One hidden premise of this is "AI tools are not useful now, even if they might be in the future." For example:

> Few are useful to me as they are now.

Except current AI tools are extremely useful and I think you're missing something if you don't see that. This is one of the main differences between LLMs and cryptocurrency; cryptocurrencies were the "next big thing", always promising more utility down the road. Whereas LLMs are already extremely useful; I'm using them to prototype software faster, Terrance Tao is using them to formalize proofs faster, my mom's using them to do administrative work faster.

Cool. But every time I use them I get a wrong answer faster.

I know, I know. I'm prompting it wrong. I'm using the wrong model. I need to pull the slot-machine arm just one more time.

I know I'm not as clever as Terrance Tao - so I'll wait until the machines are useful to someone like me.