You should read them again! It’s been ages since I read them myself, but as I recall, a great many of 3-Laws oriented stories hinge around a robot(ai) using one of the 3 laws to justify breaking the 3 laws, via some clever thesaurus/logic manipulation.

God, my Mother somehow ended up with OneDrive on her mac, and I honestly have no idea how to help her with her computer anymore. Its like a file scrambler; nothing is where you think it is, and when you go looking for it snd finally put it where you want it, something changes and now your files are being saved to a new mystery location. I hate DropBox also, but even DropBox is a less obnoxious option.

I have a USB adaptor for my cordless power tool batteries. I can charge my phone from dead 3 times off one of them with it, and I have half a dozen of them charged and ready to go for work at any given moment. They are available for every brand of cordless power tool I could remember to look up, and feature: USB ports.

To paraphrase what someone said about AI art/writing:

“Why should I bother to learn something no one is willing to bother to teach?”

The original quote is: “Why should I read something no one could be bothered to write?” Talking about AI news articles and books, but I think it applies here.

Your comment reminds me of the 3DTV phase/marketing craze. It was ‘neat’ and ‘new’ and everyone kinda wanted to try it once, but very few people adopted it as a daily use. Sure, it was a technical achievement, sure, it was ‘the new hotness’, but most people just could not find the value in it enough to make it stick.
AI seems to be following a similar path, with people trying it out, ask a few questions, generate a few video memes, and then loose interest.
Obviously, there are people who actually find it useful, and continue using it, the question is, is there *enough* of them to support the AI industry long term, after the casuals wander off to be entertained elsewhere.

The Q&A responses from the “Publicist” seem suspiciously like ai chatbot responses.

*exactly!*
All the things he is talking about is essentially trying to use AI to replace the most irritating employee in any industry: Middle Managers.
They don’t do anything but interpret what the actual manager says, with an added layer of complexity and personal vendettas.

I minored in Computer Science in college, and now I wish I’d done something else. I used to love everything computer related, and now I just dread dealing with anything computer related. The direction everything has gone with burying everything behind a veneer of automation and cloud integration was infuriating enough, and now with AI being glued on top of it all has made completing what used to be simple tasks for me incredibly frustrating.

Most of your examples are based on what I would call ‘controlled environment cases’.
For carpenters and welders, you cite robotics and AI powered tooling in workshops; ignoring the vast bulk of those two trades which is done ‘in the field’ ie, construction of houses, pipeline and structural welding.
The other examples, you mainly cite ‘planning and optimization’ which is essentially ‘middle management’. The actual day to day work of janitors, farmers, electricians, plumbers, bricklayers, road building crews, hair dressers, dog walkers, grocery stockers, and countless other jobs remain strictly in the realm of fully human.
And most of those workers would barely notice if AI replaced the middle manager above them. Many already get their assignments and tasks delivered to them by email or app on a tablet.
And speaking as someone who is in the agriculture industry, you are vesting to much credit in how far modern tech has pushed into the industry. While the ‘ai’ tools you described technically *exist*, adoption is *far* from wide spread. Most of the farmers I know still think the GPS steering in tractors is new fangled enough.

The last flight I took, (back in 2019) had something like this going on. A strong chemical fume coming from the air vents for the entire flight, very harsh, like an industrial solvent. Gave me a hell of a headache, and made it impossible to sleep on the flight, which was unfortunate, as it was a late flight, and I had a 4 hour drive to make on landing.

I left a feedback on the airline website about it, but never heard anything back from them on it.

I’ve been thinking about this, and have sort of come to the conclusion that; deliberately or not, these AI companies have poisoned the well when it comes to knowledge and information on the internet.
Not long ago, it took a great deal of time, a fair bit of skill, and fairly costly software to fake a photograph. It took movie studio budgets to fake video. Now, in virtually no time at all, random people can make ‘convincing’ AI generated pictures and video to back up outrageous lies, and spread them far and wide across social media.
Remember the near-panic someone created with the AI pics of Trump being arrested? Those pics were briefly circulated with the breathtaking claim that Trump was shot by police while resisting arrest.
Both sides of social media were foaming at the mouth for a minute before it all got debunked, but the main takeaway is, if a random dipshit with a midjourney account can start a shitstorm like that, it makes it pretty hard to trust *anything* online now.
“Pics or it didn’t happen” no longer proves anything, and as other posters here have noted, 50% of the output of AI in their workflow is crap and wrong and needs correcting, and with AI being baked into every popular search engine, the fountain of human knowledge has essentially been pissed in.
Now, the question remains, did they piss in the fountain on purpose, or were they just drunk on their own hubris, and didn’t realize they were pissing in the fountain.

No one mentions the hellish security nightmare QR codes are. Hell, the articles I’ve read pretty much can be summed up with the advice “Never scan a QR code.”
The fact it is so trivial to print out a custom QR code with god knows what encoded in it, and slap it over any public facing QR code should be enough to make anyone second guess scanning one.

Sure seems like these “AI” companies sure spend an awful lot of money, and then charge a lot of money, just to help students badly cheat at their homework.

I still believe the costs of this crap will eternally outweigh any potential future benefit.

Not just coal and bunker fuel emissions, our capability to do *anything* about wildfires has dramatically increased. We actively work to put out most wildfires, whereas, less than 150 years ago, any forest fire that started pretty much burned until the weather put it out, or it burned into a sparse enough area that it ran out of fuel. I’m guessing that the planet has the cleanest air, particulate wise, it has had since the last extinction level event cleared up.

Look up “Solar Constant”, so I don’t have to re-post an entire Wikipedia page here. That’ll explain as much as we know about the power from the sun.