With each AI(whatever) announcement these companies are starting to look hollower and hollower! Maybe today's AI companies are just riding the wave. And when it hits the beach all we will be left with is advanced automation.
Today individuals work in government to enrich themselves, their families and friends by feeding off public tax dollars. The days of selfless public service dropped by the wayside long ago. Now it is all about power and getting rich at the expense of those they rule and dominate.
The moment I need to tell Ubuntu's AI to stay out of my stuff I'm gone. Been a solid run with Ubuntu LTS versions but there are other options available.
"Just as bad when more than a 1/3 of the web was WordPress or whatever the CMS du jour is." You maybe under estimating the shear volume of AI slop being generated today.
The Internet is being buried with AI generated slop being created, indexed, summarized and regurgitated as even more AI slop to be consumed by AI bots to generate even more AI slop. With anything really creative, innovative, informative and true being the needle in the proverbial haystack and effectively hidden.
I think of expensive tech that is not viable in the real world for the foreseeable future. Not sure about the geothermal(does it scale outside of special cases?), but I don't include nuclear in this group.