In the meantime, all the attention and media is easing people into thinking about some difficult questions that we may end up having to deal with sooner than we'd like.
The hype can be annoying, and I'm sure they'll be suckers who lose a lot of money chasing it, but I'm also sure AI will get better, and be better understood too, as a result of all of the attention and attempts to shoehorn it into new roles and environments.