The most interesting applications are what you don’t see.

For instance, you can do a lot of your engineering and even data science work without ever touching real data (due to ML):

https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/why-you-dont-necessarily...

Not saying it’s not over hyped, just that good AI would augment your life in ways subtle, but hugely impactful.

Edit: Another thought - how are funds in the market allocated? Partially by humans, largely augmented (if not explicitly allocated) by AI... meaning AI determines which companies get funding and thus what you can buy / access is determined by these algorithms