I wouldn't hold your breathe. We're not putting a man on Mars anytime soon. The challenges go beyond just an engine that can get someone there. In theory we can do that now (just takes a long ass time), the challenge is keeping people alive and sane in the process and then just the small challenge of what to actually do on a desolate red rock once they arrive.

And the "AI" we've received so far is largely just very advanced machine learning models repurposed to "create" chat responses, "art" (8 finger humans geez), etc.

The future is exciting, but it won't happen as quickly as you think. AI especially is largely just marketing right now. We're not close to sentience.

Some of the world's largest tech/auto companies have been working on driverless cars for almost two decades. We can't even build one to consistently drive down the street without killing people. We're nowhere close to actual AI.