I mean OK, obviously it works quite well for China in order for their social credit score system to work (facial recognition almost everywhere you go) -- which is damned impressive, I'll give it that. But does it work in the benefit of the people at large?
I've read a study a loooooong time ago, I think the late 90s, that stated that the amount of time people spend in the kitchen has not moved down at all. For all the praised innovation of technology, people still have to cut salads by hand -- or if they use the so-called kitchen robots that make the job quicker, you still aren't saving time because then cleaning the machine takes more than it took before (you had to just rinse the cutting board and the knife). If memory serves, Michael Crichton cited this study in the book "Jurassic Park" even...
So I keep asking: where's the actually useful stuff? Are we going to be classifying kittens (or making a NN distinguish between those small rat-like dog faces from cookies) until civilization collapses?
Where's the useful AI? When will I, a programmer that hates voice assistants (because I know how useless they are) and the idea of constant surveillance in my home, reap any tangible benefits from AI?
But I suspect you'll cite various small improvements that are only known in small circles and will say "they'll be ready when they're ready" which, even though not wrong at all, will not be helpful.