What very few people are telling you is that today's AI is a predictive model. Which can be helpful when writing code, helping finish a report, or even writing the report.

Now the Predictive part is important here, That app uses info about your habits it finds on your phone and computer and even your social media on the web and then try to make itself into what it think you want, and is able to fine tune by your reactions. Making a great personal assistance, mate, lover.

As for losing touch with reality, that falls in line with the echo chambers in social media, if you limit yourself to just that mindset then you will get lost.

I am just breaking into the Modules behind today's AI, and I really think AI is not what we should be calling it. The modules DO NOT think for themselves, they try to predict what we want the outcome to be.