Have you ever considered being more involved with your Rotary Club?
The Rotary Club of Norristown needs a few volunteers to fill key leadership positions in the coming years. These are very fulfilling volunteer positions and they provide an opportunity to give back to our community.
Do you know of another club member who may be a good fit? Are you interested?
Please reach out to Club President, Alan Treisbach for more details!
If you are a Leader, Committe Chair or Member of a Rotary Club and want to learn more, please join us for Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) at DeSales University. There is a fee to attend that most Rotary Clubs cover.
What is the Rotary Leadership Institute of Northeast America?
The Rotary Leadership Institute is not an official training program of Rotary International.
The Rotary Leadership Institute of Northeast America includes the original area where the International RLI was founded in 1992. It now includes 21 districts in the northeastern part of the USA and Bermuda.
Clubs and districts looking to train Rotarians as leaders at local levels can now access online a wide array of resources developed by the International RLI. The institute offers a training program in three full-day sessions, followed by graduate seminars. Faculty are carefully selected from among Rotarians with outstanding leadership abilities, prepared to conduct innovative participatory course sessions.
Look under the Upcoming Classes on the left-hand side and scroll to RLI NEA Seminar - Dist 7430 - Center Valley, PA . Click on "More Info". A smaller window will open up so make sure the pop-up blocker is not on. Scroll to the bottom and choose:
1. "RLI Guest Registration" if you have never been to RLI before. Then follow the instructions to register for RLI.
OR
2. "RLI Member" if you have registered for RLI before. If you know your login information, use that. If you don’t remember your login, click on “Request ezLink Registration Link” and you will receive an email with a link to easily register for RLI.
Last week, RASHAAD BATES delivered a tale on the second in our series on Artificial Intelligence. He compared AI to a parrot that listens to audiobooks, and has the ability to hear, catalog, and repeat information or words in a manner that helps understand patterns. At this time, it is not yet self aware, and thus has no moral guidelines and should be monitored and kept in check. Many programs, systems, and apps us AI extensively, often without us even knowing it. He pointed out its ability to draw on data from long ago and detect and present patterns that it observes. He presented several examples of how different programs are using AI.
Rashaad talked specifically about the five areas the AI can help adults and seniors.
Health Care is one on the most important as it is already hard at work in our pacemakers, hearing aids, smart watches, analyzing in real time , the personal data and send us warnings. It will also play a big part in diagnosis and research.
A second area is what he terms: Tape Measure tools, helping us solve problems.
Next area is Pen and Paper tasks: All forms of writing, whether essays, stories, or creating resumes, where AI can dig up items of your history that you may have overlooked but are pertinent.
Translation: as AI easily helps to improve communication in almost all languages.
Light Bulbs- helps you create ideas.
He also highlighted the potential risks that are present in using AI , such as misuse of patterns, hallucinations by AI, linking to wrong websites, and misinformation. AI can also make detecting scams more difficult. They appear more personal and genuine.
He highlighted a couple of myths about AI: IT does NOT. think like a human, It is NOT always correct, as there could be inaccuracies in its programming., and it will not take over the world if we are vigilant,
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