If, at his age, Trump figured out AI to the point where he can actually use it for work, that’s a phenomenal sign of extraordinary mental acuity and intellectual prowess.
Have you tried explaining AI to anybody over the age of 70? At my university, professors 20 years younger than Trump are still at the stage of “How many people were hired to type up all of the responses that AI gives you?” and “I’ve never had a student use AI in my courses.” Even people my age and younger here on campus don’t remotely understand what AI is and what its existence means. When I tell them that we have to change our teaching dramatically because about 80% of what we’re doing no longer makes any sense because of AI, their eyes glaze over.
My aunts are 68-year-old twins. One was a high school math teacher, and the other was an accountant at a bank. I tried explaining just the most basic things about AI to them, and it was completely useless. When I tell them what my AI agent does for me, they look at me like I’m telling them fairy tales about magical creatures.
You can’t simultaneously advance a narrative that Trump is senile and that he enhances his productivity with AI. As we used to joke in the USSR, “Comrade Rabinovitz, either take off your cross or pull up your pants.” If you don’t understand the joke, ask AI.
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