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After 11 months in office what is the score?

You can ask any of the AI resources to assess the state of the union and how is old what is his name performing in the job. I did and you should. The answers seem to be in agreement and all I can say is you should do that small exercise. Or you can check your grocery bill and see what a $10 bill can buy you today.

But more insidious is the AI itself and the potential impacts to all of us. If you are in the age group 25 to 50 and lack a serious college degree that is technology based, you are in the zone to be redundant. The time horizon is not 50 years but 5 years.

So, who is kidding who when you hear AI will create new jobs. That part is true, but the part not said is that those jobs will be automated and AI driven. Man has been effectively removed from the equation. Think about it as AI can design and build anything. Repairman can be robots and are as such. 


Ameca


Life Like

Something of a personal note that I saw the other day at my local grocery store. There was but one line with a real check out person and 12 automated stations. The time happened to be a busy time so the line to the real person line was long. There was but a single person assisting the automated checkout stations who politely said do you really want to stand in that long line? 

AI has now made the shopper do the work of looking up the prices for fruits and vegetables as well as scanning all of the bar codes and the bagging job. We are getting double dipped as we do the work and the prices are not reduced to account for the labor savings. Think of it... 12 checkout lines manned by one person. 

Those plying the world's oldest profession are even at risk as the Chinese are working overtime to replace you with life like female humanoids. No one is safe!


So, the focus of the current government seems to be immigration, projection of power, tariffs and eliminating drug boats. But the biggest problem may be AI and what it will do to us as a nation. One large American banking firm suggested we will soon be down to a 3-day work week... a benefit of AI. Hey, do you think you will be paid for 5 days having worked only 3 days. Something is not right here. 

73's
Pete N6QW

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