Artificial Intelligence or AI is quite the buzzword. It's slapped on to many products these days that at best are just cool. It's just a get rich quick scheme to draw in investor money.
Remember the self driving car craze 10 years ago? Replace the taxi drivers, uber drivers, TRUCK DRIVERS! BRING COSTS DOWN TO ZERO! Where are the self driving cars and self driving ride hailing? Yeah, it was designed only to draw in investor money. Hype hype hype! Uber was all in and had ATG working on that. Waymo is the only legitimate company out there but even then still has trouble, so it only operates where and when it is optimistic. The whole bunch of projects in this area have failed horribly.
Now we got the LLM craze, LLM everywhere. Replace your call center, tutors, engineering dept, assistants, analysts! Ugh, same old same old. Most of this will fail horribly. I love LLMs, but they aren't replacing anyone entirely. They are too mistake prone. I'm very optimistic about software like ChatGPT, Claude, Leonardo, Midjourney, but my strong opinion is that at best they will serve humans like driver assistance does!
Dating apps are talking about vacuuming all kinds of data about you to create the best representation of you so they can use that to filter people out. It's a stupid f**king idea, but it's a genius way to sell you as the product to advertisers. The more they know about you, the more they can figure out if you like a product and send those adverts your way. Nominal benefit for you, helluva sell for dating app operators, investors and advertisers!
Man have you seen Google's Pixel Studio, oh look I can take two pictures and stitch them together as if they were the same picture. Is that even useful or fun? Animating your family pet? I don't get the point of these products other than stick AI here and there. These are demonstrably stupid waste of time applications. You might do it a few times and then the magic wears away.
There's a ton of AI applications that have already shut down because there's no money or stickiness to them. Some of them were "dating" apps too! There's nothing to these apps that makes anyone want to use them in their daily lives. Some of them make you want to switch to non-AI apps. No one cares about these apps, they are less than quarter ass-ed, complete and total utter garbage.
It has always been my opinion that AI in it's current incarnation will only help humans, not replace them. At least the ones used for work productivity anyway. Someone's got to be there supervising it and, at times, acting as the editor like in a newspaper. Generate rough draft, first draft, second draft etc. Copy paste entirely from an LLM, be it text, images, audio, video, is a risky endeavor opening you up to legal consequences and losing your job or mind! Think about it, Figma shut down their AI design generator because it was pumping out app designs of other application already on the market!
Love AI, but 99% of products and features are already useless and AI will not be able to move the needle on that.