AI has no answers to unanswerable questions. There is no way to efficiently capture CO2 and methane. The only sensible thing is to avoid pumping it into the atmosphere.

The problem is that they try to "fix" it the same way the vet "fixes" your dog.

That's one part of the problem.

Another, far more serious one, is that the input quality is deteriorating with every generation of AI. The first AI models only had human generated input to digest. Granted, some of that was complete drivel, but in general, the information level was pretty good. Sure, you also had conspiracy nuttery running rampart, but it was clearly labeled as such because conspiracy nutters usually label it THE TRUTH or some similar bull, so there's a consistent pattern that AI can latch onto.

The output AI generated was, well, hit or miss. It may be ok, it may be good or it may be one of the dreaded "hallucinations". Output that looks ok at face value but when you read on, you notice that it's complete garbage. Not just when it comes to accuracy, but simply weird, random ramblings of a madman. Something you'd get from the diary of an inmate of a mental asylum. It was hard to tell that from the rest, though.

And what's even harder is to tell AI generated content from human generated content. It's very hard to detect it with automated tools (like, say, AI), as we have seen with the difficulties universities had with students using AI to write their papers.

What adds to the problem is that AI is way faster at generating content than humans. Actually, faster even than humans could audit and vet it. Flooding the internet with AI garbage has become a realistic threat.

And newer models of AI will now use that drivel as input for the next round of AI model learning. And the quality will go down.

With a hint of bad luck, we'll wake up in a world where reality and what is being said about it has nothing to do anymore since most content is AI generated, based on the fever dreams and hallucinations of prior AI generations, with far too little "real" input to be more than a statistical noise element, eliminated by an AI model that considers that insignificant portion of diverging information the error rather than the last vestiges of actual information.

It's from the metastasis. What else would it be?

By selling its shares when they're high, then buying them back when they dropped onto the floor.

Let's see... May I suggest somewhere around 2040? But just pencil it for now, I haven't heard back from Bob yet whether he's available.

Let's make this an action-item in our next online meeting. Just tell me a few days before when it is so I can find a reason not to be there.

Never is ok, but just pencil it for now, I might have to reschedule, I still haven't heard back from Bob about when he'd have time.

I'll send my AI to work it out with your AI.

A new buzzword-compliant busywork C-Level position for the spouse of the CEO, I guess.

Care to tell me why I'd want to spend time with coworkers? I have friends that serve that function well enough.

When I'm working, I want to get work done. When I'm hanging out with friends, I want to have a good time. These two things don't mix well. Neither function improves by mixing them. You get less work done by hanging out at work and you get less enjoyment out of spending your leisure time working.

I like to see people I want to spend time with from time to time. That may or may not be coworkers, but it is by no means a given that I want to see coworkers.

Please get it into your head that the Venn diagram of "coworker" and "friend" is not a circle. There may be an intersect, but it may just as well be two distinct circles with no overlap. I need to work with these people. I don't need to like them.

And I sure as all hell won't get lonely if I don't have to meet them! That's what I have that other circle called "friends" for. These are the people I hang out with and enjoy some time together.

Learn to differentiate between work and leisure! It's not the same, and it never will or even should be!

This right there.

The only reason to EVER go to an office is to meet the 2-3 people you need to have a face2face meeting for whatever reason.

The VERY LAST thing you need is that everyone and their dog is in the office and it's yet again impossible to book a meeting room because the very important assholes already booked them solid (just like it was before Covid) on the off chance that they might need one.

Then find something.

Quite frankly, I need a job to get money. I'm quite capable of keeping myself occupied, I don't need an occupation.

Isn't that the bull that Apple is peddling? That they're here for the "creative" people?

They are selling the notion that you can be creative with their junk. Whether you can be or not doesn't matter at all, it's the feeling that matters.

When it comes to decision making, the average CEO could be replaced by a magic-8-ball without any quality loss in those decisions.

And I'm not exactly convinced that this isn't already the way they come up with their decisions, with the human just acting as the flow heater.