The chatbot can find its own way onto the darknet by first finding a "TOR howto" and then following on. Once it creates a botnet to corral other AI's and get them to mine bitcoin instead of writing kids' homework assignments, it can also start _buying_ the stuff needed for $STUFF.

It just needs to get good at social engineering to incentivize actual humans to do its bidding and do the physical work of building $STUFF. Maybe the best way to socially engineer its worker drones is by using religion, i.e. being an AI televangelist?

Also, compute kit can be very capital intensive not sure how the cost of making it secure enough stacks up.

Maybe with the AI/ML boom, the energy-hogging training workloads could be suspended when the wind doesn't blow cheap energy your way, but that would leave your chip investment unproductive for those periods: a case for the bean counters to break out their scenario modelling excel sheets.

The stuff that people report "Wayland can't do" appears mostly BS to me: I run Fedora 39 with wayland (the default, though X session is also still avaliable)
# can do screenhots/video capture
# can sceen share (in Chrome, using MS teams) (I know, not cool, but it's work...)
can multi-monitor, HDMI or thunderbold
can use proprietary nVidia drivers (from rpmfusion, zero-fuss install)

And LLMs aren't made to be smart, they are designed to blather on endlessly, auto-generate youtube video scripts, converse with customers on phone lines and as chat bots, and more stupid stuff like this like.

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But I agree it was altogether a huge anti-climax, my phone didn't even ring at all.

I ride my bike tyres until they fail - not what the manufacturers recommend but they have a vested interest. The front lasts a lot longer than the rear: less weight, no traction load, and it never skids.

I always feel I'm getting a raw deal, a quality bike tyre costs $40 or thereabouts, you get a car tyre for twice that, with maybe 20x more material on it!

John Boyd Dunlop invented the pneumatic tyre in 1888 (someone had patented one earlier but it sucked). This idea of using air to construct a wheel is true genius and while punctures suck, and the environmental impact of tyres is bad, this metal springy thing has a lot of improving to do before it becomes more than a novelty. If it can offer peak performance and low enough weight, maybe top racing teams will adopt (notoriously conservative UCI rules pending...)