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Written By: Mukul Sharma|Updated: Mar 28, 2023, 07:40 PM IST

Artificial Intelligence is the fad of these times, with latest depictions throwing up real side of previously unimaginable realities. Whether it's former US President Barack Obama enjoying a gala time at a beach with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel,or Donald Trump's 'artificial' arrest. The pictures of these imagined realities led by the 'Artificial' side of technological intelligence continues to stoke curious minds of the world.

Lately, Pope Francis, the head of Roman Catholic Church, became the centerof a few Artificial Intelligence showpieces, as they imagined him sporting some luxurious fashion.

Pope Francis is the Head of the Catholic Church, the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State. In this picture, Pope Francis holds a child at the end of an audience with people of Rho, near Milan, at the Paul VI hall in the Vatican on March 25, 2023. For many who are used to seeing Pope pursuing Catholic religious services, the AI-avatar shown further was nothing short of a shock.

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Artificial intelligence applications such as ChatGPT are growing rapidly. The creators themselves are surprised by the fast-growing interest in this resource. Part of their surprise is that the accuracy rate is still not what they believe it will be soon.

I use ChatGPT as a research and background tool. I asked what it knew about Baptist associations. On Feb. 26, 2023, I asked the following question: What is the importance of Baptist associations to the Southern Baptist Convention?

Here is what ChatGPT said:

Baptist associations are important to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) for several reasons.

First, they provide a way for local churches to connect with each other and work together in missions and ministry. Associations typically consist of a group of churches in a geographic area that share common beliefs and practices. By joining together in an association, churches can pool their resources and collaborate on projects that would be difficult to undertake alone.

Second, associations serve as a conduit for communication and cooperation between local churches and the larger SBC. Associations are usually affiliated with a state convention, which in turn is affiliated with the SBC. Through this structure, churches can participate in the work of the convention and have a voice in its decision-making processes.

Third, associations provide a means for training and support for pastors and other church leaders. Many associations offer workshops, conferences and other resources to help pastors and leaders develop their skills and deepen their understanding of Baptist theology and practice.

Overall, Baptist associations play a vital role in the life of the Southern Baptist Convention, connecting local churches, facilitating cooperation and communication and providing support and training for church leaders.

I posted the response to social media groups for the network of Baptist associations and elsewhere. I asked if ChatGPT got it right. The response was positive some commented it was almost scary.

Was it complete and accurate? No, but it would point an inquirer in a generally correct direction.

This means the internet contains enough information that an initial understanding can be acquired about Baptist associations in the Southern Baptist tradition.

Use of the phrase in the Southern Baptist tradition is important because many of the three dozen Baptist denominations in North America have associations as part of their denominational structure.

First, artificial intelligence apps such as ChatGPT are helpful in summarizing information about Baptist associations in the Southern Baptist tradition. But they should not be accepted as authoritative. Baptist associations as a family are about a quality of relationships ChatGPT does not know.

Second, AI answers are incomplete.

At times they miss qualitative understandings. Such understandings require subjective experiences. The contextual and doctrinal understandings of associations differ widely throughout North America.

Third, AI may provide characteristics the inquirer has not thought about. This can be informative or at least cause a reader to ponder if they need to think more deeply about associations.

Fourth, the answers to specific questions we ask ChatGPT can change with each new update of the apps content database.

Fifth, the answer provided by an AI app should never be written or spoken without referring to the source. Attribution is imperative. I placed in quotes the answer AI gave me. I also dated when the information was accessed and indicated the specific app I used.

For churches in association and for individual churches and their leaders, artificial intelligence apps can be a great source of initial research on any topic relevant to church and denominational ministry.

On some religious, spiritual and theological questions, the app includes in its answer a cautionary statement that it is not an expert on the question asked or the subject of the inquiry. This is ethical and responsible.

One phrase I see in response to questions posed to ChatGPT is, As a language model AI, I dont have personal opinions or beliefs.

In our speaking and writing, lets all be this ethical and responsible.

Use ChatGPT and other similar apps for research and background information and to stimulate your thinking but always remember that your knowledge of our Kingdom relationships is much richer.

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At the speed, at which the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is being witnessed, it has the potential to significantly disrupt labour markets globally. And this is certified in the research done by Goldman Sachs.

As per that research, roughly two-thirds of current jobs are exposed to some degree of AI automation in the US and the European Union.

Administrative and legal are those sectors which can see the maximum impact. Goldman Sachs says 46 percent of administrative jobs and 44 percent of legal jobs can be substituted by AI. The ones with low exposures are physically-intensive professions such as construction at six percent and maintenance at four percent.

While AI and automation can augment the productivity of some workers, they can replace the work done by others and will likely transform almost all occupations at least to some degree. Rising automation is happening in a period of growing economic inequality, raising fears of mass technological unemployment and a renewed call for policy efforts to address the consequences of technological change. But at the same time, its being seen as one of the tools to enhance economic growth.

