The word obsolescence has appeared in 31 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 4 in “Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts” by William J. Broad:
DeepMind’s weather advance comes two months after other A.I. researchers in the company shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry. The scientific news forms a bright counterpoint to public fears of A.I. stealing jobs and driving humans to the edge of obsolescence.
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