{"id":29706,"date":"2025-06-16T09:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29706"},"modified":"2025-06-16T09:26:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:26:39","slug":"everyone-is-using-a-i-for-everything-is-that-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29706","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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KEVIN ROOSE:<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Have you noticed how insanely polarized the A.I. discourse has become recently?<\/p>\n

CASEY NEWTON:<\/strong> From time to time I take a look at my Bluesky mentions and am reminded of the many, many skeptics out there and how differently they see the world.<\/p>\n

ROOSE<\/strong> Honestly, I think all the arguing about whether A.I. is good or bad obscures a more interesting thing happening right now, which is that this stuff, in its present form, has become genuinely useful. ChatGPT is the sixth-biggest website on Earth. Something like 43 percent of Americans in the work force use generative A.I. I can\u2019t think of another technology, besides maybe the smartphone, that has gone from \u201cdoesn\u2019t exist\u201d to \u201cbasically can\u2019t function without it\u201d in less time.<\/p>\n

NEWTON<\/strong> The only historical analogue I could think of would be the \u201cHard Fork\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n

ROOSE <\/strong>I used to feel like a crazy early adopter for using A.I. all the time, but now I feel as if I am actually closer to the median of the people I know, in terms of my daily usage.<\/p>\n

NEWTON<\/strong> I\u2019m seeing a wide range of uses. Some people I know are essentially just having fun \u2014 like my mom, who used a chatbot to help find songs for her 50th-wedding-anniversary photo montage. I\u2019m increasingly using it for work functions \u2014 asking to research unfamiliar topics to help me get a jump start, for example, or taking a first stab at fact-checking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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My boyfriend is probably the biggest power user I know. He\u2019s a software engineer, and he will give his A.I. assistant various tasks, and then step away for long stretches while it writes and rewrites code. A significant portion of his job is essentially just supervising an A.I.<\/p>\n

ROOSE<\/strong> A.I. has essentially replaced Google for me for basic questions: What setting do I put this toaster oven on to make a turkey melt? How do I stop weeds from growing on my patio? I use it for interior decorating \u2014 I\u2019ll upload a photo of a room in my house and say, \u201cGive this room a glow-up, tell me what furniture to buy and how to arrange it and generate the \u2018after\u2019 picture.\u201d A friend of mine just told me that they now talk to ChatGPT voice mode on their commute in their car \u2014 instead of listening to a podcast, they\u2019ll just open it up and say, \u201cTeach me something about modern art,\u201d or whatever.<\/p>\n

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KEVIN ROOSE: Have you noticed how insanely polarized the A.I. discourse has become recently?CASEY NEWTON: From time to time I take a look at my Bluesky mentions and am reminded of the many, many skeptics out there and how differently they see the world.ROOSE Honestly, I think all the arguing about whether A.I. is good or bad obscures a more interesting thing happening right now, which is that this stuff, in its present form, has become genuinely useful. ChatGPT is the sixth-biggest website on Earth. Something like 43 percent of Americans in the work force use generative A.I. I can\u2019t think of another technology, besides maybe the smartphone, that has gone from \u201cdoesn\u2019t exist\u201d to \u201cbasically can\u2019t function without it\u201d in less time.NEWTON The only historical analogue I could think of would be the \u201cHard Fork\u201d podcast.ROOSE I used to feel like a crazy early adopter for using A.I. all the time, but now I feel as if I am actually closer to the median of the people I know, in terms of my daily usage.NEWTON I\u2019m seeing a wide range of uses. Some people I know are essentially just having fun \u2014 like my mom, who used a chatbot to help find songs for her 50th-wedding-anniversary photo montage. I\u2019m increasingly using it for work functions \u2014 asking to research unfamiliar topics to help me get a jump start, for example, or taking a first stab at fact-checking.My boyfriend is probably the biggest power user I know. He\u2019s a software engineer, and he will give his A.I. assistant various tasks, and then step away for long stretches while it writes and rewrites code. A significant portion of his job is essentially just supervising an A.I.ROOSE A.I. has essentially replaced Google for me for basic questions: What setting do I put this toaster oven on to make a turkey melt? How do I stop weeds from growing on my patio? I use it for interior decorating \u2014 I\u2019ll upload a photo of a room in my house and say, \u201cGive this room a glow-up, tell me what furniture to buy and how to arrange it and generate the \u2018after\u2019 picture.\u201d A friend of mine just told me that they now talk to ChatGPT voice mode on their commute in their car \u2014 instead of listening to a podcast, they\u2019ll just open it up and say, \u201cTeach me something about modern art,\u201d or whatever.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29708,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29709,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29706\/revisions\/29709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}