Very dumbed-down take on the subject. What's "AI"? ChatGPT and Google AlphaFold are both AI.

I very much doubt speech and voice recognition and synthesis, as well as visual object recognition, are "as good as they will get" (however scary some of the practical applications might look like). Ditto specialized neural networks like aforementioned AlphaFold.

General-purpose chatbots trained on randomly selected data from stolen books and social media (and increasingly on its own slop)? Very likely.

Architectures allowing the said chatbots trigger actions online or (worse yet) IRL? Almost definitely.