"ML getting better" doesn't *have to* mean further anthroaormorphization of computers, especially if say, your AI driven car is not significantly improved by describing how many times the letter s appears in strawberry or being able to write a poem. If a custom model/smaller model does equal or even a little worse on a specific target task, but has MUCH lower running costs and much lower risk of abuse, then that'll be the future.
I can totally see a world where anything in the general category of "AI" becomes more and more boring, up to a point where we forget that they're non-deterministic programs. That's kind of AGI? They aren't all generalists, and the few generalist "AGI-esque" tools people interact with on a day to day basis will most likely be intentionally underpowered for cost reasons. But it's still probably discussed like "the little people in the machine". Which is good enough.