I am a pragmatic person, so to me an AI is just another layer of abstraction.
If I remember correctly there was a famous quote of Gottfried Leibnitz:
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
This is how I see AI. It's a new tool like the computer and the calculator were before. Or the cloud is now for administrators. We can click and create clusters and networks and systems on demand.
As long as we remain with reduced forms of AI, we could build and create machines - virtual or real - who are complex without having to think about the complexity inside.
Something that cleans up the necessary details for new ideas and our productivity can go through the roof.
I personally like the low level, but if I could tell "my AI": "hey run regression tests for my software and prepare the results so we can have look at it". Creating stress tests on the fly by ML, this a huge potential that's not so far away
Amazing perspectives, still I think this will be a little longer than is hyped today. ML is one of the new cool tools of the future like the cloud was the last 10 years still, from my personal unknowing perspective, I think that's still years to come.
Our knowledge is accumulated over the last thousands of years having a tool at our disposal to give us direct access without specifically knowing what we search just by outlining an idea .... that's such an awesome idea :)
But I'm just speculating over my fantasies :)