Honestly no I don't think so. I think what is about to happen is an explosion in the open source sector, much like the internet is made up of many nodes, so will ai. Utilisation of local machines to feed a wider neural network.

These nodes will grow in number as more come online. I dont think this is a technology that can be sustained by a corporation alone. The money will be, like the internet, going to those who can distribute end user content, however the backbone of the technology will be spread out.

Predator drones don't work off wifi, lol wtf? What do people think wifi is? Because its not a generic term for wireless internet, it's the marketed name for a standard of frequency bands. It is a LAN, not WAN.

Yeah, my old man has worked in cognitive automation for accountants and bookeepers for over two decades, so he has always been on top of the developments.

About 2001. My dad use to talk about it all the time.

>loneliness is at an all time high.

I had a thought today, when I was a young adult around mid 2000s, online dating was seen as kind of taboo, something socially awkward people did. Now dating apps and online dating is completely normalised and probably more common.

I came across a thread on r/technology about an article where replika cut their sexual content and people were getting depressed.

Naturally the thread was making fun of these people. It's probably going to be pretty normalised soon too.

I'm 38, but I don't work for him, I'm a PLC electrician (Porgrammable Logic Control or automation industrial electrician), so I program robots in factories like you described, amongst other automated processes. I mean its interesting tech, but they're pretty dumb machines, mostly relying on timing and positioning parameters, I don't write the code or anything, but I do input it and install the necessary equipment. Mostly for smaller factories, but its often the same principles.

His field is in finance specifically, so not really my industry. The decision to sell was based on licensing agreements with the major accounting firms in our home country. My understanding is that they're committed to 5 years using his product, this allows him to consider that revenue in the negotiations. He is already retired, but he is still chairman currently.

Reddit like this sub, r/futurology, r/technology, r/science, r/futurism etc.

YouTube subscriptions, particularly David Shapiro. Been watching the development of open assistant.

Also various science and technology magazines I have subscriptions for. Since 2017 I've been watching these developments pretty closely.

Also my father runs a technology company that specialises in internal audit automation. He has been operating this company for 23 years and is about to sell his shares later this fiscal year. So I have access to leading experts in the field, particularly in finance and have picked their brains a lot over the last 15 to 20 years.

What has always fascinated me is the assumption that menial physical tasks were assumed to go first, but if you have been speaking to people in these IT industries, particularly ai and automation, over the last 10 or 15 years, they would have been telling you that cognitive labour was always going to be the first thing to be hit in a disruptive way.

Personally it's not stress for me, its distraction. Knowing that the world has just changed has kept my hpyer focused on the topic, which leaves little room and energy to focus on general things in life.

I'm watching the progress like a hawk, and it seems like something new and amazing is being pitched every few days.