The author either vastly overestimates the capabilities of current AI or didn’t read Asimov and the like.
I specifically remember a short story by him where one member of the population would be selected to be interviewed by Multivac and Multivac would then extrapolate out his answers to the whole population and be able to accurately pick who the population wanted to be president, removing the need for an expensive election. If that isn’t ML, I don’t know what is.
Sure, many mention the 2000s as a milestone, probably for aesthetic reasons, but the point of most sci fi isn’t to make a prediction about a concrete timeframe.
For our current problems and tech, I reckon some modern sci fi works (ex: Black Mirror, The Three Body Problem) do a good job of analyzing the current context and laying out some present and future implications.
Science fiction isn't about technology. It just uses technology as a way of telling stories about characters that provide entertainment and insight to the author's contemporaries. Given that the current generation of ML is in practice mainly allowing modest increases in automation, I don't think it's generating many interesting stories in the real world, and it's not clear it ever will.
If I were to look at current stories that science fiction perhaps missed, top of my list would be how the rise of the computers and the internet, meant to create a utopia of understanding, instead enabled a) the creation of low-cost, low-standards "reality" TV, b) allowed previously distributed groups of white supremacists and other violent reactionaries to link up and propagandize in unprecedented ways, and c) let a former game show host from group A whip up people from group B into sacking the US Capitol, ending the US's 200+ year history of peaceful transfers of power. That's a story!
But that would be asking too much of science fiction. Its job isn't to predict the future. Its job, if it has one beyond entertainment, is to get us to think about the present. Classics like Frankenstein and Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 have been doing that for generations. That's not because they correctly predicted particular technological and social futures.