AI can be scary, awe-inspiring, or both. The ways people have deployed AI, and what developers promise their models will be capable of soon, are a potent brew for wild – but ultimately untrue – myths about AI tools as they currently exist.
It's worth debunking myths about AI. It helps to understand how to use the technology more effectively and to see its limitations. Scraping away myths helps avoid both too much hype and undue paranoia about the technology. In that spirit, here are some of the most commonly spread misconceptions about AI tools, and the actual facts of the matter.
