"We'll let our competitor XYZ try first."

Agree on most points. I'd love to see actual revenue from Nitro stuff, though. I'm sure if they charged a subscription to be a mod, though, a lot of sad people would pay up just for that privilege.

Not a bad idea, but given Google's propensity for making cheap alternatives and their ready capital, NewsCo might suddenly see competition from Google, directly. I mean, what's to stop them from making their own dedicated media company and cutting out the middle?

Look, if the bureaucrat wastrel is happy talking to the robot, instead of getting in my way, let them have it. 0 productivity is better than negative productivity.

I came here to say basically this.
AI is an extinction level threat to bureaucracies, and unions are a big one.

Recommendation probably gets reviewed by a junior, which means they don't know enough to validate, but then KPMG gets to assign accountability to the human, fire them for "their error," then tweak the bot some more.

Another facet of your final statement: You also can't measure Firm Specific Knowledge. Especially given how companies drink their own branding kool-aid and refuse to call things universal names (looking at you MicroStrategy, "attribute" is a very doctrinal term for databases, not some random term you put in your BI User Guide), companies often forget to measure the productive effect of understanding the cultural idiosyncrasies of their own company. I think the real big block to eternal contractors everywhere is going to be this plus CEO egos. They will want people who worship the local god of the brand. They will want cronies. We could all rant on this line, or other, actual practical lines of reasoning, like knowing the right people at a firm, office politics, preferred methods of documentation or coding, etc.

I wanted to try and formalize this (how to measure the value of an employee's firm specific knowledge), but my advisor said "Yeah, you and every other PhD." This was in 2018.

Or is it playing dumb?

First hit is free, like IBM.
AFAIK, IBM discounts nearly all licenses to the Feds. They focus on the license revenue after design and implementation, and leave all that tricky sustainment and user training/change to a prime contractor.

Question is if AWS wants to use that model, or do the consulting as well.

I'm curious if this was a play at damage mitigation. Holmes is in jail for fraud against the super-rich and tarnishing their reputations, not for endangering the lives of countless people who trusted her machines.

Every five names must be condensed into an acronym (Johnson-Owens-Hubert-Figgins-Mulaney becomes Johfm). This is how we'll get new names!

I feel this is the perfect time to insert the classic Mitch Hedberg joke:
Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only disease you can get yelled at for having.
Damn it Otto, you're an alcoholic!
Damn it Otto, you have Lupus!
One of those don't sound right.

Yup. Teams does not need to ever think that it is the default app for a word document or spreadsheet.

Makes me think of my graduate economics classes where a "reliable" valuation model is 60% accurate.

Ironically, the automakers would complain that the things they bought (legislators) aren't behaving as promised.