We are lazy and AI is the solution

I have been running down my current view of the world as I recover from the pandemic. We all went though quite a lot even if we are aware of it. Time cures most thing and like weight loss, if you got fat over 10 years you are not going to get skinny in 6 months and maintain it. We are often more complicate then that.

What concerns me is a pattern that I think is rife from collective exhaustion. LLM improvements showed up in my perception around the middle of 2022 (according to my local history). This was a peek of my exhaustion to be sure and that framing is important because it might help explain how my world is colored.

Anyways, that pattern is almost like we have put innovation on hold while we wait for AI to solve things for us. I saw a post on Linkedin about how Oreo's don't melt under a blowtorch. I mean I never tried it myself so I can only accept the authors word for it. The proposed solution was to have AI look at ingredient lists and raise flags when they would produce unhealthy results.

Neat idea... except why don't we already know that kind of food is unhealthy? Why am I burning Oreo's with a blowtorch anyways, my gut doesn't "burn cookies" for fuel last time I checked...

Lets not worry so much about the argument itself but the formula. Customer (X) identified system problem (A):

1. Identify problem (A)
2. Introduce AI to solve for (A)
3. Profit?

While I do suspect that AI could be good at solving this problem eventually maybe we first create AI that exposes logical fallacies in our arguments. Then if we find that we are concerned we are eating garbage we just stop eating it? What happens next?

Food Company (Y) identified problem (B) low sales:

1. Identify problem (B)
2. Introduce AI to solve for (B)
3. Profit?

Maybe there is some existing systemic system that allows humans to communicate expectations without introducing expensive ex parte AI agents to discover them asymmetrically.

I think for a couple of years we were separated from each other and we might have become so accustomed to communicating only with technology that we might slip into letting the technology communicate for us?

Just a conjecture and a warning to myself. The hard work still needs to be done and the AIs and LLMs are a tool to get the obnoxious part done quicker. The machine sounds like it can reason but it doesn't really.