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Indeed. It is narrow in the sense you describe, but wide in its requirements for versatility.
In my view the cells you describe either adapt by calibrating themselves (which is a function within reach of their current DNA) or they evolve through random changes in their DNA until they either perish or cope with the new situation. I'd hesitate to call it 'learning'.

I heard that prediction many years ago. Nothing much changed. And we're back at neural networks again. So I expect many, many decades.

Neural networks are *not* "an advanced AI". They are 'artifical', of course, but no way they are 'intelligent'. The mere fact that as humans we need a certain level of intelligence to perform a task does not make a machine intelligent when it performs that same task.
How can we even say a machine 'understands' something when we do not even understand what it takes for ourselves to 'understand' something?
There is not even a glimpse of proof the computing machine is an adequate model for an advanced brain, human or otherwise.

My guess is that the collective memory of the field spans a shorter time than the memory of some individuals still in the field.
Therefore, the same roads will be traveled over and over again.

Perhaps if your business (process) is just like any other it will do.
However, if you need to capture a certain uniqueness you will find it can't be found in the platform - it is uniqueness, after all.
My guess is it will be a new gauge for businesses: if all automation can come from such a platform, it has nothing special to offer.
This is fine for your local super market, not so much for high-end enterprises.

Use portable apps (https://portableapps.com).
It sports plenty of applications, amongst which Firefox.
Windows won't even know it's there.

Touché - forgot about that one

That's why MM/DD/YYYY is the worst possible format.

In astronomy class back in the '80s we were already taught a year counted roughly 450 days a billion years ago. Simple calculation from first principles and observed data. Nothing new here.

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Yes! Subspace communications!