There is a happy medium between "AI eating the world" and "AI is a scam," that is generally best described as "AI performing valuable but often boring services

There is a happy medium between "AI eating the world" and "AI is a scam," that is generally best described as "AI performing valuable but often boring services within enterprises." We don't often see that because it gets totally drowned out between cynics and moralist scolds battling vapid hype-bros and pumpers, and also because it's boring. It turns out there's actually a lot of tedious classification, OCR, entity extraction, and enterprise search to be done. Amusingly much of the money made in SaaS was also in boring products!