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As I see the deluge of posts about ChatGPT mostly humorous queries and B+ grade AI blog posts I cant help but feel that most professionals, even those who are typically early adopters, are already being outpaced by the changes in GPT since December.

Unlike other major software developments of the past that are updated incrementally and centrally (i.e. operating systems, video editing software, office software), ChatGPT is spawning at a daily and even hourly rate hundreds of new startups leveraging ChatGPT to transform entire disciplines.

Take for example, a recent tweet by Jordan Peterson, psychologist, professor, author, YouTube personality and podcast host, requesting info on how to create a chatbot based on a podcast:

The response, just minutes later:

The technology to create AI-powered chatbots already exists, and the company, Context, is ingesting thousands of hours of content every couple of hours, creating publicly accessible online ghosts of the most popular personalities on the internet.

Its moving fast. A hell of a lot faster than, GPT3 can write poems or What a great SEO article it generated!

As an event professional and one who is heavily invested in how digital technologies drive attendance and experience, I'm deeply interested in how AI like ChatGPT will transform the way event businesses work.

Here are three of the areas that I think will begin to disrupt or transform the trade show/large-scale events space using generative AI plus live internet data.

Combine your event FAQs, documentation, web information and live local internet information into an always-on customer service bot that can answer the hardest questions faster than a human. Quickchat AI is on this with its new Intercom integration. These bots will be able to upsell customers by conversing or even inferring needs perhaps based on live customer data housed on social media platforms. Once combined with generative AI video services like Synesthesia, AI transforms human-to-human customer service.

In case you thought the C suite was exempt from AI disruption...nope! AI will ingest all of your event's vendor contracts, financial performance records, marketing performance data, event strategy documents, website data, customer feedback and, combined with live internet data, present deeply nuanced event strategy plans that can be refined based on further context and human input. For instance, presenting multiple plans based on the risk appetite of the event organizer or projections based on the likelihood of economic headwinds in future years. Thus AI disrupts the C suite and event leadership.

Similar to the above, AI ingests all marketing data including visual assets and creates marketing strategies with full marketing campaigns built out from the ground up. They can be selected at will and morphed and edited at any point in the campaign based on feedback from the event team. Or the AI can simply change the campaigns themselves based on live performance data. AI disrupts and utterly transforms marketing.

As of yet, ChatGPT use in the events industry is in its infancy and still very much misunderstood. Training will be critical for employees across departments and disciplines to understand that ChatGPT is not fundamentally a copywriting platform. It is an intelligence system capable of reasoning, combining multiple abstract concepts and creating unique and insightful takeaways for business leaders.

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The quality of truth in an existential cause may be measured by the quality of the intellects of its most committed followers. Allow me to illustrate.

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Imagine the fumings of a climate alarmist. Here, a representation of what goes on in the alarmist mind.

The world is in deep imminent threat.

It may end.

Our beautiful, blue, penguin-marching-David Attenborough-marble may be no more.

All life will disappear. Farewell soy milk. Farewell shocking pink hair dye. Farewell all.

What can I do?

Why, I can call out from every hollow my comrade eco-warriors. Come in a black mask, or strip to your unsightly nudity when you get there, will be the summons.

And what is the plan that I and my fellow eco-doomsters have to avert planetary extinction?

We are, above all, strategists and tacticians. We know what earns quality and never-challenged coverage on NPR and festivals of authentication from CBC.

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We are, above all, strategists and tacticians

That is why we organize the type of protests that we do. Direct actions and exhibitionist displays stripping down at awards shows that speak to the farmer, the logger, the fisherman, the movie star falling from favour, or the sad professor who does not have Jordan Petersons reach and fame.

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So when we want to avert the gravest challenge humanity has ever had to face, that is why we select actions that will in the words of a very great writer strike home to every bosom.

Is there a Monet or a Goya or a Munch or a Botticelli or a van Gogh in your citys art gallery? Well, off to the hardware store and the supermarket. There is glue to be bought and cans of tomato soup to drop into the backpack.

