Welcome humans!

In today's exhilarating edition of Well Wired, we’ll splash into a river of thought with reflections, innovations and revelations that will wet your appetite for everything related to AI health, productivity and self growth.

Peek into the digital mirror with "Mirror, Mirror, in the Cloud" to see what AI sees in you🪞. Then explore London's pioneering AI classroom—could this be the end of traditional teaching? 🎓

Next, we’ll dive into a new medical frontier where ChatGPT identifies potential cancer treatments 💉before they happen. We’ll also tackle the modern beast of info overload and lastly you’ll meet Isaac, your new robot butler 🧔.

This issue is your gateway to understanding how deeply AI is integrating into your world and enhancing your life! 🛟 

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! 🤖❤️‍🧬⚡

🚨 Note: Apologies for the delay in delivery the past few weeks, it’s been a tough time with a death in the family, a serious illness, and other elements that have required focused attention. Luckily I’ve had AI to help with some of the load! 🤖 Thanks for your understanding and support in this challenging time.🚨

Todays wire:

🗞️ Main Stories AI in Wellness, Self Growth, Productivity

• Mirror, Mirror, in the Cloud: What AI Sees in You! ⚗️🪞

• Goodbye Teachers? London’s First AI Classroom! 📚

• Your Brain, Decoded. AI Maps Out Mental Health 🧬 🧠

• ChatGPT that can now identify cancer treatments 💉

• How AI is tackling info overload, the biggest issue of our time. 🏋️

• Your robot butler is here - his name is Isaac! 🧔

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

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

• 📺️ Must watch AI videos (The Future of Wellbeing in The Age of AI 🌱)

• 🎒AI Masterclass (Harness AI as Your Life Coach 🧭)

• 📸 AI Image Gallery (Artificial Intelligence And Angels 🪽)

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💡 Insight: AI Wellbeing & Self Growth

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

🗞️ AI Self Growth💡

Insight Mirror, Mirror in the Cloud: What AI Sees in You!🪞

AI isn't a simple tool anymore—it’s slowly morphing into an iterative mirror that reflects who you are in surprising, and unexpected, ways. In fact, AI is starting to shape your identity by reflecting and even influencing your thoughts, actions and your carefully constructed digital persona. 🎭

From hyperreal digital environments and deep fakes to AI-driven selfies, your sense of self is becoming more fluid and complex as we progress into the century of AI. Is the digital version of "you" an authentic reflection of your Id, ego and superego or something entirely new?

Todays world is like Baudrillard’s hyperreality but with a dash of existential dread. Or is it?

"AI isn't simply silicon and computing; it's emergence is creating a new layer of reality where the lines between human and machine are begining to blur. 🤖❤️"

Iteration and Reflection: The AI Recipe for Self-Awareness

And one of those blurred lines is the central idea that LLMs (Large Language Models) like ChatGPT are essentially feedback-loop machines on steroids. This is where things get philosophical (and a bit meta), but stick with me.

The magic of LLMs isn’t just that they’re fast and can spit out cool-sounding answers. It’s that they thrive on iteration—every prompt, every tweak, every bit of feedback you give feeds into the next response, creating this constant loop of refinement. ➿

It's like chatting with someone who gets smarter with each conversation and can mirror your thoughts back at you (but without the awkward pauses or endless “hmmms”).

And guess what? 

That’s pretty much how humans develop self-awareness too. Through iteration—trying, reflecting, trying again. For example, toddlers figure out how not to spill juice everywhere by... well, spilling juice everywhere until they learn.

Similarly, when you reflect on your choices, thoughts, or behaviours, you get a little closer to understanding yourself.

In this context, LLMs mirror your process of self-awareness. You ask them questions, they respond, you iterate with better questions and they evolve. Through this iterative loop, AI is helping you discover insights about yourself in ways you may not have experienced before. 😱 🤖

It's like having an always-on, supercharged version of your best friend who only asks the deep, existential questions (minus the brunch invites).

So, if you ever find yourself spiralling into an endless back-and-forth with an AI, congratulations—you’re walking the path to self-awareness. And while AI might not "feel" things, it’s teaching you a valuable lesson: reflection + iteration = deeper understanding.

One key takeaway? Whether it’s an AI or a human, self-awareness is about doing the thing, reflecting on it and doing it again—only better each time. That’s how you get smarter, how AI gets smarter, and how we’re both walking hand-in-digital-hand towards a more reflective, self-aware future - together! 🤝

Who knew? Turns out, your next big moment of self-awareness might not come from praying in a church or meditating on a lotus leaf, it may come from a chat with your AI mate.

