Week 2 #2 MBA 6101 - Tools to Success

 It might be time to start if this is your first time using an AI tool. I was in the same boat as many others who had never used an AI tool. But after being in the Advanced Marketing course at Benedictine University, I was able to get a better understanding of AI tools and how we can use them to help make our lives easier. 

AI tools would benefit students. Adobe, Grammarly, Bing, ChatGPT, QuillBot and so many others are a significant help in drafting papers, emailing, doing projects, creating presentations, etc. 

https://ditchthattextbook.com/ai-tools/

From personal experience, I use Grammarly to help with grammar, punctuation, rephrasing, spelling, and more. It has helped me a lot during paper writing. I have also used SlidesAI.io with Google Slides to help add some appealing visuals to my slides. Speechify is also a helpful tool, allowing me to change any text into speech, making reading textbooks so much easier and faster. 

Another great tool would be QuillBot because of its crazy paraphrasing skills, PowerPoint Speaker Coach from Microsoft is a great tool for individuals like me who struggle with public speaking. It helps to evaluate your speech and provides suggestions based on your rehearsals. 

They are super easy to use with great instructions, offer free trials as well as memberships (if you'd like to purchase them), and are so convenient!

These tools have been extremely helpful to me, and I know they can be helpful to you too!

Week 2 MBA 6101 - Cars of the future

Yes, we all know the future is making its way to us faster than expected. Teaching robots, flying cars, self-driving cars, drones, smart homes, etc. Prototypes are already underway for so many of these technologies. 

Dr. Todd Kelsey mentions in chapter 2 of "Surfing the Tsunami" a self-driving car created by Google. Waymo the self-driving car has adapted to the real world of driving by recognizing stop signs, lights, pedestrians walking across the street, traffic, and other objects we would notice as if we were driving. It has gone through various test runs to ensure it is safe, fully operational and there are no hardware or technical problems before launch. More information about Waymo can be found on their website.

This is not the only self-driving car/taxi, a few more companies have also created their own self-driving cars. Some of them are listed below. 

1. AutoX  

https://www.autox.ai/en/mobility.html 

2. Zoox 

https://zoox.com/autonomy/

Apple is also working its way towards making a self-driving car but that is a long way to go. 

It is great to see that we can provide transportation for people who are not able to drive. It gives individuals a chance to feel independent and not have to rely on anyone else to go places. I feel the use of these vehicles will benefit the planet and everyone on it by reducing the number of cars on the street (hopefully), and our carbon footprint. 

Week 1 # 2 MBA 6101 - Healthcare with AI

Health care is improving its methods to provide the best care possible to patients with less invasive methods. AI technology is working its way to helping the healthcare system do just that. An application called the Hippocratic AI was launched to be the first "safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) designed specifically for healthcare" (Hippocratic AI, 2023). This AI was built to focus on non-diagnostic, patient-facing applications. This assured patient safety along with increasing healthcare access and outcomes. 

The use of Hippocratic AI can help change the world of healthcare that no other technology has been able to do. The benefit of the company is that it was founded by a group of physicians, medical professionals, administrators, and AI researchers from various healthcare facilities, universities, and tech companies around the country. 

This is a great start to changing the way we use technology to help the community. Embracing AI, especially in healthcare, is a good thing. It could eventually mean less invasive surgeries, treatments, and better recovery outcomes. 

Reference:

Hippocratic AI. (2023, May 16). Hippocratic AI launches with $50 million seed round co-led by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz to build safety-focused large language model for healthcare. GlobeNewswire Newsroom. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/05/16/2670039/0/en/Hippocratic-AI-Launches-With-50-Million-Seed-Round-Co-Led-by-General-Catalyst-and-Andreessen-Horowitz-to-Build-Safety-Focused-Large-Language-Model-for-Healthcare.html 

Week 1 MBA 6101 - The take over

 It's scary to see how much the world has changed due to technology and artificial intelligence (AI). Not only is it taking over the workforce, but it has also changed the way of traditional teaching. 

As you can see from the image above, in the back we have children doing their work inside a workbook, whereas in the front we have students doing their work on a laptop and tablet. This shows the shift from old school to new school. 

Traditional methods such as having workbooks to do assignments, buying a physical textbook for classes, and hand grading physical in-person exams have started to be outdated. Everything school-related has started to go virtual, even the classrooms, due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. As we move along the path of technology, sooner rather than later teachers will get replaced by AI robots to teach classes in person. Sad but may end up being true. We know that "intelligent machines could never match human interactions (Bushweller, 2021). Kevin Bushweller mentions in his article "Teachers, the robots are coming, but that's not a bad thing" about a study done by Cynthia Breazeal, an associate professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, who leads the Personal Robots group. 

They worked with an AI-powered, teddy bear-sized looking robot named Tega and 5- and 6-year-olds. The reason for the study was to improve the language and literacy skills of the children by using human teachers and AI robots together in the classroom. Their study showed promising results with learning improvements in children. 

This not only shows that robots can be beneficial to students' education but also can help human teachers improve their teaching techniques with the help of an AI robot teaching assistant. We do not want to see teachers lose their jobs due to robots, so working alongside robots is the best option. 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation are a whole new playing field, slowly it is going to empower the world and our job right now is to ensure that we are fully aware of what is to come. It is scary to even think of the world with robots, but I am hopeful that it will be good for us rather than bad. 

References:

Bushweller, K. (2021, September 15). Teachers, the robots are coming. but that’s not a bad thing. Education Week. https://www.edweek.org/technology/teachers-the-robots-are-coming-but-thats-not-a-bad-thing/2020/01