Yeah, there's two main problems:

1) People entering the wrong fields. For example, medicine really needs workers, at all levels, but not enough people are going into it.

2) Certain manual labour fields, like field work and home construction, because... well, I think we all know why there's a shortage of workers in those fields.

You can't really say it's bad code when nobody else has managed to do any better.

It's bad, but Microsoft has a awfully large number of lines of code to run through Mythos or whatever (whether they need that many is a whole other discussion). A more useful metric on overall code quality would be how many bugs are being found per 10k lines of code compared to their peers (including FLOSS); e.g. if Microsoft ran 10m SLOC through Mythos to get those 570 bugs, and a smaller project ran 1m SLOC and got 57 bugs, then you could reasonably argue that their code quality is about on a par with the smaller project. It's still Apples to Oranges though, because some coding solutions are going to be much more challenging to code, and therefore more likely to contain bugs.

On the upside, we're probably going to get several months of this while everyone with access to Mythos et al runs their existing code through it and integrates into their release processes for new code, and the end result will be things being much harder for all the bad actors in the world. Even if you don't use the improved code yourself, that's hopefully going to have a significant impact on the number and size of all the botnets out there, and that's a net benefit to everyone apart from the bad actors.

Ideally we should adjust clocks/schedules so that peak electricity demand lines up with peak solar output.

Beyond that, human beings need sunshine to stay healthy, so there are probably some limits on how much we adjust schedules relative to daylight.

It doesn't, they just turned AI on it for the first time.

Linux is going through the same thing, only with less good AI and more slowly.

By "calculate" you mean add one? To be honest, the mental burden isn't that great.

It has screens everywhere, but the primary interface is voice.

From OpenAI's perspective, developing the tech to format information for that screen would delay the release. ChatGPT often screws it up.

My phone and computers let me set the timezone to UTC. For interacting with everyone else I just remember the offset.

I'm working on a pirate low frequency time signal transmitter for my house. If that works out I may switch back, if I can be bothered to replace a couple of dumb clocks with radio controlled movements.

I keep all my clocks on UTC now. I can't be bothered to change them twice a year.

I'm just hoping that they abandon leap seconds as well. If another one comes I might switch to TAI.

They are probably thinking that they want to be like the computer on the Starship Enterprise. A kind of ambient AI device that you can have a natural conversation with anywhere, anytime.

That was Google's original goal too.

Funny how it apparently takes a communist to balance the budget, while still delivering on the socialist policies he promised.

EVs are at least manageable, since most people don't need to charge at a specific time. In the UK we have a system where you get a discount if you let the electricity supplier decide when charging happens. You tell them how much charge you need and by what time.

Most of the world doesn't have DST. It's really just Europe and the US. Somehow they manage.

To be honest I'm not sure there is a really good solution to this. It's very difficult to implement a backup system where you can rebuild a corporate network and devices quickly and without significant data loss. Getting as close as possible is expensive too.

Or let's put this another way. Show of hands - how many of you "spicy autocorrect" / "stochastic parrot" people had "AI will start mass-solving Erdos problems" on your forecast list a couple years back? Huh, none of you? Fascinating!

Take some time to reassess your priors. And while you do so, understand that, yes, they are doing logic / reasoning.