AI is a technological inflection point. It's scary, but also exhilarating and fun to live through. Most of the world is as ignorant about AI as people were about personal computing in 1982. It's just breaking in to the mainstream, yet totally mysterious. IMHO, it's a good time to learn about AI.
Dismissal of AI technology today is akin to somebody in 1982 complaining that a Commodore-64 couldn't scan their photos. You need imagination to understand how different the future will be.
@danielpunkass yes. Imagination is what almost everybody lacks most.