In a sense it can learn from mistakes ... that's surely what training models and adjusting weights is about really. Of course in the case of music the question of what counts as a "mistake" is moot... but you could try using the number of spotify downloads as a target; which probably quite a good thing is you're just concerned with commerciality.

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

I realise I might be descending into pointless pedantry here (but this is /. :) ) But the low energy density isn't a positive thing even in combination with the other factors. It's *just* the other factors that make these batteries attractive for this purpose.

Surely the point is that lower energy density is less important in some contexts, not that lower energy density makes them ideal?

Quite - it's like saying that putting an engine on your bicycle will make you a better cyclist...

We certainly need better grids, and grid storage; but that's not to say that a lot couldn't be done without that. The USA has very high rates of air conditioner usage compared with Europe. And often ACs are running when the sun is shining. Putting solar panels on the roof of every house in the US (and maybe a storage battery alongside) would be significant; and doesn't require continental scale anything...

A smaller provider it as likely to have an outage as one of the major cloud providers' data centres. The overall impact worldwide will be smaller, but if that's where your stuff is hosted then you don't really care about that.

In some sense it doesn't matter whether you care about climate change and the consequences of burning fossil fuels; often renewables are the best choice from a purely economic perspective.

It's more complicated than that tho' - sure building permits and zoning make it hard to build in Manhattan (for example); so why don't more people/businesses go somewhere else and reduce the demand?

If you've got bad apples and bad management you're probably going to make a mess of things in any case...

That's not the entire intent of copyright. Google (for example) don't make all their software available to others, but copyright in the source code exists and provides (some) legal protection. That's part of the "intent" of copyright - to prevent others using your stuff without your permission...

We seem to be saying that nobody is about to be replaced by an AI...

From what I understand it's much easier to get an LLM to make a painting or a novel than it is to get it to make a useful, working computer application of any reasonable size.

It depends - if the previous policy was that 100% remote working was OK, it could be that some people live so far away that in-person attendance for 2 days a week is not practical.

It's cheap because they get to dump their waste into the atmosphere for free, with serious consequences for everyone.

They also (in most places) pay far less tax on fuel than consumers pay on fuel for their cars - which doesn't really make any sense.