This article takes a short detour from the Mini series… for a little adventure.

Reader Don Marsh has been taking an online course on artificial intelligence (AI) offered by professor Tom Yeh at CU Boulder. Don’s exploring the potential of AI in ITC (instrumental transcommunication) and afterlife research, and as a side project he’s converting some of my articles here on Macyafterlife: Beacon into short, concise, easy-to-understand YouTube videos. I’m posting the first five here to give you an idea of how efficiently AI works. (If the response is favorable, we may add a few more videos each month.)

So, here are the first 5 video summaries of my articles selected by Don and me. (Actually, a few days after posting this article, we replaced the last three items on the list to the three you see below.)

Links to the 5 short video summaries:

1. The UN’s Noble Mission (LINK: https://youtu.be/8eTJw_M4fSg )
2. Philosophy 06: Free Will vs. Fate (LINK: https://youtu.be/liLhWZMX7o4)
3. ITC-01 Conversations on Earth and in Spirit are Worlds Apart. (LINK: https://youtu.be/aDrf3anuR5U)
4. Flourishing in the Lightest and Darkest of Times. (LINK:  https://youtu.be/DhBtOZjoMGw)
5. God on Earth and God in Spirit are Worlds Apart. (LINK:  https://youtu.be/tt4QWMLFjz0)

Then, if you’d like to compare, here are….

Links to the 5 original articles from which AI quickly extracted the above videos:

1. (Link to original UN article… )
2. (Link to original Free Will / Fate article… )
3. (Link to original Conversations Worlds Apart article… )
4. (Link to original Flourishing article… )
5. (Link to original God Worlds Apart article… )

Your candid impressions of these 5 videos are VERY welcome, either in the comments section below or in an email to: itcmark@gmail.com.  (Relax… as I watched the videos, I often thought, amazing!… profound!…, and occasionally, well THAT’s cheezy. 🙂

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Afterthoughts

Let’s take a closer look at 1) truth in truth out, garbage in garbage out, 2) the pros and cons of AI, 3) how this AI app works, and 4) some general quirks with this process.

1— Truth in truth out

AI operations like these take information input (such as my original articles) and process it quicky and efficiently into information output (such as the video summaries). How truthful, accurate, and trustworthy the information output is, depends on how truthful the user is in asking questions for the AI to answer, and how factual the information input (or “source material”) is. (As explained in the AI pros and cons below, people aren’t always truthful, source material is sometimes flawed, and so AI output isn’t always factual.)

Here’s the key to these 5 videos: My aim has always been to make my writing as truthful and factual as I possibly can… even when some of those truths and facts boggle many modern minds. For that reason, I believe these 5 video summaries are essentially factual and reliable. But bear two things in mind: 1) on Earth, truths and facts are often beaten down by angry voices, and 2) while anger eventually exhausts itself and dies and gets flushed into Earth’s shadow… truths and facts always rise back up to eternal life in the cosmos.

2— Pros and cons, gifts and curses of AI

Pros (or gifts) of AI include increased efficiency and productivity through automation, better and faster decision-making, personalization of services, and assistance in scientific research and daily tasks… PLUS…
AI helps familiarize us with life in the finer spirit worlds. Like AI systems, finer beings can silently process and share oceans of information instantly.

Cons (or curses) include ethical concerns like bias and misuse (AI-savvy computer hackers and scammers can hurt a lot more people a lot more cleverly), job displacement, high implementation and maintenance costs (e.g. immense energy needs*), and risks related to data privacy and security… PLUS…
In this age of widespread conspiracy theories, “alternative truths,” popularized institutional lies, and other forms of modern-day ‘devil worship,’ AI systems can have trouble discerning fact from fiction... truths from lies.

3— Google’s NotebookLM is the AI app Don used to create these 5 videos. Here’s how it works.

NotebookLM’s information input can include documents like PDFs, Google Docs and Google Slides, Text files (.txt), articles on websites, YouTube video URLs (it uses the transcript), and audio files (it transcribes them first). The information output is a response grounded in these sources, with options to generate summaries (such as informative YouTube videos), or to answer questions, or to create outlines, mind maps, and timelines.

NotebookLM is a “source-grounded” AI, meaning it finds and uses information exclusively from the sources the user provides as input information or has specifically asked it to discover on the web. It does not pull information from the general internet to answer your questions unless you use the “Discover Sources” feature. The specific “user criteria” it uses to find information are the documents and sources you add to a “notebook,” which is a dedicated space to convert the input information into output information at lightning speed.

4— Other quirks

• The NotebookLM AI app uses the word “source” a lot to refer to the user’s input information, whereas I use the word “source” to refer to God or that central cosmic force or all-that-is… which could get problematic in these videos. So, Don had to ask the AI app not to use the word “source” unless referring to God. (It was either that, or else I’d have to go through my entire website and change “the source” to “the COSMIC SOURCE.” Thank the source for the simplicity of AI!)
• *AI farms need so much energy that coal-fired power plants are being reopened here in the States to support those burgeoning “data centers”… with the likely result of overheating the global ecosphere beyond redemption. Compare that vast energy to the immense knowledge and energy required by higher beings to make ITC contacts happen (phone calls, radio contacts, etc from level 3 to Earth). Converting thought impulses to complex character and word and sentence arrangements of specific languages in our dense world… what an immense challenge! And finally…
• Meditation images in the 5 videos show meditators in the stereotypical (and, to me, very uncomfortable) lotus position, sitting cross-legged on the floor. I nearly always meditate while lying down, or sometimes sitting on a comfortable sofa or chair. Asking the AI app to use a more generic picture for meditation might be unreasonable….

Anyway, thank you Don for this adventure! Mark

The next article will get us back to the Mini series–#30 – Social Realities at Level 3.