Perhaps 3m evacuated, but certainly not displaced

Author makes it sound like tent cities rolling across the nation like a traveling carnival.

This type of opinion hyperbole is exactly why people do not consider real journalism when discussing the communities in Alaska that have actually had to move affecting a very small number of people. People who now have homes up hill and are not displaced

I think the education system is arguably more for teaching people how to function in society more so than getting pure information. Sure, the education system doesn’t do a great job teaching people stuff about taxes finances bills etc. but it does an excellent job teaching people to get their ass up at 7 am and go to a building and do something they hate for 8 hours which is a lifelong part of how society works.

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They aren't even remotely intelligent and the people who think they are also suffer from the same problem.

A robot tax is what we should be talking about because although they are just robots who write convincingly, they work cheaper than people.

That satirical future is looking less fanciful with every passing day. It blows my mind how I hear people want to shove more and more of their responsibilities off on to an AI, tech companies, or gov't while also hearing people complain about how they are products of the system and the system is holding them down. I wonder how much overlap there is between the two groups.

Aaaaanything... The brain can imagine anything and so can AI. So, when a kid starts to learn, the easiest thing for him are recognizing shapes in books, then words, then walking and motor skills, The next big thing is that AI will go through it's terrible two's and start biting and having tantrums.

No. It’s software. We are nowhere near AI having real intelligence.

These people thinking AI can replace school will bring about the world of idiocracy

There aren't any because at this point AI is not existent. We're not even close to achieving that. Chatbots are not self-aware, they are not sentient constructs. They are not even close to being considered life. While we may not be able to dissect self-modifying code to understand why it responds to stimuli in unexpected ways, that does not make for a sentience. Just no.

I do appreciate that this is something that may happen at some point in the future, and is something we should take seriously. But ChatGPT? Yeah, the author probably wrote this article using it.

This company is obiously Italian and inspired by tortellini pasta. "I was rolling a Fusilli pasta when it hit me"... Soon there will be Farfalle shape blades on Fettuccine towers throughout all of Italy.

It is a Guardian opinion piece…

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That's like a giant spring! So if the weld fails in high winds it will unfurl very fast and the blades will be ejected very fast towards the nearest car... the nearest human walking their dog in the field. I can just imagine a poor old lady and her dog impaled on a fan blade using this technology.

That is the exact phrase from Douglas Adams, yes :-) but "stupid bags of mostly water" is more descriptive of the problem under discussion, so I adapted it.

Yea I'd say within two years.

Nicely put.

I believe the description is ugly bags of mostly water.

Oh well have you seen Idiocracy? Lol. No AI won't likely be used to suddenly make everyone smarter, if that type of tech ever comes to exist. Do you think if Elon musk or the u.s. government had that technology, they would give it away to everyone equally? It would create a separate species with unforeseeable consequences.

Besides, everyone being smarter wouldn''t magically give everyone give equal access to wealth or equal rights, and making the people in power smarter is as likely to make them better tyrants as it is to make them more compassionate.

While it would be wise to reverse the trend of attacking intelligence and education, what we need to get past our biggest problems is an injection of empathy and compassion for human beings.

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Not sure it is great but Government regulation is next.

Yea, intelligence explosion here we come. 💥

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The young. Middle-aged. Retirees.

I cannot imagine the dystopia that would (will?) result from being able to hack our own brains. For every mental/emotional deficit that is beneficially remediated, there will be fresh horrors introduced.

The first one. Thanks.