When your router is not working, please use AI. Don't call your friend who is "good with computers" have him drop everything he's doing and have him trouble shoot the problem for you over the phone.
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.
I'm the friend and family member who's "good with computers" and gets the brunt of those calls. I appreciate them, because it's nice to chat with folk I don't chat as frequently with as others in my life. The problems are often relatively easy and don't take much time. There's never been any pressure felt on my end to "drop everything [I'm] doing" - if I'm not available, I'm not available, and I'll get back to them when I can (after all, I am in control of what my priorities are in my life - aside from my children, my life isn't dictated by others, but I do appreciate that sometimes things might be urgent for those with tech problems). Sometimes they've figured it out by that point and we chat for a bit longer.
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.
Congrats. I'm pretty sure I've helped more than a few friends and family members debug a router. Most of them didn't even know what a router was. Much harder to Google for specific issues like that, hence the 1 billion people that use AI globally.
Pretending that AI is not incredibly useful is... disingeuous
How'd you infer that I don't find AI useful from my statement? Of course I do.
I am merely saying that the argumentation in the "poem" is not specific to AI.
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.
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.