AI in general rather than GenAI?
Gosh, that's easy.
Chess.
PageRank.
Automated address reading in the postal system.
Protein folding.
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Just LLMs?
Very quickly finding texual needles in long-document haystacks. Can't generally do that with a plain text search unless you already know what the needle looks like, and doing it as a human is expensive — see Terry Pratchett's experience with German soup adverts.
Real-time translation within the price constraints of tourists.
Rapid prototyping.
Can you name a use case for which AI was the only or best possible solution?