1. Force employees to use AI
2. Brag to press how AI is making co. lean & profitable
3. Investors fall for it, thinking co. is cutting edge
4. PROFIT!

Thai foodie: "The eels were delicious! 5 Stars!"
 

That's okay, Trump will invade Scotland and force them to speak English.

but you signed away your rights to all your data. Go suck a pod bay door, Dave."

So Mississippi put a paywall around their schools? /s

kids spend the majority of time goofing off on their computers, will anything change?

School laptops are generally devoid of "regular" games and toys, although kids usually invent ways to fiddle with what is there. (Perhaps that's a fringe educational benefit?)

But I agree technology can't (currently) replace old-fashioned human supervision.

The laptops could be considered a way for teachers and administrators to simplify communication and tracking of assignments and grades, which is probably a plus, but "making academically smarter students" is probably asking too much.

Every [dubious] commercial I have seen shows Copilot demonstrating HAL 9000 levels of intelligence and autonomy.

I'm sure Copilot can and will jam some people's pod-bay-doors, smart or not.

Is MS trying to fix the general industry, or just a company-specific problem?

As far as the general industry, if the "eat the low end" prediction is true, then it should eventually come to the following equilibrium: fewer will enter the field and eventually senior devs will retire and there won't be enough experienced devs in the industry. Demand for juniors will then go back up because companies have no other choice. The wages would then generally be the same as they are now, even if fewer people are actually in the field.

The industry tends to increase bloat when the cost of initial coding goes down, so perhaps total staff demand will also remain the same, being more stuff (bloat) needs maintenance.

Addendum 2: I fixed the stupid Unicode hiccups.

(Verse 1)
Very superposition
Particle's about to fall
Thirteen-minute decoherence
Broke the wave function wall
Seven years of bad data
The good state in your past
When you believe in things
That you can't observe, you're gonna break the mask
(Ooh, you're in a superposition)

(Chorus)
Superposition, quantum theory
If it's split, you'll get weary
When you're here and there at once
Everything is in a state
Superposition, Schrodinger's cat
Alive and dead, imagine that
When you believe in things
That you can't observe, you're gonna break the mask

(Verse 2)
Very superposition
Ladders 'bout to collapse
Schrodinger's cat is in the box
With a probability map
If you don't look, it's both
If you look, it's just one
When you believe in things
That you can't observe, you're gonna break the mask

(Bridge)
Observation... it makes the wavefunction collapse
Observation... brings you down to one reality
Yeah!

(Outro)
Superposition, it's all in your head
Alive and dead
(Fade out)
Superposition...

Addendum: I asked a bot to draft up lyrics for "Superposition". It doesn't fully rhyme, but a decent starting draft. AI sucks at a lot of things, but giving multiple rough-drafts is right up its alley.

(Verse 1)
Very superposition
Particleâ(TM)s about to fall
Thirteen-minute decoherence
Broke the wave function wall
Seven years of bad data
The good state in your past
When you believe in things
That you can't observe, you're gonna break the mask
(Ooh, you're in a superposition)

(Chorus)
Superposition, quantum theory
If itâ(TM)s split, you'll get weary
When you're here and there at once
Everything is in a state
Superposition, SchrÃdinger's cat
Alive and dead, imagine that
When you believe in things
That you can't observe, you're gonna break the mask

(Verse 2)
Very superposition
Ladders 'bout to collapse
SchrÃdinger's cat is in the box
With a probability map
If you don't look, itâ(TM)s both
If you look, itâ(TM)s just one
When you believe in things
That you can't observe, you're gonna break the mask

(Bridge)
Observation... it makes the wavefunction collapse
Observation... brings you down to one reality
Yeah!

(Outro)
Superposition, it's all in your head
Alive and dead
(Fade out)
Superposition...

By observing the world you entangle with it [thus losing the quantum view]

So Stevie Wonder knows quantum? I wonder* if he can rewrite "Superstition" into "Superposition"? Maybe it started out that way, but he realized he had to dumb it down for us Newtonian muggles.

* Pun perhaps intended, but telling you for sure would kill Stevie's cat.

I wonder if a video game can be devised where one has to think in quantum concepts to win. After playing a while quantum rules start to feel natural.

You wouldn't have to try to understand it, trial and error would naturally "teach" it to you. That's how toddlers learn about everyday physics: by playing with it and getting bruised by it. (In this case bruises are merely lost points.)

"Quantum Odyssey" allegedly tries that. Anybody kicked its tires?

like all its numbers are smeared together in a superposition.

Hologram-esque?

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Who is a specific recent Democrat example?