Welcome humans!

Today we’ll explore the intersection where AI meets the most profound aspects of life and creativity!

Discover how AI is venturing into the sensitive terrain of end-of-life decisions 💡🤖 and unlock the secrets of your psyche with AI-powered games 🎮.

You’ll also tickle your taste buds with an AI that diagnoses diseases from your tongue 🧬👅 and then you’ll meet the brain-powered "biocomputers" you can rent for $500. 🧠 

Plus, don't miss Chat Musician, the new AI who composes tunes and scales on demand 🎵. This issue is packed with the unusual, the innovative and the outright futuristic!

Remember, Well Wired ⚡ always serves you the latest AI-health, productivity and personal growth insights, ideas, news and prompts from around the planet. We’ll do the research so you don’t have to! 🤖❤️‍🧬⚡

Apologies for being a little late this week! We may be late, but we always deliver!

Todays wire:

🗞️ Main Stories AI in Wellness, Self Growth, Productivity

• INSIGHT: Can AI Help With End-of-Life Decisions?💡🤖 

• How AI Games Can Reveal The Mysteries of Your Mind! 🎮

• The New AI That Detects Disease From Your Tongue 🧬 👅

• Micro class: How to Animate Your Images With AI: 📸

• AI startup rents out brain-powered "biocomputers" for $500 a month. 🧠

• The Chat Musician that creates musical notations, melodies and scales. 🎵  

💡Learning & Laughs AI in Wellness, Self Growth, Productivity

• ⚡Supercharge + Optimise 🔋 (AI Tools & Resources)

• 📺️ Must watch AI videos (Insight: Reinvent Yourself With AI⚡)

• 🎒AI Masterclass (Tame Your Distractions With AI! 🧭 🧠)

• 📸 AI Image Gallery (Birdseye view of AI Health & Growth! 🦆)

Read time: 8 minutes

💡 Insight: AI Wellbeing & Self Growth

Get the latest insight on one key AI idea around wellbeing, productivity or self-growth.

INSIGHT: Can AI Help With End-of-Life Decisions? Is This The Future of Compassion Tech? 💡

End-of-life decisions can place a heavy emotional burden on surrogates—those tasked with making choices for others, notes David Wendler, a bioethicist at the US National Institutes of Health. 🩺

To alleviate this stress, Wendler and his team are developing an AI-driven tool designed to assist surrogates by predicting the preferences of patients in various end-of-life scenarios.

This has the potential to offer much-needed guidance during these challenging moments. 🤢

However, as AI steps into this dark arena, while it's great at crunching data and helping doctors navigate the tough choices that arise during palliative care, balancing cold algorithms with the warmth of human compassion is the next big challenge.

AI at the Crossroads: Can Robots and Empathy Coexist in Palliative Healthcare? 🤖❤️

Perhaps you can see it now…

It’s not hard to imagine a machine predicting your loved one's chances at life or death, guiding decisions with cold, hard data. Sure, it’s efficient, but can it replace the emotional depth of a human doctor?

For now, perhaps not!

Doctors may get more accurate predictions, but where's the compassion? It's like trying to stir oil and water—not hard, but tricky.

And then there's the data privacy nightmare. Who's peeking at your deeply personal info? The line between useful insights and creepy surveillance is blurring fast.

So, as we embrace this brave new world, the big question is: will AI used in palliative care serve you or simply complicate the most human of experiences? 🖤

Discover how to navigate the ethical and emotional complexities of AI-assisted end-of-life care with a balanced approach. ⚡

How to Embrace AI in End-of-Life Care: 🏥🔧 

• Know Your Numbers: If you or a loved on are in an end-of-life scenario, get cosy with understanding what AI's data means so you can make decisions with both your heart and your head!
  

• Blend Tech with Tenderness: Let AI guide you, but don't forget that empathy will drive you to get back on your feet or accept where you or a loved one are during this challenging time.
  

• Guard the Data: Make sure your privacy isn’t just an afterthought. Keep an eye on how your data is used.

“Ethicists say a “digital psychological twin” could help doctors and family members make decisions for people who can’t speak themselves.”

Key takeaways:

1. Crystal Ball: AI now has the ability to predict yours or a loved ones end-of-life outcome with scary accuracy.
   

2. Ethical Balancing Act: Navigating the thin line between cold data and heartfelt compassion.
   

3. Privacy Police: Keeping patient data secure is crucial.

Why it matters?

When AI and end-of-life care collide, this connection between silicon and the soul can be messy. This isn't just number crunching; it’s about weaving AI's precision into the profound human tapestry of life and death.

