I hear people complaining about uncanny valley stuff all the time, but I think these guys are just hanging on to old-world thinking. Because it cannot not be what must not be.
But even today AI is doing incredibly hard stuff that most people would have thought could never be done "mechanically" by a mere machine. Think coding assistants. If you don't think they are absolutely amazing, you are nuts! Sure, there's still a long way to go to perfection, but we don't have to wait until we get there because a lot of what is possible today, let alone tomorrow, is already incredibly useful.