They didn't bother to install a co-pilot, a seat for the co-pilot, passengers, seats for the passengers, the hybrid gen set as you say, fuel for the gen set, and who knows if they installed a full production sized battery or just a smaller one, so the $5 of electricity point is completely meaningless. It looks to be sort of a prototype " Prius of aircraft ". Just enough battery to get from stopped at a light and up to speed before the engine kicks in and then regenerative braking to recharge the battery when you stop for the next stop light. ( I wonder if the motors provide regen during decent ) Still quite an achievement, and who knows what improvements solid state batteries will bring when they are fully developed. If the concept takes off ( no pun intended but recognized ) airports may require more power than AI. Good thing SMRs are under major development.

Not just the Chinese. When the memory manufacturers begin to realize ( which could already be happening ) that bankrupt AI companies won't be able to pay for all those future orders, they'll be making contingency plans to be able to turn back around on a dime. That might even give the Chinese second thoughts about massive new factories.

No, but you can always smoke it.

One first step would be that customer confidential data is only stored on the company's owned and controlled hardware, not in a cloud, and that the company executives are personally liable for breaches. If nothing else that would limit breaches to one company's customers.

It's like Christmas for lawyers

What we're seeing is the superiority of open source over proprietary code. With open source, anyone can see the code, sick an AI on it and find many extreme edge case bugs, report them, and they get fixed. With proprietary code, only the corporation can see the code. Their AIs probably find even more bugs, because fewer eyes have ever looked for them in the past, but there is much less incentive for the corporations to fix them quickly. They control the publication and they control how much resource ( i.e. $ ) to throw at fixing them. Far more bugs in closed source software are likely to remain to be exploited.

Just goes to prove that most 10-15 year olds are smarter than the average politician, and probably more honest too.

Actually the media are not in bed with Trump. Rather the media's owners, control Trump. The media are just one of the whips that their owners use to get the people to demand that Trump toe their line.

Well, if it's not a good idea to train AIs on slop, perhaps we shouldn't train children on it either. Remove the p/cs from schools and replace them with books, preferably those written without all that woke shit.

Don't forget what Snowden revealed. The NSA routinely covers its tracks by salting its code with comments in foreign languages. This might actually be evidence of your tax dollars at work, or not. We'll probably never know for sure unfortunately. That, and AI Slop, are the sad part. We don't know what to believe, only that most of what we see online, or on the mainstream media, is fake.

It would be a bit embarrassing to prove to your bosses ( the politicians ) that they're brain damaged too. Scientist "Kids are damaged because they do x" Politician "Oh, but I do that too"

I know ! You do the coding and leave writing the documentation to the AI. When the documentation turns out to be inadequate and / or shit, as it usually is, that's not your department. :-)

So you'll need a new machine with a more expensive processor, more memory, burning more electricity, to provide a service that it thinks you need, but that you may or may not need, which might or might not work correctly, using real or hallucinated data, and the next version won't run on the hardware you bought last year, but probably haven't finished paying for yet.

If any company were to come close to a commercial quantum computer, the government would appropriate it while trashing it publicly. The would want a monopoly on reading everyone else's encrypted data.

But why in God's name did the foundation need 2,500 of them just to spend Billykins money ? Its investment portfolio is presumably just one stock. Doesn't take a whole department to manage one stock. They don't need R&D, design, production, quality control, warehousing, sales, marketing, customer service, accounts receivable, or accounts payable. They all must be lobbyists, and HR of course to pay them, and lawyers, lots and lots of lawyers.