AI is a neat toy... but that's all it is. It's horrible at almost every real-world application it's been forced into, and that's before you wander into the whole shifting minefield of ethical concerns or consider how wildly untrustworthy they are.

We're seeing a bunch of promises made when LLM were the novel hot shit. Now that we've plateaued on how useful they are to the average consumer every AI product is just a beta test that will drop support as soon as something newer and shinier comes along.

I was at the optometrist recently and saw a poser for some lenses (transitions) that somehow had "AI"....I was like WTF how / why / do you need to carry a small supercomputer around with you as well.

To me AI helps me bang out small functions and classes for personal projects and act as a Google alternative for mundane stuff.

Other than that any product that uses it is no different than a digital assistant asking chat gpt to do things. Or at least that seems like the perception from a consumer level.

Besides it's bad enough I probably use a homes energy trying to make failing programming demos much less ordering pizza from my watch or whatever.

Who would have guessed so?

Who knew that new technologies that are great for businesses' bottom lines wouldn't also be great for consumer satisfaction.

Say it ain't so.

More like people know when it's just being used as a buzzword and are smart to avoid when that's (often) the case

d u h

No shit Sherlock