@tinker
Couldn't agree more. The blockchain was useful for logistics and the supply chain, i.e. the back office; cryptocurrency, neither fish nor fowl, perhaps some edge uses.

"AI"/LLM is the currently shiny thing because hoi poloi can use natural language –and it confabulates wildly. Try translating English into Lojban on Vicuna and (in another round) back again. (It ~might~ be useful for testing the Whorfian hypothesis, I dunno.)

A startlingly visual example which I just stumbled on is the prompt "The Frenum" on openart.ai –strong disposition required.

In sum, get back to me when "ai" replaces automobile idiot lights.