"AI gets introduced to the marketplace—by force-feeding the public. And they’re doing this for a very good reason. Most people won’t pay for AI voluntarily—just 8% according to a recent survey. So they need to bundle it with some other essential product. Before proceeding let me ask a simple question: Has there ever been a major innovation that helped society, but only 8% of the public would pay for it? That’s never happened before in human history. Everybody wanted electricity in their homes. Everybody wanted a radio. Everybody wanted a phone. Everybody wanted a refrigerator. Everybody wanted a TV set. Everybody wanted the Internet. They wanted it. They paid for it. They enjoyed it. AI isn’t like that. People distrust it or even hate it—and more so with each passing month. So the purveyors must bundle it into current offerings, and force usage that way." https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-force-feeding-of-ai-on-an-unwilling
Or.... it's a giant bubble like the dot com boom. I'm old enough to remember multiple virtual reality booms when that was going to be the next big thing. Companies everywhere are bragging about their use of AI because they want the stupid, don't understand what they're buying, herd follower's dollar. The same people who bought pets.com It's going to get really interesting as all these AIs pretend to be people and all the AI companies are busy ripping off other people's copyrighted works to "train" the AI. Eventually AIs will be training off AIs, stacking "hallucinations" on top of hallucinations. The product is mostly garbage. Try this: Google "how to change the brakes on a 2010 civic" Their AI will give you an authoritative sounding procedure, but it's not complete. The instructors do not work and do not call out all the required tools. 15 years ago, if I ran that search, on of the top hits would be to a forum page, written by a human, with actual correct pictures and procedure. They've made their own product worse. I'm surprised a new search engine hasn't popped up and eaten their lunch. A lot of the sites that pop up in searches these days are just promoted garbage.
Microsoft is forcing employees to use it and monitoring employee use. So during the employee review they will get rated on how much they use AI for work. And I guess told off for not using it enough. So they are forcing their own employees to use over use this technology which although often helpful for grunt work is not good enough for complex real world use cases that are not in the training set.
Humankind still lacks a firm, unequivocal, undeniable definition of intelligence. So how can we do the same for "artificial" intelligence? Singularity is sil sil silly.
It will just take little bit more time. Remember on old days where internet had no flatrates and you could only read and send text messages because of the bandwith. As AI will be stronger and more prudent over time, it will have a growing base of (paid) users for sure.