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What? Of course it isn't.
AI is used all the time in a whole bunch of "invisible" applications that have nothing to do with text or content generation. Take a photo with a phone camera? You're using AI. Use Nvidia RTX voice? AI. Deal with pharmaceutical molecule research? Fair chance of AI being used. Play guitar and use the newest generation of amp modelers? That's AI again.
This is mostly because "AI" is a nonsense term. There are many different machine learning techniques being used in each of those applications and the fact that transformers have become somewhat general purpose doesn't change this.
But saying it's all AI is like saying it's all computers. It's missing the trees for the forest.
The tradeoffs and composability of these techniques are not uniform.
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It's like saying that word processor spreadsheets can replace doing it by hand. It does not solve the spreadsheet problem, only makes it more efficient. Maybe the problem is me, but I am not seeing a big difference. I think the closest thing to truly transformational technology with direct, tangible real-world applications is printed buildings ( those cheap amazon.com homes that can be erected quickly), but this is not directly AI.
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