As per Goldman Sachs research, AI could eventually increase annual global GDP by seven percent over a 10-year period. A combination of significant labour cost savings, new job creation and higher productivity for non-displaced workers raises are seen as the areas that will boost the growth.

For the US, generative AI is seen raising annual US labour productivity growth by just under 1.5 percentage points over a 10-year period.

McKinsey Research too has done a survey of more than 2,000 work activities across more than 800 occupations. It shows that certain categories of activities are more easily automatable than others. They include physical activities in highly predictable and structured environments, as well as data collection and data processing.

These account for roughly half of the activities that people do across all sectors. And, it believes, nearly all occupations will be affected by automation, but only about five percent of occupations could be fully automated by currently demonstrated technologies.

Although the size of AIs impact will ultimately depend on its capability and adoption timeline, both remain uncertain at this point.

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In April 2019,The New York Times published a three-part investigation about the legacy ofRupert Murdoch that, among a number of juicy revelations, exposed the media moguls attempts to ease tensions among his children through group therapy sessions, including a therapeutic retreat at the family ranch in Australia. Roughly nine months earlier, a very similar scene played out on television screens during the first season ofSuccession. In Austerlitz, the HBO dramas seventh episode, the fictional Roy family begrudgingly gathered in New Mexico for a therapy session after middle son Kendalls failed attempt to knock his father, Logan, from poweronly to discover that the whole gathering was a publicity stunt.

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Successions creative team might not have realised they were so closely mirroring reality when they filmed that episode, but the goal has always been to tell a story that felt like it could be happening in real life too. If you read theFinancial Times andWall Street Journal, youd have a good sense of where we thought the show would go because its trying to reflect the world, show creator Jesse ArmstrongtoldThe New Yorker in February, when he also announced thatSuccessions upcoming fourth season would be its last. Indeed, many ofSuccessions characters and plotlines can be traced back to real people and events. Over the years, the show has employed journalists and writersmedia columnistFrank Rich is an executive producer, and novelistGary Shteyngart and business journalistMerissa Marr have served as consultantsto aid in the accuracy of its world-building.

Successions third season ended more than a year ago with the often at-odds Roy siblingsKendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), and Roman (Kieran Culkin)teaming up to try to stop their father (Brian Cox) from selling the family business. But an eleventh-hour heel turn from Shivs husband, Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), foiled their plans. HBO is keeping a tight lid on the events of the shows final seasonbeyond dropping a few breadcrumbs ina new trailerbut if previous seasons are any indication, there will be more than a few similarities to recent current events. Ahead, a breakdown of the real-world influences for the fictional world ofSuccession.

Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy, Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy, and Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy.

Armstrong has said that he drew fromseveraldynastic familiesincluding the Redstones, the Sulzbergers, and the Hearstswhen creating the Roys. But none appear to have been more influential than the Murdochs. In fact, Armstrong first beganmining the lives of the rich and powerful for satire with a screenplay calledMurdoch, which imagined the family convening for the birthday of Rupert Murdoch. Itmade the rounds in Hollywood, even landing on the Black List of top unproduced screenplays in2010, but was never made.

Armstronghas said thatMurdoch is deeply in the background ofSuccession,its clear that his work on the former informed the latter. Like the Murdochs, the Roys are a patriarchal family with control over a large media conglomerate. Waystar Royco, which the Roys like to boast is the fifth-largest media company in the world, controls a Fox Newsesque conservative cable network called ATN; several newspapers; and a theme park and cruise ship business. Murdoch, meanwhile, has prevailed over News Corpa powerful print media business whose tentacles reach as far as the UK and Australiaand an entertainment business that, at its height, included broadcast and cable networks, a film and television studio, a live entertainment division, and an Indian television provider.

Even the family structures of the Murdochs and the Roys are similar. Rupert Murdoch has six children from his first three marriages, including an older daughter,Prudence, who has largely avoided wading into the power struggle that has consumed the three children from his second marriage:Elisabeth,Lachlan, andJames. The Roy Family, meanwhile, is made up of oldest son Connor (Alan Ruck)who instead of working for the family business announces a presidential campaign in the second seasonand his three younger siblings, who each believe they have what it takes to succeed their father as CEO of Waystar Royco.

Rupert Murdoch put to rest the succession questions swirling around his family in 2017, when he announced that he would sell much of his entertainment assets to Disney in adeal worth $71.3 billion.Following the sale, his oldest son, Lachlan, was named CEO of adiminished Fox Corp. In season three ofSuccession, Logan made a similar play, revealing that instead of naming one of his children as his successor, he planned to sell the company to (fictional) tech giant GoJo.

Holly Hunter as Rhea Jarrell, and Cherry Jones as Nan Pierce.

The introduction of the Pierce family in season two allowed Armstrong and his creative team to create an old-money foil for the nouveau riche Roys. Led by matriarch Nan Pierce (Cherry Jones), the Pierces operate a multi-billion media company that owns left-leaning news network PGM. Those blue-blooded fucks, as Logan calls them, appear to be a blend ofpublishing families the Sulzbergers and the Bancrofts.

