If you want to understand what AI is, you have to use it—and not just casually. You have to push it to its limits. Engage it in complex conversations, challenge its assumptions, test its logic, and present it with real evidence. That’s when you start to see what it’s actually capable of.
Forming an opinion from a distance—without ever really using the tool—is like reviewing a novel you’ve never read or judging a car you’ve only seen parked. You miss its strengths, its quirks, and its boundaries.
A lot of critics talk about AI in the abstract: “It can’t think,” “It just parrots,” “It makes stuff up.” But when you press it with real reasoning, those critiques often fall apart. It doesn’t have beliefs—but it can follow logic. It doesn’t have emotions—but it can reflect nuance.
You wouldn’t dismiss a calculator (I know, you hate calculators) because it doesn’t understand numbers emotionally. You use it to get answers. Same with AI—it’s a tool, but a powerful one. You just have to learn how to drive it.
Yes, one day an AI system may destroy humanity. But that isn’t ChatGPT or Grok 3. That’s like refusing to use a PC because the Terminator is a digital machine.
A calculator does not try to emulate human intelligence. A calculator does not gather input data and then try to form it’s own opinionated analysis output based on that data. A calculator is 2=2=4. AI is 2+2=5 with a long explanation why it makes no sense to you.
We are in serious trouble when we begin to consider AI as equal or superior to human intelligence. We are in serious trouble when we submit ourselves to being completely dependent on a device, any device. And we are, right now...