I've still to meet a single person who surprised me, positively or not, in their use of AI. The vast majority, no actually 100%, of usage (not idea or concept) actual people (not a theoretical user, some day in the near future) shared with me is arguably useful but definitely absolutely boring.
It's usually some variation of summarizing ideas (it doesn't actually summarize, it abbreviates), writing code/generating prototypes (many words written about why it doesn't work), and therapy (this "use case" has already killed several people)
Also 99% of the time it's about speech to text and how practical that interface is when they are basically multitasking. I'm not saying it's not useful to them, or the UX itself isn't interesting (in fact it definitely is nice in some situations) but the actual task done remains boring.
That's kinda the point though, isn't it? We built the steam shovel to do the boring jobs, not the exciting ones
Yeah, the more boring the task the more people like offloading it. It's why people opt for autopay vs. paper checks, stamps and envelopes every month.
Indeed but I feel most of the usages I heard are... artificial, if not pointless. They aren't solving a problem they had before. It's as if most people I talk to use AI because they have to, a bit like dropping perfect sized breadcrumbs right in front of a robot vacuum arguing how well it works.
I like how it can write algorithm functions into my codebase... used it a few days ago for easy force-directed graph code so I wouldn't have to transcribe it myself