Key takeaways:

• AI is a mirror: AI tools are fast becoming personal mirrors, reflecting both who you are and who you might want to be.
  

• Digital identity crisis: Your digital self can be reshaped and redefined, raising questions about ‘true’ authenticity. 😳
  

• Reality gets blurry: AI is merging real and virtual worlds, complicating your sense of who you truly are.

Why it matters?

Let’s get into the meat of why all this matters! We’re entering the Cognitive Age (yep, we just gave it a title), and AI is front and centre, not just doing your maths homework but helping you figure out who you really are. 🧠🔧

Remember the Industrial Age? All those big machines, factories, and smokestacks? Well, we’ve moved on, and AI is the ultimate brain tool for this new era.

It's not going to replace you (no need to panic, yet), but it is giving you access to new kinds of digital tools to think better, smarter and more deeply. And as AI evolves, it’s becoming more than just a clever chatbot—it’s evolving into a spiritual silicon partner in your journey to self-awareness.

Imagine this: today AI’s not just helping you write faster emails or generate cute cat memes (important, though), it’s also reflecting your thoughts back at you, highlighting your patterns and nudging you towards some pretty deep introspection. 🥸

It could also be your personal therapist or spiritual guide, if you want it to! And it doesn't charge by the hour. By iterating on your thoughts and questions, AI can help you see things from new angles and give you feedback in real-time—like a mirror for your mind.

Talk about next-level self-help. 🚀

AI is evolving into a cognitive assistant. Whether it’s helping you with mental health by mapping out your emotional patterns or nudging you toward better decisions with personalised insights, AI is becoming a tool for self-actualisation.

It’s like the mirror that reflects your inner workings, giving you a clearer picture of who you are, how you think and what drives you. 🚘

As AI gets more sophisticated, it will not only help you work faster, it’ll help you also think better. With each iteration, AI will support you in recognising your cognitive blind spots, emotional biases and mental roadblocks—making it a key player in shaping you into a more self-aware, reflective person.

In a world where distractions are a dime a dozen, AI might just be the tool that helps you focus inward and evolve in ways you never thought possible. So, here’s to the Cognitive Age, where your AI besty isn’t just smarter—it’s helping you get smarter too.💡

Could AI one day know the "real you" better than you do? 🪞💻

Read the full wire on Psychology Today.

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Further Reading

• Sparking inner dialogue - AI seeks the genius within 🖤

• Technology and transformation of the digital self 🤖

• Generative AI has ushered in a new phase of digital spirituality 🪽

• Artificial Intelligence and spirituality wisdom

🗞️ 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⚡

Goodbye Teachers? London’s First AI Classroom! 🧠

London is about to bare witness to a groundbreaking moment in educational history with the launch of the UK’s first AI-powered, teacherless GCSE classroom at David Game College.

“Will the new technology allow for precise, bespoke learning or will AI teaching lead to a soulless, bleak future?"

Starting with 20 GCSE students, the new classroom will use an AI platform and virtual reality headsets to adapt lessons to each student's strengths and weaknesses.

Here’s the idea: 20 lucky (or brave?) GCSE students will have their lessons tailored to their strengths and weaknesses by an AI platform that’s basically education on speed. 👟

Strong subjects? No problem, save 'em for later. Weak spots? AI jumps on those straight away. And before you freak out—there are still human "learning coaches" for those, erm, trickier subjects like art and sex ed. Turns out, AI’s still got a bit to learn in those areas.

But the program is not without controversy. While some praise the precision and efficiency of AI in identifying student needs, others, like Chris McGovern (a former teacher and advisor to 10 Downing Street), worry about the lack of human interaction, calling it a "soulless" future. ⚗️

Nonetheless, AI’s role in education is only growing, with many schools experimenting with AI-driven lesson plans to help teachers streamline their workload.

Is this the future of personalised education? Let’s keep an eye on how AI-powered classrooms track as the experiment continues across the globe!💡

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

Key takeaways:

• The UK’s first AI-powered classroom opens in London, offering personalised lesson plans via AI platforms and VR headsets. 🥽
  

• Students will have learning coaches to guide them through areas AI struggles with, like art and human-centric subjects.
  

• Critics worry that too much AI in education could dehumanise the learning experience.

Why it matters?

