Bob Schwartz

AI is now infused into everything, or soon will be. That includes consumer products from coffee or shoes to large scale undertakings. How exactly is AI in your coffee, not just involved in the process of growing it and bringing it to your kitchen? Don’t ask. Just be confident that the day is coming when AI will be in everything, or so they say.

I thought about his when I heard that funds have been cut for people who fight fires, especially in a summer when increasingly dangerous wildfires will increase again. Firefighters are generally underpaid relative to their importance, and the money for them is now reduced or gone.

I can imagine the fever dreams of AI true believers who imagine firefighting-drones controlled by AI controllers. No brave or expensive people needed. Or of the powerful but simple-minded leaders these true believers advise. “It will be just like in the movies!”

Except that if that ever happens, it is not anytime soon. But those wildfires are very soon and certain. This is not a movie, except maybe a disaster movie. AI may come to the rescue, but I doubt it.