[I literally had this thought in the shower this morning so please don’t gatekeep me lol.]

If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn’t be constantly shoved your face by every product. People would just use it.

Imagine if printers were new and every piece of software was like “Hey, I can put this on paper for you” every time you typed a word. That would be insane. Printing is a need, and when you need to print, you just print.

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    if a computer was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn’t be constantly shoved (in) your face by every product. People would just use it.”

    People did just use it. But because they were so comically expensive and complicated, most people couldn’t afford one until the mid-90s.

    Computers were rapidly adopted for business, initially. But they quickly became a popular tool for entertainment as well.

    AI serves little in the way of either purpose