Applications of machine learning and ai

that don't involve killer robots and invasions of privacy

AI basically died in the seventies for a reason. Everyone was like "hurr we will replicate human intellect durr" and then it ended up not being doable and now you are usually shoved up some tl;dr if-else routines as "intelligence". Fuck that shit, there is no commercial future in AI. Don't get close to the field unless you want to be an academic who wants to get away with not actually doing anything.