on February 12, 2026, 9:40:45, in reply to "There's a lot of interesting ideas there. Hype or whatever, still food for thought. TL/DR warning.."
Where I see it having made the best strides is with tools that will save physicians time. There's an AI product that can listen to an office visit and then automatically generate a note in the chart. Last time I saw my PCP (she knows what I do) she told me that it's saving her hours each day. There are also AI tools that will summarize the last # of years worth of notes and present a summary to the doc, that's something that docs just werent doing.
It's also getting better at scanning notes and finding items that were note free text but should be documented in discrete fields somewhere. 
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In education, I use AI for generating lesson ideas, writing prompts, Google slides now can "beautify" my slides so I don't have to...and more. But what I haven't seen AI be successful at is assessing work to my satisfaction. There are programs out there that attempt to do it, but I wouldn't trust them at this point and I don't think the programs do it in a way that teaches students to get better.
According to the article, I should be able to pay for the best version of ChatGPT and have it code a program to grade papers. But again, I'm skeptical about that judgement, empathy, and nuanced ability the author says AI is capable of doing.
The upside of that is that I figure my job is safe until I retire in a few years. The downside of that is that it still takes. me a long, long time to assess student writing. 5-10 minutes an essay for 125 students is a lot of time.
BUT as a teacher, I do think it's my responsibility to help kids with responsible AI use/exposure. I'm not afraid, like many of my colleagues, of using it due to plagiarism fears, etc. Does it happen, yes. But the benefits outweigh the costs IMO and my hope is that I can guide my students in responsible use.
Probably TL/DR for most of you. But if you made it this far, I'd be curious about how AI is playing out in your fields. Especially as my kids get older and I try and guide them with future decision-making!
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- osklister February 12, 2026, 11:42:20