Given this history of AI making shit up, students won't learn that lesson until they see their score.

If the situation hasn't changed (and it hasn't), there is no more urgency than there was before. Only the claims of urgency have, and that's because people are no longer responding to the last crisis hysteria.

That doesn't mean we can't use it along the way.

California water politics puts animals above people, even if it kills people, and lies about it.

Yes. We have to. Because it's not about crisis, it's about leading the charge (and getting rich doing it) against crisis. You can't lead the charge against crisis if there is no crisis. There will - literally - always be another crisis, 100% of the time. There's far too much money involved.

Actually, about half is used for "environmental" purposes, which is to say, it is allowed to flow out to the sea. Agriculture is the second biggest category, but there would be no shortage in our lifetimes without the "environmental" part.

I think it'd be obvious their problem is . . . AI.

It also can't protect you from the insurgents who want to remove your tribe from the gene pool, or force you at sword point to convert to their brand of wingnuttery, then slit your throat so you can't relapse into sin. Or just steal whatever you make on the posh foreign job.

There are a lot of reasons people emigrate. Jobs aren't even a major one for mass emigration.

Or someone knows what a freak of nature his phone addiction makes him, and is desperately trying to feel more normal by projecting his failings onto everyone.

Probably the same way whack-a-doodle-doo nutjob Avi Loeb did. Go to Harvard, act crazy, and voila!

If it's an internet enabled microwave attached to an AI, you're causing trauma to the advertising company behind it by denying them the opportunity to shove more ads down your throat. Does that count?

That is, at best, a secondary goal. Their goal in this is to get rid of employees, which are the second biggest cost in a retail operation.

And they'll regret it, because it will drive people away even faster than the poorly trained employees pushing "this month's special" too hard. When you scream at employees, they stop. AI won't. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, even after you're dead!

You say that like you believe that's and unintended consequence.

Who wants this? The competitors of anyone using it. Because the more our competitors use crap like this, the more of their customers will come to us.

This past year has been rough for retail (which is why so many companies are looking to cut costs with magic AI pixies like this), but we've doubled down on real customer service, and my end of year bonus was a month and a half's pay (on top of the quarterly bonuses that have average about half of that each)).

So I sincerely hope that all our competitors hitch their wagon to this boondoggle. I really do.

Ads in the free version? They can lick my balls.

Lots of people have visions of things that aren't here. They're called "hallucinations," and it's the one human ability that AI has mastered fully.

Perhaps that joke about Zuck being a robot isn't entirely a joke after all.