Uh, kinda, maybe? Most use cases are things that I don’t really see the use of, or have found to produce more flawed results than previous ways of doing things.

However, a couple years ago, someone on reddit said their perfect use case was using AI to hunt down things you enjoyed but have forgotten the titles of - books, movies, tv series, songs, videogames, etc.

Well, I have a few of those half-forgotten items, where I’ve remembered snippets of things but have no idea what they actually were called. I’ve tried looking them up over the years with regular search engines, with no luck. And a few times in the past couple years, I’ve used random AI engines to try to track these titles down.

And the thing is, AI absolutely has not been able to tell me what the titles to anything was. However, in trying to come up with more details to pass to AI, I’ve accidentally found other webpages that helped me find what I was looking for. Like, one of the things I was looking for was a horribly bad 1970’s tv movie and, in my latest search for the title, on like page 8 of my google/duckduckgo results trying to find something to feed the AI from what little I remembered, I ran across a website that lists the cast and plot of, like, every tv movie. Not just top ten, or people that became big stars later, or horror movies or whatever, but every movie from like the 50s /60s on. And I sat on that website and read through the high-level plotline of every tv movie from, like 1968 on, and eventually found the movie.

There was a book where I remembered the first name of the main character and a very specific scene, even some of the exact words, and the three AI engines I tried couldn’t tell me anything. But in searching for more details (and I had tried serving for it before), I eventually ran across a book site that helped me out. Interesting thing: when I passed direct quotes to AI, they couldn’t tell me, when I asked what books had that plot, they couldn’t tell me, but if I asked if a specific scene happened in the book, they said it was there.

I have one game that I’m still searching for, but AI engines have inadvertently helped me find most of the rest of my wishlist.