The atomic bomb was created by a government effort with Manhattan Project. AI not so.

I guess you could argue AI is more a mathematical discovery than a technology. I mean the recent boom has been driven by the discovery that if you stick the internet into the transformers algorithm you get intelligent sounding results which is true regardless of the hardware involved.

I don't agree with the resource pessimism - I think it'll go more https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/business/a-world-where-al... though I guess time will tell on that one.