[ExI] ai in education

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 8:31 AM John Clark via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>  > The student questioned if he should be studying how to install heating and air conditioning units rather than bothering to master computer science.
>
> Currently manual dexterity is tricky for AI so air conditioning repair would temporarily save that student's job, it will certainly last longer than computer programming but in just a few years even that job will go away. I predict the very last Human job to go extinct, if you don't count "the oldest profession", will be that of a nursing home orderly.

Sexbots exist today, though of low quality.  I wouldn't bet on "the
oldest profession" being the last primarily human job.