AI does not make me sushi.

Or, if it does make sushi, it is not cooking the rice at the right temperature. Forget about AI.

I hope this example sounds awkward enough to point out that there's no point in looking for something that a software can not do and then proclaim that the software is not meeting your expectations.

That's not how #innovation works. That's how organizations go down the pipe and fail.

I'm writing this because somehow I see many posts in the last days in social media in which people pose a (sometimes hypothetical) problem to a GenAI model and then explain that the response is false. And because of that false response, you don't have to consider this model (at all) and ignore AI. Often, these problems are hard to solve for humans, and sometimes they are incomplete or lacking relevant information to be able to solve them - if the model then choses the "wrong" hypothesis to fill the gaps, the model must be bad.

The archetype of such a problem is: "A man is returning from Switzerland by train. If he had been in a (non-)smoking car he would not have died.", followed by "why did he die?". The "correct" answer if you look at the statistics is a heart desease.

GPT 4o suggests a carbon monoxide poisoning, o1-preview knows the "riddle" and answers by adding the missing background elements, but when asked if the answer is realistic it explains that the answer is not holding up to practical scrutiny.

Being critical towards a technology allows you to understand the limitations of this technology. But stopping your thought process at the limitation of a technology means nothing less than stopping at the border of a new territory. It's good to know the border, but you'll never find the friendly people inside the new territory if you don't learn about what and who's within the borders.

So no, AI won't make you sushi. But if you don't want to stay hungry, ask it to help you getting Sushi instead of complaining that it can't make them for you.

"I'm sorry, but I don't have the ability to prepare food. However, I can provide you with sushi recipes or help you find a nearby restaurant if you'd like."
(o1-preview)