Not even remotely an ML expert. Just some ideas I had: Speech recognition + basic NLP for automatic customer support triage. None of these are great to use as

Not even remotely an ML expert. Just some ideas I had: Speech recognition + basic NLP for automatic customer support triage. None of these are great to use as a customer, but they seem to be effective enough to continue using and save companies lots of money. Automatic "offensive" content detection for social media. I'd bet they use ML to do a first-pass on uploaded content to make sure it doesn't contain porn, gore, etc. Probably lets these companies save money. Automatic defect detection in factories. Instead of training humans to detect subtle issues in manufacturing issues. I think companies like Samsara are experimenting with offering this tech as a service. Facial recognition/tracking for law enforcement/defense. Ignoring the ethics of it for a moment, it seems like governments would be willing to pay a good amount of money for this tech. Could be used to automatically search through hours of footage to find which frames (if any) contain a target.