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she has many ahead of her, did she say her reasoning , i didn't click on the video

IYANU weaving West Africa wonder into animation 12:30 - 1:30pm A- Roye Okupe B- Kerri GRant C- Dawud ANyabwile D- Blerd Girl [host] D- Introduce A, B, C D- How did series come about C- Most exciting crowd. It came as a love letter to my daughter. Wanted to share fantastical stories of Nigeria . Came out during 2019 right before covid. Highest grossing book on kickstarter. D- What did you think when you first saw the novel? B- Shared to her by a freind . Love the lead female's powers A- Proud of Roy and shout out to artists on the team. D- Did you work on any story boards, your comic experience A- He has done storyboards for films/television . When you go into animation this is his first time being a director. You have to think acting and lighting and motion. He likes some African martial arts. D- Whar are images A- did it in photoshop. Shout out to Darnell Johnson . They now do everything in a program called storyboard pro. An animatic. IT is choppy , bot fully , but a voice track, so we can see episode. D- What is writers room in Inayu like compared to others B- all writers rooms are different, didn't have time as in others. This is unique like no other. Showrunner very organized. THis is little different than prior, for a little older audience. A little more serialized. Had to be extremely collaborative. D- Show some of series . Is she older in the book? C- no same age as in the books D- What? A- before storyboarding , character design. Comprehend a whole team exist. It isn't just me. Make expression sheets, props, others work on autenticity. Another design team gets colors, lighting. C- IT is hundreds of people, people in Nigeria, South Africa, different parts of Europe, UA, ASia. He felt it was important to have voice actors. He wanted Nigerians talking like Nigerians in a show about Nigerians to a global audience. So nollywood voice actors have all the roles. D- Explain Inayu's powers C- He was inspired by Avatar, a little in the natural power set. Unnatural charge object. Natural charging plants like swamp thing. Supernatural essentially combinating. Each power she has to master. Her supernatural power requires empathy. D -Who are Biyi and Toye C- Biyi is sort of a scoundrel, young hansolo. Toye is a bookworm. His father is strongest warrior but he wants to be an engineer. He has to prove to his father he can do it his own way. D- Ekun m was ekun your favorite? B- Ekun will be everyone's favorite. He is a giant cat. D- she needs a blue plushie C- He doesn't speak but you can express. He wanted him to matter in a way D- What is more difficult A- relative to artist. Some specialize in humans, some nonhumans but people on the team. You don't want to try to be the everything. LEt that person shine, that is directing. D- How many times we have seen bad black hair? C- Every single frame we look at the hair. It is cliche to say representation matters. Simple things like two tone color hands. D- What has the afrocentric details on the development of the show B- Really fortunate to work on two shows to care about how it looks C- we also take black men's hair seriously D- In image every single word has to A- animation guide C- xheets to time but movements. It is painful to make things proper. D- Let's talk about fighting style A- in the show we incorporate different; donbe- north nigerian; capoeira angloe- making a mash up mythological yoruba land. Mashup to make adventure D- Tell us about these images? C- Yoruba is his tribe but Iyanu has lost all concept of her past and she learns she has the power of the gods This is done about, thank Gordon Akban and Lionforge- the president of many firms talk alot about diversity behind the scenes. Very few did it. They took risk to make C executive director. To allow representation of his culture. D- How does that work? the coordination C- IT is difficult. We have been on meetings where the time is imbalanced. Everybody on team Iyanu is dedicated to excellence. Once your dedicated you deal with sacrifices. D- first look C- Inayu get lessons from Orole. HE wanted to show different shades of Black people, the darkest isn't always bad. Art director put trees that only exist in Nigeria.[ another image] Inayu powered up. He felt he wanted agency , he didn't want her to be reliant on boys but a character [another image] B- We wanted to show a complex character [ another shot] A- showing details [another shot] Question and Answer Q- what about music? A+C anybody know afrobeats Q- screenwriter- how hollywood is run on the business side D-Lionforge is a black owned company [ https://www.lionforgeentertainment.com/ ] C- I created my first animated short in 2008 created second in 2012 when he took it before Black Panther. It has taken me 12 to 15 years to get to this point. Part of the reason we take this so seriously, we don't want someone else to take 15 years. You have to believe in yourself. People witha desperate desire to do this believe in themselves. I starter here, my first table was at Schomburg 2015. I had flyers and no book. Q- How many seasons? D- definitely one season Q- Web animators role in the production D- Lionforge is in charge of all things, all projects get freelancers. Q-if someone wants to make animation like this, get started A- start creating. He knew few independent black comic creators. He went to LA and on wild thornberries . I wouldn't do this if I wondered how you do this. He got a phone call near homeless, manifestation begins in the mind. I has been over 30 years. Stay on your path. But do it because you love it. Q- There are alot of people who aren't in their 20s but for those who are older where do they go to get guidance? where do you go? B- Black women anime [ https://www.facebook.com/blackgirlswatchanime/ ].. Afro anime... PEople can show projects. Lionforge is not that old but putting together things , young people can participate in. MAny things are accessible So we can try C- some of the people he works with now, he met in conventions, you never know what will come from these connections Q- How do you write characters, not too similar B- all characters seem familiar. Her unique way is how does a character talk, start there. What is their function in a story, then group brian.

