Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

We are not. Sorry. You are fucked and you did it yourself by voting us down this path with every tiny decision you make supporting it (except for that petition against a local data center that lets you pat yourself on the back despite you actually doing 100s of bad actions.)

For starters, we do not know what to address in a rapidly changing landscape. I can tell you that CAPTCHA and plumbing are tasks AI can't do...

You have kids who can't think or learn backed up by parents who don't even know how to be decent parents. The lack of basic skills or poor level of knowledge is already shocking but we are not failing enough of them before they get to me and I'm still failing more of them than ever. No real changes; no evolutionary change, just a sick culture and environment. The GRADE is the sole focus not subject mastery; credential over credibility. USA culture has become vapid on all fronts; cheating is acceptable as voting for a pedo/rapist felon president/dictator (you can SAY one thing but DO the opposite; no problem. hypocrisy seems to have become a virtue.)

You can't MAKE somebody learn outside of really basic things. Studies show using the stick harms problem solving abilities; what little exists in the 1st place. Problem solving is what the AI can't do at all, it only adapts answers and development thinking skills requires practice. The attention and mental energy required for difficult new lessons is not there in enough quantity to keep pace with past expectations. It was bad enough before trying to motivate students when they are flooded with motivators draining their dopamine. In college, just by the nature of being there in the first place precludes most the hurdles faced by teachers! (gradually as the masses enter the system this shifts.)

Blame the teachers/professors for everything and the schools...because that is literally one of main causes of the decline! Way to go! Externalize all YOUR problems like an MBA and now you too have fucked up your supply chain. The school has to compensate for everything wrong, including parenting your brats for you. If the students fail it must never be their fault. Not your perfect snowflake! This is the background problem festering for years before ChatGPT which couldn't have come at a worse time. These students don't study or do their homework (practice) except the slightly lower number of diligent disciplined students. Millennials were a problem until they grew up and realized more effort was required in their late 20s but they were AI free during their bad years...(we had workshops on their very real attitude problems.)

The great student of the past will continue to succeed despite the bad conditions; we couldn't transform the majority into becoming those disciplined students with generations of attempts, some emulation was possible. The amount of discipline required in today's environment is insane. Then you have places forcing AI use despite studies showing it harms already skilled thinkers.

I can tell you there is a mass depression over the situation in my circles. Some are trying to find solutions, but with so many variables and rapid change in the last few years it's been fruitless in the short term. Wait for things to settle and see what works is the general attitude. Humanity has always had troubles adapting new tech responsibly, bad applications come faster than wisdom does -- we're moving too quickly.

some background: https://youtu.be/BRD2EkhZZRI

I heard that a motion was filed to rename the case "Jarndyce and Jarndyce".

Well, dark matter and dark energy are about 95% of the cosmos, so apparently so.

Most the web was already slop for SEO or marketing.

I would think the quality of the HTML would improve since HTML generation software often writes poor quality HTML that is just good enough to work in Chrome. The frameworks out there violate tons of things and accessibility is going back down hill again. We have HTML giving in to all the invented html elements and standardizing common violations which became worse once we standardized error handling to the point people engineered around the error handling... almost instead of the specification. One of the reasons I stopped working (volunteer) on the spec (aside from w3 politics when they took it over and ruined/"normalized" the documentation.)

It's an engineering challenge but not that practical because purposeful design won at the speed task with the invention of the wheel. Most every narrow use case has a better solution than humans many broader ones as well. Even reasoning in a narrow scope is now likely best done by an AI (or will be) if it is repetitive enough to have the overwhelming amount of training data (something humans do way better at, finding a good heuristic from minimal data and applying unrelated data well.)

Fast is also an easier and a different problem from slow less controlled environments; such as navigating a child's bedroom avoiding lego being embedded in your foot or handling unsure footing when one of those toy mines finds it's way under foot.

The descendants of Ogg have renewed the ongoing lawsuit against the descendants of Zogg alleging that Ogg dropped a rock on Zoggs foot in a cave one fine day and it was really ouchie! Anthropologists are working around the clock trying to restore the cave paintings documenting the original complaint made to the tribal chief in 30,001 BCE.

That's because of all of the inbreeding. A is the CEO at one place where B sits on the board. Next door, B is the CEO and A sits on the board...

Exactly that. Many seem to have forgotten that hospitals were absolutely slammed early in the pandemic and that medical care in general suffered.

Aaand now now I'm imagining manic-depressives doing embroidery.

That would be a different Galactic Empire.

"A crushing lack of empathy, is the most dangerous behavioral trait that has ever emerged from a newl generation of humans."

Emerged? It's always been there. When you look back at history, empathy for those not part of your in-group has *always* been rare, sometimes close to non-existent.

Kill the mutant. Destroy the alien. Burn the heretic.

Not to mention an increase in damaging severe weather.

Even people who like it warmer probably don't like having their house blown away to Oz.

Unfortunately, it has a way of becoming your problem as they strain medical resources, continue to drive global warming and run around spreading their infectious diseases.