The Future of AI: Why pineapple on a pizza is not the real story
While driving home, a random thought popped into my head: If “pizza” basically means bread, why do people lose their minds over pineapple on pizza? Seriously—have these folks never had a ham, pineapple, and cheese toasted sandwich? That’s the real crime here.
So, I asked Copilot what “pizza” actually means. Turns out, I was close—it specifically means flat, round bread.
Then I asked: If pizza is just flat bread, why the fuss over toppings like pineapple?
After explaining the debate, Copilot asked which side I was on. My answer? Bread is bread—I should be able to put whatever I want on it.
That kicked off a back-and-forth that ended with two recipes for insanely good food—probably stuff that would make an Italian cry.
Check them out here:
https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/GFgTPR1kNeLM5K3EHUJiH
Fun as that was, it’s not the future of AI. Don’t get me wrong—some people love this kind of interaction because it means they can chat without dealing with actual humans, and that’s cool. For research, it’s brilliant—even if the responses sometimes feel like I’m talking to a preppy cheerleader. Honestly, LLM-based AI is the Google I always wanted before Google even existed. Ironically, the best one so far—ChatGPT—wasn’t built by Google but forced Google to step up.
AI and Jobs
Here’s the hard truth: AI is going to kill some jobs. But think about it—if your job can be done by AI, do you really need that job?
This might sound harsh, but most jobs could be automated. At my work, we’ve already replaced an entire team with AI. And honestly? It freed them from a low-paying, dead-end gig. Now they can chase what they actually want to do.
Jobs hold us back. I stayed stuck in a role for years because I thought leaving would wreck my life. Eventually, I quit, moved back in with my parents, and—funny enough—ended up landing a job with the same company in the area I wanted to move to. But IT was losing its shine, and with a baby on the way, quitting felt impossible. Long story short, I moved back home again, this time with my wife and kid, and took a completely different job. I joke that I went from email to snail mail—I became a postie. And in the same time I spent at that big IT firm, I’ve gone from postie to team leader to branch supervisor.
Here’s the kicker: I got into IT because I wanted to play with cool tech. The only cool stuff I touched was what I bought myself. So I thought, why stay in IT? That’s why I walked away from 18 years in the industry. But guess what? As a postie, I’m now working with tech and AI in ways that are way cooler than what I had in IT.
AI in Action
We’re using council maps and AI to optimize delivery routes. We’re also using AI on sorting machines to make them so efficient that even the manufacturers are asking how we’re doing it.
And remember when I said Apple fixed OCR? Our AI makes OCR look like a joke. It can read handwriting that a doctor wrote, which can be tough for humans.
But that’s just the start. Imagine AI managing traffic. With all the work going into driverless cars, this seems like a no-brainer. And honestly, as a motorcyclist, I can’t wait. AI drivers will pay attention—something human drivers clearly don’t.
Where AI Is Headed
LLM-based AI is cool, but it’s not the endgame. AI will make doctor visits shorter and more accurate. It’ll make surgeries safer. It’ll help patients avoid unnecessary procedures. It’ll make roads safer, reduce crime, maybe even solve political conflicts (though humans will never give up running countries—shame, really).
Self-aware AI like in the movies? Not happening. “Garbage in, garbage out” still applies.
Yes, jobs will disappear. But that could free humanity. Think about it: why do we work? To pay bills. Why do we pay to live on a planet we were born on? It’s insane. There are a million things I’d rather do than work just to hand my money to governments and corporations. Why pay for electricity when most power plants run without humans? We’re paying for office workers who barely do anything. It’s a broken system.
So bring on AI. People fear it because of movies and social media. But AI isn’t enslavement—it’s freedom.
Side note: This post was written by me, a human. I did run it through AI for proofreading, but the ideas are mine. The graphic? AI-made—but I explained that in my post The State of AI Two Years On.