Oral Roberts University The Silent Crisis - Healing the Inner Self

The Crisis lent

Healing the Inner Self

The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world.

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Editor’s Note

Transforming Lives & Empowering Spiritual Atmosphere

It might be challenging to comprehend the

psycho-spiritual outcomes of working in severely underdeveloped areas in the current period. There is a lot of evidence that environmental weights have a negave impact on mental and physical health, as well as opmism and hope. More precisely, over me, the challenges of various chances, including lack of opportunies, erode both our mental and physical health.

The well-being of people is disproporonately harmed by environmental stressors such as exposure to a range of economic resources and prejudice. Chronic stress gradually undermines opmism, selfdeterminaon, and the capacity to envision a beer future.

However, the existence of hope, healing, and wellbeing is not dependent on a given society's circumstances and can be enhanced by certain acons, plans, and laws. Accordingly, opmism is a result of agency – the convicon that one can affect their circumstances – as well as pathways –opportunies to take acon in order to realize an objecve.

The idea that we can promote healing and hope enables us to think about the ways in which community power, governmental regulaons, and educaonal taccs might aid this process in schools and communies.

Healing through Oral Roberts University , by Insights Success, is one way to examine how teachers and influencers can foster healing, hope, and well-being through a remarkable lens.

Have an enlightening read ahead!

Developing the LEADER you are CREATED to be.

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The Crisis lent

Healing the Inner Self

COVERSTORY

In fast-paced lives, we often tend to neglect ourselves and focus more on our lives that are swiftly going by, day after day, for months and even years too. Without knowing the magnitude and how it might affect our professional and personal lives, it is often ignored. However, it is essentially crucial to tackle it at the forefront and understand where it is affecting the most and minimize its requisition at the cost of our lives.

According to the data collected in 2020 alone by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention , there were 1.2 million attempted suicides and roughly 46,000 completed suicides . In other words, there was one death every 11 minutes.

Among ages 10-19, suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death and the 2nd leading cause of death for ages 20-34 . Almost ninety percent of those who commit suicide suffer from untreated depression and let their symptoms grow until they are unbearable, causing a feeling of hopelessness, loneliness, and numbness.

Observing the data above, it is pretty evident how ignorance of mental health and overall health can affect the lives of the youth. The Youth who can lead the nation and be the torchbearers for the generations to come.

Many have suffered alone from the wrath of depression and come out of the spiral and shine like never before in their life.

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THIS NEW FORM FACTOR OF A GLASS MIRROR HAS ALL THE ATTRIBUTES TO ENGAGE IN HUMAN-TODIGITAL-AND-VISUAL INTERACTION FULLY.

Victoriya Ruffin Mental Health Advocate and Student Oral Roberts University

That's what the miracle of Oral Roberts University does who get into its empowering spiritual atmosphere and to everyone who is surrounded by or either enrolled in the university.

Here goes the journey of Victoriya Ruffin , a Mental Health Advocate and Student at Oral Roberts University. One who is a survivor of depression and its dark spiral. However, upon enrolling into ORU, something changed her consciousness that enabled her outlook on life.

Sideby, the presence of the aid of Mirror Intelligence (MQ) helped her throughout her journey and, in turn, inspired her to be a Mental Health Advocate while being a student at ORU.

Let's dive in and know more about it!

Victoriya's Journey

While diving into her personal journey, she says, "For the first 16 years of my life, I was known for my joy, my lightheartedness, my carefree sense of humor and bold personality, but for over a year, this was little more than a carefully maintained facade."

She states her numbness and being out of the blues mentioning, "There wasn't a day that went by that I didn't dread waking up in the morning, 'playfully' telling my mom that I wanted to drop out of school, and crying, either internally or externally before getting out of the car in my high school's parking lot."

The signs were pretty evident right there. The things she once loved, like fashion and styling or spending time with family and friends, she no longer cared about, and still, no one would ever know about what was happening inside her all this while; little did she know either.

Over a period, the tears ran dry. The series of constant jokes complemented by maintained grades, extracurriculars, and a wide smile was a bulletproof guard over it all, and no one questioned a thing.

Victoriya says, "I never wanted those around me to question the character or authenticity of the God I had always described as full of love and goodness. I carried the weight of being 'a light' and held onto it as if my life depended on it, which in a sense, it did. I felt empty, but I poured out my heart as an attempt to numb the pain, being an encourager, a listening ear, and a friend to all."

