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From what I’ve heard behind the scenes, a lot of folks aren’t exactly using AI for purposes they’d want published on the front page of their hometown paper. Maybe it’s relegated to “Entertainment” in this pie chart. In any case, “Learn to Code” was clearly the worst career advice offered to young people over the past decade.
What better film to appreciate our great land? It won’t let me embed here but click on this link for the full movie.
You and I, being more or less human, have things in life we love or hate. I suspect my “hate” list is longer than most, although in my defense I’d like to think my much shorter “love” list is executed with special intensity.
Right near the top of my hate list is fakery, and I’d like to share some thoughts on that.
This came to mind because, with increasing frequency, I am seeing all manner of social ads which inform the viewer that if they would just sign up some kind of AI service the money would absolutely pour into one’s lap. For example, there’s a firm called Zeely which shows a comely lass sitting in front of her computer gripped with the kind of anxiety that one shows when awaiting news about a terminal illness.
I’m really into musicals, and although I tend to be anchored to those of the 1950s and 1960s, one modern one I love is Hamilton. It’s still going strong!
