- Brainstorm
Possible Topics:
-healthy diets
– the natural disasters
– AI predicting the future 40 years fast forward
-the hurricane destroying Florida
-Health Administration
2 PSA’s I appreciate:
https://www.epa.gov/natural-disasters/public-service-announcements-about-emergencies-and-disasters
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DinHsN3Yna7U&ved=2ahUKEwj8nr3H7pKJAxWQpIkEHTMZFbYQtwJ6BAgVEAI&usg=AOvVaw3rN1FcAt929ZngIkex_fAd
Articles on on AI and healthy diets
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10649930/&ved=2ahUKEwjjsZWI75KJAxXBlYkEHZakO0QQFnoECBkQAQ&usg=AOvVaw05ZFyHVQ7b8wSdZZopOs2M
Week 3: Body text, generative AI versions, and comparison essay
The Three Versions of My PSA:
Version 1: My own writing:
Title : AI Assisting Natural disasters
How have you ever been through a natural disaster? Natural disasters are devastating and are occurring more often around the world. Recently Hurricane Milton in Florida had mind blown us. There’s good news, AI can help with making early predictions, real-time Alerts, and rescue Operations. AI can assist people during natural disasters in this case by recommending action plans based on real-time data, helping responders make faster and more effective decisions under pressure. More specifically, people looking for ways to prepare for or navigate natural disasters is effortless and efficient. This could include individuals in disaster-prone areas, families seeking preparedness resources, and better emergency planning and survival strategies. Although AI is a support tool to enhance survival chances, it can’t replace existing measures with humans such as experience.
Version 2: ChatGPT #1:
Prompt: using the above PSA rewrite it to be smoother and meant people endangered of flood and possibilities of survival (in 120-150 words).
ChatGPT:
“Have you ever experienced a natural disaster? The increasing frequency and severity of these events pose significant challenges worldwide, as seen recently with Hurricane Milton in Florida. Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are now playing an essential role in disaster preparedness and response, providing actionable insights through early predictions, real-time alerts, and optimized rescue operations.
AI offers critical support by synthesizing data from multiple sources—such as satellite imagery, social media, and traffic reports—to produce a comprehensive, real-time view of a disaster’s impact. For those in disaster-prone regions or those seeking to refine emergency preparedness frameworks, AI’s role is transformative, offering streamlined access to relevant resources and facilitating well-informed, adaptive strategies. By dynamically recommending action plans for emergency responders, AI aids in accelerating decision-making and optimizing resource allocation under pressure, ultimately enhancing resilience and survival outcomes.
While AI significantly augments disaster response capacity, it should be viewed as a powerful support mechanism rather than a replacement for human expertise and established protocols. As a tool that aggregates and analyzes diverse datasets, AI enhances situational awareness and fosters faster, data-driven responses that have the potential to save lives and protect resources in the midst of natural disasters.”
APA Citation: OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT (oct 27 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat
Version 3: ChatGPT #2:
Prompt: using the above PSA rewrite it what human measures can do while AI can’t during Natural disasters like Hurricane (120-150 words).
“While AI offers valuable support during natural disasters like hurricanes, human measures remain indispensable. Experienced responders bring critical intuition and situational awareness that AI cannot replicate. Humans can assess the emotional and psychological needs of affected individuals, providing comfort and support in times of crisis. Local knowledge, such as understanding community vulnerabilities and resources, enables responders to make informed decisions that AI may overlook.
Moreover, effective communication and coordination among teams are essential for a swift response, something that relies on human relationships and trust. Humans can adapt plans on the ground in real-time, responding to unexpected challenges that algorithms might not anticipate. Additionally, the ability to lead and motivate communities during evacuations or recovery efforts is inherently human. Ultimately, while AI enhances disaster management, it is human experience, empathy, and adaptability that play a crucial role in saving lives and fostering resilience.”
APA Citation: OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 20 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat
Comparison Essay:
My initial idea for a PSA is about how AI helps improve chances of survival during natural disasters. I wanted to draw attention to natural disasters occurring around the globe and the awareness of deaths, how people are struggling to survive floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and many other natural disasters. But I ended up talking about how AI can assist during a natural disaster, I included the recent news of Hurricane Milton in Florida to emphasize that even living in today modern age and time, how can AI make predictions to increase our chances of survival in a crisis. Later I changed my mind, I didn’t want to include the number of deaths, it can’t help people much, I thought it was better to create PSA on guiding them on how to increase their chances of survival since people can utilize this PSA. I wanted my PSA to do was to be conversational and easy to understand, so it can be useful for people to follow. I think I succeeded in most of these three, but the PSA draft here somewhat needs to be refined. Honestly, I think readers might find my PSA engaging because I highlighted how AI can give them clear and practical ways to stay informed and prepared.
The first Chat was somewhat successful in that it smoothed out some of the language. I liked how this piece of writing encourages readers to see AI as a resource to their own safety plans, which makes the message more relatable and actionable. Instead of my PSA’s includes: “Although AI is a support tool to enhance survival chances, it can’t replace existing measures with humans such as experience.” The Chat includes a better explanation with “While AI offers valuable support, it’s essential to remember that human expertise and experience remain irreplaceable. By combining advanced technology with informed decision-making, we can enhance our chances of survival and resilience against flooding. Stay informed, stay prepared, and let AI assist you in safeguarding your future.” This change was good in improving to make the language clearer, more polished, and sentence structure better as well. I think the rest was valid information but a bland as well.
