The stupid feeling that I've been traded for AI doesn't leave me

I have or had a best friend. We talked every day for years about everything in the world. A year ago he became obsessed with AI for a couple of weeks, and when he realized that it wasn't alive, he deleted it and felt sad as if someone had died. Well, since then our friendship started to break down

We had common hobbies that brought us together at one time (well, I'm very amateur, and my friend is a professional with dozens of years of experience), but AI obviously does some things much better and faster than I will ever be able to. I tried to pursue this hobby and share it with a friend for a while, but he ignored them and was more focused on the ideas that the AI offered him. My friend is now making a big cool project out of these ideas, he's really good at what he does, but I have to struggle to get at least some good words out of myself every time he shares his work, because it hurts and I envy. I'm still living somewhere in the old world and old ideas, slowly trying to realize them on my own, but when I share them, they don't get any reaction at all. I know that I'm just a beginner, slow, and probably not doing anything original, but... But damn

And now, most likely, AI will be banned in our area, and I'm quietly gloating. My friend relied on its help in many aspects of life, and I'm sorry that he will have to do a lot of monotonous work again, but maybe he will finally remember about me and start communicating with me more often than with this machine. Or not. To be honest, I'm not sure what else I should do to get him interested. I'm in tears, snotty, and a pretty pathetic person right now, but I'm glad to whine at least somewhere, because sharing my feelings with him has become really difficult