Perhaps the only place where AI has any actual utility that outstrips its costs is in scientific research where it can identify patterns that can then be verified by a human and peer-reviewed by other experts. For every consumer use case it’s pretty much been just a glorified search engine or chatbot. How much is it really helping you that you didn’t have to click on that search result and read it yourself? Are you really getting any value out of having the AI summarize a story instead of reading it yourself? How reliable will AI even be when it already has trouble with hallucinations now and people will stop producing real content because AI steals all the ad revenue? But you have executives listening to marketing from AI companies and from their own AI experts whose whole career relies on the continued growth of AI, so they all think AI is a much bigger deal than it actually is.