I recognize the hype for what it is, but I find the people calling for "sanity" are overrepresented everywhere; and it seems to me they discount the actual util

I recognize the hype for what it is, but I find the people calling for "sanity" are overrepresented everywhere; and it seems to me they discount the actual utility of AI way too much. In other words, I think the AI-skepticism is overhyped, just as much as AI itself. For my uses, I find AI to be a much better search/answer engine than Google ever was. It can produce answers with hyperlinks for further reading much better and more efficiently than any other option. I no longer have to read through a bunch of seemingly random Google search results, hoping that my specific question is addressed.