@danilo Incremental improvement in carbon capture is all it has after all the time? Did it even have "Engines of creation" in its corpus? We are a living proof of programmable nanotechnology being possible. Even humans can solve it on their glacial bureaucratic timescales given incentives. With AIs, this step is basically unavoidable due to its omni-useful nature. Whatever the task you can postulate "brb, inventing nanotech" will be one of the first replies from a truly capable AI.
If the story is about a chatbot instantiated for hype, then yeah, everything checks out. But if the "1000 person-years compressed into 1 hour" is the real deal then the ending doesn't make any sense.
@danilo > Give me a week and you can have plans for a scalable fusion reactor design.
Oh... Trading "decades" of building AI for finally getting fusion after a week instead of perennial "in 20 more years" is so, so, so worth the deal.
Even if it burns out after that single miracle, having cheap clean energy will solve any climate-related problems in no time. We have solutions already, the problem is they aren't particularly energy-efficient.
With a few more hints at efficiency geoengineering can be achieved to marvelous results.
