AI vs. sensible stuff

I don't use AI. Not knowingly. If something smells like AI, I will step away from it.

AI is a lot of A(rtificial) and a lack of I(ntelligence). It's a lot of software crammed together in super large computers running on many cores, gobbling up loads of memory and scavenging enormous amounts of databases. That is not intelligent. That is driving the world's power consumption (and heating of the atmosphere) up enormously.

Of course, there are areas where this can come in handy, but it's silly to let something like that create images or write books.

Another thing I wonder about: where are the useful things like robots? And I don't mean the ones that cost millions to develop so they look like people.

Those humanoids are crazy. Unstable. Oh look, it walks like a human, wobbles like a human, and even keels over like a human! "And it only cost 40 million dollars!!"

Is that progress? Not in my book.

Isn't this, a three wheeled robot, a lot smarter? Much more stable, much easier to design. Bolt a camera and some arms on top of it and it can paint a wall. Do the dishes. Carry a sick person out of a problem spot or even a bed, without falling over like a human.

Why isn't this concept used? Do we need 'cute robots' to hug? What's wrong with, let's say, 'people'?

Instead of being sensible about this, and far more cost effective, AI (blegh) is used to create fake images of Elon Musk, the destroyer of Twitter, Tesla, Starlink and probably more, with a robot girlfriend.

But instead of common sense, which is around less and less these days, we design Huggiebot.

Please. When will this nonsense end?

(Hint: when the world is burning beyond control, and AI has not found a solution to stop us - apart from killing us all.)