I think the reactors to allegedly power AI are actually the basis for future domed / 5 minute cities, like in Ergo Proxy. I wrote a story where everyone was confined to a single giant building. Robots could leave, minimal human clearance to leave. Window rooms are higher status, everyone else gets hologragrams. Shops move around between the floors like elevators, some move on tracks around the outside. Underground tunnels with high speed or magnetic levitation + pneumatic rail connects the buildings.

Originally posted by Acetyl:

I think the reactors to allegedly power AI are actually the basis for future domed / 5 minute cities, like in Ergo Proxy. I wrote a story where everyone was confined to a single giant building. Robots could leave, minimal human clearance to leave. Window rooms are higher status, everyone else gets hologragrams. Shops move around between the floors like elevators, some move on tracks around the outside. Underground tunnels with high speed or magnetic levitation + pneumatic rail connects the buildings.

Did you publish the story?

Originally posted by Arvaos:

Originally posted by Acetyl:

I think the reactors to allegedly power AI are actually the basis for future domed / 5 minute cities, like in Ergo Proxy. I wrote a story where everyone was confined to a single giant building. Robots could leave, minimal human clearance to leave. Window rooms are higher status, everyone else gets hologragrams. Shops move around between the floors like elevators, some move on tracks around the outside. Underground tunnels with high speed or magnetic levitation + pneumatic rail connects the buildings.

Did you publish the story?

No, it's in a notebook somewhere. The bulk of the finer detail and the characters are stored in memory as sensory and "feeling" data. I think about it occaionally, it actually feels like a real place.

Originally posted by Arvaos:

It’s not just faster, it’s smarter.

No, it's just faster, smarter has no backing to be used here. Looking into the story, all that is happening is they can run the lab full time testing materials rather than having to wait an hour between experiments.

Originally posted by Arvaos:

Makes you wonder… how long until AI starts designing its own tech, hardware, or even game engines?

What do you guys think, amazing progress or a slippery slope to Skynet?

Also, AI isn't actually artificial intelligence in this instance. LLMs and generative models are not sentient. they can't think or do stuff for themselves. They're just more complicated algorithms or a better version of auto-complete text. So there is zero risk of Skynet happening at the moment unless the technology gets some huge breakthrough. But such a huge breakthrough would arguably be different technology altogether and not out auto-complete evolving into super auto-complete.

80% fake, AI models are prone to hallucinations when presented with complex problems give it another 30 years

Find a replacement for dangerous lithium batteries

Originally posted by HypersleepyNaputunia:

Find a replacement for dangerous lithium batteries

They were already pretty close to that with nickle batteries. The main crux of the issue is the material kind of solidifies after a few uses I thought. So they just need to figure out how to stop that.

Source? Pretty sure any practical breakthroughs will come from the nets of the largest deployments. Which means Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek and the others.

When we say "new materials", do we mean actual stuff? Or "materials" that can presently be described mathematically only?

Originally posted by Realigo Actual:

Source? Pretty sure any practical breakthroughs will come from the nets of the largest deployments. Which means Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek and the others.

When we say "new materials", do we mean actual stuff? Or "materials" that can presently be described mathematically only?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250714052105.htm

Originally posted by Realigo Actual:

When we say "new materials", do we mean actual stuff? Or "materials" that can presently be described mathematically only?

It means material combinations. Like actual real life material combination attempts. Trying to test every combination we can think of.

OP:

I hope for your sake that you are independently wealthy.

The economy likely already is in recession- and if all you do is create threads all day, well, best wishes!