AI is a hot mess. It is good at making odd and slightly off looking art and stealing work from humans. It is good at getting driving to the 98% (But the 2% long tail tends to make mistakes that would certainly ki-l people (https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-typical-scenarios-where-self-driving-cars-machine-vision-AI-fails-to-interpret-scenes-or-roads-correctly-despite-training).
If you use AI outputs, to inform new AI the entire system breaks by the third or fourth interation. (AI > AI > AI = Trash / nonsense... Human > AI = stolen half decent work). Without human creativity to source from, the third or fourth generation AI tends to just make garbledy go-k that has no meaning.
It'll be great at:
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Summaries
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Searching for basic information that is widely available
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Doing mundane tasks that are torturous for humans to do anyway
But the costs outweight the profit in most cases. Tier 1 support will probably be all AI, Robo-calls for spam will probably be AI, search engines will likely get updates, and self-driving taxis will probably work on limited tracks inner-city.
But most of the other applications are too costly to be functional.
This may be one time in Cisco's history that it pays to be late the the game.