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So after a day up, the only actual answers here are somebody using it to distract themselves from getting too engrossed in what they're doing by sending a clickbait discord post to themself, and someone who wants an offline search engine that hallucinates.

AI seems totally not like a giant bubble.

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Well if you're looking for a real use, I ask a local LLM the setup for a child's joke several times a day, and post its answer to my tens of Mastodon followers: https://botsin.space/@jokeunderstander

So it's not all useless.

Well, not useless, but still not fully explaining to me why Nvidia/Intel/etc are investing billions (trillions?) into AI.

All bubbles pop eventually. MongoDB had a stupid bubble for a long time because “SQL databases are dead! Everyone will be on MongoDB!” $570/share it was trading at in 2021. It’s $355 now. Still too high for a company that loses more money each quarter than it makes.

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