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Advocates of the laws and journalists who cover the issue often neglect to ask what will replace plastic bags and what the environmental impact of that replacement will be. People still need bags and use them in various ways in their daily life. And the most common substitute, paper bags, may be just as bad or worse, depending on the environmental problem you are most concerned about.
That is leading to a split in the anti-bag movement. Some bills, like in Massachusetts, try to reduce the use of paper bags as well as plastic, but still favour paper. Others, like in New York City, treat all single-use bags equally. Even then, the question remains as to whether single-use bags are necessarily always worse than reusable ones.
Studies of bags’ environmental impacts over their life cycle have reached widely varying conclusions. Some are funded by plastic industry groups, like the ironically named American Progressive Bag Alliance. Even studies conducted with the purest of intentions depend on any number of assumptions. How many plastic bags are replaced by one cotton tote bag? If a plastic bag is reused in the home as the garbage bag in a bathroom waste bin, does that reduce its footprint by eliminating the need for another small plastic garbage bag?
If your chief concern is climate change, things get even muddier. One of the most comprehensive research papers on the environmental impact of bags, published in 2007 by an Australian state government agency, found that paper bags have a higher carbon footprint than plastic. That is primarily because more energy is required to produce and transport paper bags.
“People look at paper and say it’s degradable, therefore it’s much better for the environment, but it’s not in terms of climate change impact,” says David Tyler, a professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon who has examined the research on the environmental impact of bag use. The reasons for paper’s higher carbon footprint are complex but can mostly be understood as stemming from the fact that paper bags are much thicker than plastic bags. “Very broadly, carbon footprints are proportional to mass of an object,” says Tyler. For example, because paper bags take up so much more space, more trucks are needed to ship paper bags to a store than to ship plastic bags.
(Adapted from https://www.wired.com/)

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ChatGPT: New AI chatbot has everyone talking to it
A new chatbot has passed one million users in less than a week, the project behind it says. ChatGPT was publicly released on Wednesday by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research firm whose founders included Elon Musk. ChatGPT is the latest in a series of Als which the firm refers to as GPTS, an acronym which (10)_______ for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer.
To develop the system, an early version was fine-tuned through conversations with human trainers. The system also learned from access to Twitter data according to a tweet from Elon Musk, (11) ______ is no longer part of OpenAl's board. The Twitter boss wrote that he had paused access "for now". The results have impressed (12)________ people who have tried out the chatbot. OpenAl chief executive Sam Altman revealed the level of interest in the artificial conversationalist in a tweet. The project says the chat format allows the Al to answer "follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests".
A journalist for technology news site Mashable who tried out ChatGPT reported it is hard to provoke the model into saying offensive things. (13)_______ OpenAl warns that "ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible- sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers". Training the model to be more cautious, says the firm, causes I to decline to answer questions that it can answer correctly. Briefly questioned by the BBC for this article, ChatGPT revealed itself to be a cautious interviewee (14)__________ of expressing itself clearly and accurately in English.

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Stress is worry and anxiety in your life. Stress stops you from relaxing. It is the most common cause of heart disease and it can lead to cancer. Stress can cause poor concentration , can affect judgement and can result in accidents. Stress can be the cause of family break-ups, violence and even suicide. So what are the main causes of stress in a typical modern lifestyle?
A study has identified between 50 and 60 possible causes of stress. The most common cause of stress is having financial problems. People cannot do the things they want to do because they lack money. Debts are growing because mortgage repayments are increasing and credit card bills need to be paid. The cost of living is rising, and it all adds up to worry. Pressure and worry at work is another cause of stress. People worry that there is change and people worry when there is no change. They may feel that their boss does not understand them or that he makes life difficult for them.
People have found ways to deal with stress. Some do yoga or other forms of relaxation exercise to prevent them from becoming over-anxious, while others claim that taking part in hard physical activity helps them to work off stress. Everyone should make sure that they spend some time every day doing what makes them happy. Stress is a killer.

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