Waneta Sunshine Rotary

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.

Bette Davis

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

Laurence J Parker

The meeting was held on Teams at 7.15 am with 6 members present.

Music; none

• Business
• Our day at the market went as well as could be expected. A few good conversations. Joan is contacting them. Juris has one person to contact.
• Social: board games at Joan’s on September 19th. Start at 5.30. Bring finger food. Invite guests. Maddy will send an email reminder.
• September 4th was an in-person meeting at Bridgeview. Lynn Burch, our outgoing AG, was present.
• Food drive on September 26th at Liberty Foods. Maddy confirmed with them.
• Joan suggested that we have a YouTube video from John Morrow on AI every second Friday of the month.
• Suggested monthly meeting format: Week one in-person social, week two YouTube video, week three speakers, week four more detailed business meeting, week five an item from the Rotary magazine. This is a guideline; we can also be flexible.
• Program: AI -John Morrow
• AI is real and here to stay, so let’s understand it. Two books: “If someone builds it, everyone dies” by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. This is a very pessimistic view. “The singularity is nearer” by Ray Kurzwell gives a more optimistic view.
• We don’t know how AI makes choices. It doesn’t respect copyright. Can’t trust everything. Be wary.
• It can be used in research to summarize articles. Editing software has AI embedded.
• Don’t rely on it, and never trust it totally for legal or medical advice.
• Discussion followed. We all have reservations.

Next week, September 18th, we need a speaker.

Saturday, September 26th: food drive at Liberty

Saturday, October 3rd: District training in Rossland.

• Happy and sad bucks (not collected)

Meeting adjourned at 8:15 am