ML was not marginal for decades. It's been in regular use in a number of fields for decades. The current hype is an artifact of someone putting fun interface in

ML was not marginal for decades. It's been in regular use in a number of fields for decades. The current hype is an artifact of someone putting fun interface in front of an ML system. Hype around generative imagery and LLMs is new, not the technologies themselves. Crypto has been around for nearly a decade and a half and has been really useful for malware and scammers and not much else. It's fundamentally broken as a currency because most coins are designed to be deflationary so they behave like securities. It's fundamentally broken for micro transactions because transactions are ridiculously expensive and slow by design.