With everything going smoothly during this season in her life, everything about her felt like a mistake or a flaw, and mirrors became her enemy. Looking at the signs, she states, "If only I could have looked in the mirror and seen myself for who I really was rather than the lies that depression had made me believe about myself. My mind was playing tricks on me, and I needed a fresh view of the true beauty within me."

Everyone has a story, and we're all in different stages of our own inner-healing process, just beginning or healing and renewed.

Unexpected Transition in ORU

After enrolling in Oral Roberts University (ORU) forever changed her life. The way ORU believes in not only an education for the whole being but also the healing of the whole person - the body, mind and spirit .

Witnessing the environment of ORU brought a drastic change in her and her personality altogether. Stating the same, she mentions, "It is a one-of-a-kind environment that allowed me to have a deeper understanding of how I was truly created and to see myself outside of just my own feelings or perception."

Expressing mere gratitude, she thanks the ORU stating, "I found such healing, and my journey felt fresh and new again. Little did I know that while at ORU, there was a

THE MQ MIRROR IS TRULY A BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY FOR THOSE SUFFERING FROM DEPRESSION OR ANXIETY AT ANY STAGE.

four-year initiative testing technology to solve and hopefully one day eradicate depression and anxiety."

The technology at ORU included a concept that allowed individuals to see and hear the truth about who they were created to be. This new concept took IQ, EQ, and SQ (Spiritual Intelligence) to a new level and incorporated a concept known as MQ (Mirrored Intelligence).

This technology was developed with the world's leading technologists, Michael Mathews and Jesupelumi Wickliffe from Oral Roberts University , alongside the world-renowned Psychiatrist Dr. Jason Beaman and Luke Lawson from Oklahoma State Medical College

The combined work of these four individuals brought a 10,000-year-old glass mirror with the new capabilities of Artificial Intelligence. Above is an image that depicts the breakthrough.

The Innovation of Mirrored Intelligence (MQ)

The MQ Mirror is truly a breakthrough technology for those suffering from depression or anxiety at any stage

When designed, the MQ Mirror was intended to be used as an early intervention tool, but after exploring the endless capabilities of the mirror, it is clear that the mirror is relevant and effective before, during, and after the restoration process.

The ground-breaking innovation of this mirror!

The Mirror aims to put the power back into our hands. A lot of the time, when struggling with mental health, you lose your sense of identity, feeling helpless and without control, but the MQ Mirror reminds you who you are, the value that you hold, and that you don't have to struggle alone because healing begins within. The mind controls the body.

According to Dr. Herbert Benson , the former director of the Benson-Henry Institute of Mind-Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital , he states, "the mind and body communicate constantly; what the mind thinks, perceives, and experiences are sent from our brain to the rest of the body" and a restored sense of power, motivation, hope, identity, clarity, connection, and safety are the ingredients for full healing and restoration, inside out.

The unique feature of this mirror is that "The mirror holds you accountable until you're ready to hold yourself accountable."

While elaborating on her journey, Victoriya opens by saying, "I've been there before. I know how broken it feels. I know how it feels to want to get better, but I had no idea where to start. I also know what healing feels like. I know what training my mind to remain peaceful feels like. I know what it feels like to unlearn bad habits."

After months of working with the MQ Mirror and exploring its innovative features, she searched for ways to further improve the current technology, as well as speaking with mental health professionals and experienced advocates.

With a heave of relief, she says, "I now more than ever, know-how valuable encouragement and self-reflection are in the healing and restoring process. When it comes to AI technology, the possibilities are endless and because the MQ Mirror is for you , it can be programmed to do whatever you want and need."

The advanced technology the MQ Mirror is built with allows the person using it to take national depression and anxiety tests in private, removing the paranoia of negative stigmas surrounding poor mental health and judgment, giving the person the ability to take the first step towards their freedom on their own terms and conditions.

The mirror is not only intelligent but quite intuitive. It has an in-built ability to measure small changes in posture, eye movement, and other subtle differences in the person's behavior that would typically go unnoticed or unrecognized, even by those close to people, learning who we are in order to provide the most accurate and relevant tools and support to each user individually.

The MQ mirror allows you to not just see yourself, but only encourages you to see yourself from unbiased eyes, from a new perspective. As mentioned earlier, the mirror helps to keep you accountable.