There is glue to be bought

Glue yourselves to the painting or throw the tomato soup over it. Doesnt matter which.

When the world, on TV and the internet, sees these brave assaults on western art at its highest, you know everyone, just everyone, will park their cars, turn off the heat, refuse to buy anything with a petroleum base and insist that all the heads of oil companies and plastic manufacturers be put on trial for genocide, and Hollywood liberals will forsake their mansions and move to caves.

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One of our very keenest moves happened over the weekend in Ottawa. An eco-warrior threw a bucket of pink paint on the Prime Ministers Office and padlocked herself to a rail after the ritual half-undressing. A whole bucket of pink paint if that doesnt hold off climate Armageddon, what will?

All on camera. So bold.

She did not it is most necessary to add honk! End of musing.

We should measure the value of high-order environmental activism IPCC stuff, Davos effluvia, anything Al Gore or David Suzuki so stridently say by the quality of the minds and actions of their most intense supporters.

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By which I mean the gluers on paintings, the neuron-challenged street-blockaders, simpletons who smear soup on masterpieces, and a great example the dimwit(s) who think throwing paint on the PMs office amounts to a persuasive, consciousness-raising tactic.

Instead of what everyone else knows it to be: a display of desperate intellectual incapacity, delusionary arrogance, and the Hey-Im-saving-the-world-so-I-can-be-as-stupid-and-supremely-annoying-to-anyone-as-I-f-ing-well-choose attitude of such world saviours.

Thats the level of non-thought that supports most energetically and egregiously the high priests and savants of the net-zero fantasy. Measured by the standard of its pathetic protests, environmental alarmism is the religion of children, a sandbox for narcissists regardless of how old they are.

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Multiple American and Canadian independent pro wrestling promotions have cut ties with Canadian pro wrestler Kobe Durst in recent days following Dursts promotion of transphobia on social media.

Indiana-based promotion Black Label Pro and Ottawa-based promotion Capital City Championship Combat more commonly known as C*4 announced that Durst would no longer be appearing on their events due to his actions.

The opinions shared by Durst go against everything we strive to build within our C*4 community, read a statement from C*4 management released Saturday morning. We believe [in] a welcoming and safe environment to all fans, especially those within marginalized groups. We believe in punching up. We strive to have a welcoming locker room to all people, regardless of their race, gender or orientation. The opinions shared by Kobe are not supported or in line with anything about C*4 or the people behind it.

Very disappointed in Kobe, said Black Label Pro owner Michael Blanton via Twitter Friday. That kind of behavior is completely unacceptable at BLP or in general.

Two additional Canadian promotions, Hamilton-based Courage Pro Wrestling and Quebec-based Fdration Montrgienne de Lutte (FML), also announced that Durst wouldnt be appearing on upcoming events. FML also stripped him of its King of Richelieu championship, which he had held for nearly a year.

These decisions came after multiple wrestling fans called out Durst online for retweeting a story from a Twitter account called End Wokeness celebrating longtime Team Canada Powerlifting head coach Avi Silverberg.

Silverberg entered an Alberta powerlifting competition in March claiming he identified as female despite never doing so before in previous competitions and reportedly with no record that he provided the government-issued photo ID displaying his gender as required by the Canadian Powerlifting Union.

Silverberg went on to break a womens bench press record held by trans powerlifter Anne Andres. The act was celebrated by trans-exclusionary womens sports group the Independent Council on Womens Sports as mocking the discriminatory CPU policy on trans inclusion. The same organization misgendered Andres and numerous other trans athletes in other social media posts.

Dursts promotion of this event sparked arguments between Durst and fans. It prompted William Quintana, owner of Oregon-based pro wrestling promotion Prestige Wrestling, to call out a copious amount of tweets from other transphobic figures, including The Daily Wire host Jordan Peterson, that Durst had liked and/or retweeted.

It is also notable that Durst thanked a Twitter user who used the #ProtectOurKids hashtag in defense of Dursts beliefs. The phrase is recognized by the ACLU as being co-opted by trans- and LGBTQ-hate campaigns fueling the deluge of anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ laws proposed and passed by many state legislatures, in defense of Dursts beliefs.

