You are not alone. I know at least Dale agrees with you. I do as well, to a point. But, it's the overselling of this technology that I have objected to from the start (although if I had bought Microsoft instead of objecting to the technology, I would have made some money).

Is it really worth the Billion or Trillion dollars that has been poured into these companies? The best result I have seen so far is the instant real-time translator mentioned in the article. Is that worth a trillion?

The other issue I have with AI is how intrusive it has become. The proponents of it have made it the default and I spend an inordinant amount of time shutting it off before I can do the simple tasks that I don't need AI for. It's a PITA like text word suggestion, only on steroids.

I pretty much agree with you. AI has helped me to develop a few things a little faster, and solve a few problems quicker. I'm sure there's thousands of developers who can say the same. But even then, there's not trillions of dollars worth of savings. Especially when AI only can answer the problems we've already put in it. As our technology grows and changes, as new frameworks are developed, or even just new and better versions, AI has to be retrained to keep up with the data, just like developers do, so more energy consumption, more billions spent to enhance productivity that will not repay the dividends.