We’re entering a space where spiritual guidance and digital smarts shake hands, creating a new kind of connection.

But the real magic?

Making sure AI amplifies our humanity rather than sidelining it. Getting this balance right could reshape how we care for each other in life’s final chapter. 🍎

What's next?

Keep your finger on the pulse of AI’s ethical dance in end-of-life care, and gear up to engage with compassion and smarts.

Will AI make us more compassionate, or just turn life's final decisions into a spreadsheet showdown? 🌱💻

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Further Reading

• Have you spoken to the ghost in the machine? 🖤

• End of life decisions - could AI help? 🤖

• No one is ready for digital immortality - yet! 💊

🗞️ On The Wire (Main Stories) 🗞️

Discover the most popular AI stories, news, trends and ideas focused on wellbeing, productivity and self-growth that have impacted humanity in the last 7-days!

🗞️ AI Productivity⚡

AI Games Reveal The Mysteries of Your Mind! 🎮 🧠

Back in the '90s, when 3D games like Wolfenstein 3D and Duke Nukem were taking over, neuroscientists got an idea? Could AI-powered games finally unlock the deepest mysteries of your brain while you’re busy saving a virtual world? 🧠 🎮

“For the first time, you could have an entirely simulated world in which to test people,” said Dr Spiers, a neuroscientist at University College London.

Spiers says it was a game-changer—literally.

For the first time, researchers had entire digital realms to test human behaviour, and the era of gaming as a scientific tool was born.

From that moment on, game companies levelled up their AI game, turning digital worlds into more immersive playgrounds.

Today, with large language models at the helm, they are crafting game characters with rich backstories and personalities that can chat endlessly, never repeating themselves. 🃏

Imagine a background character who’s as unpredictable as your last five text messages.

Todays games don’t just track your in-game decisions—they’re decoding how you think, learn, and make choices in real-time. We’ve moved from casual gaming to brain research through gamification!

In fact, every move you make could potentially help crack the code on mental health. And now with AI, gaming has taken another leap forward towards helping us better understand ourselves! 💡

“The way we interact with games and invented characters can shed light on how we think. AI is poised to take things further.”

Key takeaways:

• Gaming Science: AI games are your brain’s new research buddy. Think brain training apps like Lumosity and Cognitfit!
  

• Mind Mapping: Your in-game moves are providing scientists with real-time insights.
  

• Beyond Fun: Games are the new frontier for serious research, with huge implications for mental health. 🎮🧠

Why it matters?

AI video games are no longer just about jumping plumbers or high scores—with gamification, they’re unlocking the secrets of your brain.

By analysing your in-game behaviour, researchers can now gather insights about your personality and gain a deeper understanding of your mental processes and cognitive functions. 🥸

It’s an innovative game-changer, pardon the pun, for both gaming and behavioural science.

As the AI world expands and people develop feelings for their pixelated partners, AI video game characters could help us dig even deeper into these digital relationships.

As Spiers puts it, “People are forming relationships with artificial agents. That’s fascinating stuff—why wouldn’t you want to study that?” 🕹️❤️

Perhaps it’s time to put your emotional connections with code under the microscope?

Read the full wire on the MIT technology review.

Could your next gaming session help unlock the mysteries of your own mind?⚡🤔

🗞️ AI Wellness 🌱

Brain Food: The New AI That Detects Disease From Your Tongue 🧬 👅

Here’s something to tickle your taste buds!

Ever thought your tongue could be the key to unlocking your health secrets?

Well, AI just made that a reality. A new AI model is now using tongue colour analysis to predict diseases, blending ancient wisdom with cutting-edge tech. 👅

The new computer model from researchers in Iraq and Australia can reportedly detect diseases like diabetes and asthma with 98% accuracy — using nothing more than a photo of someone’s tongue.

In fact, this approach could make early disease detection as easy as saying “ahh”.

No needles, no hassle—just a quick peek at your tongue, and boom, potential early diagnosis! 🍎

Key takeaways:

1. AI Tongue Tech: Stick out your tongue, get a diagnosis. Scans tongue colour to predict diseases.
   

2. Old Meets New: Combines ancient tongue diagnosis with AI.

3. Early Bird: Aims to make health checks simpler and non-invasive.

Why it matters?

Imagine diagnosing diseases like anemia, COVID-19, vascular and gastrointestinal issues or asthma by just sticking out your tongue! 🧠 And soon, a smartphone may be all you need to diagnose disease in this way.

This real-time diagnosis could shorten hospital lines and help professionals confirm your diagnosis much faster. It’s a leap towards a new kind of healthcare that’s more personal, accessible and non-invasive.

