With 1 billion terminal sessions made per week to its mainframe cloud, IBM spins off its thriving hosted mainframe business. The IPO is valued at 1 Trillion dollars.

Then the microprocessor and PC revolution breaks.

In violation of "Federal anti-discrimination laws" seems to have been the key clause. It's unlikely you are in violation.

Why not have your lawyer list out all your DEI initiatives to the granting body and say "are you OK with this?". An OK by the granting makes it unlikely they can claw it back.

It should just disclose the data and put a disclaimer on how it disagree at the end of the report

If I want to learn (say), how to do Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, I need to scrounge around learning materials online, or signup for a Statistics degree.

  Why not create a framework for the user's AI to contact the university AI, formulate a learning plan involving university course content and past assignments, and maybe 3rd party content. A course tailored to the user like a well fitting suit, readied in seconds and costing a few bucks.

To convert the micro-courses to a micro-credential, the user pays a bit more and takes an online exam proctored by AI-monitored cameras.

Every technology that bosses think is useful, they pursue and *implement* by integrating it into their business process. So Ford implemented assembly lines for the Model T. Companies implemented virtual machines in data centers. Google implemented Kubernetes-like software across its internal operations (?)

Why is implementing AI technology your headache? Especially if the only interface you have is a prompt? Implementation is your boss's job.

I think certain development tools have integrated AI well. The business world, in general, has not.

AI too has its occasional hallucinations and general weirdness. So perhaps two independent AIs?

On a different note, AI cameras aren't everywhere. Perhaps, mobile AI camera (s).

Or two, body-worn, shoulder-mounted AI cameras+microphones that have full authority to independently change camera angle.

"A chip on each shoulder" :-)

"Combined with a form of fusion... the machines had found all the energy they would ever need."

Apparently, Amazon meetings have an empty chair. It is supposed to represent the customer in the room.

Do they now use the chair for 'Pin the tail on the donkey' games?

From personal experience, Prime video has become unusable after I refused their shakedown to pay extra to skip ads.

Yet, you'll have no problem with a Ring camera.

People need support and monitoring where they are vulnerable. You may be vulnerable to a criminal at your door, but feel confident in your home with your door closed.

Many elderly are vulnerable within their home, and would accept and benefit from monitoring you find intrusive. Especially if they were assured that no human would watch the video unless the monitoring AI flagged trouble.

Of course, ideally you would always have two nurses monitoring each other.

This is Intel CEO, Hock Tan, speaking.When you have an aggressive and combative CEO, executives at this man's level become flesh puppets channeling the CEO's business vision. Yes, a business needs vision but this behaviour is a bit sad because it harms creative thinking.

Yes, Intel could nickel and dime their open-source efforts. That is true but has little relevance. Intel fell behind in hardware. Focus on the hardware ocean Intel - not the little software boat floating on it.

Back when Europe was innovative, could companies fire workers more easily?

Oh absolutely. Most code generation will be via prompt, or, at the very least, involve AI 'pair programmer' squinting at your code as you type and peppering you with feedback.

"I don't think you want to do that Al!"
"Let's step back for a second; what are you trying to do here?"

Ultimately, AI should translate programs on the fly.

Say, I know only Perl well, but I want to edit a Linux kernel device driver written in C. So I fire up 'aidlin', my favourite source code editor. aidlin reads the C file, but what I see on screen is pure Perl - a Perl representation of the C program. As I edit, the program translates Perl to C. The edited C source is eventually compiled, linked, etc.

In such a world, whose popularity did my little edit session contribute to? C or Perl?
I'd say it's Perl.

Code and search queries won't suffice anymore to rank popularity.. We'd need the programming equivalent of the set top boxes used in Neilson ratings to see what languages are the humans actually using.

Customers? We fired.them too. They kept demanding these pesky "goods and services" in exchange for cash..Our AI predicted we won't need them. Instead we do this other thing AI told us to...

"work insane hours"

Yes, but at what intensity of work?

Are they intensively conceptualising, cross-referencing, designing, analysing, critiquing themselves before others, holding 2-down and 1-down meetings?

  Or are they flicking through reports, glancing at dashboards, lazily delegating, unfairly haranguing and generally ordering people around at insane hours?

I guess for most CEOs it falls between these two extremes..
The more intensively you work, the less you tend to be lord it over your fellow man.