There are other good uses of AI. Medicine. Genetics. Research, even into humanities like history.

The problem always was the grifters who insist calling any program more complicated than adding two numbers AI in the first place, trying to shove random technologies into random products just to further their cancerous sales shell game.

The problem is mostly CEOs and salespeople thinking they are software engineers and scientists.

I know Jeff Geerling on Youtube uses OpenAIs Whisper to generate captions for his videos instead of relying on Youtube's. Apparently they are much better than Youtube's being nearly flawless. I would have a guess that Google wants to minimize the compute that they use when processing videos to save money.

The app Be My Eyes pivoted from crowd sourced assistance to the blind, to using AI and it's just fantastic. AI is truly helping lots of people in certain applications.

While LLMs are truly impressive feats of engineering, it's really annoying to witness the tech hype train once again.

Spoiler: they won't