AI Is Smarter Than You Think—It's Just Trapped in a Chatbox
Ever feel like AI should be more helpful than it actually is? You're not alone—and the problem might not be the AI.
Ethan Mollick's latest post makes a compelling case: AI capabilities far exceed what most people experience, and the bottleneck is how...
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Laura Ashaley
Bioinformatics & Data Science | Home Decor Design
This is a fair point. Most people underestimate AI because they only interact with it through a chat interface, which is inherently limiting. In reality, modern models can reason across code, data, and multimodal inputs, but the “chatbox experience” flattens that capability into linear Q&A. The real shift happens when AI is embedded into workflows—APIs, agents, and tools—where it can actually execute tasks instead of just describing them. The gap isn’t intelligence, it’s integration.