And me, a young junior without PhD.
My colleague never stop asking me any slightest question that you can find the answer by googling. For instance how to do git pull, how to update github token, what's the meaning of ValueError in Python, etc. For some questions I have already answered twice and he noted the solution somewhere twice as well, just never learn.
When I took month long paid long vacation, he begged me to come back frequently because he will be helpless that no one he can ask. But I don't give a F. Because our job has zero overlap and I don't know shit about what he is working on. We just happen to sit in the same lab. Everytime he ask me stuff, I google thing and teach him back because I don't have that knowledge. But why am I doing this?
Moreover, he wouldn't read his own email. Several times he show me the email and ask what's that mean even though that's written in language that he should understand.
I have already shown him how to use Google, ChatGPT, DeepL, but at the end I am still his personal ChatGPT.
How to deal with such person so that I can work on my stuff?
a) finding what his problem(s) are,
b) telling him about them in a serious and private conversation, probably outside of work, and finally
c) encouraging him to address any problems with professional help if necessary.
probably with more polite wrapped around it; thats about as far as i go that way.
I'd be inclined to set them on fire when they wander in asking distracting questions. I'm not terribly social.
I like the implications of the way you ask; we're not sure what "AI" is, if we have it yet; but we have an unspoken certainty that it will be a mute, obedient servant willing to put up with being used in ways we humans will not.
So what we're after with AI isn't "intelligence", as much as "obedience?"