One of the reasons I'm so skeptical of AI getting shoved into everything is that it is not forward-looking, it's just reinforcing all of the bad systems and processes we already have. It's not just that I miss a past, pre-AI world (though I do), it's that when I think of a genuinely better future, it mostly involves ripping out the systems that AI is trying its hardest to perpetuate.
AI is not the future, it's the present, repeated endlessly.
From bbc news
Free AI training for adults in region's growth plans
I agree, they get funding to do something like this, so do a course, get a cert, they get paid, regardless of how good or useful the course is or if there are any actual jobs.
Meanwhile it seems there is a major shortage of skills in the building industry and lots of jobs people with those skills will fill.
