Disease In Gaza, New York Times vs. ChatGPT, Hottest Year On Record
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In gaza, the lack of clean water, food and sAnitation has public health officials worried?

This really just is an infectious disaster in waiting.

What's being done to prevent a deadly outbreak?

I must method that a Martini's. And this is up first from N. P, R, news, the new york times is suing OpenAI and microsoft, saying they used copyright ded material to develop ChatGPT, the times that says its reputation is at stake. What does this mean for artificial intelligence and the future of digital journalism?

And twenty twenty three is almost certain to be the hottest est year ever recorded.

If we keep going on the trajectory were going, we will look back at twenty twenty three and think of IT, as you know. Remember that year that wasn't so bad.

How hot is twenty twenty four expected to be? Stay with us. We've got all the news. You need to start your day.

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In gaza, access to food, sAnitation and clean water is scarce as the war between a moon israel rages on the world.

World health organization warns disease may eventually kill more people than actual combat if the health system is not fixed.

We've got epr r Daniel here to walk us through what's being done to try to stay ahead of an outbreak. Our first, I can use a snapshot of infectious disease in gaza right now. What's IT look like?

Sure, it's bad. And IT may well get worse. The W. H. O says rates are conserving. Here is one example, a more than one hundred thousand cases of with rates among children that are twenty five times higher than before the war. Our producer, honey baba spoke to pediatric to ah who seen some brutal cases of .

area and I treated .

a four months old baby who had twenty bower movements in .

a day along with a torrent of respiratory diseases.

I've had cases that didn't respond to any treatment.

The W O says there are also numerous cases of men, geats, rashes, scabies, lice and chicken pox. Wow, no.

And we hear how heartless to treat people who are hurt and sick. T right now, alright. What combination of conditions created the situation where in the disease disaster could really be right around the corner?

Well, gaza's health infrastructure has really crumbled amid israel's bombardment and ground defensive. The W H O says more than half of gaza hospitals are no longer functioning, and that's because israel has accused to mass of harboring fighters and weapons in and around those hospitals and under them in tunnels, putting them in the line of fire. Plus the conditions inside gaza are a fixed storm for the spread of infectious disease. There is intense over crowding, colder winter weather and a lack of clean water, sAnitation, proper nutrition, which are services that are difficult to secure under israel, near total siege of gaza. Here's Amber ali on deputy program manager for doctors without borders in the palestinian territories.

It's a sort of A A calderon of possibility of infectious disease. This really just is an infectious disaster in waiting that brings us back.

I supposed to the world health organization prediction that disease could endanger more lives in military action.

exactly. And it's why global health groups are racing to ramp up disease surveilLance efforts.

What does that look like in gaza before the war?

A pretty good actually, despite the israeli blockade. But the wars compromised all that. Here's doctor I shares again.

We used to culture bacteria in gaza.

prescribed medication based on the results. Now we can do cultures or anything, and the infections are spreading.

So then water, public health professionals doing to try and catch in outbreak before .

even takes off. Well, A W H O official recently travelled to gaza with rapidest for hepatitis and chora. They want to revitts one or two of the local laboratories that used to do pathogen screening.

Negotiations are also underway to bring a mobile lab into gaza, or very species out to egypt for testing. For now, rick brennan, a regional emergency director with the W. H. O, told me, it's fortunate that terrible diseases like measles or color a, haven't yet surfaced.

To be honest, i'm grateful that we've got to this point, we've got increased rates, but we haven't had a deadly outbreak yet.

Whether that good fortune lasts isn't certain, but early detection will be critical to a keeping potential disease outbreaks contained before they lead to further suffering.

That is mp. r. Daniel. I thank you.

Thanks so much for having me.

The new times is taking ChatGPT to court.

The paper filed a federal law so yesterday alleging that OpenAI, that's a creator of ChatGPT, made the chat bought powerful by using millions of time articles without permission and without payment. It's the latest copyright infringement case filed against OpenAI in recent months.

Join now by M. P. R. Tech corresponded Bobby Allen. So the new york times, Bobby, the first major media publisher to sue OpenAI. Microsoft was also the named there a big back of OpenAI. What's in your times?

Wanna get out of this last suit? Yeah, you will. Let's start the beginning here. Lawyers for the time say OpenAI fed ChatGPT millions of stories from the times website. Now OpenAI did this because that's how ChatGPT works, right? IT swallows vast amounts of text on the internet and uses that as data to make ChatGPT smarter. The problem is that some of that texes copyright IT, and for months OpenAI in the times have tried the hammer out some kind of licensing deal where OpenAI would pay the paper for use of its articles. But those talks have collapsed over how much money open a eye should pay to the newspaper.

This isn't the first copyright lawsuit OpenAI has seen. What have they said in response to this one?

