It’s solving open problems in mathematics that stumped humans.

My favorite use is to give me PhD level tours of art museums and historic sites. It seems to know everything about every single artwork, the lives of the artists, and the economic and cultural context. It's willing to go at my pace and field as many or as few questions as I want.

Frequently use it to come up with recipes when cooking, repair electrical equipment, or seek medical advice and results interpretation for my family.

It's pretty hard to imagine life without it at this point. I know it's possible, but like the internet, I would feel crippled by the lack of information and things that I can no longer easily do

False.

I used it for

1. Filling bank forms, filling visa for South Africa

2. Understand movies and literature

3. For understanding public transport in new countries (pretty anxiety inducing)

4. As a 100x jump over Google search

5. Reading and answering emails

6. Fact checking dubious claims on the internet

7. Finding new music I might like

Incurious read on AI belongs to say 2024.

I think it's worse than that.

The biggest market for AI, possibly even bigger than tech, is mass manipulation, lying, and scamming. Destabilizing countries has never been easier now that social media and messengers allow believable lies and manipulation to spread like wildfire, and the AI industry has massively reduced the cost of believable lies.

Up until a few years ago, believable videos of politicians or famous people or people targeted for blackmail were expensive and required acting or VFX work. Now anyone can do it with a handful of dollars and half an hour to spend.

The industry is threatening to enrich the elite by taking people's jobs in economic uncertain times while at the same time resource hogging data centers are popping up all over the world like weeds. Big AI couldn't be more dislikable if they tried.