Am I a luddite for dreading the forced intrusion of AI into my life?
I mean, sure, it's great for researchers looking for a cancer cure or for managing complex freight systems and the like. But on an individual level? Not seeing anything of use for me.
If Word's integrated AI could do repetitive things for me like change the number formats in the pages and pages of tables of figures in annual reports I translate from French into English (e.g. 76,5 M $ >> $76.5 million), that'd be great. But so far, it can't.
I absolutely do not want some machine penning replies to emails I receive ("Let's remove as much human contact from your life as possible, OK?") or any other of this regenerative BS. And sure the ability to summarize articles would be great if I were too lazy to read the originals, but I'm not. Besides (and, yes, AI will get better at it), you'd be a fool to blindly trust AI-produced summaries, articles and search results, which for all intents and purposes makes them useless.
So far, the only personal use I see for AI is as a toy. I stopped playing with toys decades ago.