Exactly. Toys are supposed to be about imagination. Barbie used to be a character in a kid's own private world -- now all the stories will be generated by AI. All downside, no upside.

Not easy to create a buzz about something if you're not even willing to say what it is. Steve Jobs could do it, but these guys are looking lame by comparison.

As contrasted with Starship, which ain't lookin so good at the moment. Not to deny the amazing accomplishments of SpaceX, but space is hard.

I definitely agree with the first part of what you said. There's an awful lot of hand-waving going on here. Trying to put a timeline on things that have yet to be discovered or invented is dumb, no matter what the credentials of the person making the claims.

Sure, a copywriter for a gardening site doesn't seem like an essential function for society. I'm not into gardening myself, so I probably wouldn't miss her.

So what do you do for a living? Do you do it sitting in front of a computer? What percentage of jobs would you define as "knowledge work?" Do you realize how many of those jobs have gone away, and how many more will disappear in the near future? You don't have to buy the AI hype about "superintelligence" to understand that what it can do right now is causing massive disruption, and this is only a glimpse of what's coming down the pike.

I switched to Notepad++ years ago and never looked back.

Simply have AI write the missing books

Of course I didn't have a subscription in the first place, so that might be a little awkward

Fortunately, there's plenty of 3rd party utilities you can use instead of File Explorer.
MS has invested so much in AI that it's gonna have to stuff it into everything to justify the investment to shareholders, even though customers are lukewarm at best, and often downright hostile (like me).

AI interviewers will be hiring AI applicants, because the tokens will match.

The only source cited for this story is "two people who declined to be named." No mention of what kind of agency or authority they came from. This is either crappy journalism, a plant, or AI. Maybe all three.

Yeah, I can see why they don't quote taxes up front. But delivery fees are just another artificial junk charge that they can set to any amount they want. Nice loophole, they should pay that lawyer a big bonus.

Apple has been causing grave, irreparable harm to other businesses and consumers for many years, a fact which has now been established in a court of law.

Maybe it's time to even the playing field a bit.

$111M is couch change if you're trying to design and manufacture a new EV from scratch. That's probably not enough to even complete the design, let alone build the factory, the tooling, etc.

"To achieve its goals, the federal government and U.S.-based researchers will also need to work with allies and partners around the world."

I think that horse has already left the barn.