Enjoy exploring AI. I'll let you all know when it's time to come outside and do some real work.

Check out Stolen Legacy | Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G.M. James. Here's an excerpt from Chapter 1. "1. The Teachings of the Egyptian Mysteries reached other lands many centuries before it reached Athens. According to history, Pythagoras, after receiving his [23 years] training in Egypt, returned to his native island, Samos, where he established his order for a short time, after which he migrated to Croton (540 B.C.) in Southern Italy, where his order grew to enormous proportions, until his final expulsion from that country."

You are most welcome! I don't have anyone to bounce off my wild ideas and questions, so I enjoy creating Chat GPT prompts. It also helps me clarify my thinking.

Thank you! @Mel Hopkins This is extremely helpful. I've read over this post several times and even shared it with relatives. Now I do not feel so intimidated about AI LLM and have spent some time posing questions.

That makes sense! I did not know that!

Gabby Douglas is back! Trying out foe the women's gymnastics team at 28! This would be a great feat in the modern era of Women's Gymnastics.

@Chevdove Artificial Intelligence's Large Language Model can operate as a search engine (kind of), but its primary function, for now, is more of a tool to assist you in tertiary tasks. (for now ) "AI LLM, or Artificial Intelligence Large Language Models, are advanced AI systems trained to understand and generate human-like text based on the input they receive. They function by processing large amounts of text data and learning patterns and relationships within that data. Overall, both tools (LLM and search engines) are valuable for information retrieval and processing, but they serve different purposes and are designed with different capabilities in mind. AI LLMs offer more interactive and creative capabilities, while search engines excel at locating specific, up-to-date information on the web." As @Troy mentioned, it has made him a better coder. AI can write software code. I've had it code a brand-new website for me. Guess what? I don't know how to code. Depending on your interests, you'll prepare prompts to communicate with AI - much like the questions you would pose to yourself in deep research. For example, you would prepare a thesis statement and ask AI to share findings. For instance, I know nothing about the Chaldeans or their practices, but I started the fact-finding. Here's a link to my session. https://chat.openai.com/share/9a6b1c0a-930a-47d8-acdd-7059aff6eac6 (It's public) You can start with your primary question as a prompt. Define AI, then compare and contrast the differences between Chat GPT and an online search engine. This link contains my prompt where I ask Chat GPT to compare and contrast AI LLM and Online Search engines. Note: Like in any conversation, the best prompts get the best results. https://chat.openai.com/share/049c4047-83c0-4918-9b2d-3b4a64eba7a9 (It's public too) Also, AI will replace jobs because it works at varying levels, such as Machine Learning and Deep Learning. The latter function as artificial neural networks, which means machine learning, especially deep learning, operates like a human brain but is much faster. You didn't ask me, but I don't want any of us left behind in this next phase of emerging technology.

I'm not surprised. Pythagoras was a student of African Spirituality, AKA "KMT Mysteries Schools."

