General Discussion

When this code fails catastrophically they'll be the ones blamed, not the idiots who thought this AI stuff was a good idea and invested heavily in it.

Potential computer science majors may be realizing they are setting themselves up for careers in the digital sweatshops -- sweat shops where they'll risk getting fired if they dare complain about the fancy new sewing machines the bosses bet the futures of their companies on.

I've had two jobs in the computer industry. One for a mainframe manufacturer that was sinking, where almost everyone had already cast off in the lifeboats, and one job writing 1802 assembly code, something that literally left me scarred for life because I was young and foolish and didn't have the good sense not to mix my personal life with whatever that income producing activity was. It was certainly not professional. That was back when Pascal was the hot new teaching language. I still have my silver user manual and report. That'll tell you how long ago that was. I first signed onto the internet in the late 'seventies, before there was a World Wide Web.

For the sake of my sanity I'm glad I didn't go down that path. It turned out I was much, much happier studying evolutionary biology. Nevertheless it's a rare day I'm not up to some mischief on my computers.

It's appalling that people in our nation have to fear for their futures as they grow older -- not just their comfort and dignity, but for their very survival.