Showing posts with label NYT`. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NYT`. Show all posts

Thursday, October 31, 2019

New More Severe Sea Level Rise Forecast

From the New York Times:

"The authors of a paper published Tuesday developed a more accurate way of calculating land elevation based on satellite readings, a standard way of estimating the effects of sea level rise over large areas, and found that the previous numbers were far too optimistic. The new research shows that some 150 million people are now living on land that will be below the high-tide line by midcentury."

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

The Limits of AI Being Human-like

The New York Times just published a very eye-opening article about where AI is and what it may or may NOT be capable of in reference to being conscious, caring, sensitive and other human qualities. As a sensitive human, I really relate to this article. We of course will discuss it, probably in class 5.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/opinion/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning.html

GREENLAND - Will probably be the focus of near term sea level rise

Greenland is almost all covered by a very thick glacial ice cap. If all of Greenland's ice either melted or slid into the oceans, sea le...