I see a big issue with these tools and services we call "AI".

On one hand you hear things like "AI is as smart as college student", "AI won a math competition", "AI will replace white collar workers". And so on. I'm not going to bother looking up actual references of people saying these exact things. But unless I'm completely delusional, this is the gist of what some people have been saying about AI over the past few years.

To the layperson, this sounds like a good deal. Use a free (for now) tool or pay for an advanced version to get stuff done. Simple.

But then you start scratching beneath the surface and you start hearing different stories. "No, you didn't ask it right", "No, that's a bad question because they tokenize your input", "Well, you still have to check the results", "You didn't use the right model".

Huh? How is a normal person supposed to take this stuff seriously? Now me personally, I don't have much of an issue with this stuff. I've been a developer for many, many years and I've been aware of the various developments in the field of machine learning for over 15 years. I have kind of an intuition about what I should use these systems for.

But I think the general public is misinformed about what exactly these systems are and why they're not actually intelligent. That's a problem.