What if you were China and didn't like American companies being successful? Wouldn't that be an incentive to leak the information yourself?

Why did he rob banks? Cuz that's where the money is. Same thing is going on here. Set up the big hydrocarbon companies as the bad guy and the trial lawyers will have a field day. Never mind that everybody uses hydrocarbons and there's no way humanity will ever be able to do without them. What you need to do is torpedo the lawyers.

No, you pay to check a bag because the baggage handlers want more money.

The company has yet to get on a regular schedule for launches let alone build one for massive satellite deployment.

Authors got a taste of what the music industry went through when Napster came along. The music industry wanted to ensure its gravy train by being able to charge people for every use instance. Authors want that same gravy train. They don't get paid every time someone reads their book no matter who bought it in the first place. They are really impeding access to information. What if I had an idea for a book and I managed to get it published only to discover that another author sued me for plagiarism simply because I couldn't possible read every other book to find out if my idea was original. Same thing goes for research papers. AI could help you avoid wasting time duplicating effort. But if it can't because the existing authors won't allow it, that's bullshit.

WTF, Ars Technica? Did you really have to tie the English language into a Gordian Knot?

Jeez, climate change FUD is easier to sell than alien invasion.

"Climate change" is the ultimate topic for manipulation of the public. None of these studies can be verified through experimentation. They're all based on projections, models, and estimates. They quickly fade from the mind of the public but are easily reconstituted once funding runs low.

Notice how no climate catastrophe fanatics are demanding that China stop doing what they're doing.

Economic bubbles happen when there is too much bullshit in the marketplace either from hype or from entities putting their thumb on the scale. Dotcom was all about hype. Nothing tangible or usable, just sales pitches. The 08 financial panic was born out of a combination of hype that housing values were real and mortgages were legit.

AI is already proving itself to be useful. It's the next step in the progression of accessibility and application of knowledge. Up until the early 90s, when you needed to find out about something, you went to a library. Maybe that library had the information you were looking for if you could find it in the card catalog. If you were lucky and had access (key word there) to a big library, the information might be there but in most cases it doesn't have everything. Then there's the pitfall of some asshat checking out the one book you needed and it won't be due back for a week or more assuming that the aforementioned asshat returned it on time.
The internet democratized knowledge and information. Search engines made finding what you need a lot easier and you didn't have to be colocated with the information. Some of that information did have a shelf life though. And it also introduced the paywall.
AI is attempting to not just democratize but also to give information context and understand the context you're using to ask questions. At a minimum, it replaces hours of Google searching. It also attempts to intuit solutions to questions that don't have a pre-existing answer. What limits it is the almighty dollar. People want to be able to make money off the information or expertise they have in perpetuity and that isn't going to work in a future of AI. That's really it's only big risk. Everything else is just a matter of capacity.

Right, because nobody can drive out of state and purchase an unrestricted printer. So stupid.

Good: Madalorian (mostly), Andor, Rogue One
Bad: Ahsoka, Obi-wan Kenobi
Ugly: The Acolyte. (No... just... no...)

The rest are debatable. A lot also has to do with who are the showrunners.

Outside the Star Wars universe, Indy 5 was uninspiring. Too much reliance on virtual sets and devoid of the scope that the first and third films had.
Personally, I'd like to see The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles make a comeback as well as Amazing Stories.

From an engineering perspective, taking a drug that just curbs your appetite is a hack. Your metabolic rate is encoded into your DNA. That explains why among people who eat exactly the same thing and have the same amount of activity don't weigh the same (or have the same BMI or whatever metric you choose to use). It also explains why some people who were at a reasonable weight and gained weight for a specific reason are able to lose it. By the same token, going to a gym or becoming a slave to a diet never works. The correct (and obvious) solution is to reprogram the metabolic rate once, quickly and permanently. I'll bet that CRISPR could do this. But that's a product that would never get approved by any company because it doesn't fit the subscription business model. I'm guessing that health insurance companies would never approve of such a treatment either because then they can't pretend that your weight justifies a higher insurance premium.

It's been said that world leaders who play Go are more formidable than those who play chess. Now I understand why.

Asking for a friend.