The average person has no idea this is true. And the average person cannot tell when this is the case. So we have a bunch of people, going their way through school, and then when they get stuck relying on AI. The future is gonna be wild.
No jobs, ai Jesus is coming, and if you use ai it will use all of the worlds compute power to try to convince you it's correct even when it's not.
AI is a very complicated calculator - you give it an input, magic happens, it gives you an output. Really no different, to a layman.
Even with calculators, I was taught that you should double check by hand sometimes to make sure you got it right.
Even if you _know_ the debit card transaction is safe, there’s no reason to risk it when a weirdo is filming you with some wild contraption.
<https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp>.
There's a related study of adult technical literacy conducted in 33 OECD nations:
<https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/skills-matter_978926...>.
Both show that only a small fraction (5--10%) of adults operate at high levels of literacy (whether of text, numeracy, or technology), and that a large fraction (roughly 50%) operate at a minimal or below-minimal rate.
People who are unskilled at a task are unaware of what that task performed correctly is. So, somebody who can't count calories is unable to tell that the AI can't perform the task correctly either.
Which is a good thing because it means we can talk like normal humans ("people don't know that it's unreliable") instead of acting like we're making such a profound claim that it needs a citation and psychological dissection.