I had another 20 minutes on pushbike after getting off the bus. It most definitely didn't drop me off at my house.

I'd put that behaviour squarely in the "keeping up with the Jones'" camp. Get-ahead syndrome. Snobbishness even.

The children are missing out on valuable exercise.

I agree, but the problem is the decision makers have already fired far more than that on the hopes of AI making them money .... and to pay for the AI spending ... and future intended AI spending.

All without evidence of any of it paying off.

Once they've wrecked the companies they won't be in a position to hire anyone back.

Unless Trump's ready to abandon the problem he created and just let Iran have its way, the that situation isn't coming to a conclusion any time soon. And since Trump can't be trusted to honour anything he says, or signs, someone else will have to fix it after he's left office.

And the $400k was also at current heavily discounted rates where investor money is covering 99% of real costs.

No, the contention is that OpenAI is claiming the tool is solving when in reality it is only regurgitating a found solution.

LLMs do pretty well at being a search engine when they're illegally fed everything.

That probably implies a shit-ton of earlier extra large blue giants had quickly, in a few million years, gone supernova to become a shit-ton of large black-holes.

That's like saying driving without learning to drive is good enough because that person got there in the end. Never mind the carnage on the way.

The last thing we want is lazy contributors that don't do their own due diligence. Learn your craft.

I assume that's a joke suggestion. It's been demonstrated that attempts at LLM self-learning quickly goes to pot. Fully automating of AI reporting with AI filtering would do the same.

This whole situation also rings of LLMs' most distinct trait - they are great at regurgitating well trodden boilerplate code. Ask for something novel and you'll be getting a mostly empty template.

Actually, if trees are doing this then so will fruit and vegges.

You could have said that better. I presume you meant the environment got contaminated from lead in car exhaust fumes. Hence the "chickens coming home to roost" part.

Or what sort of filter would work?

There is already notable cases of commercial/industrial conversion from coal, diesel and even gas boilers where there is abundant supply of wood chips as waste from milling and wilding clean up. It makes for a positive local news story to say the boilers are going back to renewable wood.

It would be good to be able to remove lead contamination in a systematic way. Using exhaust filters could be one such way.

Here's hoping this is born out in the long term. The idea of Dark Energy being a new force never felt right.

That's what the CEOs are dreaming of ... Until the sloppy reality bites that is.

It's irrelevant anyway since this article is about what's wanted for AI data centres alone. They are rapidly placing enormous demands on the grid that greatly overloads available capacity. In fact, they would've expanded faster if they could've. All for some gimmicky chat bots.

So they should willingly contribute to the public good by wholly paying for not just the expansion they want themselves but also extra. Cover some of EV demands at the same time.