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"AI" is a moving target but a few months ago I was blown away to find out that phones are WAY better at semantically tagging photos now, to a point where it's actually useful. I can search my phone photos for 'cat' or 'car' (or more usefully, that one scanned pic of my drivers' license if I forgot my ID). Sure, resnet has been around for a while and this is still not great but it's there in production right now and has been legitimately useful to me.

Recently I got to drive a rental Corolla with lanekeep assist and smart-ish cruise control which could sorta keep itself on the road by itself. It was definitely a fun toy for a controls engineer, kind of like riding a narcoleptic horse with ADHD but still on the cusp of being a net positive.