You are talking to a toaster
I recently stumbled upon a TED Daily podcast on AI and the end of loneliness by Paul Bloom.
The talk was mainly about the nature of AI responses, how they are overly supportive, and why they are good for the isolated elderly but a danger for the young. Bloom's point was because how AI are built to be supportive in most cases, young users and not getting the pushback that they would normally would with a human. Under the veil, talking to AI is talking to a toaster. They are a network of algorithms to spit out the most sensible answer. AI is a machine, and it does not have emotions.
Like billions of people out there, I used AI extensively like a personalized search engine. Because it has the context of my previous chats, the results that it gave me are more likely to be useful than a regular Google Search. I used it for engineering school to teach me concepts in a more conversational way; I asked endless questions with different perspectives, "why this and not that" kind of questions. I also found myself using AI for graphics and documents. I feed it with the information, and it spits out posters, documents, PDFs, interactive graphs for thermodynamics. Sometimes I used it to transform a PDF someone gave me into a Word Document so I can fill things in easily. They are for tasks on the more mundane side.
My AI use is leaning a lot more on utilizing its capacity to take really silly questions and mundane tasks. Unlike general questions that can be masked by wording, AI shortcomings are really obvious in more technical and bigger tasks. Documents and SOPs look good at first glance, but they are inconsistent. Sometimes the wording is a bit weird. The funny thing is that AI will spit out the most confident output ever; then if I told it to be an expert in the field (or whatever prompts AI bros on the internet tell you) and criticize the work, it will always find things and give me a somewhat acceptable response. AI has its limits, and it is here to do its job, which is giving an acceptable response, not to do your job perfectly.
AI is never and can never be an expert in any field. It is just a toaster. It will give you a nice toast to brighten your day and speed up your work, but the work β is yours.