In my opinion, there is most likely no such thing as "artificial intelligence" in computing, and never can be. (I bet there is also no actual "quantum computing" but I don't know enough about it to have an informed opinion.) I think both are euphemisms for illegal or unethical projects that must be performed under a complete lie. I have a degree in IT, worked as a programmer, and at multiple companies that claim to use AI.
I believe AI is a concept that a big tech company would utilize to A) sound impressive to the public and academics and investors, plus B) openly signal to the others in the game that the company is willing to do its part of the dark work. In the case of so-called AI, I'm guessing that work is some organized project towards complete surveillance of every human.
At all the companies I worked with that claimed to have an AI system, the systems never moved out of a training phase or provided any value. Their systems did not demonstrate any more effective performance after years of "AI training". But that process did require that every employee, customer, and client interaction, conversation, email, phone call, video, and keystroke be recorded and stored. Because the AI system supposedly needed to be fed data to learn; the more data it was given, the more and faster it would learn. But based on what we know now, it might all be a big lie for collecting as much data on as many people as possible.
Unlike "AI", I do know how effective "big data" and "business intelligence" computer systems can be. I can imagine all the data being fed into something like that, for the deepstate's human researchers to analyze statistics about how the deepstate's various projects (social media, news, music, film, celeb moutpieces, mass shootings, pandemic laws, etc) are affecting different personality types, age groups, regional areas, etc. and how the projects can be better optimized, to more effectively manipulate the masses and achieve the deepstate's goals.