"I was optimistic when my friend told me about his new hammer and how much it helped him assemble a cabinet he was working on.

Then I remember that this is the same technology that failed to drive in screws for a project I was working on a week ago."

The AI that's being used in applications like this is not generative AI. It really is just "sparkling statistics" and it's tremendously useful in applications like this because it can accelerate the finding of patterns in data that form the basis of new discoveries.