Read the full wire on interesting engineering.

Could AI-powered health tools eventually replace regular doctor visits for early diagnosis? 🤔

🎒 Micro Class - AI Productivity 🎒

A quick hit micro class on how to use AI in everyday life!
Today we’ll teach you a fun prompt!

How to Animate Your Images With AI: 📸

Here's how you can turn any image you own into a slick animated video using AI:

1. Head over to Haiper AI and sign up for some free credits.

2. Pick the Text-to-Video option, then upload your image.

3. Describe your animation in the prompt box and hit Generate.

4. Wait a bit, and voilà—your animated video is ready.

5. Download it and show it off!

For example, I turned a simple image into a 1950’s superhero running through a New York streetscape.

Ready to let your imagination run wild? 🚀

⚡ Quick Bytes AI Wellness News ⚡

Quick hits on more of the latest AI news, trends and ideas focused on wellbeing, productivity and self-growth over the past 7 days!

Key AI Wellbeing AI news, trends and ideas:

• How will AI-powered wearables impact your health? 🩺 
  

• Startup raises $232M to make AI healthcare affordable 🧩
   

• Consensus, the AI powered search engine for scholarly work and health topics is here 🍎 
  

• Swiss startup FinalSpark want to rent out brain-powered "biocomputers" to scientists for just $500 a month. These machines could use 100,000x less energy than today’s AI. 🧠
  

• Bzigo launches Iris, an AI-powered mosquito detector that tracks and marks mosquitoes with a laser pointer so you can easily swat them.
  

• Startup harnesses AI to diagnose illness from your retina

Key AI Productivity news, trends and ideas:

• Gemini can now make your smart phone an AI assistant 🥷
  

• Expert warns of ‘irreversible’ harm as the virtual inbreeding of AI continues! Training models on cheap data could make bots dumber, slow human productivity and spark AI’s doom!
  

• The blend of AI and human skills are reshaping our entire economy and the labour market 🙌
  

• Work smarter, not harder with these 14 AI tools⚡

Key Self Growth AI news, trends and ideas:

• In 2023, finance companies spent $35 billion on AI! From robo advisers and data-analysis to investment advice and content creation, this is how AI is transforming financial services.💰
  

• This is how AI might plug into the intersection of mindfulness and leadership theory to help future leaders balance their emotions, biases and psychological intricacies🪞
  

• From organoids to consciousness, this what happens to your brain 🧠 on AI. “The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favour of thinking machines.”
  

• AI researchers have created an LLM called Chat Musician that understands and generates musical notations, melodies and scales. AI can now appreciate “humanity’s creative language.” Scary or horrifying? 🤖 🎵

⚡SUPERCHARGE + OPTIMISE 🔋

AI Tools and Resources

This weeks most effective AI tools for wellness, productivity and self growth, tried and tested by yours truly! 🤖

• Wellness: Have you tried Reflectly? It’s the world's first intelligent journal powered by AI to help you structure and reflect upon your daily thoughts and problems. Now you’ll have your own mental health mate at your finger tips! 🤌
  
  

• Self Growth : Have you ever wanted to clone yourself? Enter Sensay, the AI app that will help you create and fine-tune a humanlike AI replica of yourself to preserve and share your wisdom. 🙌
  
  

•  Productivity: Introducing Meaning, the world's first AI screen time coach. Now you can block addictive apps and chat with a tailored AI coach to unlock them when you need them. Meaning is a digital distraction solution that sticks! 🕸️

AI wellbeing tools and resources (coming soon)

📺️ Must-Watch AI Videos

🎥 This week we’ll show you how you can harness AI to help you upgrade and reach the next, best, version of you! 🌱 Next we’ll show you the worlds first music video, created entirely by AI. 🤣👇 

Insight: Reinvent Yourself With AI ⚡

Ever feel as if you’re stuck in a personal growth rut? Wrestling with a tough transition? Yep, transformation is no joke—it's personal and challenging. But here's the twist: AI’s your secret weapon to level up!

In this episode of ‘AI MISTAKES’, you’ll get insights and tips on using AI to become the best version of yourself. Because, let's face it, we all sometimes need a little help in the self-improvement arena.

Funny: AI Generated Music Video

The music video below, expertly crafted by @arata_fukoe, was made entirely by the latest AI tools. No real shooting or actors! 🎥 🤯 

Here are the tools used:

• Music: ChatGPT & Suno AI

• Video: Dream Machine, Runway's Gen-3 Alpha, and KLING

• Image : Midjourney & Stable Diffusion

• Edit: Photoshop & After Effects

Here’s the video!

