You have the mad max dystopia, the star trek utopia, and humanity is doomed to forever waddle in the middle between these two opposites. “Kinda sucks” indeed.

Hey, you can actually buy flying cars. They’re at least 10x as expensive as a regular car so not affordable to buy for anyone, need a pilot license and usually a short runway. In other words, flying cars turned out to be just as crappy as artificial intelligence.

No officer, this is not a pirated movie. It’s generated by an AI model I created and trained with data from the internet and the fact that it’s 99% identical to an existing movie is irrelevant.

I’ve seen a junior using chatGPT to do the job while not really understanding what’s going on and the end it was a big mess that didn’t work. After I told him to read a “for dummies” book and he started to think for himself he got something decent out of it. It’s no replacement for skill and thinking.

The real offenders (except for some stupid rookies) move to the dark web and won’t touch the official apps while politicians use this power to scan for political and environmental activists, opponents and critics.

If you’re working on a secret project, you make your own communication tools and protocols. Or if you’re lazy you just set up a mail server behind a VPN.

It’s like those self service kiosks they have. The first version was broken most of the time, but they got the bugs worked out and after that those kiosks were everywhere.

Pharmaceutical sector. They can be very paranoid.

There often are portable versions of programs that you don’t have to install.

I added 10% to my estimate for login and authentication issues. The manager was not amused.

All current and former employees are now going through theír paychecks to see if Musk didn’t underpay them using currency conversions.

They don’t care, but their nephew that has to fix the PC is it acts up cares, and when the nephew says he’s not touching that thing with a 10 foot pole they’ll consider that for their next purchase.

And if in the news there is an article that thanks to copilot they could identify the culprit in a crime, they’ll look at any Windows version and their stroking material in a map on that drive a little different.

In the end, they’ll have kicked so many cans down the road that the huge pile is blocking the way.

They’re going to say that anyway when the real cost of warming hits. Calculation about that says GDP -30% to -50%. But that’s for the next legislature I guess.

Technically yes, but politicians start freaking out as it would lower GDP a few percent too.

And bluetooth pins that allow you to talk to the AI in your pocket already exist. That’s without that projector screen thing but still.

Now I feel old for also playing Castle Wolfenstein

TL;DR: the total energy produced by humanity in a year.

Or if you want to do it in let’s say 20 years, 5% of the total power output.

They didn’t start it with rocks. The first calculators used gears. Those were hard to reprogram. So they started using relais. That worked but was very slow. Then they found out that lamps (vacuum tubes) could take the place of relais but these wore down too fast. Then someone figured out that rock stuff (silicium) could do the same as a vacuum tube. After that it became a race to make them as small as possible to cram more of them together.

Sometimes, the AI gets the little details wrong.

In school we always get an assignment to compare the same story in different newspapers. It was amazing to see them all have different details. And that was before the internet existed. So AI here isn’t better, just cheaper.

Other times, the AI wholly fabricates events.

We call that Boris Johnson.