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Wondering if someone here can give me a simple clear explanation of
why we need AI and so much of it? Thanks in advance.

Thank-you for asking.

Here is a single real-life [F] f Grok AI.

When we saw your exquisite cookbook, having similar plans for a family book, we immediately searched grok AI for acid-free papers and their differences/uses.

Normally, this would take us ~hour for searches and comparison(s), recording results and risk, cost, decision process; etc., but we had the answer and a list of these papers and their benefit(s) in less than one (1) minute. All that's left now is ordering.

Thanks for reviving our project, which we can now complete before Thanksgiving for a family photo keepsake booklets.

We are moving forward, at our requisite savings price/point.

Interesting- found that not laminating, but using special papers would allow your cookbook to be used 'as-is' for 100-200 years.

Delicious.

I have to be away from the computer for a couple of hours. Wondering if someone here can give me a simple clear explanation of why we need AI and so much of it?

If we don't win the AI game, some other country will. It's an existential necessity. Like technologies before it, AI will cause massive change, mostly positive.

Why do I "need" AI? Let me count the ways:

For personal productivity, I use it to "watch" YouTube videos. This started with Jack Kruse, who's the world expert on why red light (especially in the morning) is good for you, and why blue light (especially in the evening) is bad for you. Most of his written material is behind a paywall, but he has participated in many two-hour interviews/podcasts that are available on YouTube. After actually watching a couple of these, I asked Google Gemini (the best AI for this purpose) to summarize them. In less than a minute, Gemini gives me a 1-2 page textual summary of each video. I rarely watch a YouTube video now -- I just read the highlights.
For the app I'm developing to help children learn to read, Grok created dozens of cartoonish icons.
For the business I'm developing around the app, "GG" (a custom AI system developed by Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi) helped me create a marketing plan.
For the app, GG and Gemini helped me create an instructional guide to the software.
For the app software, Gemini has written a substantial amount of code for me, and has even suggested additional reading exercises for the app.
For the server-side component of the app, Gemini helped me move my prototype server, running on my desktop, to a production web service that the client app will be able to access worldwide.

A year ago I thought I would need $250K in capital to hire two or three people to productize my software. Now I'm doing it all by myself. It's no wonder Microsoft and Meta and others are laying off thousands of geeks -- productivity has gone through the roof. Imagine how many new products and companies will be created by those thousands of liberated people.