Mostly true but not entirely. For the moment at least there are still applications such as airplanes where fossil fuels have no reasonable alternative. But yes, a large number of things that we currently power by burning long-dead dinosaurs could just as well work with other sources of energy.

And yeah, I think the whole world looks at the Middle East and is thinking: If you all so much want to kill each other, why don't we just step back and let you?

Some born with golden spoon in mouth boy is learning the expensive way that no, money can NOT buy everything. The laws of physics don't care how rich you are or how much money you throw at them. :-)

Give religious fanatics tons of money and you end up with crap like this. These people have no connection to reality and a massively oversized ego.

Nice "improvement".

Use your imagination more. If you want the circle to grow, turn it into a cylinder. Eventually, you could call it a silo, and pay for it by shooting a TV series in it :)

Microsoft can't figure out a way to market/sell this so they're resorting to astroturfing

Strange that they can't figure this out. Have they asked their AI how to solve this problem? I assume it's as simple as creating an AI to simulate an influencer, that can influence people to use AI more regularly. No brainer, really. Does Microsoft even have any interns left who could be tasked with this?

Your negativity is why you've never been, and never will be, truly rich. This setback is only a failure of imagination! Time to tap a billionaire with a lot of tariff earnings he doesn't know what to do with, this ship of the desert will right itself up in no time!

We'll sneak some probes in to do real exploring.

...naming it after an irate puppy killer.

They should try something incremental rather than target proverbial moon-shots first. That way the investments are less risky. Their egos seem to want showy shit ASAP, no wonder they get along with the tinted person.

Even when you try to keep the implementation fairly practical just deciding that there should be a city somewhere without any historical logic for the presence of a city is a strategy with a pretty dubious success rate. Doesn't fail every time; but unless you get lucky and manage to find an attractive chunk of real estate that was missing nothing but critical mass; or you have a very specific purpose in mind like 'new administrative center without restive urban population' that allows you to just tell the civil service to live there unless they like 8 hour commutes and declare victory your odds aren't good.

In this case the Saudis started with that downer; picked a particularly grim environment, likely to get at least a couple of degrees grimmer in the comparatively near future, and treated aggressive deviations from practicality as a virtue. There's probably something they could have done to doom the plan harder; but I'm not sure offhand what it would have been.

Ever heard the song "I ain't gonna give nobody none of my Jelly Roll"?

Do you have any proof other than statistics which you decry in the case of AI that chemo works? What if my Dad just got weaker and weaker and the cancer didn't stop or slow down for long enough to get over the side effects?

What if medical diagnosis of depression and addiction led to a whole cocktail of antidepressants, and rehab, prescribed for my brother, yet he remained depressed and addicted till the end? What if instead of trying to treat him with AA homilies they'd legalized cocaine and taught him to manage it?

Am I free to talk about my own philosophy, or are my words alone so dangerous you must use censorship (and how well did that work on Trump, RFK Jr, etc.)?

Is that because I spent my youth trying to figure out how to do natural language processing, and now they solved it?

Do you realize how hard it was to get any AI to even understand your questions and generate natural language answers without grammatical mistakes, 100% of the time, before the Attention mechanism?