From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 23/02/2026 2:31 am, john larkin wrote:   
   > On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:12:29 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 22/02/2026 3:22 am, john larkin wrote:   
   >>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:59:04 -0800, john larkin    
   >>> wrote:   
      
      
      
   > There's a part of San Francisco that used to be quiet, a mix of old   
   > brick factories and Victorian houses. It's called The Arena now, rents   
   > are crazy, and parking is impossible. All because of AI.   
   >   
   > My wife has her speech therapy office in a big building with a lot of   
   > small units. It used to have a lot of hair stylists and tattoo salons   
   > and artists and units available to rent, with lots of space in the   
   > parking garage. Now it's jammed with AI geeks and here's no parking   
   > available. This has got to crash.   
      
   There's no obligation. Any good idea attracts people who think they can   
   exploit it, and most of them are wrong, and that does tend to produce a   
   crash when the incompetent hangers-on go bankrupt.   
      
   > If AI is so good, why would any AI company need more than four   
   > employees?   
      
   You've got to be able to express your ideas clearly enough for the AI to   
   take away a self-consistent set of targets. The kind of AI that can make   
   sense of idiot ambitions doesn't seem to exist yet, and if the silly   
   questions that get aired here are a representative sample of the crap   
   they might need to deal with, they probably never will.   
      
   One of my friends grand-daughters works for Microsoft in Australia on   
   exploiting artificial intelligence, and it good enough at it that   
   Microsoft are moving her work at their headquarters at Redmond WA.   
      
   Artificial intelligence is a resource that human intelligence can   
   exploit. It's not obvious that it could exploit itself.   
      
   >>    
   >   
   > I'm not boasting. Anybody could buy these things, even you.   
      
   I certainly could, if the need arose. So why did you waste bandwidth   
   boasting about them?   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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