Microsoft is offering it’s own version of AI. Probably the first sure sign that AI is never going to be anything really useful.
From Microsoft’s description, sounds like Google on amphetamines. It will probably take more work to keep it from going off in the wrong direction than it would be to just do the task yourself. And to get it to work correctly, you probably have to provide it with the same level of detail you’d have to provide if you were doing it all yourself. Then you’ll have to double-check the results to make sure it doesn’t go off and do something really crazy.
There will be a lot of “guardrails”, which tells you that it really isn’t “AI”; just algorithms on speed. It will solve problems that are easily solved without AI and fail the minute it is confronted with a real problem.
There is a SCTV sketch in which Dr. Tongue turns a bunch of stewardesses into his zombie-slaves. Turns out the zombies behave exactly like stewardesses: can I get you another coffee? Fluff up your pillow? Would you like a snack tray? Is your seat comfortable?
“Is there turbulence ahead?” Let me fluff up your pillow again.
Eventually Dr. Tongue wishes they would go away.