Funny how people leave this stuff out. Yawn. Basic simpleton analysis and takes.
Without the Internet, most consumer electronics would have been far more expensive to build, and would have been strictly controlled walled gardens, but the Internet in general and the Web in particular allowed so many inventors to flourish. Ever since that Genie was let out of the bottle, corporate and government interests have been trying to put it back in, and most companies are trying to build and reinforce walled gardens under the banner of unified app stores that extract insane rents.
> AI is limited to probabilistic and annoying chatbots that are for entertainment and for looking up trivia questions.
That is not a rational assessment of the utility that the technology provides, even today.