‘Can Artificial Intelligence Speak for Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life?’ No, and what the hell is wrong with you?

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"Can AI do [Blank]" is getting pretty old. They will literally fill in that blank with anything they can come up with and it's getting kinda silly.
Here's a list of potential new AI articles I predict coming out within the next year:
"Can AI teach us more about the dinosaurs?"
"How AI will solve the climate crisis."
"New AI technology let's you speak with deceased loved ones with staggering accuracy."
"How AI can help you save money."
"New AI model lets us translate dead languages."
"Soon all your friends will be AI."
"AI can help you lose weight."
"How we can use AI to find aliens."
I'm sure at least one of these articles already exists. Literally all they are trying to do is make money with half baked ideas or steal your personal data.
- a fun little rule of thumb that I like to apply is that whenever an article's headline is a question you may safely presume the answer is usually no.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
  
  I propose the Gerard Extension for Betteridge's Law: by appending ', and what the hell is wrong with you?' to Betteridge's output.
  As per the headline.
  
  The Castor-Gerard Extension
  
  worst prog rock band ever
  
  They literally mentioned this in the article.
- "Can AI teach us more about the dinosaurs?"
  done already
  "How AI will solve the climate crisis."
  pretty sure I've seen this
  "New AI technology let's you speak with deceased loved ones with staggering accuracy."
  done
  "How AI can help you save money."
  done
  "New AI model lets us translate dead languages."
  done
  "Soon all your friends will be AI."
  pretty sure japan already has this problem
  "AI can help you lose weight."
  i'd be shocked if not already done
  "How we can use AI to find aliens."
  pretty sure I've seen this
  i think these are predictions of last week
  
  The great thing about using AI to search for aliens is that it'll find them, whether there's any out there or not.
  
  “Soon all your friends will be AI.”
  pretty sure japan already has this problem
  I remember reading not to long ago about people having AI as girlfriends.
  
  And then the company behind it made the AI girlfriends less horny unless you paid for the premium plan.
  
  gotchu covered
  
  This is the Blade Runner 2024 made to the best of our abilities
  
  The blade runner we have at home
  
  We already know how to solve the climate crisis. We just don’t want to because it would cost too much, inconvenience us, and really upset the shareholders.
  The only reason to ask AI would be like asking the butler to take out the trash, we just can’t be bothered to do even that much work and want to hit the “easy” button.
  
  Sounds about right. And I'm sure at least half of them are just click bait while the others are wishful thinking. Or just sad...

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