What exactly is so great about AI anyways that people expect it to deliver major benefits? Every AI breakthrough in the news is the result of massive amounts o

What exactly is so great about AI anyways that people expect it to deliver major benefits? Every AI breakthrough in the news is the result of massive amounts of data and compute applied to very narrow problem, such as games or image labelling, and even then the AI models are very brittle and easy to break. What is the specific killer app for this kind of product? It's hard for me to think of anything.