A question of who is the wealthiest through a prospective psychological pageant P.P.P. Title: The S.S.S. Author: Richard Murray https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1049984281

Thank you @Troy. clicked the link and ask a few questions. I still do not completely understand the big difference in just not asking a search engine though. I also don't understand why people say that AI will put some people out of work. The first question I ask was, 'What is AI'? There were four bullet points, and one was that AI could mean the chemical symbol of Aluminum and another was for the name Alan. Then I ask what is the definition of 'black'? And there were bullet points one of which was referring to color and another about race category. The response goes on to explain that the answers may evolve. The reason why I decided to ask about 'black' was to see if it gave a deeper response because my deep research about this word goes in more depth and I just wondered if AI would give more. My deep research of this word connects it to the ancient Chaldeans and their major symbolism of the BULLOCK; the Black bull.

I can't wait to share this! I've watched this several time but still I do not grasp the entire idea. I've also watched other videos about these young girls proofs and it's funny how one video NOW adds on that long before Pythagoras there were others who came way before him that came up with similar findings. Definitely BLACK EXCELLENCE!!!

Well, I may be reading too much into it! No, I don't believe that Black people count that much right now with what is going on over there but, I do believe that the Original people are always on their minds.

The 88% I quoted is average literacy rate for AfroAmericans across the board. https://wordsrated.com/african-american-literacy-statistics/ A great example of how our economic infrastructure is severely lacking. Ultimately, that's what many folks end up having to do. I'm fortunate enough to live in an area with a solid AfroAmerican Bank. They have been excellent to me over a couple decades and counting.

@ProfD I think the issue I’m is being clouded by your 88% stat. The educators is spoke to are talking about high school graduates now. The stats you shared is not capturing this cohort. Also, if you can cite a source for your 88% stat, I’d like to read more—thanks! Agreed we are too busy waiting on a check rather than writing them. In the early days of my business I was excited (seriously) about opening a business account with Carver Bank. I knew the features would not be as robust as they would be with a much larger bank, but I was living in Harlem and I was gonna do business with my people! Do you know Carver would not give me an account!? They would not take my money, complaining about one of my documents. My feelings were hurt. I went to Bank of America the same afternoon and they opened a business account without an issue! I’ve been with BofA over 20 years.

A literacy rate of 88% on average would suggest that Black folks are not lacking in education. We are lacking in opportunities. We have not built enough of a Black economic infrastructure to insure that our people can be gainfully employed without having to rely on the dominant society. AI is going put to white folks out of work. The trickle down effect will be brutal especially for the most educated Black folks with no businesses.

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No, it does not. But lack of access to information due to illiteracy can. I have no issues with what Chad put together. The reality for our kids in poorer underserved communities is different and will less likely be served by Chads recommendation. Perhaps a prompt factoring in legacy of racism would be better I’m a much better coder thanks to ChatGPT, but if I knew nothing about coding it would not be helpful at all. You have to know enough to ask the right questions and evaluate the responses. The people best able to do this will have some education and that is the point of my post. Our lack of education

Does illiteracy mean dumb and ignorant? If I were to go to France, I would first have to learn the language, and if I did, I believe my reading and writing comprehension would be sub-par. I'd still be able to think my way through most challenges, though. Anyway, consider this: we live in a high technological age. We don't even have to read anymore. I'm currently "reading" an audiobook. While Grammarly highlights my grammatical errors and poor sentence structure, I'm typing this post. If I'm using my phone - some transcription audio app could "read" everything on this page. I could write a book by recording and transcribing it. So, do you know what we should be concerned about with Generation Z and Alpha? Critical thinking, problem-solving, and accessing information. But to drive my high-tech point home... LOL Here's what "Chad" says: So yes, we can probably argue some points with "Chad GPT." This response articulates the skills we should build in this new age. By the way, this is an excellent topic, @Troy. After interviewing Amari, I believe we have an opportunity to raise this next generation of Black boys to be next-level innovators.

I understand this all too well! I just started writing for myself recently, and I haven't been inspired to do so in a long time.