Principle of Oddmatches. If you have a million samples, you can expect to find one-in-a-million incidents.

So I gave this story no credence until The Atlantic denied it.

As someone who daily drives an EV and has done so for years, I'm obviously not overly paranoid about the battery fire issues out there. But the faster you charge a battery pack, the more heat gets generated. And the higher the battery pack's capacity, the more potential energy is contained inside it to cause a problem if it has a sudden failure.

While the same could be said about the potential energy in tanks of gasoline or diesel fuel? The challenge for EVs is that extinguishing battery fires is FAR more difficult to do. A number of race tracks have established a burn area to tow an EV with a battery fire to, so it can sit there as long as it needs to burn itself out. They don't even try to extinguish the fire. Clearly, that's not such a viable plan for a crowded interstate during rush hour.

I know there are a few experimental technologies out there, like the device a fire department can attach to the end of a hose, so it rolls under an EV and sprays water directly upwards, to cool a battery pack right above it. That's good stuff, but I'm not sure it's being adopted in the mainstream as quickly as battery pack capacities are increasing.

How about "offense", as in starting random wars of aggression with no justification at all?

Well, can you name one here in recent history?

Err...you do know that "Defense" of the nation is one of the few actual duties and activities given to the Federal Govt. by the Constitution, eh?

Billions for Drones is a good investment - as long as we are getting millions of them. If that is the cost of 1 drone, then no.

But it should also involve a decrease elsewhere. Cut the ridiculously stupid battleship and replace it with a Drone carrier.

It's interesting how these multi-billion-dollar AI companies all have such remarkably terrible UI.

The chatGPT makers are NOT among the smartest people, you have fallen victim to propaganda.

The technology behind ChatGPT was invented by:
  Dznuret Bahdanau, Kyunghyun Cho and Yoshua Bengi in
https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0473/ in May of 2016.

Everyone else just copied their work with minor improvements and adding immense amount of memory and processing.

Most of the guys who currently are in charge of the Large Language Models are more interested in money than in science. They are above average intelligence but are in no way the smartest people on the planet.

there is a difference between a scientist that invents and/or discovers science, the engineers that figure out how to implement the science, and both are different than the money men that keep the gravy train rolling.

The guy at the top makes business decisions and never ever invents stuff. The scientists are lucky if they get paid anything for inventing it. The engineers always get paid - but not as much as the money guy on top.

Where do you live where they still make phone books?
I have not seen one for a decade at least.

Chatbot does NOT only provide factual information. It is an AI that works by making predictions. Those predictions are sometimes false.

I am constantly surprised of the stupidity of people using it and the people making it.

Sport driving will not go away just the same.

I like and want a sports car for DAILY driving...

I like to drive....and every day when I get into it and fire up the engine, it's an adventure for me.

I don't just go from point A to point B....what a boring life that would make for....

I was listening to the original summary of this article...till they used the word "equity".

I immediately shut off anytime that word comes up.

Now...if they start once again to go for equality...well, then, I'll listen again.

I'll need it for my motorcycle.....hoping it all lasts till after I'm dead and gone, so I can enjoy the "old ways"....

I love paying $5 a gallon for high test and $7 for diesel. Although dear leader is telling me prices are lower than ever.

Just recently at Costco I paid $3.99/gallon for premium.....I live in LA in the New Orleans area.....hasn't gotten very bad here yet....

I am not wealthy by any definition, rent a flat, have no garage and no second car, just my Hyundai Inster. And will rather use public transport than get a car that burns fuel.

Aren't you tired of whining about how electric cars are bad since they are impractical in some edge cases that don't even apply to you over and over and over again in every slashdot discussion about electric cars? Or are you being paid for doing this?

With your references to living in a "flat" and taking public transport....you can NOT live in the US.

Somehow you don't understand that what you consider an "edge case" is NOT an edge case over here...it's real and widespread.

For most people

If they did (in the US), then most people would have them or be actively pursing them....