.

The kinds of text LLMs can parse out include grammar and language structure, word meaning and context (ex: The word green may mean a color when it is closely related to a word like “paint,” “art,” or “grass”), proper names (Microsoft, Bill Clinton, Shakira, Cincinnati), and emotions (indications of frustration, infatuation, positive or negative feelings, or types of humor).

More AI definitions here

Project Clean Machine

Adobe’s “Project Clean Machine” is an editing tool that “automatically removes annoying distractions in images and videos, like camera flashes and people walking into frames. For example, if a background firework causes a few seconds of the shot to be overexposed, Clean Machine will ensure the color and lighting are still consistent throughout the video when the flash itself is removed.”

More at The Verge

You are what you learn

If all you know is how to be a gang member, that's what you'll be, at least until you learn something else. If you become a marine, you'll learn to control fear. If you go to law school, you'll see the world as a competition. If you study engineering, you'll start to see the world as a complicated machine that needs tweaking.

I'm fascinated by the way a person changes at a fundamental level as he or she merges with a particular field of knowledge. People who study economics come out the other side thinking a different way from people who study nursing. And learning becomes a fairly permanent part of a person even as the cells in the body come and go and the circumstances of life change.

You can easily nitpick my definition of self by arguing that you are actually many things, including your DNA, your body, your mind, you environment and more. By that view, you're more of a soup than a single ingredient. I'll grant you the validity of that view. But I'll argue that the most powerful point of view is that you are what you learn.

It's easy to feel trapped in your own life. Circumstances can sometimes feel as if they form a jail around you. But there's almost nothing you can't learn your way out of. If you don't like who you are, you have the option of learning until you become someone else. Life is like a jail with an unlocked, heavy door. You're free the minute you realize the door will open if you simply lean into it.

Suppose you don't like your social life. You can learn how to be the sort of person that attracts better friends. Don't like your body? You can learn how to eat right and exercise until you have a new one. You can even learn how to dress better and speak in more interesting ways.

I credit my late mother for my view of learning. She raised me to believe I could become whatever I bothered to learn. No single idea has served me better.

Scott Adams, Dilbert.com

20 Recent Articles about AI & Healthcare

Zoom will now use an AI-powered medical notetaker for telehealth visits – Fast Company

New JAMA channel highlights AI’s role in medicine - Washington Post

How Generative AI Is Transforming Medical Education – Harvard Medicine  

AI in Medicine: Are Large Language Models Ready for the Exam Room? – Medscape

New JAMA channel highlights AI’s role in medicine – Washington Post 

Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro In Operating Rooms - TIME 

Cancer diagnostics' rapid evolution thanks to AI – Axios  

Microsoft announces new AI tools to help ease workload for doctors and nurses - CNBC

As AI-powered health care expands, experts warn of biases – Semafor  

How AI could monitor brain health and find dementia sooner – Washington Post

10 Uses Cases of Predictive Analytics in Healthcare - Appinventiv

New AI Tool Rivals Human Experts In Cancer Diagnosis And Prognosis – Science Blog

The AI revolution in health care - Washington Post

Enhancing fairness in AI-enabled medical systems with the attribute neutral framework – Nature

Generative AI-assisted Peer Review in Medical Publications: Opportunities Or Trap - JMIR Publications 

Would you trust AI to scan your genitals for STIs? – the 19th

That Message From Your Doctor? It May Have Been Drafted by A.I. – New York Times

Effects of artificial intelligence implementation on efficiency in medical imaging—a systematic literature review and meta-analysis – Nature

When AI looked at biology, the result was astounding - Washington Post 

How AI can help — and hurt — when people fundraise for urgent medical needs – Marquette

Google’s AI-backed healthcare search tool now available for general use – Health Care Dive

Using AI for Orchestrating Tasks

Anthropic is rolling out a new experimental feature that controls a computer for you "by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text." A video introduction.

The custard pie

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve. -Lynn Redgrave in "Georgy Girl"

Immediate Living

Consider the difference between the person who has been toiling in the hot sun and is desperately thirsty and the wine connoisseur who wants to sample a new pinot noir from California. Both have a desire to drink something liquid, but the resemblance ends there. There desire of the first person is rooted in the raw structure of the body, which needs and craves water. No reflection or education is needed to have such a desire. In order to appreciate the difference between a pinot noir and a cabernet sauvignon, However, it may be necessary to have a cultivated taste, with an imaginative grasp of the vocabulary used to describe the subtle “notes” of the wines. The person who simply wants to get drunk every night as well as the person who prides himself on his refined and elegant taste in wine… are focused solely on the satisfaction of the desires the person happens to have and are thus in one sense “immediate.”

