OpenAI is one of the leading companies in AI that makes models with real world applications. I don't see their efforts as misdirected or futile in anyway. If an

OpenAI is one of the leading companies in AI that makes models with real world applications. I don't see their efforts as misdirected or futile in anyway. If anything I'm always impressed with their announcements because it's always mind blowing what their models can do! The same technology that is drawing cute unicorns can be used for endless other use cases. Perhaps the PR side of the launch and the subject matter they show unveil their product is just that, PR. It's like Apple Memoji thing (not sure if I'm spelling it correctly). You can think of as trivial and waste of talent to use their Camera/FaceID to animate cute animals based on facial expression, but that same tech will enable lots other things to come.