Looking at the answer felt like grading a students paper that was trying to hand wave over the fact they knew the answer was wrong. If you have to go through that level of detail it is honestly faster to just do it yourself.

I was messing about and chat gpt 4o mini asking some statistical questions. It was knowledgeable that the sum of probabilities was supposed to sum to 1 but could not give me the correct answers. They were slightly off but it would equate them to 1. Very unfortunate and unhelpful in practice.

It was all done in excel. It has a built in map chart that has been quite helpful for visualizations. I have used it for world and USA data but had to do some name clean up when dealing with countries and territories as the names can be a little political and not “register” at times.

Numerical data with each column color coded green being "best" and red being "worst" for the given item.

In case any one was curious I pulled the 2022 fertility data from Wikipedia (lifetime births per woman) and the 2022 marriage rates (marriages per 1000 people) from the CDC. I then ranked each state from 1->51 (D.C.) for each item and threw the sum into a heat map. Darker green would be more $$$.

I wonder the greater implications of more work being phased out on peoples livelihoods. It seems like growth in the recent past has been based on extracting more out of the consumers and not necessarily providing better or more service. i.e. RealPage. I don't seem to see much on this angle of AI...

Things like this do make me wonder about the larger societal implications what work is. Businesses exist now to provide services, however you need money and for most this means a job to function in todays world. The cost of living has priced a people with full employment in my town out of housing.

They say the initial money will go to build data centers and electricity generation. Currently being touted as “infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence”

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