Microsoft’s AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicts 'most, if not all' white-collar tasks will be automated by AI within 18 months.

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ai-ceo-mustafa-sul...

All these predictions already started aging like milk, for example "Former Google CEO predicts AI will replace most programmers in a year" in April 2025.

The hall of fame will explode with failed predictions this year.

May be too technical for kids, but “Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants” is wonderful.

https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd...

But replit isn’t just a coding assistant - it’s value is that it handles all the associated parts of launching a web app. It manages api secrets, hosts the app, does user authentication, etc. And its target user is “semi-technical”, you don’t even see the code it writes by default.

Creating a db and not accidentally permanently deleting it is one of the capabilities it should have.

That’s an implementation choice. All the math involved is deterministic if you want it to be.

It will still be nondeterministic in this context. Prompts like “Can you do X?” and “Please do X” might result in very different outcomes, even when it’s “technically deterministic”. For the human operating with natural language it’s nondeterministic.

There are fonts designed to be legibly at really small size. I wonder if there are voices that are especially understandable at extreme speeds.

Could use an “auctioneer” voice to playback text at 10x speed.

I'm also a fast listener. I find audio quality is the main differentiator in my ability to listen quickly or not. A podcast recorded at high quality I can listen to at 3-4x (with silence trimmed) comfortably, the second someone calls in from their phone I'm getting every 4th word and often need to go down to 2x or less. Mumbly accents are also a driver of quality but not as much, then again I rarely have trouble understanding difficult accents IRL and almost never use subtitles on TV shows/youtube to better understand the speaker. Your mileage may vary.

I understand 4-6x speakers fairly well but don't enjoy listening at that pace. If I lose focus for a couple of seconds I effectively miss a paragraph of context and my brain can't fill in the missing details.

Here’s their repo: https://github.com/bryanswkim/Chain-of-Zoom

Can you explain more?

Or it could read the article and rewrite the title to make the point clear.

And give a score based on how interesting it will likely be to you.

How is that? There are lots of things that are illegal that are just “speech”.

Fraud, threats, impersonation, etc etc.

I think it’s like asking someone “how many times does your pen change direction when writing the word strawberry on paper”.

You need to think really hard to get to an answer, because that’s more fine grained than the way you usually think about words and letters.