The MQ-Mirror has been through numerous clinical studies with incredible results documented and written in the Journal of Medical Systems with Dr. Jason Beaman , Luke Lawson, and Michael L. Mathews

This testing has been done leveraging the self-depression and self-anxiety tests. This simple yet revolutionary undertaking has the capability of helping millions of individuals.

This clinical and documented test has caused the CEO and , President of Sunshine Care Partners Rusty McMurray to implement Mirror technology in the nation's first brick-andmortar virtual health-wellness-medical clinic in Glenpool, Oklahoma.

The Clinic allows patients access to personal coaching, counseling, diet/exercise and medical services through a patient-driven smartphone/web app plus a brick-and-mortar clinic. With access to private and personalized MQ technology, it encourages patients to reclaim their identity and authority by taking the first step towards their freedom, confronting their pain from the comfort and all this at the convenience of their own home, with access given to tools to maintain momentum once a diagnosis is found.

Diving into Mental Health

When our mental wellness is low, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by even the everyday happenings in life. As the designers are aware of this, the mirror has features that allow the person using it to keep tabs on their workflow, as well as their responsibilities and health reminders.

The MQ technology understands that healing is not linear but that it is a process. The mirror encourages us to live in the present and reminds us to utilize self-reflection and gratitude as we rebuild in the process. The mirror doesn't just aim to provide identification of your struggles but to bring restoration along the process.

Even with the widespread awareness campaigns and increased mental health and wellness initiatives in schools and across media platforms, the fear of judgment and acknowledgment continues to be a hindrance to those suffering in silence.

Psychiatrist Dr. Beaman , who also serves as Chair of the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Science , found that one major issue in his office is that patients simply do not show up to their appointments, afraid of being judged and condemned.

Mental health cannot be ignored, and suicide rates are not dropping. Media has glamorized the ability to hide our emotions, calling our tendency to hide behind a plastered smile a strength and encouraging the phrase, "never let them see you sweat," as though it were a battle cry, when in reality, this coping mechanism might be the most dangerous of them all.

Poor mental health has become so normalized that very real and crucial signs and symptoms of anxiety and depression are brushed under the rug and overlooked. When we're constantly hearing tragic stories of suicides by those who seemed happy, successful, and loved, it's a cynical reminder of the deception behind, sometimes even the brightest smile.

It's not enough for mental health assistance and resources to be provided only to those who have mustered up the courage to reach out, and to take the next steps.

What about those who are still hiding behind a smile, behind social media highlights, burying themselves in their work or their responsibilities, or their concern for others?

The most deeply afflicted could be the cheery barista who always makes sure to give you extra whipped cream or your friendly neighbor who gives you a card for every holiday.

It could be your sweet friend who sends you words of encouragement every morning or your considerate significant other who loves you so deeply and affectionately.

We Never Know

Although the MQ Mirror is for the silent troopers, the popular loners, for the ones who politely say "I'm doing good" just to keep the atmosphere light, for those who were taught that tears were a sign of weakness.

"This mirror and technology is for all of us."

Mental illness cannot and will not take away our freedom, our joy, our peace, our purpose, or our identity. Almost every home has some form of mirror inside.

What if that mirror could be smart and assist all of us?

Thanks to the pioneering work of Michael Mathews, Jesupelumi Wickliffe, Jason Beaman, Luke Lawson, and Rusty McMurray

The MQ Mirror is exactly– a Smart Mirror capable of helping everyone.

The of ORU Journey Graduate

Sean O'Brien

From Jazz Musician to Purple Heart Recipient to IT Pro

Every person who has been in the surrounding of Oral Roberts University, and even the ones in ORU has experienced a spirit-empowering culture. Some say, "It's the magic of ORU!" while some say, "That's what ORU does to its people."

People from different backgrounds have different experiences. Although it all goes back to how wonderfully spiritually-empowering ORU is to start with.

Another example of ORU's Marvel unravels goes through the journey of a jazz musician, inially, who later became a member of the military. And not just the military, for that maer but the United States Army Band.

Undoubtedly, it raises the queson, Sean O'Brien , an accomplished jazz guitarist, got a Purple Heart.

How is a jazz musician associated with the US Army and is a Purple Heart Recipient and eventually turns an IT expert? Well, it is definitely!

Without further ado, let's follow the journey and know more!

