I think it's fair to say that artificial intelligence is inconsistent, frequently wrong, and sometimes shallow. While the evangelists might push back, anyone who uses it regularly knows this. It misses context, invents details, and can sound confident about things it does not actually understand. Those limits are obvious, and most users encounter them quickly. Yet despite these flaws, for many people, using AI often feels impressive, if not amazing. For some, it already feels as though thinking itself has become easier.
We collapse uncertainty into a line of meaning. A physician reads symptoms and decides. A parent interprets a child's silence. A writer deletes a hundred sentences to find one that feels true. The key point: Collapse is the work of judgment. It's costly and often can hurt. It means letting go of what could be and accepting the risk of being wrong.