100%. Work in IT, but have worked on cars as a hobby most of my life too. I was messing around trying to figure out how to disable telemetry at a hardware level on mine, so I pulled the fuse for the telemetry module to see what would happen. It bricked the entire vehicle.
The 90s were peak. Reliability and low maintenance of electronic fuel injection, but would keep on running if any of the ancillary crap failed.
I think it is useful with a constrained dataset. Like using it to summarize things about a dataset, or dumping documents into it and asked getting info about it (like Gemini in Google Drive).
It is not useful for general question using the whole-ass internet as a dataset.
Also I wish it was called something other than AI…it’s just a word guesser FFS.