AI has its uses: I would love to read AI written books in fantasy games (instead of the 4 page books we currently have) or talk to a AI in the next RPG game, hell it might even make better random generated quests and such things.

You know, places where hallucinations don’t matter.

AI as a search engine only makes sense when/if they ever find a way to avoid hallucinations.

Oh, we could probably create giant trees with selective breeding and gene editing. But those trees would still need hundreds of years to grow (and that’s a good thing, since it would store CO2 while growing) and if there are problems with the gene editing we would only notice after decades.

1. Labor
2. There are a lot of improvements in the making. Agents, memory, self-improvement. It’s a young technology.
3. Currently AI is not good enough to replace people. It’s good enough to improve productivity and will probably get better at that. This will be the reason why many people loose their jobs - there might be human level AI in the future but that’s hard to predict.
4. Build more power plants. This is already happening. A problem but not a impossible one.
5. That is just plain wrong. Try different models and get different results. What the future will bring is hard to predict but artificial data or self improving models might be the solution to the data problem. Time will tell.