Talking about music and listening to music is one the most popular forms of leisure among teenagers and also everyone who loves to indulge in music for exploring various genres of music.

Music ain't something that would automacally pop into our minds when we think about the military. However, most people back then, most people didn't think about the United States Army Band, which provides an interesng form of leisure for musical support for U.S. leadership and serves the naon through music.

Sean O'Brien IT Graduate Oral Roberts University

Being an already accomplished jazz guitarist, Sean started his military career as a member of the Army Band, where he toured the country and performed for dignitaries. But then 9/11 happened, and Sean's career as a musician took a backseat to his calling as a soldier.

Explaining his career trajectory, he says, "I was kind of disenchanted" he adds, "As there was a percepon that musicians weren't soldiers. I didn't agree with this. For me, it was me to go!" he exclaims.

On the way to entering the military, he states, "So, I entered officer candidate school, trained at Fort Benning in Georgia, and was selected to be an arllery officer."

Sacrifice

in the Line of Duty

Eventually, Sean found himself in Southern Afghanistan, serving as a Fire Direcon Officer and Platoon Leader .

Sean's service there had him dealing with border problems, doing reconnaissance, and supporng humanitarian efforts, all of it in a very dangerous place.

And this danger became a terrifying reality when Sean's Humvee drove over and detonated an improvised explosive device.

Sean menons, "All of a sudden, everything went black, not figuravely, but literally, there was no sunlight. The explosion vaporized our engine, so it doesn't make any sense that we all survived."

Thanking God through his survival, he states, "Looking back, God's hand moved in a lot of these terrible situaons, more mes than I can count."

For his bravery and his injuries, Sean received the Purple Heart , presented to service members who have been wounded or killed as a result of enemy acon.

Sean connued serving in the military. However, he eventually returned to the U.S. and began selling cars in Tulsa. Nevertheless, a chance visit to the ORU campus changed his career course on a huge level.

Menoning his wife, Sean said, "My wife was aending another university, but she didn't like it. Around that me, we stopped by ORU's College Weekend just to say hello to a friend. While we were there, we met a lot of great people, and they were all extremely welcoming."

Finding a Passion for IT

Talking about returning to college, Sean menons his wife joining ORU. He states, "Shortly aer, my wife enrolled at ORU." And a semester later, Sean joined her as an ORU CIT student.

Being a student, Sean loved ORU's Compung and Mathemacs Department . Soon he noced that ORU had

a lot more he says, "It was more than that and he loved ORU's Spirit-Empowered Culture."

Exceedingly more to the ORU's appraisal, "The aenon to love and excellence." It is an impeccably wonderful part of ORU anyone would experience. Sean menons the experience saying, "You'll find it everywhere on campus. ORU students legimately idenfy with God. It isn't something they're being told to do. Seeing the gis of the Spirit at work, feeling the mantle of Christ upon this place, it's all part of the culture at ORU."

In 2015, ORU made a long-term commitment to technological growth with its construcon of the awardwinning Global Learning Center. Since then, ORU has expanded further into the areas of virtual reality, global educaon, and medical training.

Talking about the enormous expansion of ORU, Sean states, "This expansion is the result of a forward-thinking department that constantly explores next-generaon technologies."

In the year 2022, Sean and his wife graduated with ORU's Class of 2022 , and aerward, Sean began working in ORU's IT Department. As an IT professional, Sean now contributes to the University's growing technology footprint.

With great pride, working in ORU and its expansion, he says, "We're currently examining the Metaverse to connect distant people in digital spaces. And with the support of a recent partnership with the Foundaon for Advancing Pediatric Orthopaedics ."

Sean adds, "ORU is now supporng virtual reality educaon in the pediatric orthopedic field." Furthermore, he says, "We're always looking around the corner to see what new technologies are rolling out."

Throughout the course of Sean's journey, he depicts a transion from a musician, then a soldier and now a technologist.

Sean sees his journey from Afghanistan to ORU as the answer to a very important queson - "What do you want me to do, God?"

In the quest to find an answer to that, Sean says, "The way I see things, God's got me!" He adds, "Some soldiers, when they leave the military, have their identy stripped away. However, when you have an identy in Christ, and now with the knowledge of the fundamental basis for everything."

While concluding, he states, "All of a sudden, stuff falls into line. Ulmately, God's going to put you in the place where He needs you most.”

