We have a system to which I can upload a generic video, and which captures eveeeeeerything in it, from audio, to subtitles onscreen, to skewed text on a mug, to what is going on in a scene. It can reproduce it, reason about it, and produce average-quality essays about it (and good-quality essays if prompted properly), and, still, there are so many people who seem to believe that this won't revolutionize most fields?

The only vaguely plausible and credible argument I can entertain is the one about AI being too expensive or detrimental to the environment, something which I have not looked sufficiently into to know about. Other than that, we are living so far off in the future, much more than I ever imagined in my lifetime! Wherever I go I see processes which can be augmented and improved though the use of these technologies, the surface of which we've only barely scratched!

Billions are being poured trying to use LLMs and GenAI to solve problems, trying to create the appropriate tools that wrap "AI", much like we had to do with all the other fantastic technology we've developed throughout the years. The untapped potential of current-gen models (let alone next-gen) is huge. Sure, a lot of this will result in companies with overpriced, over-engineered, doom-to-fail products, but that does not mean that the technology isn't revolutionary.

From producing music, to (in my mind) being absolutely instrumental in a new generation of education or mental health, or general support for the lonely (elderly and perhaps young?), to the service industry!...the list goes on and on and on. So much of my life is better just with what little we have available now, I can't fathom what it's going to be like in 5 years!

I'm sorry I highjacked your comment, but it boggles the mind how so many people so adamantly refuse to see this, to the point that I often wonder if I've just gone insane?!