Let’s assume the demand for AI is only 20% of.what is being built. Doesn’t that mean that the other 80% can now be used for something useful (protein folding etc.)?

Does buying the book give you license to digitise it?

Does owning a digital copy of the book give you license to convert it into another format and copy it into a database?

Definitions of “Ownership” can be very different.

some dude out of Silicon Valley hears about this, and hacks up a system that just uses a $30 webcam, an AI model that detects fingers (trained exclusively on pudgy white fingers of Silicon Valley executives)

Hotdog / not hotdog

The US army is much larger and better equipped than the Canadian army.

What % of the US army would be happy to obey an order to invade Canada. At what level if seniority? What justification could be given to sure up the troops?

T2. Alien. Predator. John Wick.

You are missing a piece of the analogy.

After each key press the size of the letters change, so some become more likely to be hit than others.

How the size of the keys vary is the secret being sought, and this training requires many, many more monkeys than just producing Shakespeare.