There's definitely all of the above. One anecdote from my recent trip to China that's worth mentioning is how technocratic it's become. To the point where WeChat, an app on the phone that serves as platform initially for messaging, has now extended to become a real portal to China's economy: Digital Currency & Payments; ordering a taxi, food delivery and at a restaurant, subway tickets. You name it, they have it. At most restaurants, people don't order through waiters, but thru the app. The waiters just quietly serve the food (how long until they're replaced?). The bill is settled thru the app by scanning a QR Code. It's very convenient and efficient in cost & time. But it's also scary to lose that human touch of talking to the waiter to ask for recommendations. Not to mention privacy, as WeChat requires you to link your e-wallet to your Bank of China card (State arm of course) or National ID.
Cash is fading out rapidly, and everything's built around this system. A real heaven for the transhumanist agenda to flourish. And a dare I say, a perfect model for the West to adopt.
Reading the national newspaper there, mentions of AI and trans-national collaborations to work on this industry abound.
But I digress, I really think we'll have crossed a threshold when AI sex-dolls will be accessible to the public (BladeRunner style).
And yet, since hearing about John Keely's inventions of conscious-robots (On Elana Freeland's interview) it gave me some new perspectives on what robots could potentially be.
