OK, I had to laugh… I was watching a Youtube video about reading ledger lines in music and an ad appeared for an AI course (why it appeared is a separate issue!) The premise of the ad was that all users over 40 use AI incorrectly and therefore needed to take the course to figure it all out. Spoiler alert: I am over 40. My experience may be unusual (Along with The Wired Schoolhouse I'm also a professor) but the good AI users I know are ALL OVER 40… it's mostly younger users who are doing the one prompt and then cut and paste thing. Honestly… who cares about age; let's just use tools as best we can so we move the planet forward.

I would call the creator of the ad to complain but it's likely past their bed time.

We're mostly familiar with large language models (LLMs) like chatGPT, Copilot, etc. But increasingly I'm seeing small language models - these are smaller and lighter AIs. They have specific knowledge in a subject area but not a broad knowledge of the world at large. The trade off is general knowledge and deeper reasoning for speed and lower resource needs. Key issue is that they're specialized and more easily "tuned" for specific needs, i.e. project management. AND you can run them on a laptop! Worth thinking about - use the small model for lap top based specific tools such as meeting data, summarizing specialized documents or decision support while continuing to use large models for more complex or abstract problems.