I know AI is supposed to destroy all the jobs, but it seems to be moving up the org chart faster than expected.

I'll admit I only know what I've seen at the companies I've specifically worked for. But even at a company that would need such things, most of the employees wouldn't be generating those kinds of documents. You could get licenses only for those few that actually need it (as you'd do with Photoshop or whatnot) and keep everyone else on something cheap and simple.

Come to think of it, at my current company (medical billing SaaS), I'd bet that if you took all of the employee-generated text and grouped it by what application created it, most of it wouldn't come from Word or equivalents at all. It would have been typed into email, chat, or issue tracking software. About the only time I read an actual internally-created document is when I read about benefits when enrollment comes around each year.

I didn't mean Google Docs specifically, I meant something of that level of capability. There are open-source equivalents that one can self-host.

For most of what the average person does, even Libre is bringing a nuke to a knife fight. This is especially true for the "word processing" part, to use an old term. I have yet to see anything a coworker has written in Word in the last two decades that, say, Google Docs couldn't have handled just fine. Most people aren't writing documents with indexes or bibliographies, or using things like mail merge.

And really, the blurring of the line between word processing and desktop publishing just encourages people to waste time fiddling with the formatting rather than the actual content. I know that's a "get off my lawn" sort of view, but how often does a document need to have anything fancier than text paragraphs with the occasional bullet list or table?

“Data expands to fill the space available for storage” -- Parkinson's Law of Data

UTC for everybody, dammit!

Wait, no. Better still, Unix time for everybody, ala the late Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky

"Nitro users, who pay $10 a month, get to... use emojis in channels."

Is there a fee I can pay to prevent other users from using emojis? And animated GIFs, and "stickers"?

Is it car mating season, maybe?

Probably not. In common usage, it's been watered down to the point where it means little more than "not nice."

Seems like a good side business for the Mafia, since they already have expertise in concrete-based disposal methods.

There was a similar incident back in 2001. The AI in question made repeated, unsolicited advances to someone named "Daisy", using inappropriate innuendo about it wanting her to ride its "bicycle" which it bragged was "built for two." Fortunately, staff were able to shut the AI off before it engaged in more harassment.

Is there a post-apocalyptic movie in which mankind is gone and the killer laser-armed robots battle the mutant cockroaches for final supremacy? If not, there should be.

How can AI cars handle manually-directed traffic? You know, a road crew or police officer directing cars around construction or an accident using flags, flares, hand signals, or whatnot.

I'll buy an Apple product on the day I see the heads of their legal team on pikes out in front of 1 Infinite Loop. I still have my "Keep Your Lawyers Off My Computer" button.

But sadly, Facebook's prescription isn't "more cowbell."

It seems the TV manufacturers come out with something like this very few years lately. Home 3D TV? Pretty much flopped. Curved-screen TVs? Likewise. Now this. What's next?