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This is of course bigger than just AI but this kind of thing is one of the things that really bothers me about it. AI is useful for a handful of things, I've mainly just found it useful to help debug code. But the industry puffs it up so much as this revolutionizing force which leads to people doing things like this. Take a tool that is useful in less than a handful of circumstances and have it do EVERYTHING. Because the industry says it can and they wouldn't lie right?
Of course all this will do is revoked visas of brown immigrant students.
An under-appreciated capability of the current ai is its ability to summarize things: this is where it has the most potential.
Definitely agree. On all your points. I've had AI be able to tell what I'm working on in my IDE and be able to literally complete the rest of my code for what I was doing with minimal errors. It's pretty nuts. Same thing where I was learning a new programming language and the AI was able to help me basically convert my knowledge of prior languages to the new one. It's ability to teach, as long as you continue to ask questions about it because sometimes its first answer is wrong, is really helpful!
I think AI summarization and search are also great. Particularly search can be great for those of us who are both bad at googling things and are tired of the ads. I've had questions that I've googled and have to go through so much to get to the right thing (simple stuff, just differences between stock and broth or whether to throw out meat that has a slight smell to it), but then you ask the AI and boom, there's the answer. And with AI it's a lot easier to do the search, you can just ask the question instead of having to use fancy techniques for getting the right results.
AI has some great uses but the problem is that it's getting used in ways it shouldn't be at all. Like the way the article talks about and in any artistic fashion. AI is a very exact tool, not a catch-all for everything.