I Was Bored With AI—Until It Drove Me Across Town

I may have spoken too soon. Last week, to mark the one-year anniversary of this column, we published a piece that reiterated my skepticism about AI. It turns out I just needed a weekend trip to Los Angeles and a few rides in Waymo’s robotaxis to see the technology in a new light.

I’m bored with AI chatbots. After almost three years of putting ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and others through their paces, they still regularly provide me with false information and clutter my social media…