I do think it's proven useful, much like the internet had in the nineties.
Doesn’t hold a candle to ATT burning $60B+ on it less than a decade ago. Or $30B+ on DirecTV.
2010s ATT leadership was something else.
Dude, that's like someone's opinion. Also neural nets doing pattern recognition on x-ray images is not the reason Micron abandoned their consumer shovel business.