We finally met up for dinner with good friends last weekend. They brought thoughtful belated Xmas gifts. I didn't think of bringing gifts this year as Xmas had long passed. There was also a bottle of Pinot Noir.
They had been to California last year and made a point to try out a self driving car using the Waymo App. Their video of the car doing its own steering was entertaining. They said it pulled to the curb to drop them off, then adjusted to a bit further down the road moments later. You can tell it to stop if you need to. They feel that AI is becoming more of a part of modern life, even in the workplace with chat gpt and copilot apps for example. Robotics are also advancing, becoming more life like. We tend to be late adapters of anything being more cautious.
The other thing about AI is that jobs of course will be threatened. AI is close to developing code for you, if not already there, no need for programmers anymore.
