So, the idea is to gather a very large amount of such scorpions (people that are only in for the hype and will definitely sting you), and do a tremendous scorpion barbecue on the other side of the river (when we finally discover some good use for AI).
I think synthetic data generation can make leapfrog improvements to AI and finally get us somewhere where the technology pays off.
However, leapfroging has its risks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
So, the idea is to gather a very large amount of such scorpions (people that are only in for the hype and will definitely sting you), and do a tremendous scorpion barbecue on the other side of the river (when we finally discover some good use for AI).