Nice paper on "blue zones" - areas of the world where people have remarkable longevity.
Paper suggests fraud and error, rather than some lifestyle choice.
Fingal County Council's noise map is a neat little resource. Bathed in din we are in D15.
https://fingalcoco.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=8e3bb95ccef04d34b6dfa040676106a5
This car crash of a paper compares humans to ChatGPT based on carbon emissions associated with writing one page of text.
If only lifecycle analysis were so easy...
As AI systems proliferate, their greenhouse gas emissions are an increasingly important concern for human societies. We analyze the emissions of several AI systems (ChatGPT, BLOOM, DALL-E2, Midjourney) relative to those of humans completing the same tasks. We find that an AI writing a page of text emits 130 to 1500 times less CO2e than a human doing so. Similarly, an AI creating an image emits 310 to 2900 times less. Emissions analysis do not account for social impacts such as professional displacement, legality, and rebound effects. In addition, AI is not a substitute for all human tasks. Nevertheless, at present, the use of AI holds the potential to carry out several major activities at much lower emission levels than can humans.
Humans for me, AI for thee.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/8/23788265/google-med-palm-2-mayo-clinic-chatbot-bard-chatgpt
