Phil Hauck, Envision Board President
Imagine a 175-page book, at a cost of less than $15, that offers you a simple, readable primer on how to effectively use ChatGPT! That book is available, and it delineates fifty business activities that could be improved with AI’s various formulations. It’s called The AI Whisperer: Handbook for Leveraging Conversational Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT for Business.
(more…)Phil Hauck, Envision Board President
Save 20%, help Envision, and get the video series and a hard copy of Frey’s book, Future Like a Boss, by ordering through Envision. Learn to “think like a futurist” through 14 stand-alone lessons.
(more…)Phil Hauck, Envision Board President
Recognizing the value of re-convening with fellow participants to confidentially share stories of scanning and trends, a few of our SF grads have worked with Envision to form the first SF networking cohort. We got organized in February and started our bi-monthly meeting series in May. Our recent conversation ranged from getting re-connected to scanning experiences to experimentation with AI.
(more…)Susan Gallagher-Lepak, Dean, College of Health, Education and Welfare, UW Green Bay
“You’ve given me an accessible way to consider what might be coming for our campus.” That’s one of the encouraging responses I received from colleagues recently as we wrapped up our own 3-session virtual webinar series called “The Future of Higher Education.” Inspired by my experience in the Envision Foresight workshops with Garry Golden, and with the support of my Provost and colleagues, I led a work group which planned and offered the series this spring.
(more…)Beverly French, Envision Board member and Arts, Culture, and Entertainment Signals Team
In March 2023, artist Refik Anadol explained to a PBS resporter: “My primary material is data, the information, and my second material is a ‘thinking brush’ that is assisted by machine ‘dreaming.’” Anadol has spent seven years uploading images of flowers, landscapes and art, contributing to the 75 million images of flowers generated with computer data through the work of scientists, software programmers, researchers, architects and designers.
A thinking brush?! Read a transcript of the interview.
Nan Nelson, Envision Board member
Envision’s World Futures Day featured speaker Professor Thomas Frey has identified six ways the Artificial Intelligence revolution is likely to shape our lives within the foreseeable future. Are you ready for transformation of our reality, creativity, work, and even our sense of free will? Here’s his analysis of the benefits and risks.
Jim Golembeski, Envision Board Member
I will always correct people when I hear negative comments about the work ethic of our young people.
Granted, the Millennial generation (born 1980-1998) has struggled, but mainly because they did what their Baby Boomer parents told them to do: get a college education in any area. Just go to four-year college! Now we have too many psychology, sociology, and political science majors trying to find a place in the workforce.
(more…)The May 2023 Horizons, Envision’s bi-monthly newsletter, features Board member written articles about the exciting future of Green Bay Botanical Gardens, how a Green Bay area company helped disable the Chinese surveillance balloon, and several articles about addressing addiction and housing challenges in our community. Click here to read the issue.
Susan Garot, Envision Board member
FarmWise weeding robots are a game-changer, as they use artificial intelligence to identify and remove weeds from fields without harming crops. The robots are equipped with hundreds of tiny blades that cut the weeds out, leaving the healthy plants untouched. The robots are autonomous, but human supervision is also available to ensure the best results. The company has already accumulated over 15,000 commercial hours, and its robots, the Titan and Vulcan, are already in use in many fields. While Green Bay Botanical Garden isn’t quite ready for weeding robots, we are investing in robot mowers this year for the first time.
Read about robots and weed pulling here.
Judy Nagel, Envision Board member and Upward Mobility Signals Team
Here in our United States, one important step toward upward mobility is meaningful participation in our democracy, and that usually begins at the ballot box. But how smart are we able to be as voters? What do we really know? To what extent are we at the mercy of individuals, corporations and organizations that simply have enough money to fool the voting public?
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