The Sulzberger family owns TheNew York Times, passing the role of publisher down to each new generation. (A.G. Sulzberger is the newspaper of records current publisher.) The Bancrofts, meanwhile, are the Boston socialites who soldWall Street Journal owner Dow Jones & Company to Murdochs News Corporation in 2007. InSuccessions second season, Logan makes his own move to acquire Pierce Global Media, but isnt as successful as his real-life counterpartthough the trailer for season four suggests Nan and her haughty clan will be back for a final showdown.

Alexander Skarsgrd as Lukas Matsson.

ThoughSuccession has occasionally ventured into the world of tech (see Vaulter below), it remained largely focused on legacy media until the introduction ofAlexander Skarsgrds temperamental tech mogul in season three. The billionaire CEO of streaming powerhouse GoJo enters the story first as a potential acquisition target. But by the end of the season, its clear that he has bigger aims from his dealings with the Roys. Because ofSkarsgrds Swedish heritage, themost obvious likely inspiration for his character is Spotify cofounder and CEODaniel Ekeven if GoJo appears to be a mix of Netflix, FanDuel, and Facebook. Matssons ruthless dealmakingand erratic tweetingsuggest hes also modelled at least in part onElon Musk.

Introduced in the third season, during a secretive Republican conclave where the partys leadersincluding Logan and his childrenselect their next presidential candidate, Jeryd Mencken (Justin Kirk) isSuccessions take on what comes afterDonald Trump. The shows sitting presidenta man never shown and only ever referred to as The Raisinseems to be a composite of Trump and a more traditional conservative president, and Gil Eavis (Eric Bogosian), the Democratic senator who wants to hire Shiv in season two, is an apparentBernie Sandersstand-in. Mencken, meanwhile, is an alt-right congressman whom Shiv refers to as a YouTube provocateur, suggesting the writers modelled him after conservative media personalities likeJordan Peterson and members of the far-right Freedom Caucus. Mencken is considered a dark horse in the presidential race until Logan decides to back him, perhaps a reference to Murdochs then close alliance with Trump.

The digital-media start-up that appeared during the first two seasons ofSuccession was so clearly modelled after Vice Media that even the struggling publisher had toacknowledge the similarities. The edgy internet publisher founded by Lawrence Yee (Rob Yang) that sold to Waystar Royco had all the hallmarks of mid-2000s new media brands, from the sleek open floor plan office to the company-owned beehives. Eventhe articles that Vaulter publishes5 Reasons Why Drinking Milk on the Toilet Is Kind of a Game-Changer and Wait, Is Every Taylor Swift Lyric Secretly Marxist?would feel right at home on the BuzzFeed or Gawker websites of yore. And Kendalls interest in the company even provides more evidence that the Roys are inspired by the Murdochs; James Murdochjoined the Vice board in 2013 after Fox acquired a stake in the business.

Though Vaulter doesnt survive its saleor the pivot-to-video era that rocked every major media outletSuccession isnt entirely done skewering the digital-media world. Keep an eye out for a not-so-subtle dig at sites like Axios and Semafor in theupcoming season.

This article first appeared on Vanityfair.com

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Photo submitted to Times ObserverRepresenting the Bradford Knight Owls Chess Club at the recent Pennsylvania State Chess Federation Scholastic Championships I Harrisburg were (front from left):Coach Bob Ferguson, Sylvia Bysiek, Juliana Bysiek, Aiden Ferguson, Elaina Ferguson, and Micaiah Ferguson; and (back) Brian Ferry, Rob Ferguson, Trenton Johnson, and Natasha Ferry. Missing from photo are Silence Karl, Ed Bysiek, and Ryan Ferguson.

The Bradford Knight Owls Chess Program, with members from Warren, sent a group of 12 chess players to the 2023 Pennsylvania State Chess Federation Scholastic Championships.

There were nearly 700 competitors at the event, held March 18 and 19, at the Red Lion Inn Harrisburg-Hershey.

The Knight Owls brought home trophies in both single-day elementary events and the two-day middle-high school divisions.

Micaiah Ki Ferguson tied for an individual third in the elementary U500 section and Sylvia and Juliana Bysiek were on the first-place school team in the U800 section of the elementary championships.

The Bysieks and Fergusons Ki and Aiden, of Bradford teamed up and brought home first-place club honors in the U1100 section.

In the two-day sections, Natasha Ferry of Warren brought home the trophy for first place girl in the unrated high school section, Trenton Johnson of Bradford finished tied for 17th in the U1000 high school section, and Silence Karl finished in 20th position among the U1300 high school players.

Im very proud of all the kids, but I wish more of our top students could have attended, Coach Bob Ferguson said.

The club will send a contingent to the annual Western NY and Northern PA Scholastic Championship in Friendship, N.Y., Saturday, April 15.

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