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How climate concerns and incentives are driving solar installations on Washington roofs

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megawatts (MW) of solar power this year alone, a more than 10-fold increase over a decade ago, according to an industry nonprofit. The Grow Community on Bainbridge Island has solar power for many of its 119 homes and is a net zero neighborhood, meaning it doesn’t contribute carbon emissions. ” The incentives.

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Two efforts fill surprising tech gap between restaurants, donors and those who are hungry

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COVID-19 has ravaged the economy and unraveled social safety nets that provide meals for people who are hungry. FoodPair will be run as a nonprofit. Dyce discovered Off Their Plate, a nonprofit that uses donations to pay restaurants to prepare meals, while browsing Instagram. Serving up smarter logistics. LinkedIn Photo).

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Amazon workers demand company quit polluting near communities of color

The Verge

Those warehouses are magnets for pollution from diesel trucks, trains, and planes that are constantly moving goods to and from the warehouses for the e-commerce giant. Paola Dela Cruz-Perez, a youth organizer for the nonprofit East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice said during a shareholder briefing held today.

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ChatGPT net worth: Is OpenAI the next tech behemoth?

Dataconomy

“ChatGPT net worth” is one of the most searched queries on the Internet. So, let’s dive in and explore the net worth of ChatGPT! ChatGPT net worth or OpenAI net worth? ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence language model, and therefore it does not have a net worth in the traditional sense.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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OpenAI can translate English into code with its new machine learning software Codex

The Verge

Codex is built on the top of GPT-3, OpenAI’s language generation model , which was trained on a sizable chunk of the internet, and as a result can generate and parse the written word in impressive ways. The real net effect is a lot of value for the ecosystem”. The real net effect is a lot of value for the ecosystem,” says Brockman. “At

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How to test what an AI model can — and shouldn’t — do

Vox

For example: When does reinforcement learning from human feedback — a key training technique used in language models like ChatGPT — inadvertently incentivize them to be untruthful ? What are the components of “self-awareness” in a model , and why do our training processes tend to produce models with high self-awareness?

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