Nope...I am old school...an old f***rt . I don't use AI except for certain R & D Machine Systems design simulations . That too to only confirm my thumb rule estimates. I ditch my calculator once in a while to do long division manually 108765/52 just to keep my mind sharp.
Here's a true story that inspires me.
The USA tested its first plutonium nuclear device code-named "
Trinity," on July 16, 1945, . it was hung on a 100-foot tower at the Alamogordo Bombing Range in New Mexico. There were hundreds of sensors recording shock, pressure, temperature. wind velocity placed in concentric ring arrangements around the tower to record the effects of the blast . There was no instant data transfer in those days and the readings of each sensor would have to be manually collected, noted tabulated and then used in complex calculations that would be done manually by dozens of technicians, to estimate the power of the blast. A process that would take at least one full day
There were a group of scientists observing the blast from a safe distance some miles away and amongst them was Enrico Fermi. Just before the blast Fermi tore up his identity card into small pieces each the size of 5 mm square. He held the bits of card in his fist and waited for the blast. Even from that distance the blast produced a gust of wind felt by Fermi and he released the bits of card into the wind, He then measured the distance they fell, pacing the distance in steps . By extrapolating and through empirically calculating he estimated the blast yield at about 24.8 kilotons, which was pretty close to the actual blast yield of 25 kilotons. No Artificial Intelligence needed . Just human , brain power and logic.
I am not as smart as Enrico Fermi but I use extrapolation all the time.