Oral Roberts

Infusing AI with Innovaon into Modern Educaon

Experiencing an emerging wave of increasing educaonal need and its importance in our lives enrely does hold heavy significance in all aspects we as humans could think of.

The innovaons of technological marvels have immersed our modern educaonal world with all its evolving constraints, evidently for the beerment of the curriculum and people advancing from it.

Technological advancements have immensely surprised us with their marvels in the most amazing ways. One of these marvels is Arficial Intelligence, also widely known as AI.

The way our lives are embedded into technological marvels, AI is one of those that constantly ease our daily necessies and enables us to do varied things dependent on it while enhancing the quality of educaon, which would make educaon and work a smart process altogether.

The introducon of AI into educaon has amazed not only the students but also the professors working to make it happen in educaon. And the ones making this history into the system are the two renowned professors, Dr. Williams Lyons, Professor of Theology, Minister at the University, and Michael (Mike) Mathews, Vice President of Innovaon and Technology from Oral Roberts University.

Whilst inslling the advances into academia, it is equally mandatory to make complete use of it through the various mediums it offers to its usage to students. It would be the first me in history that students have an interacve smart mirror that they can observe and reduce tasks of their journey.

It helps presents observaons from students' previous academic records, which suggests habits and paerns for beer outcomes for students in the University.

Let's unravel the intriguing journey of AI into Educaon and know more about it!

Guiding Lights of AI

The ones taking the responsibility of being the torchbearers of these innovave advancements are Michael Mathews and Dr. William Lyons.

Michael L. Mathews (Mike) has over 24 years of experience as a senior-level IT execuve bringing creave soluons that value the end-users of technology and business process management.

Michal has held posions as a VP of Innovaon, chief informaon officer, general manager of CIOs, chief strategist for innovaon, business development officer, trainer, teacher, and vice president of academic services for leading corporaons and higher educaon. Mike has been a CIO within higher educaon and corporate training for over 19 years.

Michael was named the 2021 Leading Technologist by CIOViews, 2020 Top 20 Business Leaders by Industry Wired, 2019 Top Ten Innovators by Industry ERA, one of America's Top 30 Educaon innovators in 2017, and a 2018 CIO 100 Award Winner.

With the supporve partnership, Dr. William Lyons is a Professor in the College of Theology and Ministry at Oral Roberts University and teaches both on the graduate and undergraduate levels. He holds a Ph.D. in Religions of Western Anquity from Florida State University, an M.A. in Hebrew and Semic Languages from the University of Wisconsin, and an M.A. and B.A. in Biblical Studies from ORU. He has taught at Regent University (Virginia), Florida A&M University, Florida State University, and internaonally in India, Guatemala, Russia, and South Africa.

He has wrien on the war in the Hebrew Bible (including here, the so-called "holy war"), ancient Near Eastern thought; women in the Bible; Old Testament character ethics; biblical hermeneucs (including feminist, rabbinic, and modern evangelical perspecves); and Wisdom Literature.

AI into Educaon

Iniang the beginning of AI at the University:

In early 2019 as a part of designing an AI environment to accomplish tasks required by students in a fresh new way. This AI-driven environment was called the AI-driven MQMirror. It included a Smart TV with a surface mirror over the LCD panel on the TV. While Inside the TV was an AIenabled programmed mirror coding language that

THE MQ MIRROR ALLOWS YOU TO NOT JUST SEE YOURSELF, BUT ONLY ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEE YOURSELF FROM UNBIASED EYES, FROM A NEW PERSPECTIVE. AS MENTIONED EARLIER, THE MIRROR HELPS TO KEEP YOU ACCOUNTABLE

addressed numerous educaon challenges and displayed suggested recommendaons on the screen.

The newly introduced applicaon allows students to interact with personal data, global communicaons, selfnavigaon, self-help, data analycs, music, video, educaon, fitness, arficial intelligence, and roboc funconality via a glass mirror. This new form factor of a glass mirror has all the aributes to engage in human-todigital-and-visual interacon fully.

The glass mirror, combined with the ny new computer design hidden within the mirror frame, has made significant advancements in personal fitness by combining the mirror, smartphone, and wearable watch. All three synchronized together to provide a premier digital experience that accesses personal data, AI, machine learning data, personal trainers, e-Courses, and text-tospeech narraon. The mirror itself provides the real-life experience of both virtual and augmented reality (Mirrored Reality).

