[bko]

Congrats. I'm pretty sure I've helped more than a few friends and family members debug a router. Most of them didn't even know what a router was. Much harder to Google for specific issues like that, hence the 1 billion people that use AI globally.

Pretending that AI is not incredibly useful is... disingeuous

[SuperV1234]

How'd you infer that I don't find AI useful from my statement? Of course I do. I am merely saying that the argumentation in the "poem" is not specific to AI.

[bko]

It was based on:

> Pretending it's an AI novelty is... disingenuous.

yes, being able to debug your router through a simple conversation without bothering people is a novelty

[SuperV1234]

It's not that simple.

The grandma that would have phoned her nephew to fix the phone will still do the same thing now. She will not have magically switched to querying LLMs after a lifetime of technological illiteracy.

The tech-savvy person that uses AI today would have been more than capable than figuring out how to fix their router by using Google even without prior networking skills/experience 5-10 years ago.

Using AI to solve these problems is a novelty for a specific subset of the population. And the topic does matter.

Even the somewhat tech-illiterate mom would have been able to Google a recipe 10 years ago, or watch an Instagram reel 5 years ago. They were surely not going to call their friends to ask instructions on how to make an apple pie.

Pretending this is an AI novelty is indeed disingeneous.