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Who is AI For?

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Who is AI for right now? There are obvious use cases. Image generation for people who want filler art for work presentations, or just to mess around. Coding assistance for people who code, vibe coding for people who don’t. Speech-to-text for automatic captioning, and text-to-speech for grinding out TikTok videos...

Who is AI for right now? There are obvious use cases. Image generation for people who want filler art for work presentations, or just to mess around. Coding assistance for people who code, vibe coding for people who don’t. Speech-to-text for automatic captioning, and text-to-speech for grinding out TikTok videos that read Reddit comments to farm engagement. But also…math contest solving? Science Olympiad questions? Who is that for? I think the easy answer to this question is that right now, AI is for the AI developers. People working in AI respect math and science contests, doing well on them

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