Diving into Mirror Reality

The ability to program AI within the MQ-Mirror has created a test case to permit students to interact with the mirror and test their level of mental health and well-being. Using natural language programming, mirror coding language and the AI capabilies of Amazon Alexa provides breakthroughs in creang an autonomous method to address mental health in a self-navigang manner. This concept of nudging students takes on a whole new meaning with the MQ-Mirror. Remember, AI can provide speech and text recommendaons (nudging) based on the recurring paern of behaviors.

The advanced AI intelligent Mirror applicaon has been designed to bring the power of IQ, EQ, and now MQ (Mirrored Intelligence) together via a glass mirror. The mirror integrates a mini-processor, IoT, AI, a digital assistant, and the enre world's digital ecosystem. Students of the University can access all global cloud-based services and all campus services as a life-sized digital assistant.

As humans, we intend to have an innate fascinaon with a mirror combined with the emergence of AI, virtual digital assistants, machine learning, eLearning, and 5G connecvity allows real people to become front-and-center instead of the technology itself. Up to this point in the history of computers, the device has taken center stage

These misleadings of advancements have caused many undesired social, physical, and psychological outcomes. They have allowed the labeling of technology 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc., versus a focus on civilizaon 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. CIO Magazine has labeled this newly designed MQ-Mirror as the breakthrough service called XaaS, meaning 'Everythingas-a-Service.' It's about me AI enters all sectors.

AI-driven Lives

With AI capable of mastering the repeatable processes in life, it can remove the rounes of the educaon systems, making everyone an academic success story. Designed correctly, AI has the potenal to liberate individuals to focus on the heart-and-mind maers of aaining the next level of educaon versus being overwhelmed by the roune tasks along the journey. These overwhelming everyday tasks cause many to drop the pursuit of the next level of educaonal aainment. However, not everyone has followed this academic pathway. The clearest example of a non-tradional journey is told by author Malcolm Gladwell of Chris Langan, who

possesses the highest IQ in the world. Chris Langan's story is one of the millions of similar stories whose life circumstances have prevented them from achieving the next level of educaonal aainment. It is a classic yet oen repeated journey that happened to the very person who possesses the world's highest IQ. Malcolm Gladwell's case study gives credibility to the belief that the top academic students are not necessarily the smartest. Instead, it demonstrates that they have become adept at following the rules and roune tasks required to excel. Both Dr. Trent Grundmeyer and Dr. Sam Varano, who earned Principal of the Year status in Iowa and Pennsylvania, have concluded that the best rule-followers oen make the Valedictorian status. Suffice it to say; the best rule follower is the person who has mastered the roune of the educaon system.

In like manner, the global educaon picture is ripe to have AI resolve the everyday funcons that cause less than 7% of the world's populaon to have a college degree or cerficate. 93% of the world has limited access to quality educaon, knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom. Even though we know that educaon can liberate people, access to these life-changing values lies behind the mundane rounes required to complete educaonal degrees.

Proficiency Of AI

We all live in an evolving world with increasing responsibilies, tasks, relaonships, and non-stop informaon. Wouldn't it be helpful if we could separate the roune funcons from the complex tasks? Our everyday repeve tasks are esmated to consume 90% of our day. What if we could automate 90% of the repeve tasks and perfect the 10% that truly maers? The 10% are the maers of the heart, which include faith, hope, and love. With such demanding schedules, it is no wonder that so many couples, children, and parents are prone to say things that they later wish they hadn't. We all love the people involved in our lives but expressing this love can easily be squeezed out among all the roune tasks in front of us each day.

Arficial Intelligence's (AI) novelty and intrigue make it one of the most fascinang yet elusive technologies. This intrigue is what makes AI such an excing and transformave technology across all industries and interests. Aer careful examinaon, many sectors (business, medicine, agriculture, and educaon, to name a few) have innovavely enabled subtle pieces of AI. These subtle aspects of AI inside products and services have given many companies a very balanced approach to the world of AI without sacrificing their reputaon with significant transformaons with AI.

AI is only suitable for roune funcons that it has observed and tabulated over me. This reality should counter any negave things we have heard about AI and allows us to leverage AI for the very things that we keep forgeng to do.

