This reads like it could be used to reason against the industrial revolution or the first computer revolution or any other significant advance in human history. Am I missing something?
Watt couldn't have asked, his engines specifically weren't enough of a difference by themselves even though the revolution as a whole was, and I strongly suspect this is also going to be true for any single AI developer; however a $7T investment in many unrelated chip factories owned by different people and invested over a decade, is something I can believe happening.