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> wind-resistant clothing

Better autocomplete/autocorrect, "circle on screen" -> OCR anywhere, high-quality automated background removal[0].

> fireproof materials

No big examples to point at now, except maybe whatever security fixes that'll come out of Glasswing Project[1].

> So far the only product AI is producing is layoffs.

AI-related[2] layoffs are a direct consequence of useful things AI is delivering.

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[0] - Super useful for e.g. making ID photos, which I notice I need to do increasingly often, which is likely a consequence of proliferation of remote/digital ID verification, which nicely ties us back to question 'butlike expressed, i.e. how much is technological progress actually improving things.

[1] - https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing

[2] - As opposed to "we wanted to lay off people anyway, AI just provided a socially-acceptable excuse".



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