Improved medical diagnoses are useful. Cars that drive themselves are useful. Improved inventory tracking is useful. Improved fraud detection is useful. Tho

Improved medical diagnoses are useful. Cars that drive themselves are useful. Improved inventory tracking is useful. Improved fraud detection is useful. Those are a very very minor subset of the vast array of real-world AI use cases. Edit to respond to your edit :) Yes ChatGPT is surely overhyped, same as GANs were five years ago, but these things have a whole ton of co-incidencing real-world applications that aren't hyped which we don't see as much. For example facial recognition is so good now that governments are performing mass surveillance with it. Now I admit, this is not in anyone here's opinion a good change. But it is a very real very existing phenomena. BTW - hope my comment did not come across too confrontational. Just need to defend my AI colleagues ;) --- Edit to add one more tangental thought that crossed my mind There's a temptation amongst skeptics to say that technology never lives up to the hype - we were told in the 70s robots would replace us, etc., But I think the reason we feel like it never lives up to the hype is because there is a moving target effect taking place. The present will never feel "sci-fi" because as soon as technology comes, the "sci-fi" target moves ahead. But when you look objectively at the technology around us, there are so many absolutely incredible developments in the last 10-20 years. They just have become normalised.