Despite severing ties, at least one promotion, C*4, expressed a hope that Durst learns exactly why the content he promotes is harmful.

We have told Kobe that until he recognizes his behavior is hurtful and dangerous, he will not be welcomed back, C*4 said in a statement. And if he wishes to ever return he must make public and meaningful acknowledgement of the pain he has caused people and why the rhetoric he [is] using is dangerous and causes incredible harm.

While some may question why we dont completely write him off, I believe that if there is no path to redemption, consequences mean very little and will only lead to hardening beliefs within individuals. Radicalization happens far too frequently and easily in this day and age of social media echo chambers. Ignoring that people can hopefully change for the better undoubtedly pushes people further down the path of dangerous ideologies.

We expected more out of Kobe, and are disappointed in his behavior beyond words can express.

Outsports reached out for comment to Durst and Toronto-based promotion SuperkickD, where Durst is a regular. Neither responded at the time of publication.

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MANITOWOC (WLUK) -- A second suspect was convicted Tuesday in connection with a shooting near a city park.

Caiden Peterson, 17, pleaded no contest to first-degree recklessly endangering safety for the Feb. 6, 2022 incident. Four other counts were dismissed. Sentencing is scheduled for June 30, court records show.

The other suspect, Jordan-Anthony Roberson, was sentenced to time served and probation for his role in the incident.

Police received reports of shots fired in the area of Westfield Park on Feb. 6, 2022. Witnesses and area surveillance showed multiple males engaged in a physical altercation that led to shots fired and multiple suspect vehicles driving away from the area.

A relative told police Roberson said he was in an altercation at the park, someone shot at him, and he fired back and fled the area, the probable cause statement states. No one was injured.

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Welcome to Sportskeeda's daily MMA News Roundup, where we present the biggest UFC news updates and other stories from the world of mixed martial arts.

In today's issue, we talk about UFC 288, Israel Adesanya's comments about Andrew Tate, and more.

With the loss of the Beneil Dariush vs. Charles Oliveira matchup, the UFC 288 card is failing to draw the attention of the fans.

With a little less than three weeks remaining before the event, the promotion is yet to announce a new co-main event.

Despite Henry Cejudo making a much-anticipated return in the headliner against reigning bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling, many fans are disappointed with the card to the point where they are refusing to pay for it and choosing to illegally stream it on sites instead for free.

After popular MMA fan account DovySimuMMA posted on Twitter today that they've ordered the pay-per-view, other fans made their opinions clear in the comments.

Here are some of the tweets:

Some were hoping the UFC manages to book Belal Muhammad vs. Gilbert Burns as the co-headliner to add some spark to the card.

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If word reaches Dana White, he may not be too happy about it given his brief but intense crusade against the piracy of UFC cards a couple of years ago.

Israel Adesanya has been polarizing his fans for a while now with his perceived-to-be contradictory words and actions. Most recently, he heaped praise on controversial kickboxer-turned-social media sensation Andrew Tate.

Speaking to Emilio Urrutia on the Honey Badger Hour podcast, 'The Last Stylebender' said:

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Many longtime fans of Adesanya were disappointed with him, given Tate's widespread reputation of being a misogynist and the allegations of rape, sexual harassment, and human trafficking against him.

Some even pointed out how some of Adesanya's traits, like painting fingernails or liking anime, would be looked down upon by the likes of Andrew Tate and other spokespeople of the 'Sigma Male' community.

YouTuber Chris Ray Gun had a boxing debut to forget last night at a charity boxing tournament titled 'Creator Clash 2'. Gun, real name Christopher Raymond Maldonado, went up against William Haynes of Deep Dive and SourceFed fame.

Haynes dominated Gun for the entire bout. The fight lasted until the second round when the referee had to step in to stop Gun from taking more punishment. As she stepped in between the two, Gun accidentally landed a strike to the back of the referee's head after being rocked by Haynes.

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