A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions.
Current new-crop of AI assistants is uninspired. "What if we made like a little guy who summarizes your meetings? Or this other guy to schedule your dentist appointment"
We need to aim higher. Emotion sculptors and dream architects, reality-weavers, dimensional navigators
Automation means not having to do anything twice.
Automation with the Internet means not having to do anything that anyone else has already done.
All that remains are creativity and judgement.