Weekend vote: What are your feelings about 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI)?

These days AI - or "artificial intelligence" to use the old-fashioned term - is everywhere. It's trying to write e-mails and social media posts for us and trying to decide what music we want to stream. It has a huge hand in deciding and administering medical care, and the list goes on. It's hard to escape it. As musicians, we've seen technology - call it AI or not - creeping into our space for a long time. Popular music has been auto-tuned and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantization_(music)">quantized</a> since last century, and the MIDI orchestra, complete with synthesized and now digital string sections, has been evolving for nearly a half-century, getting more "realistic" every day. It seems wonderful when AI can help save time or come up with solutions; it seems less so when it threatens people's jobs. Sometimes it feels like it threatens our very humanity, when it starts making art - writing music, words, drawing pictures for us. Certainly AI has exploded in the last year, so I thought it would make a good topic for us to discuss. How do you feel about AI? Do you use it? What do you use it for? What would you NOT want to use it for? Is it a comfort to you, or a threat? Or both? Please participate in the vote, and share your thoughts in the comments. <iframe src="https://www.violinist.com/poll.cfm?question=742" frameborder="0" height="270" scrolling="auto" width="450"></iframe>