Give your love to the person he is now

Before we decide to give our love to a person, we should answer this: Can I be happy with this: Can I be happy with this person if he never changes? Too often we love an imaginary figure rather than the real thing. After we are married, we will get him to slim down. We know we can talk her into wearing contacts once we have settled down. We can live in the Midwest for a couple of years, but then I’ll talk him into moving to the coast.

But what if he doesn’t change? Can you live with that temper? Are you content to live a sedentary life? What if he doesn’t change his mind about children?

Give your love to the person he is now, not to the prince you hope he will become. We all know examples of people who have changed drastically after marriage. However, don’t count on it. It is possible the change may be the opposite of what you hoped.

William Coleman, Engaged

17 Articles about AI & Photos

AI image generators need just 200 sample images to perfectly recreate an artist style — here's how - Inkl  

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

Is that AI? Or Does it Just Suck? – NY Mag 

Best AI Image Generators of 2024 -  CNET

The best AI image generators to try right now - ZDnet 

Rice research could make weird AI images a thing of the past - Rice 

This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren’t platforms using it? – The Verge  

Getty Images Updated Generative AI Pushes Boundaries Of What’s Possible – Search Engine Journal  

The deluge of bonkers AI art is literally surreal – Washington Post

Watermarking in Images Will Not Solve AI-Generated Content Abuse – Data Innovation  

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

AI-generated images threaten science — here’s how researchers hope to spot them – Nature

AI nude photo investigation uncovers twice as many likely victims at Lancaster Country Day – WGAL

Homer students used AI to make fake nude photos of classmates, police say – Alaska Public

The incredible blandness of AI photography – The Verge

As A.I. Becomes Harder to Detect, Photography Is Having a Renaissance – New York Times

Google's AI-powered search feature for Photos now rolling out to more users - ZDnet

Want to Live Longer? Have a purpose!

People with a greater sense of purpose and direction in life were outliving their peers 14 years later. Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center and Canada’s Carleton University compared those who said they were “wandering aimlessly through life” to those who said they considered the future in their decision making and felt they had more to do. The people with purpose lived longer, regardless of when they found that purpose. Lead author of the study, Carleton University psychology professor Patrick Hill told the Ottawa Citizen, “To have a purpose in life reflects that you have broader, lifelong goals that serve to direct and organize your day-to-day activities and things that you value.” You can find the study in the Journal Psychological Science.

Google's AI Tool Big Sleep Finds Zero-Day Vulnerability

It’s the first vulnerability entirely discovered by AI. Google’s Big Sleep discovered “a previously unknown exploitable memory-safety issue in widely used real-world software." Read more at The Hacker News

16 Articles about AI & Academic Scholarship

Google's new AI tool transforms dense research papers into accessible conversations - try it free - ZDnet 

Optimizing Large-Scale AI Model Pre-Training for Academic Research: A Resource-Efficient Approach – MarTech Post 

A group of experienced editorial board members struggled to distinguish human versus AI authorship – AHA Journals

AI can carry out qualitative research at unprecedented scale – London School of Economics  

Can AI be used to assess research quality? Chatbots and other tools are increasingly being considered, but people power is still seen as a safer option. – Nature  

Is AI the Answer to Peer Review Problems, or the Problem Itself? – Scholarly Kitchen 

Is Detecting genAI in Scholarly Research Beside the Point? – Clear Skies Adam

Unleashing the power of AI in science-key considerations for materials data preparation – Nature 

UK Research and Innovation tells reviewers they must not use generative AI – Research Professional News 

In which fields can ChatGPT detect journal article quality – ARXIV

Overcoming Skepticism Through Experimentation: The Role of AI in Transforming Peer Review – Scholarly Kitchen

If generative AI accelerates science, peer review needs to catch up - London School of Economics   

Some Thoughts on the Promise and Pitfalls of Innovation and Technology in Peer Review - Scholarly Kitchen

Is AI the Answer to Peer Review Problems, or the Problem Itself? - Scholarly Kitchen 

Do AI models produce more original ideas than researchers? – Nature  

How Gen AI Could Transform Scholarly Publishing: Themes and Reflections from Interviews with Industry Leaders - Scholarly Kitchen

Wishes are not goals

We often imagine that we generally operate by some kind of plan, that we have goals we are trying to reach. But we’re usually fooling ourselves; what we have are not goals but wishes. Our emotions infect us with hazy desire; we want fame, success, security – something large and abstract.  

