"Crypto is the last 'big thing' because it'll revolutionize currency and everyday transactions"
"Metaverse is the last 'big thing' because everything you own will be virtual in the future'
Realistically I see AI as no different.
It wasn't the first SV-techbro hype technology, and it won't be the last.
We've had AI "bubbles" / hype-fests before (expert systems, Japanese 5th generation systems), and I don't expect this will be the last.
There will also be technology bubbles and hype-fests in the future outside of AI - it's human nature. Hard to predict what they will be of course (the future is like that).
It is also possible they all pivot to copying Neural Link and upselling the whole world on brain implants that the oligarchs can control.