“Degenerative” AI?

These days, I respond to hearing “generative AI” with a bit of an eye roll. The smart ass in me thinks: “As opposed to ‘degenerative AI’ that is going to make all of us degenerates.” I can be a little (?) quirky sometimes. There are things we do and do not like about AI, generative, degenerative, or otherwise. We like it when it automates tedious tasks or when it anticipates us for a smoother experience. We appreciate it when it crawls through a ginormous corpus of information to find things we have not thought of. And we are endlessly entertained…...