Artificial Intelligence

[M1 Abrams]

(quoting the Wired article on Elon Musk) ...Optimus will upend the job market and free humanity from the drudgery of work.

One suspects that many of the world's richest and most powerful are eagerly looking forward to the day when they are freed from the drudgery of paying any more money to us lowly, unworthy, ungrateful flesh-and-blood parasites. Once liberated from their fetters, they will rise to a level of Super Genius that will even dwarf that of Wile E. Coyote.

With great benevolence, though, they will pave the way to remove all drudgery from our lives...

 

[bobpbx]

One suspects that many of the world's richest and most powerful are eagerly looking forward to the day when they are freed from the drudgery of paying any more money to us lowly, unworthy, ungrateful flesh-and-blood parasites. Once liberated from their fetters, they will rise to a level of Super Genius that will even dwarf that of Wile E. Coyote.

With great benevolence, though, they will pave the way to remove all drudgery from our lives...

I had a spat with a fellow in the comments forum below a WSJ article about Amazon laying off thousands because they are installing robots in a couple locations. This fellow said:

Meh, dead wood being replaced by AI.
The buggy whip makers want their (jobs) back.
Innovate or perish.

I can understand the layoffs, but don't kick people when they are down.

 

[Boyd]

Those layoffs are just the tip of a very big iceberg at Amazon. I suppose you could compare this to how the automobile disrupted everything in the horse-based economy. That affected not only the companies that made buggies but also buggy whip makers, blacksmiths, etc.

But that seems like the wrong analogy for what's happening at Amazon. People are still riding in buggies and buying buggy whips but they will be built by AI and robots now. That's more like the industrial revolution, where they still made the same products but machines did it faster and cheaper. And now, everything is happening at such an accelerated pace, the results might be more like a wildfire instead of a slow burn that took 100 years.

 

[Boyd]

No doubt some AI fans will celebrate this, but so far, it's not going over so well for Microsoft

Microsoft's current head of Windows, Pavan Davuluri, has posted on X saying that the future of the platform is one that is "evolving into an agentic OS," weeks after the company reorganized the Windows division internally to better position it to bring an AI-powered Windows to market.​

[...]​

The post has seen major pushback from people online, with various opinions all stating roughly the same thing. Nobody wants an AI powered version of Windows. "Stop this non-sense. No one wants this," reads one post. "Bro, straight up, nobody wants this," reads another.​

Windows president says platform is "evolving into an agentic OS," gets cooked in the replies — "Straight up, nobody wants this"

Microsoft's current Windows lead Pavan Davuluri has tweeted that the future of Windows will be one that evolves into an agentic OS, but has received significant pushback online.

www.windowscentral.com

 

[manumuskin]

I simply cannot imagine risking losing my job over an expense report fraud. Some people deserve to be fired.

This guy was fired

Col. Crawford Burn Site Monument - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

oh,wait! I think your speaking of something else!

 

[M1 Abrams]

For the price of enduring a truly painful remark, I did learn a little about the life and career of William Crawford. He was a longtime friend of George Washington. The poor man was nearly sixty, and had recently retired from military service. He was called out of retirement to lead an expedition against native Americans aligned with the British who were conducting raids along the Sandusky River. Along with Crawford, his son, son-in-law, and nephew were also killed. Many other members of the expedition lost their lives as well.

More information on Colonel Crawford can be found here:

https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/william-crawford

(I also found a podcast on the Crawford Expedition, but as this is a family-friendly site, it is not included here. Some of the details are truly horrific.)

 

[bobpbx]

No doubt some AI fans will celebrate this, but so far, it's not going over so well for Microsoft

Microsoft's current head of Windows, Pavan Davuluri, has posted on X saying that the future of the platform is one that is "evolving into an agentic OS," weeks after the company reorganized the Windows division internally to better position it to bring an AI-powered Windows to market.​

[...]​

The post has seen major pushback from people online, with various opinions all stating roughly the same thing. Nobody wants an AI powered version of Windows. "Stop this non-sense. No one wants this," reads one post. "Bro, straight up, nobody wants this," reads another.​

Windows president says platform is "evolving into an agentic OS," gets cooked in the replies — "Straight up, nobody wants this"

Microsoft's current Windows lead Pavan Davuluri has tweeted that the future of Windows will be one that evolves into an agentic OS, but has received significant pushback online.

www.windowscentral.com

I don't think I want that. I like overall control. I'm not keen on sitting here talking to my computer.

 

[Boyd]

Study shows state and local opposition to new data centers is gaining steam

“As political resistance builds and local organizing becomes more coordinated, this is now a sustained and intensifying trend,” the authors of the new study wrote.

www.nbcnews.com