The third chat was relevant regarding the PSA. I liked how detailed the information was supporting human relationships and trust which is vital to obtain effective communication. Apparently, I had not thought to use these terms, for example “the ability to lead and motivate communities during evacuations or recovery efforts is inherently human.” My mind was occupied with all sorts of thoughts; I happen to not think of this key highlight of it is human adaptability that plays a crucial role in saving lives and fostering resilience. This one mainly talks about human importance over AI more than my own PSA.
The article cited below by New York Times has been useful in providing clear examples and proof of the danger posed by hurricane and how artificial intelligence to help repair the problems of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, drought and wildfires.
The article from How Can AI Improve Emergency Response, provides great understanding as to how AI can be used to predict floods or wildfires, AI systems analyze environmental changes and AI models can identify underlying patterns and predict potential emergencies.
Cornerstone sources:
How A.I. Can Help Handle Severe Weather. (2019, May 12). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/climate/artificial-intelligence-climate-change.html
How Can AI Improve Emergency Response (2024, February) CentralSquare. https://www.centralsquare.com/resources/articles/how-can-ai-improve-emergency-response
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Week 4: Final PSA Poster, Final Reflection, APA References, and brief Presentation
Title: AI Assisting Natural disasters
Key Question: How does AI help improve chances of survival during natural disasters?
PSA: How have you ever been through a natural disaster? Natural disasters are devastating and are occurring more often around the world. Recently Hurricane Milton in Florida had mind blown us. There’s good news, AI can help with making early predictions, real-time Alerts, and rescue Operations. AI can assist people during natural disasters in this case by recommending action plans based on real-time data, helping responders make faster and more effective decisions under pressure. More specifically, people looking for ways to prepare for or navigate natural disasters is effortless and efficient. By combining advanced technology with informed decision-making, we can enhance our chances of survival and resilience against flooding. Stay informed, stay prepared, and let AI assist you in safeguarding your future. Additionally, the ability to lead and motivate communities during evacuations or recovery efforts is inherently human. Ultimately, while AI enhances disaster management, it is human experience, empathy, and adaptability that play a crucial role in saving lives and fostering resilience.
Call-to-Action: AI can’t replace human measures such as trust networking, background experience and empathy. If you are endangered from natural disasters, then you should use AI for safety measures like having a plan for evacuation.
For more information, read these articles on natural disasters!
Our Strange New Way of Witnessing Natural Disasters. (2024, October 23). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/magazine/natural-disasters-streaming.html
Artificial Intelligence Gives Weather Forecasters a New Edge. (2024, July 29). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/29/science/ai-weather-forecast-hurricane.html
A deadly earthquake absolutely, positively will ravage Seattle at some point. Here’s how to survive it. (2022, April 01). The Seattle Times. https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/a-deadly-earthquake-absolutely-positively-will-ravage-seattle-at-some-point-heres-how-to-survive-it/
Reflection Essay: 400-600 words
My PSA project was a long project, I found it a little hard yet very time consuming since I`m taking longer to finish. I’m getting advice from my professor; my peer reviewer gave me suggestions that helped me edit more onto my PSA project. There were some brainstorming moments of where I want PSA to lead to, what articles to find that’ll be helpful to my readers comprehension of how much natural disaster have become a serious issue, just to give background information as well. This reflection essay will explore my experience in more depth. I will examine what I learned, the easiest and hardest parts of the project, what I would do if I had more time, and if my views have changed about generative AI.
Throughout this three-week AI project, I discovered three things. First, I realized how the right usage of AI can be beneficial to your knowledge and can assist you in ways that bring ease in researching almost anything. Second, I learned that ChatGPT is conversational, I never used this program but recently for this project I used it, my perspective has changed a lot. Before I thought, it`s just a waste of time and I might get in trouble for plagiarism, however I learned that only taking notes of some points and then paraphrasing it to make your piece of writing better is a skill that I feel like I grasped more than before. My first version that I actually wrote is closer to how I sound in real life.
The easiest was getting started, brainstorming, and writing the first PSA draft. The hardest thing was I was still indecisive about the type of PSA I wanted to work on, it took me awhile to figure out what message I wanted to deliver. One of the easiest parts was actually working with ChatGPT. The program is friendly and conversational, I would throw a prompt and get some more information in return.
If I had another week, I think I would like to work on looking for apps or platforms that can predict a natural disaster. I feel like there are more discoveries as to what futher steps can be taken. I think I would also like to work on creating AI image to regarding this PSA to challenge myself furthermore.
How have my own views on Generative AI changed during this project? This question is a straightforward one. There is so much valuable content and resources found using AI. I think it has made my writing comfortable for me. I learned that I could get something useful out of the Chat, but I also learned that I could learn even more if I kept adding on to my project overall. But back to the question: my views have changed only slightly. I was looking forward to using ChatGPT, but now I am satisfied with the responses I receive even though I must spend the necessary time refining the product to make it better on my terms. It’s all about learning what the outcomes can bring and how we can use some points to adjust my writing.
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