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Experts are now getting paid to teach artificial intelligence how to do their own jobs, and it has quietly become a booming industry. From legal analysis to medical diagnostics, workers are feeding their knowledge into systems that may eventually replace them — a trade-off that raises uncomfortable questions about the future of skilled labor.
Closer to the ground, a story unfolding at the intersection of aviation and tragedy. The US Coast Guard has suspended its search for six people aboard a medical jet that disappeared while flying from Bermuda to Boston. Debris was recovered off Nantucket island, but no survivors were found. The air ambulance was on a routine medical transport mission when contact was lost.
And in gaming history, it turns out billion-dollar franchises are rarely born overnight. The Elder Scrolls: Arena, the game that launched one of the most beloved series in role-playing history, was by the admission of its own designers a disaster in many ways at launch. It took years of iteration and a dedicated community before that world became the cultural institution it is today.
Three very different stories, one common thread — nothing important is ever quite what it seems at first. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
