There a lot of examples of things been critisized in the beginning and strived, there are a lot of things which have gone. It only means that there could be only reasonable critics. Can you say if your criticism is reasonable? I saw a lot of things being thrashed in the beginning. And these things people use everyday. You can choose from thousands of examples

First plane didn't have cockpit, and windows, could fly only hundreds of meters, and looked more like a clothes dryer than a plane. Someone could call it inefficient (and really it wasn't efficient). It was easy to call it dangerous. But as we can see, planes evolved since then. When the first radio was invented there was no radio station to listen. When the steam train was invented it was crazy expensive and there was no government which has enough money to build all the railroads we have today

All of these technologies were modified by talented people, some of them were inventors, others later adopters. But they changed how this technologies work, and what goods they brought to us

AI is too young technology to tell if it fail or not. You can critisize it or you can change the direction of the progress. It's up to you