AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway

It's important to understand that large-language models like ChatGPT do not "think" about the prompt and do not in any meaningful sense "understand" the result they give you. No matter how sophisticated they get, fundamentally they are still computer programs - systems for choosing words (and code fragments) that look right next to each other, according to some inferred rules. They are not driven by will or consciousness. You might be able to get ChatGPT to "tell" you (produce textual output) that it's intelligent and has feelings, but this is just as meaningless as if a book were titled "I am Intelligent and Have Feelings". Or as Angela Collier puts it, AI does not exist ( [this video] ). Such programs also often output things that are completely wrong and have no basis in reality, called "AI hallucinations", and as a beginner you are in no position to identify them . This is dangerous, because you can learn wrong things with no way to know that they're wrong. It could take a very long time for you to figure out the mistake, at which point a bad habit may already be ingrained. Responsible human teachers know what's technically correct, and will proactively warn that they're making a simplification - and will certainly not make something up just because it sounds right in context. Learning Python is not fundamentally different from learning any other programming language, which in turn is not significantly different from learning anything at all. You must start with fundamentals a