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Let me share with you a recent project in which I engaged AI to refine a song inspired by my three-year-old grandson's imaginative words during a backyard swing session.
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While pushing the Kid on a tree swing, I mentioned the storm clouds climbing over the South Mountain hills. He replied, "Maybe it will rain iceballs. We can eat them like strawberry snow cones." That might seem random. But, he was remembering a hail storm where we made snow cones from hail and strawberry jam.
His other phrases included "To the moon!", "Like a rocket!", "I can swing higher than you!" and "Is that a race car?"
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![Will AI become a psychopathic sociopath that controls humanity? [Image by Grok (Xai)]](/images/Images/AGI-control-humans250.jpg "Will AI become a psychopathic sociopath that controls humanity? [Image by Grok (xAI)]")
A recent episode of"AI Decoded" on BBC's The Context discussed how Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) might one day become more intelligent than humans and could control us in ways we can't predict.
The discussion drew an analogy between humans and chimpanzees. Despite sharing nearly identical DNA, humans have evolved a more sophisticated brain, allowing us to control chimps despite their physical strength. By this logic, if AGI becomes exponentially more intelligent than us, it might similarly control humans.
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Emerging research concludes that genetics make us susceptible to traits and behavior, but susceptibility is not destiny (Sinha 2004). In other words, "I can't help it; I was born this way" is not an excuse for bad behavior and stupid decisions.
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From "Faculty Matters" Summer 2011 Issue, by Carlye Malchuk Dash
High atop a bluff, Brent Duncan and his wife Penny watched as the Pacific Ocean overpowered the shoreline and blanketed communities along the northeastern coast of Japan. As surge after surge of water rushed inland, Duncan, a lead faculty member with the University of Phoenix, knew the low-lying areas would be badly damaged.
When the devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami finally ran their course, hundreds of miles of Japan’s coastline lay devastated and tens of thousands of people were dead or missing.
Those numbers don’t even begin to touch on the loss of family, property, and history. “The people in the rural areas where we live, these are people whose families have had the same occupation on the same pieces of land for hundreds and hundreds of years,” explains Duncan.
He is a member of the University’s Asia/Pacific Military Division which is based out of the Misawa Air Base on the northern tip of Japan. “They’ve lost not only their homes but also their livelihoods. They’ve lost their culture and they’ve lost those areas that are sacred to them.”
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![Katsushika Hokusai [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. Extracted from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa2.jpg.](/images/Images/Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa500.jpg "Order emerges through chaos, shows interconnectedness of turbulence and humanity.")
Katsushika Hokusai’s woodblock print "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" is an archetypal image that Westerners associate with Japan. But, more than a picture of waves threatening to devour fishermen as Mt. Fuji looks on, a closer look illuminates key concepts in chaos theory that Western science did not “discover” until recently while offering timeless lessons for fostering adaptability and growth in turbulence.
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FAQs for Dr. Duncan
Working with hundreds of business, marketing, and psychology students a year, I get a lot of questions about concepts, processes, and practices. Here are some of the FAQs for Dr. Duncan.