Nobody's forcing you to update or to use the AI features. You can still install Office 2003 if that's the version you want.

Your effort estimates are incorrect. To crack an AES 256 password would take many years, not just hours. https://www.progress.com/blogs.... By contrast, RC4 takes minutes to hours to crack.

Even your use case is dangerous. I recently tried to get GitHub Copilot to "convert jQuery .ajax calls to use 'fetch'". It got into ALL kinds of trouble. I had to undo the change and re-apply it, one function at a time, after hand-tailoring my own function wrapping the "fetch" call.

A search engine, plus automation of Stack Overflow. Yeah, pretty much.

Some rough math...a runway that can handle a 747 requires about 150 acres to be cleared. That's about 1/4 of a square mile, or about 0.6 square km. You're not going to have to clear vast tracts of land, even to land the biggest plane.

If you didn't want it or need it, why did you buy it in the first place?

They couldn't get enough people to pay the monthly fee.

This is them trying to get people hooked, and then later they'll bring back the fees. It's called a loss leader.

All that busywork your boss makes you do...is a perfect job for AI. Or summarizing that agonizingly long email thread that somebody forwards to you and asks, "What do you think about this?" Or taking that text you wrote and making it more formal.

Personally, I find AI to be useful for taking some of the dumbest work tasks and making them go away.

We came *this* close to getting rid of TikTok!

Now that we're getting past the first exuberant rush of hype, people are starting to try to build real stuff with AI. And they're running into walls in every direction. Maybe the AI apocalypse will be upon us one day, but not for a while yet.

If you're "babysitting" AI code writing, you're letting it do too much.

For little stuff, I find it literally slower to wait for AI to spit out the code I asked for, than to just type it myself. If you're using AI for big stuff, you are asking for problems.

What AI is actually good for, is stuff where you know exactly what to do, but might not know the exact syntax or the exact API signature. It can also help with writing unit tests and other drudge work.

But this idea of people "babysitting AI"--I don't really buy it. It can't actually do that much on its own.

Indeed. As you can see from the photos in the articles you linked, they did not clear "vast swaths" of forest to build the wind farms. They cleared just enough to build the roads, leaving 99% of the trees intact. This new airplane doesn't change that.

I mean, they're already taking over social media. So let them have it. They can spout their nonsense all day long, and other AIs can reply all day long. Then the rest of us can go about life with less interference from AI, because AI will be too busy to bother with us humans.

Do a Google search for images of wind farms. https://www.google.com/search?... How many are placed in forests?

Most wind farms are placed in deserts and grasslands, not in forests. The trees tend to interfere with wind.

Well of course they can see it. Just like Microsoft can see what Windows users are doing, and Apple can see what Mac users are doing, and so on.

If a company uses a software vendor of ANY kind, they are entrusting that vendor with it's internal data and workings. It's kind of how software works. This isn't new with AI.