Re: Windows-on-ARM Laptop Is A “Frequently-Returned Item” On Amazon

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:21:42 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

I don't need the AI myself but I'm already seeing some teachers
clamoring about Co-Pilot. I'm getting the feeling that they're using the
tool to create exercises or exams based on material found in an online
textbook. It's actually not a bad use, but it only highlights the fact
that all of us could and probably will be replaced by AI in the future.

https://sierra.ai/customers/weightwatchers

A friend's wife was replaced by a chat-bot. It was a good gig while it
lasted, work remotely smoothing ruffled feathers of unhappy clients. The
friend is a project manager and can see the handwriting on the wall for
that career too.

In a way it's come full circle. I've often thought that computers have
created more work than they have saved. Now they have figured out how to
eliminate all the busy-work they created.

I once visited a museum that highlighted the household labor saving
devices that started appearing in the late 19th century. The exhibit also
pointed out that housewives with more free time on their hands dreamed up
new ways to fill it. (hopefully without chardonnay and pills).

Nothing has changed. I've seen beautiful decorations done by Native
Americans using dyed porcupine quills before the whites showed up with
beads. They obviously weren't struggling for existence. After commercial
beads became available and they didn't have to spend time chasing
porcupines, they probably decorated even more stuff.