As AI gets real, slow and steady wins the race

Google reports that 25 percent of its coding is now handled by generative AI.

JetBrains CEO Kirill Skrygan predicts that by next year, AI will handle about 75-80 percent of all coding tasks.

A few years ago people who were laid off were told to upskill and 'learn to code'.

AI replacing white collar knowledge and service workers is going to be one of the defining features of the next few years.

Yes, the big AI awakening begins, latest at the real world's practice front, if it lacks simple mathematical or AI related theoretical understanding beforehand. It isn't working properly and it simply will and can not. The main point above is 'That lack of certainty means lawyers still have to verify everything.' And that you can now simply expand to a more general statement, replacing lawyers with you, you and yourself.

The great benefit of computers was their reliability. Aside from programming errors, they did what they were supposed to. 'AI' injects unreliability into these systems. You do not want that when the stakes get high - legal cases or peoples' lives.

Do you want to be a passenger in a plane when a drop of rain on a sensor causes the software to hallucinate a runway at 30,000 feet and decides to land on it? It won't show up in tests, because you cannot reliably test AI.

Given the reliability levels, AI is an experiment, a toy, which is what it says in the small print of everything sold with it, to protect the software companies.

If something matters, don't rely on 'AI'.

As for the Channel Tunnel, it was fine until Brexit, when half the stations were closed and border controls had to be bodged on to it, causing huge delays at peak times. That was down to politicians with ZI: zero intelligence.