Logic gates are the fundamental building blocks of computers, and researchers at the University of Rochester have now developed the fastest ones ever created. By zapping graphene and gold with laser pulses, the new logic gates are a million times faster than those in existing computers,…
Those applications you listed are fluff, but there are a significant amount of others (‘most’ or not, I don’t know) that aren’t fluff. Medical research, other engineering research, accessibility tools. I appreciate GAN content upscaling and de-noising for older art, but that’s a more personal case.
I do think it’s unfortunate that we live in a system that encourages powerful tools to be absolutely wasted on fluff.
Couldn’t have put it better than your last sentence.
Have a nice day :)