Agree that there's a lot of technological push rather than market pull Jimmy.
At the same time, the same thing could be said of the early internet in the mid 90s. I bet you they even said the same thing about telegraph. It took Heaviside rewriting Maxwell's equations to make them practical.
It takes time for general purpose technologies to get a foot hold and find applications. We will see how it plays out.
Personally, I'm trying to build AI applications in the most ethical, cypherpunk way possible that creates productivity gains & wealth for users.