It is hard for people to comprehend the rate of change. Over the short term, it feels like we are on a gentle slope upward with respect to change. But the reality is the slope is near vertical. Even your analogy is a huge understatement. It will be more like Nokia today, and iPhone next week.
The washing machine has reached a tipping point, we hit diminishing returns from now on.
The AI is in the nokia phase. It's at the primitive stage of development.