The word “can” Is doing some heavy lifting here. I mean, there is a difference between theoretically possible and actually being done.

Yes, but they only sell in packages of 6. So, who needs 120 Megatrons? In the long run it’s better to buy just what you need or you end up nuking cities you didn’t want to nuke originally.

The reason why Maduro is in power is the US. Plain and simple.

Hadn’t the US propped puppet right wing governments in Venezuela, there wouldn’t have been a need for a Chavez mesias.

The US doesn’t care about drugs. They care about Venezuelan oil and continue tal hegemony. That’s it.

So, it’s not only Trump. It’s every single government before him.

Show of hands: who expected high ethical standards by Nestle’s CEOs?

Yep, we don’t get to study the Nanjing masacre, for example unless we go out of our way to learn about it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre

I don’t think it’s just you. Like it wasn’t just one person thinking computers would make us dumb or the automobile making us lazy. I’m betting that someone somewhere thought that cooking food on the fire would make us weaker.

Technology has that ability to generate opposition from status quo.

And as with any technology, there are good uses, bad uses and frivolous uses.

Remember the awful nonsense web pages of the early 90’s?

I think AI will make the life’s of some of us easier. But I also think it will continue widening the digital divide.

The biggest concern is that, by nature, AI needs massive amounts of power which can only be paid by people with big resources and those people are training it. AI has the trainer’s bias.

However, end consumer AI is the tip of the iceberg. AI will succeed when we don’t even realize it’s there.