> Very to somewhat useful in some fields (like programming) but the average person will easily be able to go through their day without using AI.

I know a lot of "normal" people who have completely replaced their search engine with AI. It's increasingly a staple for people.

Smartphones were absolutely NOT immediately useful in a million different ways for almost every person, that's total revisionist history. I remember when the iPhone came out, it was AT&T only, it did almost nothing useful. Smartphones were a novelty for quite a while.