I remember when I suggested that I shouldn't learn to write in 1998, because you can just type on the computer, I was laughed at. I was told that at best I'd still need to learn to write, and at worst computers can turn out as a fad due to them requiring electricity to work, they can crash and go bad, etc. Pease note that my dislike of writing was heavily influenced by likely having dyspraxia, and a lot of cheaper pens/pencils being mildly painful to hold.
However, the very same people are now disencouraging anything that the AI is promised to replace. Don't draw, just use Dall-E. Don't code, just use ChatGPT. Don't play music, just use Suno. Don't make movies, just wait until it can do it good enough. The music one is even often being pushed by those who absolutely despised electronic music for "not requiring any talent, just pressing buttons", all while AI music is literally what ignorant rock/metal kids thought electronic music production was. Even one person, who criticized me for using amp sims on my PC instead of a wall of tube amplifiers is more favorable than not towards AI music.
I wonder if those who now disencourage art classes in favor of a short lesson on how to prompt an image generator will also disencourage writing due to speech-to-text technologies. Maybe the problem is that they don't use LLMs, but often a more primitive version of neural networks.
And I'm not 100% against new tools. I even use Neural Amp Modeler, sometimes even two instances with one having a Boss HM-2 response for that Swedish chainsaw tone. But these prompt machines are barely more than toys for real professional work, due to the lack of actual control beyond prompting.
Ooh, the "Smart" era. We still have "Smart" TVs from that era (as in, a device that still uses the "smart" prefix).
But there was a period not too long ago everything was called "smart", which came down to shoving a SOC into some mundane household item and forcing an Internet requirement.
From that era we had such wonderful inventions as:
The car isn’t from that era, though.
And has an actual, applicable use case. (Dense city outside north america with bad public transportation and a customer allergic to cycling).
It works outside dense cities too. It's not FUN to drive on a highway, but the max speed of even the weakest 2nd gen model is not legal anywhere in my country. Not sure about first gen because Wikipedia didn't list speeds for those and I CBA to look it up. The four door variants, though still tiny, had slightly bigger engines and therefore higher top speeds.
The Juicero did at least crush actual fruit. But, it was hilariously over-built, and you could squeeze the bags of fruit by hand just fine.