Arguably you have to know what you're doing to get useful results out of an AI without becoming a gibbering idiot. Kind of like how you need to know what you're doing with a circular saw so you don't lose a hand. A computer is a tool just like AI is tool, obviously they are not the same.

You're wrong.

An apex predator, also known as a top predator or superpredator, is a predator[note 1] at the top of a food chain with few natural predators of their own, if any.

A critical part of that statement is "at the top of a food chain".

Someone does keep stealing all their wumpa fruit ..

They are apex predators in Australia. There are no large carnivors that take them out. Dingoes are not common, a cat would give a Goanna a run for its money, cats don't go in the water so sharks are a different environment, crocodiles live in a small portion of the country. A cat will hunt snakes, snakes will typically only defend, but not all snakes are poisonous and cats have been known to win against the poisonous ones. Wedge tailed eagles again are not everywhere and are mostly just scavengers. Emus are fucking idiots.

When cats get out here they go feral and eat everything in the immediate area. The feral cats that have been feral for generations are significantly bigger and more aggressive than a house cat, and will actively attack sheep.

Most tools are like that. Is a hammer like any other tool? No, there are a range of hammer types, but a hammer is a hammer and there are no other tools that do that job. Could you use the back of an axe or the side of a wrench? Maybe. Should you? No.

I agree with that and I think there are a significant number of use cases where it's either a waste of time or completely inappropriate to use an LLM to generate the text you are looking for.

You could say the same thing about a computer .. why aren't we drafting technical drawings by hand, why do Draftees need a crutch like CAD packages?

Like I said, there are appropriate use cases and teaching kids about those and the pitfalls is pretty critical. It's worse to just let them work it out under their own steam ..

While they are in no way related to rodents, a lot of Australia's fauna are effectively just mice of varying sizes without the rapid breeding.

Yeah but it does simple but time intensive tasks quickly. Like if you need to generate a document structure it can take a long time but the AI can review existing similar docs and generate something appropriate quickly. The fluff a technical document requires is in a similar boat. A those things would need a review prior to utilisation, but you could save yourself an hour or two getting to the review.

Ensuring kids know how to appropriately use the tools available to them is the goal of education. Yes they need to know the manual methods and should be well trained in those before they start learning what's appropriate to offload. Banning AI is like banning kids from using computers. Yes it's screen time and mindless screen time consuming videos can be detrimental, but how they use the screen is critical and they learn skills when they use the screens for appropriate things.

The other glaring question should be is the environmental cost of using a large cloud based corporate model worth it for a few hours savings per week for each employee? The answer to that is a pretty clear no, but you can achieve similar savings with local models that don't consume vast quantities of energy and water.

Yeah well cats aren't native to Australia, humans brought them here so that's on us, the common house cat is an apex predator here, cat owners need to take some responsibility for their murder machines or we end up with more 20 kg feral cats that can take out a kangaroo