How I use AI to cut through doomsday headlines
2032 isn’t looking hot right now.
There’s a 1 in 48 chance Asteroid YR4 2024 will crash into Earth in seven years.
A telescope in Chile snapped pics of the rock hurtling through space at 30,000 mph last week. Now, the rock is currently at the top of NASA’s risk list.
We can expect an explosion on par with 7.7 megatons of TNT or 340 times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb. If it hits, we’re talking 8 megatons of TNT or 340 times the Hiroshima bomb. An instant goodbye to any city it lands on. Slàn Dublin (that’s Irish for goodbye).
So far, no word on Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, or Michael
Bay getting the band back together for a sequel. So, I asked ChatGPT if we could use a drill like the one in Armageddon to stop the rock from wiping out Northern Europe.
According to AI, “current space science doesn’t support the idea of using a drill to stop an asteroid.”
Crap.
Now, the good news: ChatGPT says boffins are investigating strategies, including nuclear deflection, crashing a spacecraft into the rock, and even a gravity tractor that would fly alongside the rock and pull it off course.
Oh, and the rock stands a better chance of crashing into the moon than Earth, although neither scenario is likely. So “don’t lose sleep over Asteroid YR4 2024”.
Thanks ChatGPT. I can rest easy.
The latest AI models are getting pretty good at synthesizing news sources and cutting through the noise on the web.
I use ChatGPT and Perplexity more than Google to research and summarize news stories from multiple sources.
I’ve even hot-wired ChatGPT voice mode to the quick action button on my phone to fact-check the latest doom-and-gloom story from mainstream news. The experience is far more enjoyable than wading through a trashy tabloid article stuffed with ads and pop-ups.
Less time spent consuming content = more time creating content. That’s a win-win for my business.
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