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@tommorris Mostly this sounds like the person saying “this is a good case for AI” is accurately sensing something that could be improved.

But you’ve omitted the case where what needs to be improved is the person speaking. Material is hard to read? The person might need to learn more before they can understand it. The basics might be available and well written but the speaker hasn’t learned them yet.

Some people have opinions on fields and subjects where they have very little knowledge or expertise and they think AI will bridge that gap: allowing them to achieve things in a domain that they are not sufficiently literate or expert yet.

Today when someone says they want to use “AI” they mean one of 3 things:
- predictive machine learning (eg transcription, OCR, translation, etc)
- generative AI (LLM, image generation, etc)
- pure made-up computer magic