Psychology Takeaway Podcast

July 19,2923 - More AI warnings

 

Jim’s daughter Alicia sent a link to him. It was from a video blob that she had watched which warned of the potential dangers of AI, something Jim and Ralph addressed in the last Podcast. We don’t usually feature other people’s work on Psychology take away but we felt that it was important to get this to as many people as possible so here goes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brQLpTnDwyg

If the link does not open when you click on it, just copy and paste it into you browser!

Next week we will start a series on Human Intelligence as opposed to artificial intelligence. 

 

Dangers of AI

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Bill Gates, a fan of AI, expresses some reservation. Read his thoughts: https://time.com/6293735/bill-gates-ai-risk/

 We mentioned the movie “Metropolis” in the podcast Here is a synopsis from the web  and a link to the film: “As social allegory, Metropolis depicts a world in which the privileged sons of society live in ease and luxury on the surface while deep in the bowels of the city a chattel underclass labors out of sight on the machinery that supports Metropolis.: -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFzHH9EL9x0

 

Here is the quote from Elon Musk that we alluded to in the Podcast:

“AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production, in the sense that it is, it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential of civilization destruction,” Musk said in his interview with Tucker ..

July 5, 2023 CHAT GPT

Jim and Ralph pick up on a Podcast from a few weeks ago.

At that time ttey looked at  some of the pros and cons of artificial intelligence  (AI)programs.

In the past two weeks a program called CHAT GPT has caught their attention.

They talk about AI  and the temptation it it presents for academic integrity.

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This is a link to the New York Times podcat that we mentioned in today’s session:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/podcasts/the-daily/ai-chat-gpt-schools.html

The link below takes you to the APA interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYF6itodA8g

Stress

And Ralph discuss the major sigs of stress and burnout. Besides pointing out the problems theyprovide various coping strategies 

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Interesting Ted Talk on stress and coping: 

How stress is killing us (and how you can stop it). | Thijs Launspach | TEDxUniversiteitVanAmsterdam 

 

 

June 13 AI?

 

Ralph and Jim examine the development of artificial intelligence. While there are many important functions for the technology, there exists a dark side.

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The promise of AI

https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/ai-in-education-where-is-it-now-and-what-is-the-future/

The dark side of AI

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/dark-side-artificial-intelligence-manipulation-human-behaviour

 

May 31,2023 Creativity

Creativity – If at first you don’t succeed try smarter or “different” not necessarily harder!!!

May 18, 2023 Implicit bias

Jim and Ralph have been AWOL with health and moving issues

Hopefully we are back with some new and relevant Podcasts.

Today’s Podcast has to do with a topic that is relevant to the nearly 0ne million health care workers, in Michigan, who need to renew their licenses and for the rest of the  population who need to keep up with trends which could impact them!!!

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Racism and implicit bias – Ted Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSq2pg_7lUk

 

Helpinga teen with the first job

Jim and Ralph share their experiences with early jobs and relate howthey impacted their later professional careers.

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Here is the article that Jim and Ralph mentioned in the podcast:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/prepare-teen-first-job_l_643ffb6ce4b04997b56ebdbb

Jobs for teens:

https://novoresume.com/career-blog/jobs-for-teens

 

Encore presentation!!!

Jim and Ralph discuss how adults can help children effectively cope with stress.

Part Two - are you a sensitive person?

Jim and Ralph continue the discussion of HSP- Highly Sensitiv Persons.

LEARN MORE: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/highly-sensitive-person

You can even get an HSP sweatshirt:

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