Clinton Township Newsletter

3 j u n e 2 0 2 3 A lot of attention has been given to A.I. lately and with reasonable justification. If you spend too much time ruminating about it, some of the possibilities are really frightening. I can assure you that, as of now, the Clinton Township Newsletter is all human-generated, as it has been since 1982 when the Keesings first started it. A lot has changed in the world since then, and so has this publication, but it's still the simple hometown paper that you know and love. I so appreciate hearing from you all — the good, the bad, and the ugly, as it were. It all helps this Newsletter be the best that it can be, and I'm proud to have the privilege of continuing its legacy. Now, re: the A.I. conundrum, some people are calling for pushing a "pause" on the whole thing, which, in my opinion, might be impossible. Concentrating on figuring out what I can, and cannot control, I choose to focus my thoughts on the many ways that A.I. has been beneficial: Disease Detection: According to Harvard Medical School, they "have developed a deep-learning algorithm that can teach itself to learn features that can then be used to find similar cases in large pathology image repositories. Known as SISH (self-supervised image search for histology), the new tool acts like a search engine for pathology images and has many potential applications, including identifying rare diseases and helping clinicians determine which patients are likely to respond to similar therapies." https://hms.harvard.edu/ news/how-ai-can-help-diagnose-rare-diseases Therapy: If one has grown up surrounded by dysfunctional people most of one's life, I can see how an A.I. bot could be enormously therapeutic. "Today, millions of people talk to programs and apps such as Happify, which encourages users to "break old patterns," and Replika, an "A.I. companion" that is 'always on your side,' serving as a friend, a mentor." There are now A.I. systems that, "analyze medical records and therapy sessions in hopes of diagnosing, treating, and even predicting mental illness." www.newyorker.com/ magazine/2023/03/06/can-ai-treat-mental-illness. Amazing! Much less importantly, I'd appreciate having a robot that could clean (your and) my house thoroughly and regularly. A robot landscaper would be fantastic, also. But what would we do with all of that free time? Well, relaxing and reading this publication is a great way to start. I hope you all enjoy this beautiful month of June. It's a great time to be a living, breathing human! Julie Flynn DAYS TO KEEP IN MIND Thursday June 1 World Reef Awareness Day Thursday June 1 National Say Something Nice(!) Day Sunday June 4 Trinity Sunday Sunday June 4 National Cancer Survivor's Day Monday June 5 World Environment Day June 6, 1944: "D-Day" – World War II, the Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy to fight the German troops Thursday June 8 Corpus Christi June 12, 1967: "Loving Day" – the breakthrough case of Loving V. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ended all anti- miscegenation laws June 17, 1775: The Battle of Bunker Hill, Revolutionary War Sunday June 18 Father's Day! June 19, 1865: "Juneteenth", or "Freedom Day", the Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery in Confederate states Wednesday June 21 Summer Solstice June 25, 1876: Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand) June 25, 1950: The Korean War Wednesday June 28 Eid al-Adha Carol Beder's

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