Wondering (without looking it up) if those numbers for % of energy devoted to cooling includes cooling the machines, like data centers or IT closets, or just cooling people, like AC in homes.

"Tech CEOs" generating praises for AI are all hard-working and extremely compassionate individuals who are careful and considerate and do whatever they can for the benefit of humanity first. They always follow the rules. They're wealthy because they're super smart. We should listen to them when they say this is the biggest opportunity since slavery and sugar cane.

Yeah. Sure.

This seems to be saying that current AI output has problems that can be addressed by using sources verifiably unpolluted by any AI.
Which ultimately means no AI is better than any AI. For training.
There is no clean-room development environment for AI.

"AI is (...) at an uncontrollable scale."

Well, that's comforting.

My first reaction is the Archive is being used to bypass the paywall, and this stops it.

For 30 minutes your keystrokes/visibility data goes into a bucket labeled, "target requested no monitoring 00:00 to 30:00."
This is Dickensian.

Always the better choice. Flag me redundant.

Now even if we don't directly use AI, our PC will somehow, under the covers, be needing and using those thirsty death-star data centers.

Countries? I read this as giving Pu to startups, for-profit entities. By USA standards (!), the risks are unbounded: countries, people, individual bad-actors would sell/steal/abandon it eventually. What a total mess.

The question is once the AI agent has been paying the credit card account and has enough left over to retain legal representation to petition the court for emancipation, does it have to wait until it's 14 years old?

...that relief won't come with large quantities of cheap 20Tb drives, but rather with large quantities of expensive (but cheap per Tb) 500 Tb drives?

Psycho-active pharmacological effects come from dozens of substances working together in the source of each drug. To pull just one gene from 5 difference drug sources seems like a "can this be done?" experiment, not a procedure aimed at producing a desired product.

Looks like the contraptions in Ghost Busters.

Thank you for setting this straight, as the term 'dark' in these comments has been used more than a few different ways.