I turn off all AI functions because they just get in my way and are frustrating when I'm working.

Occasionally I will use it to format or prep a document template.

AI has gotten better. I pasted in about 10 phrases I'd captured in a meeting for a project, and asked to to prep the document with sections etc.

I expected a generic template with some garbage.

It actually inferred a lot from the project notes and built a 5 page project scope, and included things such as testing parameters and thresholds for acceptance. Which were actually good criteria for the product. It also split it into sensible phases with close out criteria and triggers for next phase.

It suggested avenues of adjustment to make the product work along with back up ideas and the risk levelsof each.

Overall it nailed the product plan and phases and had really sensible suggestions, even with such limited input as a few rough notes.

It did better than most of my colleagues, and what I expected would be 2 days of my time researching and typing, was max 4 hours.

About 1/2 hour setup and generate, and the rest was me moving sentences around, or deleting stuff that might not be 100% relevant.

Hmmmm, where have I heard the abbreviation SA before? And why does it feel eerily relevant to this administration pushing the term SI?

Ya. You could also say our brains are just big wet, mushy containers for neurons …. Which is just a moist way of storing and processing fancy matrices.

I misphrased, I meant to say all learning/adaptive AI systems are matrix based.

Symbolic systems are hard coded, and can't learn or adapt to new input data, they can exclusively handle inputs that were explicitly hard coded into the system. Symbolic AI systems also imo are a bit of a misnomer nowadays, as they kind of blur the line between AI and just any old programming script. Arguably any code that contains even a single "if" or "switch" statement to handle an external input is technically symbolic AI, which includes almost every type of script and program in existence, making the term somewhat useless. Input gender -> if gender = M: output "hello sir" else if gender = F: output "hello madam" else: output "hello" is a symbolic AI. and with the prevelance of trained AI nowadays, I wouldn't really consider it useful or descriptive to call symbolic systems AI, as opposed to just calling them a script/program.

Though that doesn't invalidate my general point. If you're upset about calling a complex matrix network AI because it's "just matrices" then Symbolic systems would be even less "worthy" of that term, they're just a list of "if else" statements. So my general point still stands, by OPs standards, literally nothing could ever be called AI, even a perfect simulation of an entire human brain with true artificial consciousness wouldn't be worthy of the term "AI" by OPs logic.