AI is a play to appease Wall Street. It is similar to the VR race, which has just ended and anyone investing heavily in it would not necessarily be praised by t

AI is a play to appease Wall Street. It is similar to the VR race, which has just ended and anyone investing heavily in it would not necessarily be praised by the stock market. Companies like Alphabet, Meta, or Apple have to be seen to be innovating or else their stock will suffer. So, even if they know it is all not going to work they are forced to show they are keeping up. So they suck life of the new tech by deploying billions of USD to hoover up talent and tech and thus asphyxiate competition, especially smaller players. Once the dust settles in a couple of years there will be some leftover tech that might be useful and a whole bunch of patents kept at the ready for the next round of crazy. Google could be doing nothing, but there would be no end to the comments that they are finished and have no future. Funny that nobody expects Oracle or Autodesk to out-hallucinate their competition. I guess they don't because bank ledgers or high-rise designs are best kept away from the tricksters selling another iteration of Mechanical Turk under the guise of "saving humanity". Unfortunately for us, unlike previous advances in IT this one make things slower, uses way more energy, and spits out BS. Give it a couple of years and a wider war effort where compute power might get nationalised for the purpose of fighting the enemy in a more efficient way or designing deadlier weapons faster and we will not see AI available to the general public for much longer. Not that it's a bad thing, SEO spammers trying to outdo one another in who can publish more crap is something I'd like to see less of.