Agh no, that reminds me of that horrible picture of a naked guy on the beach with an octupus, followed by an even more horrible text, which i had just forgotten.

I've tried to discuss it in my first year at a university software engineering program.

The most response i've gotten was a second grader responding something like "That's interesting, but i don't know that much about it, so i can't say very much about what i think".

It feels like being at a car convention and telling people "Dude, have you heard about this new car running on magic? Youtube is full of videos about people building their own and testing it out" and being patted on the head with the reply "sure thing buddy, that's nice".

Pretty much the only person i'm able to talk about it to some extent is my mom.
She's not a STEM person, she wanted to become an architect designing modern barns, since she grew up on a farm and realized that many barn architechts apparantly had never been in a barn.
She went for rehabilitation science instead, since i was a messy kid and fucked up her studies in that period.

I suppose my dad and uncle would have quite some opinions on it since they are extremely technologically competent and stay quite up to date.
I've just never brought it up since i don't meet them very often, and want to catch up on other stuff instead.

Really depends on the level of your work.

Programmers are for instance more easily replacable by AI then healthcare givers, where good personal contacts is a vital factor for the well being of patients.

Already at the start of 2022, AI could be much more creative than the plot of many new movies wit the right tuning and enough memory to make it coherent.