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🎒 AI MASTERCLASS (Prompt) 

Productivity Series: 
Tame Your Distractions With AI! 🧭

Recently, I read one of Dan Koe's posts. In it he talks about how self-discipline isn't difficult, you're just distracted!

And I totally agree.

The shortest and easiest way to do many things is to only do ONE thing at a time. Because here’s the thing, most of what you say and do is not essential…

It’s often just fluff!

How do you know?

Ask yourself in any given moment, "Is this necessary?” “Will this move me closer to or further away from my goal?" The answer will tell you if you’re going in the right direction or not!

If you’re getting further away, it’s probably because you’re distracted!

But don’t fret! Try this little AI hack that blends a bunch of AI apps and a nifty little prompt to tame your distractions!

Three ways to tame your distractions with AI:

1. Focus Power-Up: Crank up your productivity with an AI mate like Focusmate. It turns scattered energy into laser-like focus.
   

2. Time Ninja: RescueTime is like having a time-tracking sidekick. It shows you where your minutes vanish, so you can stop time thieves in their tracks.
   

3. Mindset Reset: Reflectly uses AI to declutter your mind and sharpen your focus. It’s mental spring cleaning on roids!

Want a ChatGPT prompt to help?

Prompt: crafting your daily routine

Purpose: To create a personalised daily routine based on your needs and lifestyle.

Help me create a daily routine to stay focused and minimise distractions. Include specific techniques like the Eisenhower technique and the Pomodoro technique for managing time, maintaining mental clarity, and developing a mindset for sustained focus.

Here’s some context to guide you:

My current daily schedule [add your work hours, breaks, personal time].
My work environment [add your home, office, noise levels, interruptions].
When I feel most productive and when my focus dips.
The types of tasks I handle [add creative, analytical, administrative tasks here].
My biggest distractions [add them here i.e digital, physical, mental fatigue].
Techniques like the Eisenhower Matrix and Pomodoro Technique.
How to develop a mindset for sustained focus and avoid burnout.
Balancing work and personal life effectively.
Could you create a routine based on these details?

ChatGPTs response

I’ve now filled in the gaps and ChatGPT has helped me create a new personalised routine tailored to my me.

And voila! I’m set for the day like a hyper organised gear in the well oiled machine of my life!

What you learned today:

• How you can plug into ChatGPT to use it as your personal organiser.
  

• A daily routine prompt for crafting and optimising your schedule.
  

• How to use three AI apps to help streamline your routine and tame your distractions!

Have you used AI to help you tame pesky distractions?
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Disclaimer: Remember, none of this is medical or mental health advice. The content of this newsletter is strictly for information purposes only. If you are suffering anxiety or depression please seek a mental health professional.

🚀 Quick Hits ‘General’ AI News 🚀

Everything else you need to know about AI, with your weekly list of the top non-wellness  AI stories, ideas & news around the globe.

• IBM researchers are teaching AI models to improve themselves with self-specialisation and deductive closure training; which is a fancy way of saying that they’re teaching them to checking their own work.
  

• AI search engine Perplexity is growing in popularity - fast! The platform answered 250 million queries in July, compared to 500 million across the whole of 2023.
  

• California’s SB 1047, a robust AI safety bill aimed at preventing AI disasters, address’s concerns raised by AI companies.
  

• Walmart is now using AI to increase its productivity, updating 850 million product catalog entries 100 times faster than humans. Will we be replaced?
  

• xAI’s newest AI model, Grok-2, is now in beta and is hitting state-of-the-art status by outperforming Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-4!
  

• Google just launched Gemini Live, a mobile conversational AI with advanced voice capabilities! Now you can have weird and wonderful conversations with your AI mate!

📸 AI IMAGE GALLERY

AI Art: Deconstructing the AI Health & Growth Industry!

Ever wanted to see a birds-eye view of the wellness industry from big pharma to natural supplements? Well now you can!

Imagine that you’re a corporate giant (an actual giant human), or a giga god, overlooking your factory floor to make sure your minions are crafting quality products!

Digital artwork created by Cedric Chenefront.

👊🏽 STAY WELL

Join us weekly for your next dose 🧪 of AI wellness, an infusion of of AI productivity and a bunch of AI self-growth hacks! 🚀 

Until then, stay curious and stay well! 🌟 

Stay wired, stay well, 🌱
Cedric the AI Monk - Your guide in the silicon wilderness.

Ps. Well Wired is Created by Humans, Constructed With AI. 🤖 

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