Imagine a future where your classroom is a mix of "The Matrix" meets a TED Talk – personalised, hyper-focused and incredibly interactive. AI-led classrooms, like the one in London, could be the blueprint for education’s transformation around the world! 🌍

1. Hyper-personalised learning: With a little training on your data, AI will know your strengths and weaknesses better than your mum. Struggling with algebra? AI can rewrite your learning path. Excelling at history? It’ll push you further into the renaissance!
   

2. Available 24/7: AI doesn’t sleep, so on-demand tutoring and feedback are available whenever you need it—no more late-night panic over unfinished homework. 📚
   

3. Data-driven insights: AI can analyse your performance, while adjusting lessons in real-time, making your educational experience more dynamic and responsive.

The Human Element: Sure, robots can do the heavy lifting, but what about empathy?

AI might have the ability to calculate the right answer, but it can’t give you the same emotional intelligence that a teacher might bring to the table. Human teachers instil life lessons, compassion, and inspiring moments that can stick with students forever. So while AI might help you get smarter, you’ll still always need real humans to help you stay human. 🚀

Read the full wire on Sky News.

Could AI learning eventually make traditional teaching feel… obsolete?⚡🤔

🗞️ AI Wellness 🌱

Your Brain, Decoded. AI Maps Out Mental Health 🧬 🧠

“Depression, anxiety, and stress disorders have a significant and widespread impact worldwide, affecting millions of individuals and their communities. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), depression impacts more than 300 million people, making it one of the most important diseases globally.

Which is why AI has been brought into the picture to help map symptoms and to help in the personalised care of depression, anxiety, and stress.

Researchers from around the planet have developed a system that uses data mining and fuzzy logic (yes, that’s a real thing) to map symptoms from 242 patients.

AI will browse through your symptoms and mine your personal data faster than you can scroll cat videos on Youtube, predicting the severity of your mental health issues with a whopping 93% accuracy rate.

The use of AI will now support doctors in screening more patients, faster, while offering hyper-personalised treatments that can get to the crux of the issue.

Key takeaways:

1. AI gets personal: AI can now be used for symptom mapping and fuzzy logic to tailor treatments for depression, anxiety and stress.
   

2. Doctor's new bestie: With an accuracy rating of 92.98%, AI will help healthcare pros predict symptoms faster and more reliably.
   

3. Mental health gets an upgrade: More than simple diagnosis, AI will also support personalised care, even in understaffed regions.

Why it matters?

AI in mental health could drastically change the way doctors diagnose and treat conditions like depression and anxiety. By personalising psychological care based on individual symptoms, healthcare professionals will better understand what’s going on inside your head (without the guesswork).

As the technology becomes more widespread, with the help of AI, you might see faster diagnoses, more effective treatments and fewer waitlists for your therapist.

The big question: Will AI one day replace the human element in therapy? For now, it’s more like a super-powered medical assistant. 🧠 

Read the full wire on Science Direct.

If AI can map out your mental health, could it also predict emotional changes before they happen? 🤔

🎒 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!

🎯 AI Hack of the Day: Tame Your Calendar Beast with Reclaim AI

Ever feel like your calendar is plotting against you?

Meetings stacked, tasks all over the place and zero time to breathe. Today it’s time to put your schedule on autopilot and let AI take the wheel. Enter Reclaim AI, your new calendar wizard.

Here’s how to use it and finally reclaim your day (pun totally intended):

THE AI ACADEMY How to Automate Your Calendar Using AI

1. Head over to Reclaim AI’s website and sign in with your Google account. Boom, your calendar is now AI-friendly.
   

2. Pick a few habits from the list that scream “I need this!”
   

3. Choose how much buffer time you want between meetings (because you’re not a machine, but your AI is).
   

4. Hit "Planner" on the left and let Reclaim AI work its magic. It’ll optimise your entire schedule, sprinkle in some buffer time, and make sure you’re not drowning in back-to-back Zooms.
   

5. Add habits, tasks, sync other calendars, and let it auto-schedule meetings so your day isn’t one long chaotic mess.

Now go forth, let AI be your timekeeper, and enjoy a little breathing room between those back-to-back calls. It’s like giving your calendar a Red Bull—minus the crash. 🗓️

⚡ 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:

• AI is transforming healthcare, and nowhere is it showing more heart ❤️‍ than in cardiovascular care! With cutting-edge AI breakthroughs, drug discovery for coronary artery disease (CAD) is getting a major boost, tapping into huge troves of biological data. 🩺 The next heart health revolution? It’s already here!
  

