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what's up Superstars happy Thursday
Happy Friday Eve I'm KY wire this is a
very special Thursday edition of CNN 10
because this is the penultimate show of
the year that means the second to last
show of 2023 so let's continue to make
this the best 10 minutes in news where I
simply tell you the what letting you
decide what to think we start today with
news out of Dubai where nearly 200
countries agreed to a landmark climate
deal at this year's cop 28 conference it
includes an unprecedented call to
transition away from fossil fuels like
oil gas and coal now it is important to
note this deal is not legally binding
and can't on its own Force any country
to act but this year's conference
president notes it's still the first
time language on fossil fuels has been
included in a final agreement now
despite the historic deal there are are
some loopholes the biggest is the
wording and this can get tricky so bear
with me notice how earlier I said
transition well that is how things are
phrase because the deal does not require
countries to phase out coal oil and gas
instead the agreement provides eight
Pathways to achieve Net Zero by the year
2050 those other options include
tripling renewable energy or using
technology that can capture carbon
dioxide emissions to keep them from the
atmosphere in other words a country can
keep using fossil fuels at the same rate
as they do today and still comply with
the agreement it's this murky language
that leaves some people skeptical even
as many praise this historic deal
environmental activists say it doesn't
go far enough and provides loopholes for
countries to avoid Institute a major
change there are also critics who say
the agreement does not provide necessary
funding for developing countries still
dependent on fossil fuels to supply
energy income and Jobs still with 2023
listed as the hottest year on record
activists are hoping that this will help
move the world forward in battling
climate change okay from the
announcement of one historic mil Stone
to the ramifications of another just
over a year ago a technology startup
called open AI released an experimental
chatbot called chat GPT since then the
world has experienced an artificial
intelligence revolution of sorts this
year has seen major tech companies pour
billions into the concept while World
governments grapple with how to best
regulate it what's clear though is that
we don't really know how this AI
Revolution will actually look and that's
particularly clear with its effects on
jobs earlier this year CNN spoke to a
professor about his study examining how
some professions are more threatened by
AI than others rapid advancement of AI
platforms such as chat GPT has everyone
from Librarians to judges to nurses to
criminal investigators asking how
exposed is my job lots of people are
interested in understanding uh what
types of jobs are going to be affect Ed
by AI what policy responses we might
want to think about from a societal
point of view this is professor and AI
expert Rob seens and he co-authored a
paper ranking nearly 800 jobs in their
exposure to artificial intelligence
particularly to AI language modeling I'm
not in the top 20 however uh I am number
22 on the list the methodology takes 52
human abilities used at various jobs as
defined by the Department of Labor it
could be things like inductive IND
deductive reasoning image recognition
language comprehension and to ones that
are much more physical so trunk strength
Armand steadiness something like that
and Maps those 52 human abilities to 10
areas where AI most excels things like
image Generation image recognition uh
language modeling and things like that
the more those AI skills and human
abilities overlapped the more a job was
determined to be exposed to AI to focus
the study they did not consider the
effects of robots and other automated
machines in their research and that
skewed the rankings for some jobs that
you might think would be more vulnerable
to advances in technology workers in uh
a manufacturing setting or maybe
transportation and Warehouse type
settings uh score very low in in
exposure to AI as opposed to exposure to
other types of automation the type of
jobs that the study found are most
exposed to AI White Collar occupations
often with high education requirements
and higher pay if you look at the top 20
occupations that are most exposed to
advances in language modeling 14 of
those top 20 are professors if you look
at the number one thing that a professor
does it's prepare and deliver lectures
and we know that language modeling is
really helpful when it comes to
Preparing content that you might later
on then deliver to a classroom ai's
ability to recognize and generate
language exposes a wide variety of White
Collar professions such as mental health
counselors writers areas of the the
legal industry even
preachers now praying of course large
language models are not going to be very
helpful with that but in terms of
creating the sermons that you might
deliver you would imagine that you know
just like large language models could
help a clergy person do that same thing
uh W with with a college professor and
the number one job that is most exposed
telemarketers part of the reason why
telemarketers are so exposed to advances
in language modeling uh have to do with
probably the amount of uh speaking that
they do and the amount of you know
listening and responding on the fly to
the comments that they get from whoever
they're calling so how exactly might AI
change our jobs in the future now just
because an occupation is more exposed to
advances in AI doesn't mean that that
job is at threat of being substituted
and it's not that lots of jobs will
disappear I don't think that will happen
however I do think that many many jobs
will
change 10 second trivia which of these
is a part of the United Kingdom England
Scotland Wales or Northern Ireland
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sorry not sorry trick question the for
listed here all make up the United
Kingdom which is sometimes referred to
as a country made up of countries a
story from Scotland now scientists
believe the world's carbon dioxide
levels are at their highest level in
more than two million years these
reports suggest removing CO2 from the
atmosphere is a necessary part of
keeping a healthy planet now capture and
removal is still a relatively new and
unproven field but CNN's Bill Weir
traveled to Scotland to see if a startup
there has one solution to remove carbon
pollution already in the
atmosphere over Millennia volcanic rocks
have formed some of Scotland's most
spectacular sites but now they could
also provide a solution to pull carbon
out of the sky and lock it
underground wel with doings a natural
process so CO2 in our atmosphere
combines with with water vapor in our
atmosphere and they will react um to
form a weak carbonic acid that reacts
with certain types of rocks to remove
CO2 Scottish company undo takes that
natural process and dramatically
accelerates it by grinding down volcanic
rocks like Basalt into a fine powder the
surface area increases so when The Rock
Dust is spread across agricultural land
and there is more contact with rainfall
and CO2 and vastly more carbon is
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captured in this powdered form kind of
like in a coffee tier in the morning if
you crush down your beans finally you
unlock those reactive surface areas and
then you can Mass you can create a very
potent Brew very quickly when we're
putting the Bassel down on agricultural
land we typically apply it at about 20
tons per hectare and that
across full farm so thousands and
thousands of hectares now um and we're
spreading about 30,000 tons of silicate
Rock every month now so that 30,000 tons
will'll be removing somewhere in the
region of 7 or 8,000 tons of of CO2 we
have developed a detailed geochemical
model to enable us to predict multi-
decade into the future how much Rock has
been weathered so from current finding
there's huge potential for enhanced Rock
weathering we could contribute to 5 10
gigatons annually of carbon dioxide
removal in the
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future imagine if you could make your
gingerbread house look like anything in
the world the White House your grandma's
house the Eiffel Tower today's story
getting a 10 out of 10 a woman from
Williamson County Texas was visiting a
Buy's gas station when inspiration
struck Deanna Vader an employee at the
local tax assessor's office created a
detailed gingerbread replica of the
national chain to spread some holiday
cheer full of candy and clever touches
you can see Shoppers browsing even
pictures of her co-workers hunting for
directions and pumping gas all right for
any of you out there who might make
gingerbread houses do you stick with a
traditional or do you try to get
creative mine always end up looking like
churches because I take huge bites out
of them and they're holy well as I
mentioned at the beginning of this show
it's our second to last show of 2023 but
that means there's still time to
recognize a few of you lovely people who
make our work so fulfilling today's
shout out goes to Dwight D Eisenhower
Middle School in Manhattan Kansas Fly
Eagles Fly and this shout out goes to
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