@cmccullough
I guess by AI you mean LLMs specifically.
AI as in deep learning and machine learning in general is deeply useful and used in all kinds of situations today. People got a Nobel prize for Alphafold, and it's definitely AI and also nothing to do with LLMs.
"When technology works noone calls it AI anymore."
There's also another subfield in AI called Automated Reasoning and Automated Theorem Proving, used to proof the correctness of software:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_reasoning
...or Model-based reasoning (the hype term "AI model" has made this term unsearchable, unfortunately)
They all fall under the umbrella term Symbolic #AI - this is 100% reliable AI, but noone is talking about it!