@kelpana Exactly this. I have found AI ideally suited for machine vision; eg inspecting for blemishes in surface finish or part presence/absence. It’s good at answering the question “does or doesn’t this image resemble the sample images.” It doesn’t understand what it’s looking at and it doesn’t need to. It’s just determining whether a data set statistically resembles another data set. Very useful in a situation where you know a defect when you see one, but can’t articulate or quantify a definition.

@kelpana IMO, anything involving language, ie “meaning”, is a totally different situation.

@Twotired I worked on computer vision stuff in 2012-2013. It's absolutely fascinating stuff and I'd love to mess around with it again. AI chatbots aren't even a new thing either, they're just being marketed as a "new" because the Transformer ANN circuitry makes them appear better at interaction, but it doesn't make them self-aware, reliable or sentient. All the Eliza effect like problems happening now have known about for decades - the difference is it is being mass marketed.