I still have yet had anyone be able to tell me exactly what value AI brings to the table, other than as customer facing chat bots they can use while firing their actual CS departments
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2025
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That’s ridiculous. It’s possible to recognize the technology has many good uses, but complain how it has been hyped too much.
For example: AI-driven materials discovery uses machine learning to analyze chemicals and materials, allowing scientists to find and design new compounds much faster than humans could through traditional trial and error.
I agree with you. There is a knee-jerk “AI bad” when the real answer is it’s overhyped. There are good uses for it. I use it nearly daily for work, and, like anything other tech, it’s just a tool. It doesn’t replace me. It just makes me faster. Anyone that claims it can replace people might as well say that a hammer can replace a person.
Machine learning is not why companies are dumping hundreds of billions of dollars into building data centers so they can earn tens of billions of dollars; it’s specifically large language models. Machine learning existed before the LLM boom and had real benefits, but has barely seen a fraction of the investment into it that LLMs have, because it didn’t have a bunch of tech bros speculating that artificial superintelligence would make them trillionaires.
That is one particular side of the conversation
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