I have been playing chess against computers and computerized chess sets for many decades... I don’t think that many people called this AI back when I started. It was a good way to improve my game to the point that I typically beat pretty much everyone that wanted to play chess with me.
In the early 90s I purchased an AI suite of programs... but at that time it was nearly useless.
So, I originally thought this recent proliferation of AI apps and websites was mostly hype... until I actually started using them on a daily basis. Now I am getting vastly more useful information back from computers and phones with less effort than ever before. And various apps and websites are incredibly helpful with various types of creative endeavors as well.
It is not perfect obviously, but as an example, for fun I wanted to host several websites on an inexpensive mini-pc using WordPress all with free SSL/TLS certificates without a static IP connection to the internet. This is the type of thing that most people here would not know how to get started setting up... and without using AI to help by writing scripts, quite tedious as well.
Both Chat GPT and Grok were able to come up with solutions for this that eliminated most of the tediousness. And I learned quite a bit as well. So here is an example of a silly WordPress website with a free https certificate with content that was almost completely setup using AI and with content generated with AI hosted on a $150 computer that is hooked to the internet with a dynamic IP connection.
The computer uses just 5 to 10 watts at idle, so I just leave it on most of the time. The website is on a Virtual Machine running WordPress in Apache2 on Ubuntu Server.
This is completely rudimentary but an example of how AI can be helpful setting up websites.
I don’t know anything about AI, really. I guess it takes someone like you to really understand its limitations. I’ve been doing ok without using AI for now.