I like Corey Doctorow's quote on this: "I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows."
AI isn't a thing. LLMs are a thing. A mildly useful thing, in some narrow circumstances. "AI" is a pointless bubble, a money furnace that needs to be shut down. "AI" isn't going to solve the environmental crisis it's contributing to.