I will bite, going with your analogy comparing to electricity on the other end of the spectrum.
electricity is not ubiquitous in many parts of the global south full 130 years.
The common definition is- access to electricity source that can provide very basic lighting,
and charge a phone or power a radio for 4 hours per day. Not even grid connected.
Even with this basic definition there is still full 660 million people who don’t have access to even that. It only dropped below a billion in 2015.
You need beyond the basic to be meaningfully transformative, clean cooking fuel access is one proxy used that is still 2Billion people without access for example.
Nobody is denying the transformative nature of electricity or say internet , but even these things take a long long time, more than one life time to propagate and be world changing, and not because of their choice of lifestyle to live disconnected.
If electricity, clean water, sanitation and nutrition and basic healthcare is not available to half the population, what is AI going to do in next 3- 5 years or whatever ridiculous timeframe Sam Altman keeps talking about .
And this is a not productivity problem, there is more than enough food production capacity to feed the world, yet starvation and malnutrition is not solved.
AI may rock your world, it is not going to rock the world anytime soon even if was like electricity.
Something can be transformative long (long) before its "completely available to everyone ". Clearly electricity is transformative despite 660 million people not giving it.
So I guess it all depends on your definition of "transformative".
If a billion people are affected? 2 billion? One continent? All of them?
If something is big in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America, is that enough to describe it is "rock the world"?
