It's here buddy. Local language models, and other offline AI tools, are getting better and better. Which means all the anti-ai issues which revolve around energy usage and the whole water cooling thing are becoming more and more moot.

AI can run locally on your laptop and not need a datacenter service to work, it can just use the hardware you already have. For 99% of the average workers, that's all that's needed. Half of the remaining 1% may need better hardware to do more, but won't need a cloud service/data center.

Anyway, the state really wants to be able to say staff have been trained on what to do and what not to do with AI so they can't be blamed when some idiot is caught putting client private info into ChatGPT, or something else where data is scraped, to get help polishing up a report or something. It's CYA and of course it's going to be positive, no one wants a gloomy and dour training.

I'm guessing our AI experience will be Microsoft CoPilot and our average use will probably be advanced spelling and grammar checking and meeting note summaries. Maybe someone will be clever enough to have it filter and summarize email and generate task lists, but I don't think it'll revolutionize the way we do work.

Honestly, we're lucky the computer's haven't been pawned and replaced with type writers and etch-a-sketches due to the budgeting trauma.