It really isn't. I'm not talking PhD grade R&D, I'm talking about everyday queries that take a long time manually and are easily automated with AI.

Without going into details, I have used AI to find genuine, provably effective solutions to multiple real world problems that would either have been impossible without AI or would have taken a very, very long time.

And it would have been a boon if it had been around while I was getting my degree, because it's been excellent at clarifying foundational concepts.

It's not perfectly reliable, but neither are human professionals.