There's a lot of puffery and propaganda out about AI.

Here's a quotation from a non-AI site: "AI has already transformed many industries and aspects of society, ranging from the introduction of customer service chatbots to enhanced GPS and mapping applications."

Customer service chatbots, eh? As a person who just spent two solid hours trying to Chat with the IRS to get a pin, I think AI is over-rated. I told Chat that my 6-digit code never came in my email. (It saw the word email and decided there must be something wrong with the email address on my IRS account.) Maybe AI can do GPS and mapping, but that's just handling data, not thinking.

Have you heard about the lawyer in New York who used AI to write a pleading in the trial of two burglars, and AI saw that pleadings often contain funny strings of letters and numbers, so it invented citations from an imaginary book of case files? The page numbers and court-case numbers were made-up, too. The lawyer almost lost his license.