...will be next. "You can only transfer knowledge about Pi or the Pythagorean theorem in a cave, while an ox is being sacrificed."

Exactly. Whenever people say to me: "being a programmer, you must be really smart"! I reply with "no, I've spent lots of time learning to be dumb -- but dumb in the same specific way as a computer. Only by being dumb in the same way as a computer can I know how to tell it what to do."

...'nuff said.

The father of one of my lifelong friends was an executive with a major auto manufacturer. He was fond of pointing out that, relative to many commodities, automobile prices increase at a very reasonable rate. The unstated problem, of course, is that if the cost of a loaf of bread doubles, it can be hardship, but most families can cut back somewhere to make up the few dollars. If the cost of a car doubles, it's suddenly completely out of reach of a lot of families. He was a smart guy, and I know he could understand this. However, having lived most of his life at considerably above the median income, he had no intuitive grasp of the problem. He could only see one side of the economic equation: the marketing side.

...are going to be replaced by patently obvious "using AI" patents.

...is what they used to call this.

...pop up on my windshield and offer to help me turn left?

Tested is great; in many ways it's actually better than Mythbusters, since Tested is geek and maker oriented instead of those things just being adjunct to a larger show.

Occam's razor (or maybe just cynicism) makes me doubt whether you're right in this case, but I think you've predicted a class of scenarios that is almost bound to occur in the not-to-distant future as machine learning takes hold. The ways ML finds to "cheat" will always be ahead of the safeguards on cheating.

Yep, the only thing tougher laws will do is increase the punishment for the intern who loses the blame lottery.

...it actually woke up a long, long time ago.

After all, learning long division is about as much fun as boot camp.

...when I was 10, on paper, before I learned standard algebra, and my first program for a "real" computer was a binary decimal conversion program. So yeah, I'm a digital native.

The criticism reminds me of the Gary Larsen cartoon where the guy is scolding his dog for doing a poor job mowing the yard.

Trust me, someone somewhere will leave it running for 293 years; it's what users do.