> This simply reveals a staggering level of humanity.
Wasn't AI supposed to solve all the drudgery? All those humans aided by cutting edge AI are still failing at these basic tasks? Then how good is that AI in the first place?
No, AI wasn't supposed to solve all that drudgery. The hypothesized AI singularity would, but an ordinary AI agent running an LLM is just a problem solving automaton with no will of its own, just like a fleshy brain solving computer problems is just a code monkey.