yeah, but they have the ability to jump ship, collect their golden parachute bonuses, and not have their names plastered all over failing companies.

They did learn one thing from the lessons of the Great Depression, which was to not be associated with the failing companies, to not have one's name or wealth tied up in them.

Didn't we already have a Black Hole that bombed 45 years ago?

We had image recognition before the term "AI" was bandied about. We're coming up on fifteen years of facial recognition for unlocking phones, long before the tech companies were using the term as a marketing concept.

I could easily believe that the software taking camera input has been programmed to recognize the particular shapes germane to the job that it is doing and to use that input to vary what it's doing. I would hesitate to call that "AI". If that's AI, then those IC sorting robots that we've had videos and animated GIFs of for the last 25 years are also AI.

Additionally, remember their bitching about Hillary Clinton's e-mail server? They're running in the, "Every accusation is a confession," model.

I'm surprised that his ATSC converter-box still works.

You must be willfully ignoring high profile news then. It was reported on by basically everyone, even including news agencies that are acting as propaganda wings of the Republicans and Trump.

How many times are they going to cancel this game and fire everyone? This is at least the second time this week!

I find your analogy flawed.

If I was going to make a comparison with bread, it would be the difference between preparing the dough on the bench, putting it into the pan, and putting it into the oven, versus pouring the ingredients into the bread machine and hitting start.

Learn how and why things work before turning to electronic aids to make performing the tasks easier.

If you don't learn how and why, then you won't be able to actually choose the right operations to run on that electronic toy.

I used to work for a K-12 in IT support. School districts have systems or subscribe to services to blast-out notifications. Back when I was in it, those were voice messaging systems that would read out a prerecorded message to the phone of the guardian(s) on record. More modern systems may include SMS capability or even an app that ostensibly is for parents to interact with teachers, but supports more notification capabilities than just that.

Around fifteen years ago a new deputy superintendent tried to push for a BYOD policy for student devices, up to and including phones and obsolete PDAs like older Palm devices. The must've been pretty slick showing those old devices doing something meaningful because there was a hard push to make this happen. Ultimately where it was piloted it was basically not used, either because the kids didn't have personal devices to bring to begin with, or because the kids were doing anything except their actual lessons.

I would agree that there's basically no benefit to having cell phones during instruction time. For old kids, save 'em for passing periods, lunchtime, and before or after school. For younger kids, just don't even bother having them during school hours.

I used to test software for a living, alpha stuff right out of the daily builds.

It was my experience that it took out-of-the-box thinking to come up with real-world tests that accurately reflected both how the software was intended to be used by its developer and ways that someone could misuse it that were actually plausible. I was working on communications protocols because apparently the company lawyers were afraid of BSD licensed code so they wouldn't let the project take existing software. I leveraged my knowledge of somewhat esoteric but actual options/configs/settings in end-user client software that would have to interface to the systems that the company was developing in order to show that yes, these choices I used in testing might not be part of current RFC but even the commercial software that the company itself used internally could be made to use these deprecated methods with just a few clicks of a mouse. This drove the devs mad because they complained about RFC and I responded that I did not care if my test complied with current RFC or not, if I could break their service with off the shelf consumer software doing what it was designed to support then they had a problem. It needed to handle the wrong input cleanly even while rejecting it.

I don't expect AI to drudge-up old things that aren't talked about much but are still technically possible to a regular end user. I had a hard enough time getting human beings to understand this.

I thought that he did kill someone. There was a lawsuit that Disney tried to force to arbitration over a streaming service clause because a widowed party was suing over the death of the spouse because of food allergens in a Disney park restaurant.

I've already been in favor of referring to it as a Federal Sales Tax and for this sort of reason. Because effectively that's what it is.

I'm acquainted with a man who's now in his late seventies who back when we were closer acquaintances would remember fondly going to pick fruit and harvest other agricultural produce in the summers. This is despite the existence of the Company Store model where at the end of the summer he had almost nothing to show for his back-breaking work.

It didn't make any damn sense to me unless he had a girl in the work-camp that was willing to give him a go and he simply didn't talk about that part anymore. Otherwise conditions sounded reminiscent of Manzanar and certainly evoked John Steinbeck.

Granted, I've been at this for a long time now, but I've watched the model shift from "here's software, we're not monitoring you and trusting you to install it only the number of times that you've paid for," to "here's software that will require constant phoning-home to us in order for it to stay 'activated' with its full feature set and by the way the upgrades are coming whether they're fully vetted or not and we won't let you choose to put them off, oh and by the way we've judged your hardware to be too old or otherwise inappropriate so we're not going to let you upgrade even as we forcibly discontinue support for our old version and yeah, that's after we said that the last version was the only one you'd ever need..."

Them ramming Copilot down our throats at the same time as this most blatant shift in control is of course going to cause pushback. And it further doesn't help when the most visible use of AI for most consumers is generating of bad images with problems with fingers and faces and hearing accusations of copyright infringement and courts ruling that AI-generated content isn't subject to copyright protections.

If Microsoft wants to invent an AI system, fine, go ahead. Just don't expect any ROI on it if no one wants to use it because they already don't like your company.