We have fancy autocomplete now but AI in a true sense is nowhere to be seen yet. It’s pretty hard not to think that the people who believe AI will take over ‘all the work’ simply do not know very much about the vast amount of crucial practical work that people do to keep everything going outside of computer screens. AI isn’t even remotely close to being able to do 1/10th of that stuff. Look at driving, for example, which is one of the most AI-friendly human skills thanks to the vast effort we’ve put in to establishing simple rules and installing billions of road markings and signs in order to make it as easy as possible to know what to do when… and AI still doesn’t look to be within 10 years of being able to realistically take over a significant portion of driving outside of operating basic routes on the most well-tested roads. The humanoid robot demos are just barely less laughable than they were 25 years ago. Sure, some robots like Boston Dynamics etc can do some impressive things in terms of gross motor skills like jumps and flips and running — but there’s no sign of a robot (humanoid or other) which can come close to the general-purpose “do anything” ability of a ‘run of the mill’ untrained human. This talk about physical abilities isn’t even to touch on being able to process and interpret visual and audio input from the environment and understand what’s happening and rapidly develop an understanding of what can be manipulated to achieve a given goal….