THIS NEW FORM FACTOR OF A GLASS MIRROR HAS ALL THE ATTRIBUTES TO ENGAGE IN HUMAN-TO-DIGITAL-AND-VISUAL INTERACTION FULLY.

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Married couples, for instance, will always be capable of observing and remembering each other's behavioral paerns beer than anything or anyone outside of the marriage. The miracle of marriage is a simple one: couples do know one another beer than they know themselves individually, and by loving and working together, they enhance the godly force of faith, hope, and love significantly. This is beyond the reach of AI.

What if we could spend 90% of our me on the maers-ofthe-heart while leng AI take care of all the common elements of life? This scenario is precisely the outcome of a happy marriage between two people who complement one another.

Augmented intelligence described in the paragraphs above would significantly reduce anxiety, stress, depression, disappointment, failures, and non-heart maers. It would allow us to focus on heart maers where all the real-life issues flow. In return, this would reduce the number of relaonship concerns over pey issues and ulmately reduce marital problems.

For some people, AI is a forbidden and unthinkable technology as they fear the displacement of jobs; or, worse yet, the entrance of the an-Christ into people's homes and minds. The reality is that arficial intelligence is much simpler than people fear or imagine.

AI is only capable of learning repeve paerns of behavior. It is programmed to know us beer than we know ourselves, but only from a repeve behavioral perspecve. AI will never be able to possess faith, hope, or love, which are the three core virtues of all people of faith.

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The Benefits and Challenges of Incorporating AI into Education

Education has always been a vital component in shaping the future of society. As technology continues to advance, so does the opportunity for innovation in the field of education.

One such innovation that has been gaining traction in recent years is the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) into the classroom. While there are certainly benefits to this shift, it also poses unique challenges that must be addressed.

Let us explore both the benefits and challenges that come with its implementation!

Identifying the Benefits and Challenges of Incorporating AI in Education

AI holds immense potential to revolutionize the education system, but there are also some drawbacks to consider. Let's take a look at both the benefits and risks of incorporating AI into education.

Benefits

The use of AI offers a number of benefits for learners and educators alike, such as:

1.Improved accuracy and consistency in assessments.

2.Automated feedback that provides tailored instruction for students.

3.Increased engagement through personalized learning experiences.

4.Automation of mundane tasks such as grading or data entry.

5.Increased accessibility for those with disabilities or language barriers.

Not only does AI make teaching easier for instructors, but it also makes learning more effective and enjoyable for students.

Challenges of AI for Learning Environments

One of the challenges of using AI for learning environments is figuring out how to stick to educational standards. Many schools and universities have set standards that teachers and professors must adhere to when delivering knowledge. AI doesn't always fit in with these standards, so educators have to figure out how to balance standardization with the dynamic nature of AI.

However, there are certain risks associated with the use of AI in education that should be taken into consideration. These include:

1.Privacy issues related to the collection and use of student data.

2.Security concerns due to potential vulnerabilities in AI systems.

3.Operational disruptions due to unexpected bugs or glitches in the system.

4.Difficulty in regulating the appropriate use of technology by teachers and students.

Therefore, it is important to ensure that all necessary precautions are taken when incorporating AI into the classroom and that any risks are taken seriously and addressed appropriately.

Investigating Different Potential Applications for AI in Education

AI has numerous potential applications in the field of education that can help enhance learning. Here are some of the different areas where AI can be used to further progress in learning:

Automated Grading

One application of AI that is already being used today is automated grading. This involves using algorithms to scan written work or answer key responses and provide grades for them in real time. This can be especially beneficial for busy teachers who have hundreds of assignments to grade each day.

Chatbots

AI chatbots can be used to provide personalized feedback and guidance to students, particularly when it comes to writing and language development. Simple chatbot programs can be designed to respond with helpful advice in response to student queries. This allows teachers more time to focus on the students who need more help rather than spending time answering basic questions from their entire class.

Data Analysis

AI can also be used for data analysis purposes. It has the potential to identify patterns and trends related to student performance over time, which can then be used by administrators or school leaders to prioritize and target resources in a more effective way.

While there are currently only a few applications of AI being utilized in education today, the possibilities are truly endless—AI technology is just beginning its journey toward revolutionizing educational practices around the world.

Conclusion

While AI is still being developed and tested, its potential to revolutionize the way we learn is undeniable. AI enables faster and better processing of data and can analyze complex patterns that can be used to customize individual learning pathways for students. AI can also understand, process, and generate natural language, allowing it to provide feedback that is tailored to the individual learner.

