Again - you are right, but it still doesn't refute the grandparent's claim that today's AI is lazy, wasteful and marketing-driven. There is room to improve, and if US labs don't take the initiative then Chinese ones will.
Everyone else is taking over intern level work from someone else’s team. They are reducing the friction costs of talking to someone else, for about a 30% productivity gain.
Firms are trying desperately to automate their white collar workers, and that is following the same trend as all other automation projects, and ML/deep learning efforts in history.