The degree of rigour in a PhD is decreasing, making a PhD a lot easier to complete. Please note, universities didn't have much of anything like remedial classes in such as English and Mathematics until fairly recently.

That we are heading inexorably towards mass illiteracy.

Oil and gas are set to run out in around 50 years. Coal, longer, maybe 100 or so. So, which is the more existential problem? That or global warming?

Thanks

How much does AI cost to use, typically?

I am far more concerned with AI bots pillaging the company data for no other reason than it's there and might be useful to AI. Especially AI embedded in ubiquitous things like Google apps and office 365, that reside inside the network, but reach out, phone home etc.

Well done Java.

Well, it annoyed you... is that a win for Java?

That isn't apparent in government and industry has something to do with it. As in, the last kind of surplus years were before 1975 I reckon. It's been pretty fire from then year on year.

They're baffling folk with complete BS

The AI bots have almost certainly scraped pretty much everything from such as stack overflow, GitHub and the like.

Except that... Memorisation and regurgitation is how we learn. All of language, mathematics, science and pretty much everything else requires memorising and regurgitation.

Really? So I could buy a property (assets only), and magically not be responsible for any liabilities on the property? Dream on.

Assets include liabilities

Cost of damage? Did I read that right? How's that helpful? 500,000 peasants shanties destroyed is probably less costly than 500 mansions.