Right on. AI cannot *think*, meaning take in facts and create a solution. It can only take in data and reguritate it.
A different way of saying what I said to Laz in another thread on this same topic some time ago, and yes. 100% right. Not many people truly understand the point you just made. You've done your homework. Most that try (and fail) to talk intelligently on this topic haven't.
I'll also add what I've said for at least three, perhaps four years on this topic:
The future does not belong to AI, or even those who know how to use it.
The future belongs to those who control the data that AI uses to perform its work.
That's not going to be Laz, you or I, and I don't say that to be an alarmist or conspiracy theorist. It's just how I see it. Laz 'n I have had many discussions off FR on AI, including this very point. AI is subject to GIGO as much as anything else and I think many people miss that point. Separately, poisoning AI isn't the most difficult thing in the world either and I'm sure you know that too.
I just thank God I'm at the very tail-end of my career. My entire 42+ year long career has been in Information Technology. I started at the bottom of the ladder and steadily worked my way up across multiple specialties and lines of business and I'm tired.
When I retire (for the second time in April of next year), I'm going Galt. I don't ever want to see technology again. So much so, the only "technology" I'll own will be a flip-phone with zero "smartphone" capabilities. Sure, it'll make some of life harder and that's ok. I'm old enough to remember when none of this nonsense that track, monitor and data mine the hell out of everything we do existed in the first place, and we all did just fine.
Ask Laz. He's known me since 1998, knows my story, and he knows I'm not kidding about dumping technology and going back to living more simply.