>I keep seeing this argument that there is value out there
I am sure that every person with significant hearing problems greatly appreciates auto generated subtitles. Surely some people enjoy having access to voice commands. Having translation tools which are reasonably good at inferring context is a great help if you want to communicate with a person who has no shared language. Having the ability to do some automated screening for abnormality can definitely help in manufacturing, same for medical imaging where a computer might point out to a doctor that something warrants a second look can be helpful. Cars being able to detect pedestrians and cyclists, surely has saved many lives already.
I could go on, but this is what I mean with people conflating "chat bots", with the entire range of applications for neutral networks.
Neural networks are currently the best way for a computer to infer human like knowledge about the real world. To make distinctions and to detect things which might be hard for a human to detect.
I am sure that every person with significant hearing problems greatly appreciates auto generated subtitles. Surely some people enjoy having access to voice commands. Having translation tools which are reasonably good at inferring context is a great help if you want to communicate with a person who has no shared language. Having the ability to do some automated screening for abnormality can definitely help in manufacturing, same for medical imaging where a computer might point out to a doctor that something warrants a second look can be helpful. Cars being able to detect pedestrians and cyclists, surely has saved many lives already.
I could go on, but this is what I mean with people conflating "chat bots", with the entire range of applications for neutral networks.
Neural networks are currently the best way for a computer to infer human like knowledge about the real world. To make distinctions and to detect things which might be hard for a human to detect.