Visitors: Name 1, Doug Bell & wife Julie. 2,Vivs Husband Roy. 3, Hugh ( Guest of Buddy
Welcome–from President ……Welcome to the visitors, and thanks to Phil and all involved in the successful Crystal Palace fundraiser last week.
Induction of new Club Member Doug Bell.
Doug grew up in Tauranga, and had his
honeymoon in the Armitage Hotel 30 years ago when he brought his wife Julie over from Indonesia. He worked for more than 30years in the Energy field in numerous countries. Their 2 daughters attended international Schools.
Kathy Webb outlined the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals. (with no computer sound !)
Developed in 2015 as a Universal Call to Action to end Poverty, Protect the Planet, and ensure all People enjoy Peace and Prosperity by 2030.
Guest Speaker – Our own Past/previous President - Lynda Burch. Computer Guru as introduced by Andrew Knowles.
Subject: A1, and Why all the hype? and will it affect You? (Full presentation to be emailed out) 
Lynda has been working for 6 years for GHD Engineering group, a multinational including computer software engineering. developing, and helped improve the NZ Police crime reporting, mobile devices, and frontline apps.
AI (artificial intelligence )is machines that perform human tasks, and is Designed to support and assist, not compete.AI can learn and suggest how to improve.
Bill Gates notes that AI is one of the 4 big technology changes in his lifetime.
We have used AI for some years, with Lynda remembered when Massey University swapped from multiple software platforms to a linked Microsoft Office system
The appearance of Chat GP has brought AI into to focus, and lead to the anxiety of machine deep-- learning replacing jobs/workers.
Lynda then discussed A1 Software BOTs and their use in increasing business efficiency, accuracy and confidence in the data generated .Companies like her one can be Tier 1 close linked to Microsoft and see drop from 18 to 3 months to develop new software. A! can help build components, check for bugs, anticipate what business will need.
A1 is significant in the fields of Health ( e.g. vaccination , radiology ). Computer chip efficiency, and in computer security, to prevent Cyberattacks early on.
Chatbots have improved customer service and routine automating tasks for business. Example of how Microsoft TEAMS now summarises your meeting for you.
Chat GPT now being capped and superseded ( BING , Open A1 GPT5) However, we use in so many ways – e.g.- writing reports, translation, recipes from ingredients .
Obviously huge concerns have developed about who decides rules , regulating, Government or Sector , worries on Public Privacy and regular debate and international discussion continues.
Thanks:- from Andy Cameron, who is more worried by HS ( Human stupidity ) than AI.
Presented from President Michelle
Notice one: – Behind Closed Doors Tickets were up to 136 attendees, and Henry had all the details he would catch up for members assisting at the venues after meeting.
Notice two:- Guess who is Coming to Dinner attending potential sheets were going around the meeting
Notice3.-Invite for any interested to meet at Maketu on Nov 12rh to trip out to the reserve to “breakfast with the birds”
Mount Multi sport – Steve Read
Steve put
his first call for out for volunteers for the Mount Multisport event on Sat 20
th January. Need Marshalls for the event and a great little fundraiser for the club.
if you are interested make contact with Steve or talk to someone who has done it already. steve@yrw.co.nz
Dave McConnochie announced about $22000 profit from the Crystal Palace Fund raiser.
Sergeant at Arms – Viv - 
had been at a 60
th School Reunion and remembered her favourite teacher teaching the 16x table. Having to learn by rote learning is less used currently. However, research suggests rote learning with appropriate rest breaks is good for overall learning