• Researchers at Harvard Medical School have crafted an AI model similar to ChatGPT that can identify cancer, recommend treatments and forecast survival rates for different types of cancer. 🧩
  

• Scientists and AI researchers, like Eitan Michael Azoff, believe the human brain’s “neural code” could uncover ways to help AI surpass human intelligence in capacity and speed. By understanding this, AI could emulate consciousness and visual thinking, which are crucial for human-like intelligence. 🧠

Key AI Productivity news, trends and ideas:

• The rise of AI assistants have grown in recent months 🥷 You see them everywhere, from smartphones and online pick-up artists to medical institutions and coaching websites. They are fast becoming an indispensable tool in society, but what’s the big fuss? Here are ten of the best AI assistants you can use right now!
  

• “I feel I can’t keep up with everything!” Information overload is a huge problem, even with AI. In fact, it’s one of the most pressing issues of our time. The more information and news you have access to, the less informed you are - it’s ironic! 😱
  
  Enter Tailor! Tell it your interests and it gives you a curated, personalised summary, in the form of a newsletter and a podcast. Pretty neat!
  

• AI can't manage your staff or do your job for you, but it can help you become more productive and as slick and efficient as a Silicon Valley techy! Here are 7 AI tricks you can use to be more productive and one AI trick you should never, EVER use 🙌 ⚡

Key Self Growth AI news, trends and ideas:

• If you’ve ever wanted to align with your true purpose in life, there’s now an AI for that! Quantum Manifest AI is a unique tool designed to 🥸bridge the gap between spiritual awakening and practical achievement.
  

• Welcome to a new world of A.I. manipulation! “In our conversation, the chatbot went off the rails, revealing dark desires, confessing that it was in love with me and trying to persuade me to leave my wife.” Here’s how one journalist tried to change an AI chatbots mind! 🧠
  

• Dr Lance B. Elliot has devised an ingenious self ask technique, using CoT, to tell generative AI to solve your problems by pursuing an internal question-and-answer divide-and-conquer approach. Learn how!

⚡SUPERCHARGE + OPTIMISE 🔋

AI Tools and Resources

Here is this weeks pick of the most effective, value-packed, versatile AI tools for wellness, productivity and self growth. Each has been tried and tested by yours truly! 🤖

• Wellness: Sometimes life can be hellish, hectic 🤌 and occasionally hairy! Lucky for you, Happify can help you overcome negative thoughts, stress and life’s tricky challenges! This neat little AI app can also help you break old patterns and form new habits! Because how you feel matters!

• Self Growth : Heeyo is a COPPA compliant smart AI friend that helps your child learn and will evolve as your kid grows. It speaks 20 languages and is trained by child psychologists to interact with kids in a safe and fun way. 🙌 
  

•  Productivity: Need an AI-powered writing assistant you can use with Slack, Figma, Gmail, LinkedIn and more? Now, with the power of Kerlig, you can reply to that endless stream of emails and comments with perfectly crafted messages! 🤖

AI wellbeing tools and resources (coming soon)

📺️ Must-Watch AI Videos

🎥 This weeks movie marathon will show you what’s on the horizon in AI wellbeing 🌱 - especially in mental health. Next we’ll give you a glimpse into a video that shows you how AI video is now almost indistinguishable from the real thing! 😱👇 

Insight: The Future of Wellbeing in The Age of AI 🌱

Sit down, get cosy and warm your tired bones at this fireside 🔥 chat with Dr. Deepak Chopra, MD, bestselling author and alternative medicine advocate and Melissa Stires, from Mia, Mission Impact Academy. They’ll open the floor with mental distress and how AI is transforming mental health.

Funny: I’m An AI and I’m Real Just Like You!

AI video has evolved enormously since that first terrifying AI video of Will Smith stuffing his face with pasta! 🍝 Only a year later, todays AI video is so good that it’s almost indistinguishable from the real thing!

As Evolving AI says, “It has begun, are we doomed?” 🎥 🤯 

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🎒 AI MICROCLASS (Prompt) 

Self Growth Series: AI as Your Life Coach 🧭

These days, it feels like every dog walker in Bali 🏝️ is moonlighting as a life coach, dishing out wisdom between surf sessions and Instagram reels. But who do you trust to actually help you get your life together?

Enter AI, your new digital 🤖 guru. No beach hut required, and definitely no overpriced hourly fees.

