It is all on par with the props like Elon Musk. The point is to give people a group-level impression about the power of technology. There will never be AI in the sense that it is described as "strong" AI, or conscious machines. The reality of AI is routinely exaggerated and discussed in obfuscating terms to enhance the romance, enlightenment-era intrigue and magic around the technopolitical superstructure that is being accelerated right now. The big goal is to focus people more on the AI itself and all of our sci-fi phenomenology surrounding what that means, as opposed to thinking about the growing superstructure of the internet itself and our increasingly desperate reliance on it. So put Elon on Joe Rogan and talk to people about vast subterranean networks of roads and autonomous cars below Los Angeles, and about "limbic resonance" and bandwidth metaphors applied to the human mind. It's pure theater. It's the modern equivalent of the cold war era "World of Tomorrow" segments. All of that hope got people through the paradigm shift politically during that era, and made them blind to the surveillance structures being installed. The same rhetoric and spectacle is used today for the same purpose. Culture is built by what it thinks about the future, not what the future is likely to be.