I don't recall using CoPilot. Some of the other AI tools and services are simply amazing. For years, I shied away from t...

I don't recall using CoPilot. Some of the other AI tools and services are simply amazing. For years, I shied away from the most contentious aspects. My wilful ignorance was not entirely a bad thing, but in retrospect: if I had begun using AI for some challenges a few months ago, using a laptop would have been far easier for me. Humans can make mistakes, AI can make mistakes, mistakes can be a combination of the two, the mistakes are no big deal for me. Discovery is accelerated, learning is accelerated, and this includes learning from mistakes. I'm not the type of person who is flattered when a machine tells me, authoritatively, that I'm correct regardless of the truth. My mind now is no less enquiring than it was long before AI took its current forms. I am the type of person whose patience is limited when people refuse to learn. Refusal plus unnecessary rudeness is never a winning combination: these humans lose. This is where the machines always win – and that's almost the end of the s...