Yeah, an opening. I spokesperson said the company was, quote, surprised and disappointed by the lawsuit. The company says that respects the rights of content creators and is committed to making sure they benefit from new AI technology. Now in the past, OpenAI executives have defended the company's massive scraping of the internet under something that was known as fair used doctor. And it's basically a legal theory that says in certain circumstances, like an academic research or commentary or parody, copyright material can be used without permission, but the time says fair used does not apply here. In fact, the time says OpenAI has become a direct competitor of the time as website, since people can ask ChatGPT a question and be served up answers that lift huge chunks from the times of stories, and the lawyers point out that ChatGPT is often citing the times incorrectly claiming the paper reported things that never was reported, which of course, a huge problem for the paper. S credibility and reputation boy.

this sounds like you could be a massive game change. I mean, how could this loss maybe reshape the world of digital publishing?

Ah it's fair to say the entire digital publishing industry is on edge about generate A I tools like ChatGPT that you know can create something new based on these big data sets. There are fears about job loss, fears over A I turbo charging misinformation online and a concern that A I companies like OpenAI are becoming popular on the backs of copyrights holders. Prominent writers, comedians and get images have also AI companies over this.

And some publishers, like the associated press and german media giant EXO springer, have gone the opposite way and haveing out licensing deals with OpenAI. But the times as chose another path. And this legal fight could every percussion for, you know, both the A. I. Industry and online journalism?

no.

How so yeah all the time is asking for ChatGPT enormous data set to be destroyed. Since IT contains copyright ted material that the paper says was used, the illegally OpenAI could then be forced by the court to try to recreate these huge data sets using only work IT is authorized to use. And for tools like ChatGPT a, the data is everything.

I mean, data is gold, right? That's how to generate all responses. So this would be an incredibly disruptive, if not impossible, task for the company.

Other A I companies with similar business models will be watching this laws' IT closely as well. Other publishers whose work has been harvested without permission by ChatGPT. P.

R, Bobby Allen, covering the tech world for us.

Bobby, thanks.

Thank you. We want to note that microsoft is a financial supporter of M, P, R.

Scientists think that when IT comes to global heat, twenty twenty three will be one for .

the record books. Temperatures around the world were extremely hot this year. So will I be the hottest year ever recorded?

Pr, climate desk is here with the answer. Lawn, i'm on the edge of my seat. Where is twenty twenty three rank?

yeah. So there are a few days of december left, of course, but it's virtually certain that twenty twenty three will be the hottest year on record that's in the last century and a half of humans have measured the temperature, and it's likely going back the last one hundred and twenty five thousand years where scientists have reconstructed the temperature record.

You know the second half of twenty twenty three had some really hot months globally like september that pushed over the top. And this cap was already a really hot decade. The past eight years have been the hottest eight on record. So is this .

something that scientists expected? Is this something about climate change that somehow speeding up?

Yeah, you know, it's something climate scientists are watching closely. Some say IT could be accelerating, but others say, you know, there needs to be more data, more information from future years to say that. I talked to ek housemother, a climate scientist at berkeley earth, which is a nonprofit that analyzes climate trends. And he says, a gear like this one has a clear link to all the fossil fuels that humans are burning.

We know why this is happening. This a year like this would not have occurred without the trillion tons of carbon that we put into the atmosphere over the last century. Yeah.

we've seen what the world looks like and feels like at these kind of temperatures this year. A lot of disasters. Remember arizona, arizona was so hot at one point where he was insane. How hot IT was there?

Yeah, yeah. That was record breaking. You know, over the summer, fine x spent thirty one days above a hundred and ten degrees.

More than five hundred people died in the area from heat related causes. But IT wasn't alone. You know, china is that in europe, mexico, all saw extreme heat waves. And Christie ebi, who is a scientist at the university of washington, whose studies heat, says, you know, that should be a wakeup call.

The major lesson .

is .

how unprepared we are that .

there are places with heat wave .

early warning .

in response systems. They certainly saved lives. They didn't save enough.

You know, there were also heat waves in the ocean. In july, the water of florida a hit a hundred degrees, which is, you know, hot tub level. Basically, corals really can't survive that temperature, and there was a major die off on the reef there.

Okay, so that's twenty twenty three, which is almost over. Can we start a clean slate? Learn for twenty twenty four? Or is twenty twenty four going to take over the top bot?

You know, there's a decent chance that might take the top spot because right now, an lineu climate pattern is beginning. IT basically means a whole bunch of heat that's been stored in the ocean gets released into the atmosphere. So l nu years are hot ears, and this is a strong lino. But even if next year doesn't take that top spot, you know, science to say this trend will continue, like tea hill, who is a marine scientist at the university of california, Davis.

If we don't change things, if we keep going on the trajectory we're going, we will look back at twenty twenty three and think of IT, as you know. Remember that year, that wasn't so bad.

He says, no, every little bit that humans can do to cut Greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the use of fossil fuels will help slow this trend, and there is still time to do that .

at slower in summer from M, P, R. Climate desk law. Thanks one.

thank.

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