The producers now have the background for the plot of their next film.

cannot gain employment to become more experienced where do companies recruit their middle experienced workers from ?

I suspect that they will try to poach them from other companies or other countries that have not replaced new intake workers with AI. I can see this causing a big headache in a few years time.

Here is the story at the BBC. When I first saw it I wondered if the reporter had been drinking - until I saw it somewhere else!

If you exclusively speak American then you can say everything is US ASCII ... but for many who, reasonably, want to express themselves in their own language they will want other characters. But the "everything" is not entirely true even for Americans, eg 1/100 of a dollar is a cent which is U+00A2 - which slashdot will not display correctly.

No matter what your politics is.

is to peel off the coloured squares and put them back - one colour per face. This, unfortunately, takes more than 15.71 seconds.

AI companies have the cash and political connections to get what they want. The push back has already started:

The head of the US Copyright Office has reportedly been fired, the day after agency concluded that builders of AI models use of copyrighted material went beyond existing doctrines of fair use.

Effective enforcement will not be easy.

The other problem that the spiders do is to overload servers. They do not seem to be gentle in the way that most search engine spiders are.

You have a new, corrupt, government; buying a seat at Trump's dinner table for $1 million should ensure that consequences continue to be ignored.

I assume that, as in the UK, the television & radio channels tell you what the time is, at least at the top of the hour if not more often. That time is synchronised by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

As important as generating code is testing it to ensure that it does what it is supposed to do. Who/what writes these tests ? This has got to be by people who really understand the problem that the code is supposed to address. So given a set of inputs, what are the expected outputs ? [ I do understand that this is a simplistic description. ] I would be wary of using AI to generate test cases -- if it hallucinates then what are you testing ?

Another question: who writes the end user documentation ?

I am assuming that a comprehensive specification was written by problem specialists.

I fear that this will not be done properly and fear that in a few years some major corporation go bankrupt, or people die, as a result.

As a matter of interest: why ?

I have met people who actually like personalised ads -- it shows them just what they might want to buy.

No, I cannot understand that mindset either!

What do you think would happen if you could not find the records needed to complete you tax return ? Do you think that the tax man would tell you that you will be let off as it would cost you too much ?