It is big'ish - 4GWh on an average day, or 500MW when the sun is shining, assuming 40% panel coverage. But no, it's not 7%. More like 0.014%. And the sheep or whatever they graze under it will be very happy - lots of shade, better grass.

As for your arithmetic - 2,400 acres is 3.75 sq mile. Or it's about 100 hectares, or 10 sq kilometres, or 10,000,000 sq meters. This is why the rest of the world is using metric. Imperial units make as much sense in todays world as "Drill, Baby, Drill".

Yea exactly. At least this way more information will be public. I bet they're padding their numbers a lot and I hope they deeply underestimate the ability of people to comb through their docs and find all the stuff worded to fool AI tools. I don't see how either Anthropic or OpenAI can sustain their current compute with their current subscriptions. I want to see both of them taken down several pegs before we see the disaster of a collapsing home computer industry.

Of every tv show where a bomb has a convenient countdown clock on it. In the old days it was an alarm clock wired to the bomb, then it was changed to a red digital timer because progress.

Anyone remember the movie V for Vendetta? Conveniently, V's bomb in the control room had a countdown clock so the guy who had no idea what he was doing knew how many seconds he had left.

Did the kid actually do anything wrong? He might have named it 2 years ago. It might have just been in the luggage and got turned on accidentally. Should we be blaming the kid or whatever idiot on the plane saw it on his or her bluetooth list and freaked out?

Educate yourself from an article you obviously didn't read? This is one of the most misunderstood and misused arguments in case law. You can tell how misused it is just by the introduction.

You might say waiting 2 days for a free delivery is super bad inconvenient,

Only whiners living in their parent's basement would say this. For nearly everything one could buy (excluding groceries), two days is insignificant. If you're in that much of a hurry to get something, either an emergency has come up or you're too stupid to plan ahead.

In your case it might simply be that there was not enough of this kind of tasks in the training data.

I agree in general, but not with this strong phrasing. I've let AI build a good amount of non-trivial code. But my consistent experience is that it works best when guided by an experienced coder who can correct it, and when implementing well-known algorithms rather than coming up with novel solutions.

Example: I let it write up a quadtree implementation in a language for which there was no ready solution online. It took 2-3 correcting prompts to get a good result. I could've done it myself but it would've likely taken a few hours to get it all right instead of the half or so hour it took with AI. The important part for me was that there's nothing unknown in how to implement a quadtree. All the AI needs to do is take the 100s of existing implementations and translate them into a different language.

True but too simplified. The Luddites had an entirely different motivation: The fact that factories now employed women and children at very low rates meant that the men lost their status in the family as bread winners and head of household. That was a major social disruption, which we don't have with AI.

I'd compare it more to teamsters or wagoners when cars became common. Your job is threatened by a different way of doing the same thing, a way to which your skills don't cleanly transition. Some choose to pick up the new tech, some want the old ways to persist.

In the end, coachmen became chauffeurs, because rich people prefer to be driven around oder driving themselves, no matter if it's a horse or an engine doing the pulling. But much fewer teamsters and wagoners became truck drivers.

Cleaning up whitespace is far different than a Weighted Random Code Generator creating stuff out of a number matrix that may or may not be correct, much of it being very difficult to read.

This is a threat of referral to criminal prosecution. Criminal prosecution is a government, not personal or corporate activity. What I say here is that such threats are empty.

People do get that wrong a lot though. Apparently even Microsoft, the FBI and US Attorneys these days.

BOTH of them? :-)

Everyone knows that 10x engineers validate inputs and carefully manage dependencies; so clearly there's no risk of unexpected behavior.

It seems worth noting that one of the items in Wyden's rather pointed inquiry is the fact that the feasibility of doing this is known to have been demonstrated for the DoD by outside people familiar with it at least as early as 2016; so while this is the first confirmed case of adversarial use it's the outcome of at least a decade of just ignoring the problem; and a significantly longer period of failing to reasonably anticipate the problem. It's not like there's No Such Agency you could ask about "how could you spy on someone with the internet even?" if you wanted to know how well or poorly readily available information matched a nation state signals intelligence apparatus.

Purely as a matter of cellphones being expensive and somewhat tepidly capable in the before times I assume that there was a period within living memory when merely telling people not to Gordon Gekko on their DynaTAC where the russians can hear you was good enough; but that would have clearly and rapidly been getting less true for at least a quarter century.

In the 2000s, you cold play Half-Life 2 Team Fortress, Counterstrike or any mods totally offline hosting your own server. Blizzard sent a cease and desist to bnetd and that open source project took everything down (I still have the ancient rpm somewhere) because people we using it to get past product key protection on Warcraft 3.

Consumers didn't demand local servers. Halo and Halo II were fully playable offline on your local network, between two xboxes. We have regressed so far and people have accepted so much from shitty game companies. It's not just about "release the damn server." It's "stop suing people for reverse engineering their own servers!"