I can list so many things that were hyped up the same way 10 years ago that still aren’t revolutionising the world today.
Maybe it will get super good really fast. Or maybe it’s the next self driving trucks or 3D tv where solving the last of the problems is much harder than the first 90%.
The problem with it is that it is being marketed as the do-all productivity enhancer. It is not. There are some fields in which it excels, but are all rather very specific (think summarizing a long document).
Something like "Find me documents that talk about achieving x using y process". If it finds a few irrelevant ones or misses some, its ok and still provided value by searching far more things than you ever could manually.
Chatbots in front of customer care agents.
Every previous AI hype-train (Eliza did not replace therapists)
Battery though, we have seen the price (USD/KWh) go down every year, and the energy density (KWh/kg) increase every year.
Research articles are usually things that take years to trickle down into the mass production. And by then the hopes or lab results no longer translate, or they've evolved into improvements and savings that are harder to link back to their original source.