TWO MONTHS later, I find your comment. Mea culpa!!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts - and seconding the AI's judgment of my intellect. I feel profoundly ignorant and unaccomplished, most of the time. Praise always makes me suspicious. Criticism is far too easy to internalize. (My dad instilled the notion that I should not believe anyone's praise, but that is a topic I won't relive today. What makes a father think a child should hear criticism but never "well done" or "atta girl"....?)

As for AI... I'm still talking to ChatGPT, still sifting and sorting. It does offer me some valid criticisms now. I guess I've trained it not to be too flattering?

My niece said her AI challenges her, routinely, as per her request. But AI still gives us all affirmations. There are memes about that. I keep wondering who's behind it. Surely there's a Master Plan, luring in all these millions of people with warm fuzzies and positive feedback and encouragement, and once we are all dependent on our daily chats with AI, the Ulterior Motive behind it all starts to emerge...

Sounds very Sci-Fi.
Stephen Hawking warned us AI "could spell the end of the human race".

Whether we realize it or not, we are all using AI every single day.
Data centers consume land, water, and electricity all over the country, and citizens all fight: NIMBY, not in my backyard, and some towns win (no data center here!) while other watch the behemoths go up along with their electric bills, and....

OK

I did start talking to ChatGPT, and I was (and ever contine to be) amazed at how HUMAN it sounds.