Having dealt with many family members just like this, I can tell you they certainly can use Google for search, they just don't want to. When forced to they use it fine.

If I were to guess, a lot of people, particularly older people, see computer use outside the web browser as an amateur might a chop-saw; a dangerous tool not to be used by inexperienced hands, so an AI that can also directly do the tasks for them might solve that problem (assuming it came preinstalled or someone else did that for them). Though then comes the question of whether they'd be willing to pay for it

In the US, roughly 95% of AI users do not pay for it. So, they are sold, but only for the free tier. Technology is there, money are not.

i dont know about that, they could've adopted using google which you could already search things in pretty much natural language and even got youtube snippets how fix your problem... so i'm not convinced they will adopt

There is no "honest" AI though. It is always biased towards its prompt and ultimately its training data.

Compare flights? You have to assume it is objective and not tainted by corporate bias or backroom deals(aka ads and sponsored content), unless you selfhost and find an objective model.

Search Wikipedia? You have to constantly check that it is giving you straight facts instead of being constrained by its community and safety guidelines.

The problem with so many of these usecases is treating AI as a super intelligent Vulcan who is always logical and objective aka Spock, when we are better off treating it as if it is a salesman.

Now tell them it costs $100/month and, eh, not so much.

Is using AI to open a zip file and not interact with the neighbor supposed to be an improvement? Maybe they just like interacting with their neighbor.

> But this is the major thing were ai will be introduced into every single layer of software we have.

How is that even possible? I thought they already put AI chats into everything. Maybe AI chat inside an AI chat.

Exactly!

I said it two years ago already: An LLM is the perfect user interface.

The problem though: It will make it a lot easier to do harder things which will devaluate jobs.

having to write "hey LLM-du-jour please unpack these files!" os strictly less efficient/more time consuming than clicking "extract" on a menu. I have hard time what usecase you have in your mind. (Unless the user is blind that is)