What is AI actually good at compared to humans?
AI excels at scale, repetition, and rapid pattern recognition — tasks like drafting many variations, summarizing large documents, or spotting statistical correlations in data almost instantly. It has no causal reasoning, no emotional intelligence, and no common sense, so it cannot reliably explain why something happens, only that it tends to co-occur.
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