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The Talon 2nd Edition
The Talon
The Great Impact of Artificial Intelligence
Lillee Martin
Artificial Intelligence is on the rise across the globe, and hidden around every corner: infiltrating the very structure of businesses, educational institutions, corporations, etc. The prospect of AI has been widely debated for decades, with fears revolving around societally destructive robots and corrupt technology manifesting across the media being compared to the nearly secretive—but ridiculously prominent—presence of its product everywhere you look.
Many people in schools and workplaces, both students and professionals, utilize resources like ChatGPT to optimize efficiency and thoroughness within their work—benefitting from many of its features. ChatGPT as a website provides tools like image-generation, accurate presentation of tangible concepts, realistic conversational interactions, and standard quality written material. These are a handful of example tasks that are further developing and evolving alongside other AI applications with the significant increase in AI studies and utilization.
While these resources present as incredibly useful in sophisticated business and educational environments, it has its downsides—and, spoiler alert, they outweigh the positives more than you could possibly begin to imagine. According to Earth.org Picture and studies done by the University of California, Riverside, generative AI practices like ChatGPT utilize a ridiculous amount of freshwater in order to simply function, stating: “for a simple conversation of 20-50 questions, the water consumed is equivalent to a 500ml bottle, making the total water footprint for inference substantial considering its billions of users.” Earth.org Picture also claims that this software expels more than double the amount of carbon dioxide than a single person’s entire annual carbon dioxide emissions (including that of both automobiles and living facilities), amounting to greater than 8.4 tons each year.
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From Making History to Teaching It: Armanino's Origin Story
Samantha Kelly
Mr. Armanino, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, has been chosen for this edition's teacher spotlight because of his importance to the school community. Mr. Armanino is in his final year of college and is going to graduate with his masters in history this upcoming spring. On top of that, he balances teaching three different history classes, coaching baseball, and being one of four union representatives.
Before diving deeper, it’s important to understand what led him down the path of pursuing education. In an interview, he was asked about the decisions that led to where he was now. He explained that being a teacher wasn’t always the plan.
Lauren Badger
“I’m just done with this crap,” says senior Sophia regarding senioritis, picking up her kid backpack. As many seniors enter the 2025-26 school year, they’re hit with, “a supposed affliction characterized by a decline in motivation or performance.” This is known as senioritis, and as a senior, it feels like dealing with built up burnout that has accumulated over the rest of my high school career. Not to mention, application deadlines feel like a looming tsunami, waiting to crash over the senior class. Senior students deal with not only the stress of applications and deciding their future paths, but also finding a balance between work hours, homework, sports, and their social life. However, some students are not afflicted with the disease of senioritis, instead hit with a sense of urgency and motivation that the rest of the grade lacks.