This is just obnoxious. People still bond, have discussions and arguments without pulling out their phones every few minutes. Relationships are still a thing. But for 99% of questions or tasks, I just want to get it done and not drag in friends and family.
There's nothing "obnoxious" about this. It might be for you, and that's cool beans, but your post speaks in a broad generalization that just isn't accurate for everyone.
Pretending it's an AI novelty is... disingenuous.
Pretending that AI is not incredibly useful is... disingeuous
> 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
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.