What I'm finding really odd right now is the complete disconnect between some people and the reality of AI.
I follow a bunch of science fiction writers and they're constantly posting about how they don't use it, won't use it, and how it's just a glorified autocomplete.
It's really weird as these are hugely intelligent people with a proper nailed on understanding of the world, pretty much right up until 2024 at which point they've just checked out. I can understand them rejecting use of AI to write novels, music, art etc. (and I'm with them on that), but to not see how absolutely transformative it's been is amazingly out of touch.
My dad's become the de facto IT support assistant for the OAPs on his cul-de-sac just by using Gemini. Half of our staff are using it daily for everything from speeding up drafting of emails, through to writing systems to automate workflows. And I'm using it for our group budgeting process to get answers in minutes that would have taken days or weeks on Excel and dragged the accountant in to every conversation.
At the same time it's scary how dependent I am on it already. I can easily see an entire generation of people ending up with zero decision making capacity.