News at 11.

During the pandemic, when there was choice between studying remotely and not studying, the good thing to do was to provide laptops. Now that it's less needed, it's less needed.

How is this news? The money wasn't wasted, it was put to good and necessary use.

Thanks for posting. Already read that on Engadget, but it's good to have a reference here.

The list starts only somewhat questionable, then degrades into, as you say, "Mr. Adolf broadcasting". I liked that summary.

Sure, the researchers might have ignored some things, but then again, the writer hasn't done any research. FUD is easy to spread, and "human slop" is easy to write. Lots of people write FUD about AI, it's the in thing. I think that in general AI slop is better.

Found that funny.

No, it actually makes sense if a few of the employees were previous unemployed.

From the summary, it's clear that the people who used AI saw a great increase in productivity. That these people then chose to spend more time on work because of this is likely because the increased productivity excited them.

So basically, I don't see a problem here. AI working as promised and people being overly enthusiastic is quite a reasonable outcome. I've yet to read the full article, so there might be more there, but far as I'm concerned, that's quite an optimistic outcome.

doctors and physiologists have given up. "Just do the bare minimum. It's better than doing nothing."

The only problem I currently have is that I no longer think that a longer lifespan is beneficial. I have no will to live through WW3 or any other global or local upheaval or pandemic or whatnot. When growing up the future looked good. Then in the 90s people started imagining the future as dystopian. I disliked that notion, but recent years led me to think it's where we're going.

So I don't currently see extending my lifespan as something that's worth the effort.

I think you're misrepresenting the issue here. None of those Korean grunt workers will ever get to do more advanced creative work in Japan.

Unfortunately the original article is beyond a paywall, so I don't know if it's mentioned there, but I'd guess that "everyone" means "about 5% of the population".

"Linux celeb Lennart Poettering has left Microsoft and co-founded a new company... It is unclear why Poettering decided to leave Microsoft. We asked the company to comment but have not received a response."

The writer might have early onset of dementia, or perhaps early onset of AI syndrom.

Lot of people implying that hardware requirements would prevent people from switching. This might have been true for some, but apparently for many users it wasn't (which made sense; the TPM requirement is for very old PCs). So "ending" support for Windows 10 did what Microsoft wanted, moved users to Windows 11.

By the way, I just recently tried to update an old Windows 10 PC (of a family member), and Windows Update simply offered me to extend the support by a year.

People are largely idiots. They spend their time consuming media and trying to do selfish things for their enjoyment, while serving as wage slaves to corporations, where most of them do nothing of actual importance. AI hallucinations are nothing compared to humans' stupid beliefs. Even academia is filled with bad research and some outright fraud.

So it's not clear to me what is this "human level intelligence" that people want AI to aspire to.

The Trump administration has been pushing Canada away from US brands, so it's a question whether Tesla will have that much success.

It's a pity that the US is pushing the rest of the world into the arms of China, but it's hard at this point to tell which authoritarian regime will end up worse for the rest of us.

I think it's important to consider how AI will affect the job market, but I certainly don't expect anyone in the US, an ultra capitalistic country, to provide a solution for this problem, or even thing about it in reasonable terms.

There can't be a quick solution to this, because we don't fully know what AI will replace and what other jobs will be created by it. It's also clear to me that we will need to address job loss of older employees different from young ones. We might want government support while the transition to AI is taking place. The pace of change is too fast for that to work well without it. Again, I'd expect nothing from the US on that front.