Are we like dinosaurs to mammals and AI is the asteroid?

To bring another analogy into the equation, AI isn't crude oil. No country depends on AI to operate, for defensive purposes or as a critical decision-making heuristic - it's a speculative market. AI is another test for businesses a-la cryptocurrency, probing the few last firms that claim to "innovate" to see what they can put out. So far they've done excellent on the marketing side, but just about nothing in terms of practical or valuable problem solving. In 5 years I feel pretty confident that LLMs will be treated like a sideshow attraction and not a practical tool used by earnest humans.