As AI continues to evolve and develop, its capacity to enhance learning is only likely to increase. Already, AI is being used in various educational settings to improve teaching and learning outcomes. With its ever-growing capacity, AI presents a new horizon for educators, allowing them to offer personalized instruction, more efficient assessment, and deeper insights into the learning process.

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Investigating the Potenal of AI for Enhancing Learning

Global attention has been paid to recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence (AI). Apparatuses, for example, Dalle-2 and ChatGPT, recommend that undertakings recently remembered to be past the capacities of computer-based intelligence may now expand the efficiency of imaginative media in different new ways, including through the age of engineered video.

Until this point, there has been restricted examination researching this present reality; the instructive worth of simulated intelligence produced by engineered media fills this void. We investigated the effects on learners’ content acquisition and learning experience of using artificial intelligence-generated synthetic video in an online learning platform. Adult learners were randomly assigned to one of two micro-learning conditions. Pre- and post-learning assessments were collected, and participants were surveyed about their learning experience.

The experimental condition featured a synthetic video with a real-life AI-generated character, while the control condition featured a video of a traditional instructor. A growing body of evidence demonstrates the positive effects of using artificial intelligence (AI) to support learning, engagement, and metacognitive development. The argument for using AI to support education and learning is well-established.

The use of generative AI in educational settings is a relatively new field, and the extent to which AIgenerated media can aid human learning is largely unexplored. The interest thusly drives the requirement for instructive substance for these web-based stages, including a lot of educational learning recordings requiring occasional updates to stay aware of patterns and fast development in examination and innovation.

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Personalized Learning and Recommendation System

According to all Edtech firms’ respondents, AI is most used to personalize education. Students’ learning experiences are significantly influenced by their teachers. Notwithstanding, with expanding homeroom qualities, it is hard for educators to zero in on every understudy’s improvement consistently. Additionally, students’ learning styles and paces vary.

Educational technology companies use rule-based algorithms to identify a student’s learning path and provide individualized learning content in this direction. These companies have animated videos, gamified quizzes, and flashcards, a comprehensive database of millions of questions, and elaborate coverage of concepts based on the student’s education level.

The AI system makes appropriate recommendations based on the person’s strengths and weaknesses. Since recommendations are tailored to the problem areas of the student, there is an overlap between the personalization engine and the recommendation system. Proposals incorporate practice questions like the inquiries wrongly responded to by the understudy, medicinal recordings, and ideas to allude to specific segments in the course reading to further develop the student’s comprehension.

Adaptive Assessment

While the majority of Edtech companies provide students with personalized recommendations and adaptive assessments, very few companies also do so. At the point when the evaluation is started, the framework will think about all understudies as normal entertainers and show an issue of the typical degree of trouble, known as a “Chilly beginning.” The student is presented with the following question based on their response to the first question.

As a result, the test is modified and tailored to the student’s level of comprehension and ability to solve problems. Edtech companies provide analysis and recommendations that are tailored to each student’s learning style by integrating personalization engines into smart classes and the school’s learning management system.

This personalization is based on the learning profiles of the students, which include their strengths and areas for growth. Further, the versatile strategy for appraisal gives a moment result to the understudies, features their slip-ups, suggests techniques for development, and exhibits every understudy’s position compared with others in the class.

Present State of AI

Over the course of the past few decades, AI has advanced from straightforward rule-based search problems like “best move for tic-tac-toe” to knowledge representation systems like “Identifying relationships” and sequential decisionmaking (a series of complex decisions to be made).

Computers did not learn in the conventional AI system that was based on rules. However, machine learning algorithms began self-learning from the data as systems advanced to knowledge representation and decision-making.

At best, Edtech firms’ statistical analysis can be regarded as supervised machine learning or an AI foundation. This is because, unless retrained, the personalization remains the same due to the algorithms that the companies use to train the application on historical data. Teachers are benefiting from AI-powered conversational systems for rote learning and basic/repeated conversations with students.

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Simulated intelligence can possibly change frameworks and cycles to supplement and expand educating capacities. To improve teaching outcomes, teachers will have more time to work on resolving student confusion, emphasizing deep learning, using their judgment in difficult situations, and dealing with a variety of students.

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