Clear long-term objectives give direction to all of your actions, large and small. Important decisions became easier to make. If some glittering prospect threatens to seduce you from your goal, you will know to resist it You can tell when to sacrifice a pawn, even lose a battle, if it serves your eventual purpose.    

Robert Greene, 33 Strategies of War

Running out of Training Data

“A study by AI researchers revised in June found that if current AI development trends continue, tech companies will ‘fully exhaust’ the publicly available training data between 2026 and 2032. Human-generated public text data cannot sustain scaling beyond this decade.” More at CNBC

Making Progress

We often make progress, not by making right decisions, but by how we respond to making wrong ones.

Watch Your Feet

If you want to know who you are, you could do a lot worse than look to your feet for an answer. When you wake up in the morning.. watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.

Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace

False Accusations of Cheating

“The students most susceptible to inaccurate accusations are likely those who write in a more generic manner, either because they’re neurodivergent, speak English as a second language or simply learned to use more straightforward vocabulary and a mechanical style. The result is that classrooms remain plagued by anxiety and paranoia over the possibility of false accusations.”

Read more at Bloomberg

It's Painful

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. -Mandy Hale

Ignorant but confident

“People have a strong tendency to believe that they always have enough data to make an informed decision—regardless of what information they actually have. The good news? When given the full picture, most people are willing to change their opinions.” -John Timmer writing in Aretechnica

The Enemy

The great enemy of communication is the illusion of it. -William H. Whyte

Insight into who will respond better in a crisis

A person’s capacity for healthy outcomes during difficulties is tied to their ability to define their life’s goals and values apart from the surrounding pressure to conform to a particular viewpoint.

In his book Generation to Generation, Edwin Friedman offers a way to test resistance to togetherness pressures, that is, possessing the power to say “I” when others are demanding “you” and “we.”

When presented with an issue that does not include “should” and “musts” some listeners will respond in a way that better defines themselves (such as “I agree” or “I disagree”). This person is likely to function well (emotionally) during a crisis. Other people may respond by attempting to define the speaker (comments like “How can you say that when…” or “After saying that I wonder if you are really one of us”). This indicates the person will likely resist progress toward healthy outcomes during crises and difficulties. People who more clearly define themselves are also more likely to take personal responsibility, whereas those who focus on the speaker are more likely to blame outside forces for their situations.  

One of the founding fathers of family therapy, Murray Bowen, suggested the capacity to define one’s own life’s goals and values apart from surrounding pressure, that is, to be a “relatively nonanxious presence in the midst of anxious systems” is an indication of taking “maximum responsibility for one’s own destiny and emotional being.” It shows up in “the breadth of one’s repertoire of responses when confronted with crisis.” The concept shouldn’t be confused with narcissism. For Bowen, differentiation means the capacity to be an “I” while remaining connected.

Stephen Goforth

18 Recent Articles about Students Using AI

Meet Sassy, the AI Chatbot Helping Students Find Their Dream Jobs – Ed Week 

How Students Can Use AI to Manage Their Time - CNET

Parents sue after student disciplined for using AI on school project in Massachusetts - CBS Boston

AI Detectors Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating—With Big Consequences – Bloomberg 

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

The Students Who Are Overlooked by Most AI Tools – Ed Week  

Students with concentration issues turn to ChatGPT and similar AI tools, study finds -PsyPost 

Black teenagers twice as likely to be falsely accused of using AI tools in homework – Semafor  

A teacher caught students using ChatGPT on their first assignment to introduce themselves. Her post about it started a debate. – Business Insider

Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests - PopSci 

AI Cheating Is Getting Worse – The Atlantic

I tested 7 AI content detectors - they're getting dramatically better at identifying plagiarism – ZDnet  

Students and Professors Believe AI Will Aid Cheating – Inside Higher Ed 

Study shows disengaged students more likely to use AI tools for assignments – Phys.org 

Turkish student arrested for using AI to cheat in university exam – Reuters

AI can beat university students, study suggests - BBC

More than 400 Scottish students caught cheating using AI - AGCC 

What motivates students to use Generative AI and what would motivate them not to? – Dynamics of Writing

How to Pick the Best Leaders

“Employees who do well at their assigned tasks and score well on a simple IQ test are more likely to succeed as managers than noisy self-promoters. But there is an even better way to pick managers, according to these experts — directly test people’s aptitude for core management skills. The best managers, it turns out, are those who are actually good at one of the primary responsibilities of a manager — assigning the right projects to the right people.” - Inc

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