Ohio university says all students will be required to train and 'be fluent' in AI -- The Guardian

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12. And telephones were the death of the art of writing nice letters....

It is interesting how varied the responses to these types of articles are.

I love tools and tool making. But every new version obsoletes something from before and loses its history and meanings.

A short story --

I took a group of French professionals on a private tour of the Smithsonian in DC. We stopped at the Old Castle where they had an exhibit of artifacts from 200 years earlier (the Bicentennial) and we all exclaimed how wonderfully made the surgical instruments, etc. were -- fine woods, brass fittings, velvet cases, etc.

We then went to the Air and Space Museum which, at that time, had various models of space capsules, etc. And a replica of the first moon rover. From a perspective of a couple of centuries earlier, it was made of plastic, flimsy metal parts, even tin-foil (mylar). Not up to the quality of the 1700s!