This. The UK privatised the water companies decades ago and they've spent all that time stealing the profits as dividends rather than investing in infrastrucure. Shame on the UK government for letting them get away with it for all this time. Now it's reaching crisis point and they've told the government that they need billions in tax payers' money to fix all the decades of under investment. We have record sewage discharges into water courses, parts of London that can't be developed on because there isn't enough supply water, and common water rashioning during the summer. Meanwhile, most winters we've had PLENTY of rain.

Either google is lying or their front and centre AI results (combined with enshitified results) are not swaying people to use AI of normal results. Either way it's not good. Let's be honest, it's most likely both.

If a mathematician is performing original work, their job cannot be replaced by an AI for the foreseeable future. AIs (ie. LLMs) cannot actually solve novel problems. Their only "intelligence" is that they arrive at solutions that can be interpolated from a large set of similar solutions in their training data. Any job that involves repetition of a well known theme is ripe for automation, regardless of AI. Either stick to jobs that require original thought or do something manual that can't be automated like a trade.

I'd recommend watching the video further up. The founder explains that it is a totally closed system. CO2 is pumped in when the plant is made, where it is kept indefinitely. He also explains that the heat generated during compression is captured and applied during decompression.

to get any sort of drug approved, let alone a toxic chemical. Utter nonsense

Well done to openai for scraping all available code from the internet and amalgamating bits of it produce an apparently working program. We should also give credit to be many thousands of real people who manually curate their LLMs day after day. Let us not forget that there is minimal intelligence in current LLMs. Their only intelligence is that they can interpolate between datapoints to give outputs that are somewhere in between them. They have no ability to operate outside of their training data and therefore cannot provide truly novel solutions. Until they can show evidence genuinely novel solutions, and there is so far no fruitful research on this, I'm not going to worry about losing my job to an LLM.

This! AI has amazing uses in pattern matching applications, like spotting cancers in X-rays better than humans (and much much more), but it feels like the real power of AI has been lost in the noise of "we can replace your workers" narrative. Unfortunately, top level managers are always on the lookout for "we can cut your costs by reducing your workforce", which is (IMO) the origin of the techbro hype that's coming from all directions.

I always thought foreign aid was more about power and influence and being nice.

Silicon valley tech giants seem to be engineering an AI tech bubble, using employees as cannon fodder to give the illusion that AI in its current form can replace employees. Take microsoft as an example, they commanded their software devs to develop 50% of their code using AI, then fired a load of them with the public announcement that their AI product is so good they can fire their own staff. If AI can take over software jobs (which I personally don't believe will be the case), I'd expect to see an initial increase in jobs, primarily requesting AI skills, then a gradual decrease in jobs as those positions get replaced by AI. What the silicon valley narrative appears to be is "Our AI tools can replace your empoyees NOW!!!, fire your employees and use the savings to buy our AI offering".

Yeah exactly! Come back when it can write quality unit and integration tests that can be used to prove that the new code works the same way as the old.

I'd bet money that they have a huge list of fallback options, all kept secret of course. As soon as one gets uncovered, just issue a pretend apology while switching to the next fallback in the list.

Another great answer. Thanks

Great answer. Thanks

How can a passive device convert a lower frequency and therefore lower energy light into a higher energy light? Where does the extra energy come from?

It's a classic pitch to the middle classes. Get them worried about something and they'll gladly buy the expensive solution. In UK you can get a dumb phone for £13.50 (18usd). https://www.argos.co.uk/produc...