AI: The Good & The Bad

So many nuances to AI - here's a compilation of resources:

• Cheap AI chatbots transform medical diagnoses in places with limited care
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Data Center Infrastructure in the United States (2025)

The map of Data Center Infrastructure in the United States, 2025 is just that: a classic 'static' map.

Cracking Ice!

Cool satellite image animation shared by NASA!

Food Deserts / Grocery Deserts

Great web map: Mapping Food Deserts and Grocery Store Consolidation

Now...if they would only offer a way to download the data!

The Oldest Globe

As seen on Maps Mania: the world’s oldest surviving terrestrial globe from 1492 that obivously does not yet include the Americas!

Letters From The Earth

Cool project & something that I have been thinking about: sure, we have plenty of data & facts, but now can those be made a) meaningful to b) promote reasonable actions?

Letters From The Earth uses AI to translate 'boring' data into expressive text = If the Earth could describe its own day using the same signals we collect about it, what would it say?

Their Core Hypothesis: Data contains expressive qualities beyond analytics, and AI can translate those qualities into new modalities that invite more people to participate in understanding and meaning.

Fair Point!