A person may know a great deal about ethical theory without having much in the way of ethical character. It is possible, then, for a person to be well-developed intellectually but existentially not developed at all, and therefore still immediate.

C. Steven Evans, Kierkegaard: An Introduction

The Best Moments

Contrary to what we usually believe.. the best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times — although such experiences can also be enjoyable — the best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Struggling to overcome challenges, and then overcoming them, are what people find to be the most enjoyable times in their lives. People typically feel strong, alert, in effortless control, unselfconscious, and at the peak of their abilities. Find rewards in the events of each moment . . . to enjoy and find meaning in the ongoing stream of experience, in the process of living itself.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

The Good & Bad of Meta Glasses

Blind woman tells how she is helped by Meta glasses. Meanwhile, Harvard students use Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time.

Why God Made Man

God made man because he loves stories. -Elie Wiesel

A Dozen articles about how Businesses are using AI

AI Agents Can Do More Than Answer Queries. That Raises a Few Questions – Wall Street Journal  

AI assistants are blabbing our embarrassing work secrets – Washington Post

JPMorgan Chase is giving its employees an AI assistant powered by ChatGPT maker OpenAI – CNBC

How A.I. Can Help Start Small Businesses - New York Times

This AI humanoid robot helped assemble BMWs at US factory - Arstechnica

Why AI Risks Are Keeping Board Members Up at Night - Wall Street Journal

The Economics of Generative AI - Toward Data Science

Study finds that ai is adding to employees' workload and burning them out - Futurism

Over 80% of China’s businesses already use generative AI – Fortune

More than 40% of Japanese companies have no plan to make use of AI – Reuters

HP’s new AI computer raises the stakes in the battle of tech hardware – Semafor

Tech execs from Salesforce and Qualcomm share their best practices for implementing AI in the workplace – Business Insider

Imperative Thinking

While imperative people may not have their list of regulations typed on a legal document to be signed, they have a mental agenda that they apply in a wide variety of circumstances. They know how others should behave, speak, and feel, and nothing else matters to them but meeting that standard. In the meantime, the relationship is lost.

(They are) in essence stating, “I’ll accept you only after you meet my conditions.” And since each of us responds negatively to this kind of emotional blackmail, we become angry or tense. There is a hidden message of conditional acceptance. It’s as if (they are) saying, ‘I don’t think you can be trusted to make good decisions; you’ll probably foul things up… If you’ll fit my mold and be what I think you should be, we’ll get along okay; but if you don’t, I’ll have to hound you until you shape up.”

Les Carter, Imperative People: Those Who Must Be in Control

Deep Reading

Research in cognitive science, psychology and neuroscience has demonstrated that deep reading — slow, immersive, rich in sensory detail and emotional and moral complexity — is a distinctive experience, different in kind from the mere decoding of words. Although deep reading does not, strictly speaking, require a conventional book, the built-in limits of the printed page are uniquely conducive to the deep reading experience. A book’s lack of hyperlinks, for example, frees the reader from making decisions — Should I click on this link or not? — allowing her to remain fully immersed in the narrative. 

That immersion is supported by the way the brain handles language rich in detail, allusion and metaphor: by creating a mental representation that draws on the same brain regions that would be active if the scene were unfolding in real life. The emotional situations and moral dilemmas that are the stuff of literature are also vigorous exercise for the brain, propelling us inside the heads of fictional characters and even, studies suggest, increasing our real-life capacity for empathy.

Unlike the ability to understand and produce spoken language, which under normal circumstances will unfold according to a program dictated by our genes, the ability to read must be painstakingly acquired by each individual. The “reading circuits” we construct are recruited from structures in the brain that evolved for other purposes—and these circuits can be feeble or they can be robust, depending on how often and how vigorously we use them. 

This is not reading as many young people are coming to know it. Their reading is pragmatic and instrumental: the difference between what literary critic Frank Kermode calls “carnal reading” and “spiritual reading.” If we allow our offspring to believe that carnal reading is all there is—if we don’t open the door to spiritual reading, through an early insistence on discipline and practice—we will have cheated them of an enjoyable, even ecstatic experience they would not otherwise encounter. And we will have deprived them of an elevating and enlightening experience that will enlarge them as people.  

Observing young people’s attachment to digital devices, some progressive educators and permissive parents talk about needing to “meet kids where they are,” molding instruction around their onscreen habits. This is mistaken. We need, rather, to show them someplace they’ve never been, a place only deep reading can take them. 

Annie Murphy Paul writing in the Brilliant Report