Fuck google

It has been used for pretty successful games on steam

Which is a very stupid way to look at things since it only means they are able to get the majority of the richest made by the country

That's an interesting paradox of the current AI: useful enough to make the industry less competent (either directly by helping students to not learn or indirectly by replacing people in entry level formative jobs) while not being smart enough to replace all the chain to the top

You're right. I think the current AI direction is a dead end for real artificial intelligence, so it is not the thing that will replace all jobs, but the day a machine with the real cognitive capacity of a 5 year old exists is the day almost all of humanity becomes useless.

And before that the current direction is still enough to massively hurt the world because there will be less and less places for us humans.

Another point I noticed that nobody is talking around us is the technology adoption rates. When the car industry started, decades happened between the early users and cars being ubiquitous in the population (especially taking into account the world and not the richest countries). So a sizeable part of the transportation industry that was ultimately replaced by cars had the time to adapt, move to other jobs or arrive at the end of their work life.

But now the technology goes from its few first users to being used by everyone and their cats in years if not months. There is absolutely no time to adapt, love over or endure things until you don't work anymore.

Your repurposing plan would work only if it is not automated too and if the numbers of people that would choose a similar plan is low enough

Agreed, supply and demand - there are some negatives, but this is the only way I would choose for it to be.

Thinking that because in the past the effect of progress was a net positive after a while it will always be like that is a cognitive bias. When looking at the large scale, in previous cases, people replaced by automation would go into jobs that were not automated.

But what will happen when there is no job that can't be automated anymore ?

Because we can't install lidars on our heads

Is it an good car ?

Good enough that Ford is planning to slap their badge on it and hope Europe doesn't forget Ford while they are busy not actually manufacturing EVs.

Elon Musk said he estimated 250k to 500k yearly sales

So he's off by, what Elon might say is an "order of magnitude"

I write that off as marketing BS. They very clearly didn't design it based on those expectations though.