AI-assistants that direct people how to do things like indoor wiring and plumbing may cut down on trades, provided the legal landscape allows it. AI assistants can also help an advanced apprentice-or-higher level person do some work that is more advanced than his level would indicate. But then again, so can having an expert co-worker standing over your shoulder as you ask him questions.

But any time you've got a situation where "if things go south DURING the job, bad things happen" you want an expert there who can react faster than an AI-bot can tell a less experienced person "STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND TURN THAT KNOB CLOCKWISE 1/4 TURN RIGHT NOW OR YOU WILL HAVE AN EXPLOSION."

In other words, I don't think you'll have a huge loss of trades workers because of AI. Some reshuffling and some loss, maybe, but not a huge lost.

Robot machine operators that can operate machines with no people around or in other situations where a "bad event" may destroy equipment but not hurt or kill anyone may be good candidates for robots.

Administrative roles that pretty much operate on a "checklist" or "do it by the book" are candidates for automation, but be careful here: Some of these "do it by the book" roles are intended to do things like catch fraud. For these roles you want people who can "do it by the book" but who have a "spidey sense" to detect when someone is trying to "do the paperwork just right to get past the AI-robo-administrator" but who is in fact trying to do something bad, like steal money.

How about 2^30 seconds?

You mean every 33 minutes.

All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.

You can kill explorer.exe if you don't want a desktop.

Paper tapes from the 1750s are still readable if they were stored properly. Finding looms from that era are a different matter (but you could make a modern reproduction).

That's what the hippies said in the '60s, or so I've heard.

Why do these people even bother to make up bullshit excuses for taking our money? Leave the "AI" part out and just announce that you're writing yourself a few checks at the taxpayers' expense.

Take what you want. Take it all! Just stop lying about it. It's not like you're fooling us anyway.

Just last week I ordered a very banal 16Gb memory bank to upgrade a laptop. A few days later I saw that the delivery was for... May 2026 !!! Was the vendor site simply gone to shits or is that related, I have no idea, but I canceled and ordered somewhere else and I'm still waiting.

>Do you want Reavers?

You do realize some villiage's idiot out there is saying "Yes, please."

>A "Master Race" thing is being set up in the young

Will it be humans? Computers/AI? Aliens? Dolphins?

I'm hoping it will be us humans, but I hear the smart money is on the dolphins. At least they will be smart enough to leave this blue marble.

CowboyNeal wants me to do.

I'm doing my part! (Every time I see a window and a conveniently-nearby rock, I throw the rock at the window.)

There are probably people still using the same land line handsets that were installed 100+ years ago.*

* granted, the rotary-dial part may or may not work depending on your phone company, but a touch-tone phone from the 1960s works fine on most POTS land-lines or on VOIP with the right adapter or modem.

each additional year companies delay upgrading equipment results in a productivity decline of about one-third of a percent

How is that even measured? Someone needs to tell us how not having the latest and greatest phone reduces productivity. The four basic uses are making/receiving calls, texting, checking email, internet. How can a 2024 model phone possibly be that less "productive" than a 2025 model?

As for PCs, the vast majority of people use Word, Outlook, and a browser (usually the memory hog Chrome followed by Edge). Again, explain how a PC which is three years old reduces productivity in this day and age.

This article almost sounds like an ad to get people to buy things to keep the economy rolling rather than a serious discussion.

At least the professor in that movie had to think up his own lecture material.

With AI, not so much.

On the other hand, that teacher was limited by what he could fit in his own head.

In a few decades (or a few years?) a well-trained AI that has literally been trained in every important-and-still-relevant publication on the topic will be able to write a top-notch college-freshman-level lecture on topics that aren't rapidly evolving.