Machine Learning has revolutionized protein folding and plenty of other sciences. LLMs have increased programmer productivity (even if it isn't perfect yet). Image/video/song generating was something we thought to be impossible a couple of years ago.
If the only news you get about AI comes from the "Fuck AI" community, you won't ever get accurate info.
Yes companies put AI in a bunch of shitty things that don't need it. But to claim AI doesn't do anything useful is just plain wrong.
I think it was the gigantic free library