There's absolutely no comparing the two fields.

ML already has a massive impact on industry and society as a whole. The future of many careers will forever be altered even by current ML application, let alone future developments.

From automated face recognition, to customer service, job interviews, risk assessment and protein folding, ML has become part of our daily lives already to varying degrees (of both impact and success).

It's a field that won't go away and will only grow and probably change quite a bit in the next decades. Admittedly we're far from a Butlerian Jihad-situation, but there's no denying that ML is much more than just hype.

AGI, now that's a different story.