Everywhere you look these days, there it is—some manner of breathlessly hyped new “AI” service that’s, like, totally gonna change your life forever. (Like, totally. For realsies.)

Or so they say. In reality, of course, most of this stuff is far more fallible, limited in utility, and inadvisable to use outside of super-specific scenarios than most tech companies (and self-declared “AI gurus”) would lead you to believe.

But AI, in its current form, isn’t entirely useless. Far from it, in fact: This type of tech can be quite helpful in the right sort of scenario and, critically, if you think about it in the right way—not as an end-all instant answer machine but as a starting point for certain types of specific tasks or info-seeking.

And as we wade our way through a year that’s absolutely o

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