Temp hold #1 ~ Nada – MC class program

February 1, 2019

cut and pasted from published version

TinyURL for this web page ~ https://tinyurl.com/ybwftayv


Nada ^O^
Here are my ideas. Please use as many or as few, or none at all if these ideas don’t not fit into what you have planned. Please do NOT feel obliged in any way to employ any of these ideas or photos.


Intro for Feb 8th Program after the introduction of the host and quests and your describe of the program as focusing on how AI is now being utilized by non-profit organizations to better serve their clients.

Intro begins here:

But first, we have a little background about Artificial Intelligence itself. You might think of this as “Everything you ever wanted to know about Artificial Intelligence but were afraid to ask!”
Most people who work in Silicon Valley are already familiar with Artificial Intelligence, but for the rest of us, our ideas about AI have mainly been influenced by things as:

Children’s toy robots: photos #1 & 2



Movies and Television ~photos # 3, 4 & 5

Video Games ~ photos 6

Commerce and heavy industry ~ photos #7 & 8

Drones, the military, and the space program  ~ photos #9, 10, 11

And for those lucky enough to have toured the Computer Museum in Mountain View, see Charles Babbage’s “machine” while it was on display. Photos 12 & 13

But in the last decade, the technology of AI has gone so much farther. Everytime we order online from Amazon, we personally experience the enhanced abilities of AI when one of its “Fulfillment Centers” gets our package to us the very next day ~ Photos 14

Or if we or a loved one was in the hospital and we saw something like this coming down the hall ~ Photo #15

However, AI is really taking off in the operating rooms and x-ray departments of hospitals with a robot named Leonardo de Vinci ~ photo #16

For viewer in who live in the Mid-peninsula area, we have all watch as Google’s prototype of self-driving car we test on the streets of Palo Alto, Mountain View. Photo # 17

There is a whole new area for AI called “social humanoid robots” that have been developed to interact with humans. Photo #18


One example is a new generation of artificial limbs for military veterans and others that uses AI ~ Photo #19 & 20


Another is a unique AI program for reducing the emotional distress developed in Japan for keeping company with very elder patients in nursing homes ~ Photo #21


A particularly interesting application for AI is the use of “social humanoid robots” as therapy assistants for children being treated for cancer.
It’s sponsored by the Aflac Insurance Company, and its developers have transformed the icon “Aflac” a toy duck robot that can show emotions — fund , joy, anger, fear – and play games that help the child to emotionally cope with his or her illness.
We rarely think of AI as a vehicle that expresses human compassion and other heart-felt emotions, but this funny, furry robotic duck does just that.  ~ Photo #22

But that is just a preview of coming attraction for artificial intelligence. Already it has expanded in ways that none of us could have predicted. One of these days, it will take our human intelligence to the stars and the galaxies beyond and back home again to the benefit of humanity and Planet Earth. Photos #23, 24, 25 & 26
I would do these as a rather slow resolve so viewer had 1/2 to savor the flavor and the end by repeating the photo #23 – 1st in this series (Caveman family staring upward in rapture at the night sky and the stars)

This is “the end” but if you can think of a transitional topic that can easily be represented by a photo, I’d be happy to do a search for pictures and add that as a wrap-up for the Intro.

Personal note:
If this seems like too much dialogue to remember, a simple way to integrate it into your semantic memory is to read the script out loud into your cell phone and then play it half dozen time while driving, cooking dinner, taking a long walk, etc. Movement while listening helps it become automatic in a short time.
faith ^O^