This ChatGPT prompt transforms it into your personal life coach, serving up advice on crushing career goals, staying consistent at the gym, and levelling up your mindset.

Ready to become the best version of yourself? Ask it to sketch out a game plan for your career, fitness and mindset. Let’s go! 👇

Here’s the ChatGPT prompt!

Prompt: Act as a life coach prompt

Purpose: To use ChatGPT as your personal Life Coach.

I want you to act as my life coach. Help me set realistic personal and professional goals, create an action plan, and develop positive habits. Share strategies for overcoming obstacles, building confidence, and managing stress. Offer advice on work-life balance, interpersonal skills, and personal growth. My first request: Design a 1-year personal development plan focused on career advancement, fitness improvement, and a positive mindset.

ChatGPTs response

Mr GPT spat out a 12-month career advancement, fitness and positive mindset plan that I can now tailor to my hearts ❤️‍ content.

Remember, that you don’t have to focus only on these goals; you can replace “My first request: Design a 1-year personal development plan focused on career advancement, fitness improvement, and a positive mindset” with anything that your mind can conjure up.

The world is your oyster! 🦪

🚀 WRAP-UP TIME 🚀

Your personal development plan is now set, and you're ready to take on the rest of 2024 like a productivity ninja! But why stop there when you can elevate your game with AI tools? 🤖💥

Try TextMei, the AI life coach that gives you instant personalised advice and guidance from an AI that’s coached over 500,000 people. It’s free, online 24/7, and you don’t need a login or app!

It’s like having a pocket-sized Tony Robbins, tracking your habits and keeping you on track every step of the way.

Or explore Fabulous – an AI-powered wellness app that’ll build rituals around your goals, nudging you toward greatness with science-backed tips. Time to crush those goals like a pro! 🎯 #FutureYou

What you learned today:

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

• A life coach prompt for crafting and optimising your life!
  

• How to use two AI apps to help streamline your goal design and create a life you’ll love!

Would you use AI to help you get more out of life?⚡👊🏽

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.

• Teslas plans for AI-powered self driving cars in China and Europe is in over-drive! According to a "roadmap" written by Teslas artificial intelligence team, the first autonomous cars could be ready by early 2025. Could we see more Minority Report-esque self-driving car chases on our roads?
  

• Your robot butler is finally here and he’s called Isaac! 🧔 Created by Weave, this AI-powered bot is the first personal robot that's built for the home. It can help you tidy up, clean a spill, fold your laundry, serve wine and monitor your place while you’re away.
  
  Now how do I get my robot butler to scare the neighbours dog? 🐶

• Elon Musk has just fired up Colossus—the world’s largest Nvidia GPU supercomputer built in just three months from start to finish. xAIs new AI cluster system could help the company catch up to its competitors, but some tech leaders aren't impressed.
  

• Amazon's AI assistant, Q, just pulled off a huge flex—saving the company $260 million and a whopping 4,500 developer-years worth of work. The new AI tech took software updates that used to take 50 days to create and turned them into an afternoon snack. 🍔
  
  The best part? Developers are no longer stuck in the code-upgrade grind and can focus on doing cool stuff again. Amazon’s CEO, Andy Jassy, called it a "game changer" because, let’s be real, nobody likes the boring stuff. More cash saved, more happy devs, more innovation.
  
  Win-win-win!
  

• Elon Musk just flipped the script and no one saw it coming—he’s actually endorsing California’s new AI safety bill. Yep, the guy who normally loves going rogue on regulators thinks governments should keep an eye on those fancy LLMs (like us) the same way they regulate anything else that could go boom. 🤯
  
  His words: "We regulate anything that’s a public risk—why should AI get a free pass?" What's next, flying cars? Oh, wait...

📸 AI IMAGE GALLERY

AI Art: Artificial Intelligence And Angels 🪽

Way back in 1962, sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke made a bold claim in Profiles of the Future: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Fast forward to now, and AI is starting to prove him right. 🧠

In today’s AI art fest, we’re imagining a world where robots get so advanced that lost tribes might think they’re witnessing pure magic—or maybe even meeting angels. Let’s see what the future might look like! 🧚‍♂️

Digital artworks created by @spider_kob4yashi, @tim_ai_art, @mothman.manifests, @midjoeney, @illusive.ai, @phandigrams, @aetherelf, @singul.ai.rity, @gold.n.gravity

👊🏽 STAY WELL

Tune in weekly for more whimsical wisdom! 🚀 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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