Maybe the bubble is finally popping and we can move from the Peak of Inflated expectations to the Trough of Disillusionment. I don’t doubt we’ll find real uses for AI, heck AlphaFold is a fantastic success story for AI. That said, in my own work, I find “AI” tends to operate in one of two ways:

1. As a marketing buzzword. Which usually boils down to, it acts like a better version of intellisense for our search query language.
2. It creates false positives for me to run down. With the odd, useful alert that could have probably be found via normal heuristics or Regex.

I’ve become that curmudgeon who rolls my eyes everytime a vendor talks about their product being “AI Enabled”. And I have to preface a lot of my questions with, “I don’t hate AI, but…”. Hopefully, this will all go the way of the “blockchain” hype soon and some real, and useful use cases can be developed for various AI algorithms, which actually work and where the occasional flight of fancy AIs tend to run off in can be well tolerated.