How sad, that your grandson found it too hard to use a typewriter, after initially asking you for it.
I worry that we ignore the ethos, logos and pathos of our daily decision making turning it over to AI.
It's amazed me to see how eager some people are to turn their decision-making over to AI.
Which again makes it a perfect tool for authoritarians. The more you get in the habit of unquestioningly accepting what AI offers you, the more likely you'll be attracted to authoritarian leaders who also tempt you to outsource your own thinking.
It is being hard sold, because there is a lot of money to be lost if it doesn't work.
True again...and it's also being hard sold in part because it DOESN'T work, and the tech companies have to appeal to FOMO - fear of missing out - to convince so many people to use this badly flawed tech, which is still hallucinating way too much for any sane person to trust its results without checking. AI proponents like to compare genAI to calculators, but calculators would never have become popular if every use of calculators stood such a good chance of getting a wrong answer that calculator companies themselves felt compelled to warn their own users to check results, even though that wiped out much of the time-saving feature.
So AI companies have been promising for years that the error problem with genAI will be fixed, even though there's no sign it ever will be, and the newer "reasoning" models have higher hallucination rates than older AI models. And along with that promise, they've screamed warnings that people not using AI tools constantly will be left behind.
The AI companies have targeted younger and younger markets, in the hope of getting kids hooked on AI before they can realize how flawed it is, and how using AI is harming them.
As harmful as smoking is, tobacco companies still had billions of victims, and they targeted kids as well.
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