Good point. Experience teaches us that the breakthroughs in AI will lead to something, we just don’t know what that something is yet and there is a lot of (maybe too much) speculative betting on what it could be.
> most people hit a wall figuring out what it's actually good for beyond parlor tricks.
That's what my parents thought about computers and the internet, wondering what it's actually good for beyond burning $9000 in phone bills to Zerg rush Protoss noobs.
And all the other things computers+internet could do, they could already do through other more reliable (at the time) ways.
But then it turned out that simply making mundane tasks just a little bit faster, and reducing the need to interact with strangers by just that little bit, created a new step on the staircase, a new baseline, with which to reach and do other grander things more easily.
Being able to plan a trip from a single sentence would be one killer app for many people:
"I'm free next week. I'd like to go to A, B, or C for a couple days. What's a cheap flight and a room within this budget near X area?"
and if it could go and also make a booking through your accounts that would be amazing.
But right now even Google's Gemini is an utter useless dumbass if asked to search Google Flights or Airbnb.
I mean if LLMs could just be a natural-language wrapper around existing tools, that'd be amazing in itself. But corporivalry has made that an stillborn dream.
