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Service Above Self Since 1920

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4600 Macatawa Legends Blvd
Holland, MI 49424
United States of America

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April 18, 2024 Meeting

Posted on Apr 11, 2024

West Ottawa Challenged Students Luncheon

This meeting will be at Lakewood School 2134 W. LAKEWOOD BLVD. HOLLAND, MI 49424 The school will be ready for us to start by noon. An early start may help some students with limited attention spans. This lunch is a real highlight for them. Staff and students are excited to have us in the school on that one special day each year.

Last Week at Rotary - April 11, 2024

Using AI in business situations

Andy Bass from NetNerd Ventures talked about the history and current state of Artificial Intelligence (AI). His company does consulting and software development. He is currently working on 2 AI projects. He is doing data analysis with AI and 3D graphical room layout software.

The term AI was originally coined at a Dartmouth conference in 1956. The initial goals defined at the conference were to develop software to help in problem-solving, learning, and natural language processing.

The current large language model of AI can tackle problems with huge time savings. Some of the areas that benefit from modern AI are:

Create content
Summarize documents
Audio narration
Language Translation
Strategic planning
Software development
Data generation

There are many specialized AI tools. Andy demonstrated ElevenLabs.io which can be trained to mimic an individual's speech, Midjourney.com which can generate pictures from a textual description, and suno.com which generates music given directions.

Spring 2024 Highway Cleanup

Our first Highway Cleanup of the year is April 13th. If you can help, meet at the Veldheer Tulip Farm parking lot at 8:00 AM. If we get rained out, we will attempt it a week later at the same time and location. Anyone is welcome, you don't have to be a Rotarian as long as you are 12 years old or older.

Mike Moraw will bring coffee along with the cleanup supplies. Click here to sign up. (Sign up will help Mike to bring enough coffee!)