As an IT Professional i hate AI, because many People favor AI in Situations where statistical Algorithms are already good.
it has huge energy needs to train a model on thousands on input data, compared to simply having a concise statistical algorithm who does the thing you want to do. Think Spam filtering (usually an statistical Algorithm) vs Captcha (in Google’s case AI)
It is much harder to debug and fixup after it has gone wrong. structrual Bias in the input data (think sexism, racism) is hard to remove on a big scale. Algorithms are easy to change.
As Software Developer, i favor mimimalist but useful technology. Very few things AI can do (which Algorithms can’t) are actually helpful to society.
I think of Software Development as an Art of Craftmanship - AI is far away from that, it is like searching for needles in a hay stack in terms of finding solutions. And when you found a solution, you don’t know why it works, you can’t adapt it to other Problems easily.
I agree that AI can be helpful and inspiring for new Algorithms but in many cases AI is used to replace Algorithms, wasting huge energy resources in the process - instead of just improving said Algorithms.