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The current hype and the massive investments are about generative AI, not the actually-useful-for-humanity applications.
Image recognition, medical research etc. are not drives the current market. It's about offering a service that the broad masses use continuously. Otherwise these investments don't make sense.
But I guess all they could think of was Chatbots. It just shows that very few people actually know what AI is doing beyond what they see in the news. I’m not thrilled how the rollout is going of course, but I recognize that there are good aspects