FWIW, I've found uses for it already that will improve the company I'm building in the very short …

Anything that is limited to the the company you're building at the moment sounds to me like the very definition of "niche application." If you re-read my comment I didn't say that generative AI does not have any potential to solve any problems ever. What I said is that companies are currently racing to go to market with some "ai thing" and most are chasing it because it is the "next big thing" in their mind, not because they know what problems for their end users that it can actually help solve. I know of companies right now who are banking on "selling AI to customers." That is doomed to fail in my opinion. Customers don't care about AI outside of the novelty and entertainment value it may possess. They have actual problems that need solving. My point was that generative AI, as the broad umbrella that it is, will see the hype train die and people will realize that "it" is not the revolut…

The metaverse and crypto were entirely about some kind of future industry and society-changing application. "You don't see anything _now,_ but the future will be unrecognizable, trust me!" Gen AI definitely has utility right now, and for some it's a lot of utility. But the hype around it is exactly the same, the hype is all around how "the future will be unrecognizable, trust me!" So I agree that practically, Gen AI is utterly different from crypto/metaverse, it's a real thing with real value. But it's also attracting the exact same hucksters and they're kind of sucking all the air out of the room.