What are the use cases for AI?

This might read a bit negative, but I am genuinely curious. What is the use case for AI for ordinary people? With big tech building AI data centers like there is no tomorrow — which might be true for some of them (fingers crossed) – I’m left wondering; for what? In which scenario will we need so much AI compute? I get it for developers, which is what Microsoft and Anthropic is targeting. These are the users that are easiest to reach, due to their already established relationship with the tech companies. Microsoft has their own annual conference, Microsoft Build, which was mostly about AI this year. “Build the thing that builds the thing“. No surprise there. One thing that is surprising is that Atrophic, the company behind Claud, the number one programming AI, won’t even build a Mac app themselves. They have, just as everybody else, made an Electron app. If I were selling finance software, I probably would not use Excel for my own finances. So, developers use AI. But they are already…