I could see a free public AI tool for medical or legal use being potentially extremely valuable. But it’ll never happen for the same reason self-driving cars will never happen: humans are allowed to be fallible but computers are not.
I could see an actually-functional AI assistant being potentially extremely valuable.
I am sure there are other potential use-cases but as of yet none of these things have materialized.
Their greatest value will be to pump-and-dump investors. And AI hardware producers. This craze has launched Nvidia into the stratosphere.