ChatGPT and art stuff gets the attention and are seen as gimmicks, but that stuff is funding research that will actually drive an impact in less sexy areas.

Here's Nvidia showing they can use LLMs to teach robots complex skills - https://eureka-research.github.io/

lots of game changing technology starts off being used for toy or bullshit use cases, the GPUs being used to train AI were originally designed for allowing video games to have better graphics