Zen_AI

The speaker discusses the different perspectives on Buddhism and how people practice it in different ways. They mention a Zen inauguration of an artificial intelligence system with ethical principles and recommend an online training program for those interested in Zen. The speaker also touches on the need for urban and vertical farming for food security and expresses concern about environmental issues. They mention using Audacity software for their audio projects. Hi everyone. I must say, I do find it interesting how people have a very different take on what Buddhism is from outside and from actually inside and practicing it. And we tend to practice it in different ways. People do practice things in different ways. Some people are just new agers and dabblers, you know, just occasional usage, read a few books maybe and that's about it. And other people devote their lives to it. The same is true of everything. If you devote the time, the concentration and the focus to something, then obviously you'll get better results long term. You'll be able to use it in a beneficial way, a beneficial way to you and to others, because you become an expert and you get used to explaining things to different people. So, I'm still using, as I say, NewBritish.com, but there are other things that I will be recommending to people because there are so many people out there who are doing good work. So, for example, I was at an inauguration, a Zen inauguration of an artificial intelligence system created by Google and initiated, part of it was initiated as a Zen trainee. So, this is for part of their robotics thing. So, there will be a robot eventually that will have an AI system, I think it's called AIME, which will be enabled in such a way that it has ethical principles, Zen principles within it. How that pans out is really down to the programmers and how the whole system is managed. But it will be, that will be quite interesting as that. And I was at that initiation, there was loads of people there. There was somebody from treeleaf.org, I think it is, or treeleaf.com, I'm not sure which, it might be both. I think it's treeleaf.org, treeleaf, one word. Anyway, so there's that, and you can train there. That's an online training for people who are interested in becoming Zen aficionados or teachers or priests or masters of Zen, you know, mistresses of Zen. I don't think they use the word mistresses of Zen, but of course, some of them are women. But people who do it online rather than doing it in person. I think they do try and get people to turn up at the Zoom meeting. Well, yes, they do that. People turn up at the Zoom meetings. And also people are encouraged to you to join the forum and to gain wisdom from other people and from the teachers there. So that's worth exploring. The other thing I wanted to talk a little bit about is the basic needs for food security. Food security, people are, there needs to be urban farming and vertical farming where you're actually growing things in greenhouses. For example, in the UK where I am, that's one of the ways we have to ensure that we can feed the people. We've got to have clean air, obviously. Then we've got to have clean water. I live in London. We don't have clean water. It is cleaned with chlorine and fluorine and things like this, but it's not as clean as it should be. But that's another issue. So I've got more into that and more interested in ecology and weather because of the severe changes. But now we've gone over a tipping point. So we're going right into the things that have been predicted by science for a long, long time now. And lastly, I'd like to mention the software that I'm using, which is Audacity, which is a registered trademark. The audio.com is their offshoot project, if you like, and they are registered, the Audacity team, even though they've got registered trademarks, as a GNU3, G-N-U, GNU3, GPL license, that's a general purpose license. So good people, they're good people. And if you use audio.com, which I'm using to present this talk, I don't put music at the front of things. So whether they're podcasts or not, I don't really know. Anyway, that's all from me for today. Okay, bye now.