> Are there real humans / customers who ask, "yes, have an AI call me?"

If it could go faster than a slow-talking human who needs to re-verify information that someone else already verified? Yes, I'd opt for the AI.

True, it depends on the quality of the human on the other side. If it's a mindless front-line support person parroting a script, "did you try restarting the computer?", then I'd take a smarter AI too.

Sometimes a navel can be confused with an event horizon.

Always, always, all-ways wear thick cottony garments so that you remember to pick lint out of your personal "event horizon" - it's a navel! relax, a little - everyone's got one.

AI more likely begins the age of preemptive personalized search . . . a search tailored to people that happens before they even ask for it. Because that's best for consumers. And advertisers.

Alta Vista didn't do anything at all like that.

> AI more likely begins the age of preemptive personalized search

Maybe in a parallel universe. Right now, it continues the age of crappy search, with shitty search.

The result only needs to be appealing to consumers. If hallucinated nonsense accomplishes that then job done!

Soon "war sitting" will replace "war driving."

> Americans have no idea how far advanced the Chinese car market is.

There's a 100% tariff on Chinese cars. Of course we have no idea.

Everything is political.

Now what's factual about politics?

"Conspiracist" is a political label today, too.

That's more broadly about VD.

Here's a more liberal view I remember from childhood:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdA2Z4Qt2K0

The people who design policies and processes and factory lines are not the managers anywhere except at tiny startups. Those are completely different skill sets.