AI in Your Life
What AI Is Good At (and Not)
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Jagged intelligence
AI ability isn't a smooth line from dumb to smart — it's jagged. The same tool can write a sonnet about your dog and then miscount the letters in 'strawberry'.
This is the single most confusing thing about modern AI: it fails at things that feel easy and succeeds at things that feel hard.
insight
Rule of thumb: AI is strong where there are millions of examples to learn from (writing, translating, recognizing), and weak where the task needs exactness, freshness, or genuine reasoning beyond its patterns.