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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.

Can’t wait until someone gets the GroK to rewrite one of the older Windows operating systems in assembly language and without the legacy clutter left in it.

Millions of “antique” computers will be near super computers!

Ok thanks I can see its usefulness to you. I guess I am thinking of big picture, how will it change or want to change our way of life and liberty.

Those tasks would have taken a full year even with a full time dev and designer.