Firstly People who not have a fundamental Problem with AI. People who are not so sceptical (like me) and more ... enthusiastic for newest Technologies.
I'm more ... how can I describe it ... To have a Technology only to have the Technology is for me useless. When You have a Technology it should have a practical Usage. And for AI I don't see it.
I only saw one big Invention with AI-based Technology but that was for the Military - and that is not a so good Playground I think.
When a product is distributed for free, then the users are not the customers, they are the product.
A.I. has big money in it.
I have seen advertisements for A.I. that depict students asking for homework answers. Many of the other examples in the advertisement show people being clueless and mindless.
It seems that those marketing A.I. are pushing the narrative:
You don't have to think. We'll do that for you.
And this begins to explain where the money is. And why A.I. is being pushed so strongly. It enhances the notion of a few elites over the masses of mindless people. It helps create more control over people. It helps limit critical thinking and intelligent reasoning.
The biggest threat to humanity is not an asteroid impact. It is not a great flood. It is not the machines or A.I. It is not a natural super-virus.
The biggest threat to humanity is humanity. Both our selfish greed (no matter the long term costs) and our apathy and laziness.
When the end come for the Human Species, it will be a self inflicted wound.
Social media springs to mind.
I use Ollama on my PC locally, it uses my GPU resources, the installation is very simple, basically for questions and even to respond to work emails, so I don't waste so much time composing emails 
just now i wanted to find out if zorin lite comes preinstalled with wayland,( something an uninformed noob like myself might want to know), did a COUPLE of normal searches and but still couldn't get a simple answer , then asked AI and got a simple "no". (maybe it's lying i don't know lol)
so yea , AI helps me better sometimes .
1st 4 screenshots from brave search engine in brave browser , maybe a google search would provide better links ?
5th screenshot from AI ...thank you
I use AI and LLMs locally on my machine as a helper of sorts. It helps me check some of my work, with formatting and cleaning up my horrible grammar. I also use it to get ideas for some of my dev work. I do find it decent when I am starting research on something. I do not take what it says as fact, but it usually does provide a good starting point.
I do not blindly trust anything it is giving me. I don't blindly trust what people tell me, either, I always verify. It does help save time as an assistant, but that is all it really is to me.
No, it does not. What can help is defining your search terms in order to narrow down an answer. Lite uses XFCE.
Search: "Does Wayland work on XFCE?"
First hit:
https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap
No, Wayland does not work with XFCE.
Wayland is much like A.I. in that big corporations are pushing hard for it, in spite of its lack of readiness or other problems.
There must be a reason for this (follow the money trail) and this erodes trust; which in turn erodes confidence in a product when said product drops XFCE when viewing the push for Wayland...
See what's going on here?
I'm much more pessimist on this front. I think they will replace them at some point. But not out of their own merit but because it provides the quick and convenient answers that people seek. Even if search engines are needed to train or update new models, as far as actual human usage is concerned, people will opt for such a convenience. Keep in mind that most people already don't bother double checking nor contrasting their sources.
I do use AI from time to time and agree that it's very rough most of the time. Either it needs precise instructions — in which case I can do the work or research myself — or it's a rabbit hole of double checking and verifying how accurate it really is. I find it most useful for precisely those tasks that computers already are good at: grunt work. Things like creating repeating patterns of dummy data, summaries, spell checking, etc.
In terms of code, regular expressions in particular is one of the things I found it most useful. Not because I don't know regex but because complex ones are easier to correct than to create.
That answer implies that Zorin OS 17 Lite may come with Wayland or that it it's compatible, at least, even if it's not the default. An uninformed user would now be misinformed because of this answer.
suggesting that my AI is cleverer than macfly AI 
AI++? 
I don't use AI because what it provides is a mash of general info collected from search engines. Unreliable to say the least.
If you look for an answer to anything via a search engine a lot of the links to sites are outdated anyway.
I don't see how AI for the time being can be of much use for people who have common sense.
@Aravisian hit the nail on the head, it's all about money by the big corps.
Even though it doesn't work properly it will/has been adopted by many for the wrong reason.
"I don't use AI because what it provides is a mash of general info collected from search engines. Unreliable to say the least."
we must not use the same AI Freeway 
with that i won't argue ...
in the meantime , i still find it very useful
like other people find google useful (google isn't a big corps. after money , or data ... )
Hi fellows.
Thank you for an interesting topic and a meaningful discussion 
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My experience at the moment is maybe not be as rich as yours, but...
Yes, I use AI and I trust it. I need it mostly for self-education/learning purposes, because I am a complete newbie to Linux and there are a lot of things that I don't know or can't understand due to lack of basic knowledge. Unfortunately, reading manuals or doing google research does not always give the desired explanation that I can understand and quite often leads to even more different options and does not bring so much clarity as it raises new questions or is confusing. This is where the AI comes in handy, as my questions to it are pretty simple, basic, like: what are the commands to check bluetooth modules? Give me a step-by-step guide to check WiFi connection issues. What are the commands for that, what terminal output should I expect? What does one or another command mean and what for is it? Provide a more detailed explanation. And so on.
Maybe it doesn't sound very, um, correct, but such way of learning using AI gives me really positive shifts and understanding. By the way, this is exactly how I started to understand about what, why and why problems are solved in this way and not in another way both in this and other Linux forums. After that, I can already cross-check information using google search or other information sources. Well, there was nothing surprising about that. Usually, I'm searching for answers to basic level questions that are really checked, clear, reliable and definitely not causing a risk to my system 
. Just my own search for them and trying to understand them by myself would probably take too much time for me, so why not use AI? Although, on the other hand, I have already come across several cases where the AI turns into some circle of self-interpretation and citation, and a human approach to the question and a solution based on experience is significantly faster and more efficient. So, I think that in everything, both in the attitude towards oneself and one's (non-)abilities, and in the situation with AI, a healthy and balanced attitude is necessary. And I try to never take anything to an absolute level. But I am learning and moving forward on the road, and AI remains just a tool that is useful if, like every tool, it is used according to its purpose.
I asked the lite again, and he gave a different answer. 
Edit: I asked again in an incognito window and it gave me the previous answer about the lite.
What these AI's should be doing is using the context of the conversation to generate responses. Since I asked about the Core first and then the Lite, she was able to give a more accurate answer about the lite.
Asking directly about the lite she was unable to correctly correlate and give a accurate answer.
