Amazon abuses many of their workers, they've been dangerous to small businesses in any area they move into, and they're contributing significantly to the wealth inequality problem.
Google knows a scary amount of information about you and everyone you know, they're supporting a horrific change in China allowing even tighter control of their citizens, and they were even looking at building AI for military drones at one point.
In exchange, we get to buy cheap stuff with quick shipping and we can find resources on the internet slightly quicker.
An AGI could have much more significant implications than either of those companies ever have. We need to figure out a solution to the AI control problem before we have a Dotcom-like burst of development.
There have been impressive advances in Computer Vision; they're just an outgrowth of the work that produced JPEG, rather than of the work that produced Lisp machines and expert systems.
It's often said that we tend to take AI that really works and call it something else, but we also tend to call whatever is current and somewhat succesful (fuzzy logic, etc.) "AI".